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My name is Jeff Cotton and I
made and wrote this here site. Nearly all
of the photographs are also mine. I live in South West London, in an area amusingly called Tooting, which is near Wimbledon, if that helps. I was born in North London, in Shoreditch, and I work as a librarian in Stoke Newington Library, also in North London. North and South London - that's the halves each side of the Thames - are like separate cities and you generally stay living on the side where you were born, and mistrust and avoid people from the other half. I can now confirm that South Londoners do not, as is often said, smell funny. I've done various bits of freelance
music reviewing down the years, from a start with Prestel, (an early primitive
internet-like thing) through a few years on a mag called Which CD? in the
early days of the compact disc, to the recently-defunct Comes
With a Smile magazine. I also spent a couple of years writing weekly video game reviews for The
Observer, a UK Sunday newspaper, but gave
that up in December 2006 to devote more time to making websites for writers, which
seems appropriate to me in a way that, say, working with death-metal bands
does not. It might be because I can empathise with writers' needs and foibles
more than I can with those of unwashed chaps with tattoos. |
