Mick Wall
To be honest, I’m not sure if I’ve ever spent enough time appreciating who actually wrote a piece of work, that I’ve enjoyed, in the press. Apart from the odd few (…mainly the celebrity ones), I’ve yet to pick up on many great writing styles past or present. As a huge music fan, though, there has always been one writer that stood out to me. A music journalist and author named Mick Wall.
Regarded as one of the ‘foremost authorities on rock music in Britain’, he’s written for Kerrang!, Mojo, Select and the Daily Mail. He’s also presented programmes on Radio 1, Capital Radio and Planet Rock. I would advise any one with a spare minute or interest in good jounalism/music to check out his own blog! www.mickwall.com
He has this amazing style of writing where he documents stories, in such a creative yet realistic way. Whether you are interested in the subject he’s writing about, or not, you can’t help but read on thanks to his humorous if not, at times, somewhat disgustingly gritty metaphors.
As a music journalist, I admire everything about his style and I read anything of his I can get my hands on, but every brilliantly constructed feature makes me sickeningly jealous! Reading his work gives me that funny feeling of jealousy and excitement in the pit of my stomach…and that’s pretty much why I feel he’s the best journalist! at least in the music industry 
At his high, Wall revolutionised music journalism to such extent that he was often personally asked to cover stories or interviews by the bands themselves.
Anyways…. in case this is starting to just sound like an advert for him, thought I’d share some thoughts on my favourite journalist!
Hi there Talena
I linked the Winchester coursesite to Mick Wall’s blog. See you soon.
Yrs Chris Horrie
have you not heard of the brilliantly talented music writer Julie Burchill who entered a journalism contest in the NME, she won, what ever happened to her?
Please blog something on George Orwell, or the state of the English language, or connection between thought, language, imagination and freedom, etc, so we can carry the group conversation on “going forward”. So string words together well, so for this reason a contribution would be particularly welcome.
Julie Birchill went on to work for the Daily Mail and the Guardian as a star columnist. She also did a number of “Shopping and Fucking” chicklit novels. She once wrote a review of my book DISASTER – THE RISE AND FALL OF NEWS ON SUNDAY saying it was the funniest book she had ever read. She had a great act going at one point prasing Stalin and Kim Philby which as an excellent wind-up in the Daily Mail. I like her work a lot – her book DAMAGED GODS is well worth reading – especially the chapter Nature or Neitszche; and the one on black people as superhumans. She founded a magazine called THE MODERN REVIEW (now defunct) which was taken seriously for a while.
She is of course the current holder of the unofficial title of THE NEW DOROTHY PARKER!
Why no updates on this blog?
Are you OK? please update.
Hi Chris, extremely sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been involved in a great deal of work experience recently and it’s consumed pretty much any free time I have! Although I am hoping to use this blog and some other ideas I have as a feature pitch to contacts. I will get more involved asap
OK – you’ve been away a lot. We need your input.