I'm based between Manchester and Newcastle for most of the time. Other than writing about music, I run Ghettoblast and European Animal alongside some other projects like working for New York's 'Staple Design' company and the Logarhythm consortium.

Here's a little of what I'm down with musically....

65 Days Of Static, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Ai Records, Boards Of Canada, BPitch, Be Your Own Pet, Beat Hapeening, Bitstream, Brothomstates, Blondie, Cocteau Twins, Casino Vs Japan, Cim, The Catweasels, The Distillers, Drexciya, Domestication Of The Dog, Dinosaur Jr, The Duke Spirit, Edan, Explosions In The Sky, Film School, Fugazi, The GZA, Greenspace, Interpol, Indigo Mews, Jega, Kool Keith, Lusine, Lackluster, L7, The Longcut, Luscious Jackson, Machine Drum, M3rck, MF Doom, Mogwai, Millicent, MiasMah, Mr Projectile, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, NAD, Novel 23, Part Chimp, Pavement, Proem, Quasimoto, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radio 909, The Ramones, Remarc, Rephlex, Ride, Scaramanga, Sonic Youth, Shadow Huntaz, Scrubber Fox, Sub Pop, Skam, The Smiths, Tortoise, Tad, Xhale, YMSS, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Website: http://www.europeananimal.co.uk