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Andy Hazel, Journalist

Andy Hazel is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He is also the senior editorial producer at The Saturday Paper for which he also writes. His writing also appears in IndieWire, The Monthly, Guardian Australia and The Curb.

Live Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Thelma Plum

Energised, canonical takes on Oliver’s Army, Pump It Up and (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea ensure that, even as we call out for still more, no one leaves feeling ripped off.

Joss Stone's Plans For World Domination

"The idea is to play at least one show in every country in the world"

Features / Music

"I’d like to go further into Australia. Dive right into the middle of the country and see what happens."

Live Review: The Magic Band, Grandmothers Of Invention

It’s a privilege to witness such influential pioneers in 2014 and to hear these distant transmissions burn so brightly.

Live Review: Burnt Letters, The Acfields

Closing with Talk To You, the opening track from the debut EP they launch tonight, the choir returns and Burnt Letters give us another emphatic example of inclusive warmth.

Features / Music

"I have to keep all the young people in line so they don’t walk on the wild side!"

Live Review: Snakadaktal, City Calm Down

An ironically bombastic end to a career of a band that, like them or not, never faked a note and chose to float away rather than self-destruct.

Features / Music

Leaving Home Behind

"The album is dead for me."

Live Review: Dear Plastic, Invisible Dears, Oh Pep!

Like a fervent soundtrack to a David Lynch film, Dear Plastic are not, as they claim on their Bandcamp page, “dishing out more melancholy than Radiohead”. Their emotional range is far greater than that.

Live Review: Wendy Rule

Frankly, she’s Wendy Rule and, reductionist materialism be damned, she is a woman who knows exactly what she’s doing.

Features / Music

"I get what I give. I ain’t out here trying to beef and battle rap."

Live Review: Sunnyboys

A stunning show, and not just to those who were lucky enough to grow up with the catchy musings of Jeremy Oxley on their Walkman.

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