Writer, broadcaster and freelance ‘art blokey’ who can be seen pontificating about film on the BBC Breakfast sofa, or heard talking about almost any vaguely artistic topic on local and national BBC Radio. Now a regular contributor to The Big Issue In The North, Songlines, Northern Soul, Creative Tourist, No Depression, Manchester/Liverpool Confidential and many other magazines and websites, as well as chairing the Manchester Theatre Awards, for many years he wrote about film and theatre, plus esoteric folk, blues and Americana music for the Manchester Evening News.