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Andy Hazel, Journalist

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Andy Hazel is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He is also the senior editorial producer at The Saturday Paper to which he contributes profiles on musicians, actors and directors. His writing also appears in IndieWire, The Monthly, Guardian Australia and A Rabbit's Foot. Andy is also the producer and host of Twin Peaks The Return: A Season Three Podcast.

Features / Music
Not The End
"It’s like riding a bike really,” she says. “Sometimes it’s difficult, but there’s no better way to make a connection."
Features / Music
Face The Facts
"I’ve had my fails like everyone else, but I’m always willing to take on a massive risk."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Montero, Andras Fox, Prudence Rees-Lee
Dead Heads Come To Dinner and Glam Campbell are closing highlights in a night full of revelations, and one the packed room rewards with deafening cheers.
Reviews / Arts
Tony Martin: The Yeti
Seeing one of our (seemingly ageless) comic legends at work and maintaining his unmatchable form is not a chance to pass up.
Reviews / Arts
10:45PM World Record Show
Impossible not to laugh at, this bizarre, charisma-driven show is a safe bet for anyone with a funny bone and a memory of Le Snaks.
Reviews / Arts
Red Like Our Room Used To Feel
Finally, and fittingly, it’s free. A subtle and dazzling highlight.
Reviews / Arts
Ben Pobjie Is Wearing A Towel
Any show that ends with a man wearing a towel “for all the people who were told they couldn’t do something but then did it anyway and failed and realised they should have listened in the first place” is a man worth listening to.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Native Cats, Bitch Prefect, Exhaustion
Dallas and this gig make a strong case for The Native Cats being one of the most interesting and strikingly original bands in the country, though it’s highly unlikely they’d give a shit about any sort of assessment like that.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Underground Lovers, Alpha Beta Fox
Underground Lovers’ excoriating encore of 1992’s Eastside Stories leaves us wholly sold that this enduring team have a lot more to give.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Haim, The Preatures
Not one person tramping up the stairs into the cold night air looks anything less than ecstatic, and it’s hard to think of another band that could generate this much love with a set of almost entirely unheard songs.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Palma Violets, Bleeding Knees Club, Teenage Mothers, Frottera
Closing with the rousing 14 and encoring with Brand New Song, it’s the energy and bravado they bring to the standard rock chord progressions they spin through that so impresses, and still leaves the sense that the best is yet to come.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sex On Toast, The Do Ya Things, Kumar Shome, The Punkawallahs
Who knew there were this many ways to be simultaneously dapper and sexual?
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