Emma Warren has been writing and making radio about music and community for decades, and is internationally respected for her work documenting grassroots culture. She is the author of Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor (Faber) and Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre which was a Mojo Top Ten book and Steam Down: Or How Things Begin. Her pamphlet Document Your Culture is a cult read for renegade archivists across the globe.
She was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked on staff at THE FACE and as an editorial mentor at Brixton youth-run Live Mag. She was a founding contributor to cult mid-1990s music magazine Jockey Slut and was a key interviewer for the Red Bull Music Academy’s series of videos with influential music legends. She had a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM for six years and is the founder of publishing imprint Sweet Machine.
Travis Elborough
Described by the Guardian as “one of Britain’s finest pop culture historians”, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for two decades now. Elborough’s books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary 'When Albums Ruled the World', in which he also appeared, and A Walk in the Park, a loving exploration of public parks and green space. Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, was published to immediate acclaim, saluted as "fascinating" by the Observer, while New Statesman stated, “It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes.”
He also wrote and devised the popular and award-winning series of ‘Unexpected’ Atlases, illustrated by the cartographers Alan Horsfield and Martin Brown. Elborough has edited several anthologies, including Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters and Letters to Change the World: From Emmeline Pankhurst to Martin Luther King, Jr.
With Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne, he also co-wrote the script for How We Used to Live, a BFI archive film directed by Paul Kelly, and premiered at the 2013 London Film Festival.