Gabe Hanvey

Jul 3, 2024 | tobemagazine.com.au | Jonah Orbach |Anisha Khemlani |Noah Fuzi |Gabe Hanvey

It was a Saturday, soon after the pandemic when live performances were just returning and the yearning to listen to real music was rife. We were at the Gasometer in Melbourne’s central north, upstairs in the brooding heat of a live venue that in ensuing months would lose its spunk. We were there to watch Royel Otis, a two-man band who had travelled from Sydney’s eastern suburbs to play all the songs they had produced at that time. They were young, shy, unknowing.