British music critic, journalist and author he has written for many publications including NME, New Statesman and Society, The Wire, The Independent, The Face, Blah Blah Blah, Zig-Zag, Spin, Request, the TLS, Australian Vogue, The Journal of Oral History, FT, the Sunday Telegraph, Mojo and The Guardian online. He started his career in journalism in 1985.