• Regular appearances as a cultural commentator on I Love the Seventies and I Love the Eighties and upcoming I Love The Ninteies
• Regular appearances on the Top Ten series...
• Regular appearances on the Top 100's e.g.. Top 100 Number Ones, Top 100 TV Personalities etc...
• Fronted Granada / Yorkshire arts programme / fronted a Granada pop series, also appeared on Cover Stories a history of north west record sleeves
• Appeared in several underground films and photo sessions
• Working on a treatment of the Nineties book (see below) for a Channel 4 series and working with several TV companies about doing own series... there are several ideas in the pipeline...

• Regular contributor on Mary Anne Hobbs Radio One show
• Regular pundit / contributor on Radio Four and Radio One debate programmes
• Currently putting together three pilots for an independent production company...

• The Membranes... original post punk blues punk rock outfit who toured the world hard in the eighties. Press kit has to be measured...inspired several other bands before burning out
• Gold Blade... critically acclaimed rock n roll outfit with a handful of semi hits...toured hard and all over TV...

• The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop... best selling book about the band and the Manchester music scene from Punk rock through acid house and till now... currently writing second edition
• The Charlatans.. We Are Rock... more than a story of the band a history of British youth culture told through the band roots in punk and scooter club days
• The Nineties: what the fuck was that all about... the definitive guide to the decade...now being made into a TV series by channel 4

main freelancer at the much missed Sounds weekly music paper...also worked for NME, Melody Maker, City Life, The Face etc.

now freelancing for the likes of Bizarre to web sites like Music 365 and Play Louder, BT Internet and XFM