Stuart Bailie

has written for the NME, Mojo, Uncut, Q, Vox, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Mirror, the Irish Times, Classic Rock and Hot Press. He is the author of Trouble Songs: Music and Conflict in Northern Ireland (2018); 75 Van Songs (2020) and Terri Hooley: Seventy-Five Revolutions (2023), among others. A former assistant editor of the NME, he was the co-founder and CEO of the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast. Bailie presented a weekly BBC Radio Ulster show, 1999-2019. He researched and scripted BBC radio documentaries on U2, Elvis Costello, Glen Campbell, and Thin Lizzy. In 2007 he was associate producer, author and narrator of So Hard To Beat — a two part documentary on the story of music from Northern Ireland that was shown on Northern Ireland BBC and BBC 4. He blogs at www.digwithit.com