John O'Connell is a former senior editor at Time Out and music columnist for the Face. He is now freelance writing mainly for the Times and the Guardian. He interviewed David Bowie in New York in 2002. He lives in south London.
Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned five coveted Audie Awards, and he has won fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named him a Golden Voice.