After cutting her teeth in fanzines such as The Black Hole (music) and Cerebro (comics), she fooled her way into 'proper' publishing and currently makes a very nice living as an editor and writer.

Her music claims-to-fame include being clearly visible (on freeze frame, if you really squint with your nose against the screen) in the crowd for the Wham! video Everything She Wants and having once held up Noel Gallagher in a queue for a Gene concert while trying to blag her way in pretending to be Martin Rossiter's ex-girlfriend (she's not). She's also somewhere in the crowd of the Sunshine Underground video for Raise the Alarm but is no longer so impressed by these things that's she's bothered to look for where.

Past and current musical distractions include The Velvet Underground, Love, The Beatles, Joy Division, Duran Duran, Fields of the Nephilim, anything on 4AD, Suede, Nick Cave, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, The Rachels, Black Box Recorder, The Strokes, The Libertines, The Decemberists, The White Stripes and many, many others. Her favourite new bands of last year were iLiKEtrAiNS, Duels, Blackbright Morning Light and The Hedrons.

She now lives in Putney with a Morrissey obsessive and two cats. If anyone remembers mid-80s Glasgow band The Movement 14, she'd appreciate a 'where are they now'.

Favourite album of 2006: My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
Favourite track of 2006: Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Favourite live event of 2006: Bestival. Damned near perfect.