Music Conference and Festival
Laura Snapes is a freelance culture writer and editor for Pitchfork, Uncut, The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times, Buzzfeed, BBC and many others. Laura is the featured editor of NME and has worked as associate editor at Pitchfork and assistant reviews editor at NME.
Laura also does copywriting for music companies and appears on Monocle 24 Arts Review and BBC 4.
Andrew Perry has been writing about popular music professionally for 25 years, but you could add another ten to include his early years on fanzines and student magazines. In the ’90s, he worked on indie magazine Select, rising to Deputy Editor. Since going freelance in 2000, he has written mostly for The Daily Telegraph, Q, Mojo and Numéro. His work has also appeared in titles in America, China, Japan and Australia. He’s now really living the dream, ghost-writing the autobiography of his teenage hero, John Lydon.
Keith Cameron is an author, journalist and sub-editor. He became a freelance contributor to the weekly music paper Sounds in 1988 and after that began contributing to the NME. Since 2001, Keith has worked at MOJO magazine, currently as Contributing Editor.
As a writer Keith has contributed to many other titles, including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Scotland On Sunday, Q and Kerrang!. From 1997-98 he hosted a show on XFM, London’s alternative radio station. In 1999, Keith compiled an album based on his XFM show, ‘The Carve-Up’, released by Loose Music. It features rare and exclusive tracks from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Low, Mudhoney and many more.
In 2013, his book Mudhoney: The Sound And The Fury From Seattle was published by Omnibus Press. In 2014, the US edition was published by Voyageur Press.
Gary Mulholland is the author of the highly acclaimed books “This is Uncool”, “Fear of Music”, “Popcorn” and “Stranded at the Drive-In” and has contributed frequently to The Guardian, BBC, Observer, Uncut and Time Out.