Articles by Mandy Hall

About Mandy Hall
Mandy is a music photographer & writer. She runs Mandy Hall Media, which includes Photography, Social Media marketing, PR & Graphic Design for the music industry. She is also a web developer - she created and supports this website.
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Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: The Tommyhawks

September 8, 2017 Mandy Hall
Exploding with quirky, dramatic, trippy and heartfelt songs, This Is Not A Desert Island is the third EP from the Perth group. Set for release on Friday the 8th of September the EP explores the idea of trying to control one’s own state of mind and mental health… and often failing. Focusing on trying to grow up and figure out who we are and who we want to be. While the second single from the EP, ’Summertime’ is about the process of coming out of a dark place and finding peace within.

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Q&A Scene: Ari & Rhiannon for Comedy 4 Karma

August 31, 2017 Mandy Hall
Comedy 4 Karma, the annual fundraiser for the Daylesford Dharma School on Saturday 16th September at Daylesford Town Hall is set to host a stellar bill of comedians including Bob Franklin, and MC Dave Callan, plus more to be announced soon.

Providing pre-event warm up tunes for the audience before the laughs begin, will be much loved local act Ari & Rhiannon. Punters will be treated with their sassy tunes whilst grabbing the opportunity to nourish their souls and bellies with great wholesome local food via the food truck and bid on the Silent Auction featuring excellent locally sourced items. Comedy 4 Karma is an important and much needed annual fundraiser for the Daylesford Dharma School (currently Australia’s only Buddhist primary school and one of only three schools of its kind in the world).

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Snap Scene: Sydney Guitar Festival – Slide Evolution: Jeff Lang, Dom Turner & Fiona Boyes, Factory Theatre. 26th August 2017

August 30, 2017 Mandy Hall
Sydney Guitar Festival 2017 proudly presents an evening of Blues inspired Slide Guitar with Jeff Lang, Dom Turner (Backsliders) and The Fiona Boyes Band.

These three iconic artists each presented a set of their finest original compositions in a variety of arrangements, followed by a unique and exciting collaboration exploring some of the Slide pioneers from the Delta to the Contemporary use of Slide around the globe.

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Q&A Scene: Mick Bower of the 1965 Masters Apprentices

August 25, 2017 Mandy Hall
Melburnians are about to experience a very special piece of music history this September as the reconstituted expanded nine-piece 1965 Masters Apprentices return to the music city to perform, with founding members Mick Bower and Brian Vaughton sharing the same stage for the first time in Melbourne in 50 years. This is special, one night only show, is a retrospective look at what good music is all about – a then and now account of 1965 Masters Apprentices.

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Q&A Scene: Hap Hayward

August 24, 2017 Mandy Hall
“…I hate happy families – we were happy for a while…” So sung a seventeen year old Hap Hayward singer/lyricist for The Dead Salesmen on their Bumper Bar Stickers song. At Forty Seven, Hayward thinks he may have been overstating things a little, but the family dynamic and all that comes with it has always been “a well of inspiration” for him to explore through song.

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