Journalism: Books

The Rough Guide to eBay (2006)

Out now! Available from Amazon, Waterstones, all good bookshops and, er, eBay! Sales 09 September - 31 December 2006: 14,679.

The Unknown Paul McCartney (2004)

Japanese edition with new cover, published by Strange Days, Tokyo.

Produced By Trevor Horn (2004)

Official souvenir programme for a concert in honour of The Princes Trust and attended by HRH Prince of Wales at Wembley Stadium.

CyberMusic (2004)

Official brochure for the Science Museum's festival of electronic music and culture.

The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music (2003)

Chapters on Remmy Ongala, Orquesta Reve and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for this and it's off-shoot encyclopedias of 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s music. [buy at amazon.co.uk]

The Unknown Paul McCartney (2002)

Major biography of McCartney's avant-garde and experimental output. Published by Reynolds & Hearn and positively reviewed by The Independent, Mojo, Uncut and many others. Click here for reviews. It was also featured prominently on Radio 4's Pick Of The Week, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Scotland and Danny Baker's show on BBC London. [buy at amazon.co.uk]

The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2002)

Published by Routledge New York, entries on ambient music, John Cage, Robert Fripp, Musique Concrete, and minimalism. Also articles on Peter Gabriel and Ravi Shankar. Tech chapters on sampling, drum machines, RealAudio, downloads, MP3 and Winamp.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000)

Published by Macmillan, chapters on dance music post-disco, scratching, DJing, rave and techno, as well as biographies of Marshall Jefferson, Derrick May, James Taylor Quartet, Todd Terry, Tower of Power, Aphex Twin, Arrested Development, Carl Craig, Grooverider, The Orb, The KLF, Queen Latifah, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Underworld and Gil Scot-Heron.

The Rough Guide To Rock (1997)

Chapters on A Certain Ratio and 808 State. Said Billboard: "The ultimate online rock band guide… An excellent resource…"

Future Visions: Music & The Internet (1996)

My first sole by-line, published by Future Books and distributed by Penguin. On the reading list for music undergraduates at De Montfort University UK and MacQuarie University Australia. Reviewed by Time Out as "worth every penny" and Billboard as "a Godsend". Read more reviews here.

The Complete Introduction To Record Collecting (1996)

A chapter on collecting multimedia, Video CD, CDi, CD-Rom, DAT, MiniDisc, Laserdisc and the like.