Andy Hazel is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He is also the editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper to which he contributes profiles on musicians, actors and directors. His writing also appears in 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.
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A five-year-old fan explains to me, “Teeny Tiny Stevies are real life".
Belle And Sebastian may be a legacy act, but they know it, we know they know it, and everyone loves it.
There is a pure sense of joy that comes from the stage when Quivers play.
It very well may have been the best show Dirty Three played in Melbourne in twelve years.
Watching Good Morning perform before a near-sold-out Melbourne Recital Centre felt like a very fortunate place to be.
Nat Vazer made the case for being one of the city’s great hidden talents.
Chris Isaak and his band move and perform with joyous ease and freedom.
Love Of Diagrams prove that, despite all that has happened in the last seven years, they still sound like no one else.
"The band's longevity has led them to be cherished even more with each passing year and tonight, the room is full of fans in love with its steadfast commitment to jangly guitars, distorted lead breaks and simmering harmonies."
The duo's delicately plucked guitars blend together so mellifluously that it makes you wonder whether the contribution of electricity to popular music might have been overrated.