Name: John Doran (Editor)

Publications: Stool Pigeon, Drowned In Sound, Plan B, Playlouder, BANG, Metal Hammer, Record Collector, WIRE, Classic Rock, Loaded, Marie Claire and most of the national papers.

Books: 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Favourite Albums:

Most memorable piece of music journalism: Once, when interviewing neo thrash band Trivium, John got so drunk that the lead singer of Dragonforce had to take over asking the questions while he got thrown out of the interview. To compound matters he then had a fight with some muggers in Shepherd’s Bush sustaining a stab wound to the hand. Then he had to run away from some helpful members of the local constabulary who wanted to arrest him for overly demonstrative behaviour. This said the memory is more hazy than memorable.

Favourite Books:

Favourite piece of music trivia: Nik Fiend from acid munching 80s goths Alien Sex Fiend and Anita Mahadervan of ‘I Eat Cannibals’ writing one hit wonders Total Coelo, were both children of Countdown host, Bob Holness. Who had nothing to do with the saxophone solo on Baker Street.

Favourite Films:

Habitat: Originally from Merseyside and having lived in Hull and Manchester, he now lives in Stoke Newington, London with his girlfriend and his absurd collection of Gary Numan picture discs and Fall albums. He likes to remind himself of his staunch working class roots while visiting farmers markets, delivering leaflets for the Green Party and dodging yummy mummies and their buggies of death.

Favourite Current Albums:
Neon Neon ‘Stainless Style’,
Fuck Buttons ‘Street Horrrsing’,
Hercules and Love Affair ‘Hercules and Love Affair’,
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’,
Overmars ‘Born Again’

Poison: A compromise has been reached with his doctor and now it is nothing stronger than real ale, even though it tastes like muddy water and he would sooner have a Wray and Nephews over proofed rum.

Hobbies: A bit of DJing at his monthly club night Big Sexy Land in Manchester and London and at his weekly recovery session The Olde Peculiar.

Links: www.johndoran.co.uk
www.bigsexyland.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theoldepeculiar

Name: Luke Turner (Deputy Editor)

Publications: PlayLouder, The Stool Pigeon, Dazed & Confused, DrownedInSound, Dotmusic, Orange, New Woman, Nerve.com, 6music and various obscure non-musical non-entities.

Favourite Albums:

Most memorable piece of music journalism:
Sending a death threat to an Antipodean ABBA tribute band in a fit of pique. Unfortunately I was apparently a far more talented death threat writer than I’d given myself credit for, and Interpol followed the electronic trail from Australia to Norwich. They arrived in the form of a large file cradled in the arms of a portly member of the Norfolk Constabulary.

Favourite Books:

Favourite piece of music trivia: Masterchef host and pasta sauce salesman Lloyd Grossman was the lead singer in punk act Jet Bronx And The Forbidden, who reached number 49 in the hit parade in 1977 with their single ‘Ain’t Doin’ Nothing’.

Favourite Films:

Habitat: I’ve been a migratory creature due to my old man following John Wesley around the country (without the horse). Sermons are currently held off the Lower Clapton Road, Hackney.

Favourite Current Albums:
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
OMD – Dazzle Ships (reissue)
Artery - Live At Meltdown
Aidan John Moffat – I Can Hear Your Heart
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Poison: Real ale and pork pies. Last year I simultaneously discovered a fantastic Welsh ale and a pork pie that was almost the same diameter as the face of the bloke from Keane yet cost only 1.20. After consuming plenty of the former and the whole of the latter I had gristly premonitions of a heart that’d turned into that mysterious gelatinous matter, and now ration myself to one pork pie a month. Ale flows unrestricted.

Hobbies: Whims and flights of fancy not dissimilar to Toad. As it is, model-making, completing the Pennine Way, crocheting etc generally become consumed by this lark, the anguish of trying to work out which Fall album is my favourite, and attending to the demands of making a broken world aware of the magnificence of rambling jazz, drones and ranting combo One More Grain.

Name: Tommy Udo

Publications: NME, Sounds,Playlouder, BANG, Metal Hammer, Classic
Rock…and many others

Books: Industrial Music; ‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano; Brave Nu World;
Vatican Bloodbath; Charles Manson: Music, Mayhem And Murder; Nine Inch
Nails

Favourite Albums:

Most memorable piece of music journalism:
Interviewing KISS in the helicopter; getting incapable with Phil Lynott

Favourite Books:

Favourite piece of music trivia: Charlie Parker used to stalk Igor Stravinsky

Favourite Films:

Habitat: Always London

Favourite Current Albums:
Witch - ‘Paralyzed’
Ufomammut - ‘Idolum’
The Sword - ‘Gods Of The Earth’

Poison: Espresso ristresso

Hobbies: Learning songs from In The Night Garden; existential
dilemmas; early Christian gnostic heresies

Links:www.myspace.com/tommyudo