Career
He is best known for his music journalism which appeared in Melody Maker from 1993 to 1998, notable for a style which mixed dark humour, especially in bitterly critical pieces, with an intellectual tone, influenced by the likes of Simon Reynolds and Paul Morley. He took a stand against the more unadventurous Britpop groups of the mid-1990s (which motivated his involvement with the short-lived Romo scene), although somewhat surprisingly, he was for a time largely positive towards Oasis, in stark contrast to his cohort Simon Price. He is currently writing for the football magazine When Saturday Comes and The Quietus, a music and popular culture website, and presents a monthly feature for the radio programme Jarvis Cocker"s Sunday Service on British Broadcasting Corporation 6 Music.