Stuart "Stu" Harvey is a

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, Australia based radio announcer. Harvey first worked at

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, hosting

Mondo Bizarro ''Mondo Bizarro'' (a misspelled version of "Mondo Bizzarro," meaning "Weird World" in Italian) is the twelfth studio album by American punk rock band Ramones, released on September 1, 1992 by Radioactive Records. It is the first studio album to ...

, before teaming up with Nick Kocsis (a.k.a. Nick Mondo) and moving the show to

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. Mondo Bizarro was Australia's longest ever running specialist punk radio show, the show ended in late 2005, after running on various stations constantly for over 14 years. In 2004 he launched the

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/ hardcore program on

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short.fast.loud ''Short Fast Loud'' (stylised as 'short.fast.loud.') is a radio show on Triple J in Australia. It is hosted by Joshua "Redbeard" Merriel and features punk, hardcore, emo and similar music. The name for the show was taken from the Kid Dynamite alb ...

and worked there for ten years.

Writing career

Stu Harvey contributes weekly punk/hardcore news columns to a number of Australian print publications including

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(Melbourne),

Drum Media ''The Music'', (formerly known as and now incorporating ''Drum Media)'', is an online Australian music magazine. It previously existed as a street press devoted to long-form music journalism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. In ...

(Sydney), Time Off (Brisbane), Drum Media Perth (

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) and also a monthly column printed in nationally distributed secondary school magazine S-Press.

References

External links

Triple J People: Stuart HarveyProfile on Double J website
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