Craig Brackenridge

I've been writing about movie sleaze and demented Rock 'n' Roll since 1995 and have written for the magazines Street Sounds, Total Film, Bite Me, BFM and The Encyclopedia of Cinematic Trash.

My first book 'Let's Wreck' was a part-biographical look at the Psychobilly scene from the early 1980's to the 2000's. This mutated music genre grinds together the very best of Punk, Rock 'n' Roll, Rockabilly and many other boot-stomping forms of music into a hellbound racket that has been starved of the oxygen of the mainstream music press for too long.

In a bid to continue to record the history of Psychobilly for posterity I launched 'Vinyl Dementia: The Psychobilly & Trash Record Guide'.

'Hell's Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly' was my attempt to chronicle the entire Psychobilly genre at the time for Cherry Red Books. I'm pleased to say that since it was published the scene has continued to grow so much that its now kinda out of date but it covers the movement from its earliest days right up to 2005.

After the mammoth task of 'Hell's Bent...' was behind me I decided to move into fiction as I have long been a fan of exploitative pulp paperbacks from the 1970's. Short snappy novels filled with bikers, skinheads, teddy boys, boot boys, youth gangs, randy window cleaners, sexually frustrated housewives and ruthless characters from the old west are what I enjoy the most and both 'Psychobilly - the novel' 'Rave On Scooterboy' and 'Apache Gold' are my contributions to the genre I love. Other fiction novels includes 'Glory Boys Vol.1 & Vol.2', 'Bad Apple', 'Harder Than The Rest' & 'All Or Nothing' (all written with Garry Bushell).

I currenty write for the music magazines Vintage Rock & DogEatRobot (Italy) and create sleevenotes for selected rockin' releases from Cherry Red Records and Western Star Records.