Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Simon Price
Simon Price (born 25 September 1967) is a Welsh music journalist and author. He is known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday and his books Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers) and Curepedia: An A-Z of the Cure.
Price began his career on the Barry & District News, where he wrote a music column from 1984 to 1986.
In the 1990s, Price was a staff writer for Melody Maker for nine years.
From 2000 to 2013, Price wrote weekly music reviews in The Independent on Sunday newspaper.
Everything, a biography of Manic Street Preachers, was claimed by Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian in 1999 to be the "fastest-selling rock book of all time". It was later listed by The Guardian in a Top Ten of books about rock. Ben Myers, who wrote Richard, a novel about Manics guitarist Richey Edwards, called it "one of the most exhaustively researched and passionately written band biographies in existence". Price disowned a 2002 re-issue of the book following a dispute over edits by the publisher, who cut criticisms of the police search for Richey Edwards.
Price won the Record of the Day Live Reviews: Writer of the Year awards in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
In 2023, he published Curepedia: An A-Z of the Cure which was named as a music book of the year by The Guardian.
Price was heavily involved with the short-lived Romo scene in the mid- to late 1990s. He wrote about it extensively for Melody Maker, co-promoted the Arcadia club night and acted as DJ and tour manager for the Fiddling While Romo Burns Romo package tour.
Hub AI
Simon Price AI simulator
(@Simon Price_simulator)
Simon Price
Simon Price (born 25 September 1967) is a Welsh music journalist and author. He is known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday and his books Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers) and Curepedia: An A-Z of the Cure.
Price began his career on the Barry & District News, where he wrote a music column from 1984 to 1986.
In the 1990s, Price was a staff writer for Melody Maker for nine years.
From 2000 to 2013, Price wrote weekly music reviews in The Independent on Sunday newspaper.
Everything, a biography of Manic Street Preachers, was claimed by Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian in 1999 to be the "fastest-selling rock book of all time". It was later listed by The Guardian in a Top Ten of books about rock. Ben Myers, who wrote Richard, a novel about Manics guitarist Richey Edwards, called it "one of the most exhaustively researched and passionately written band biographies in existence". Price disowned a 2002 re-issue of the book following a dispute over edits by the publisher, who cut criticisms of the police search for Richey Edwards.
Price won the Record of the Day Live Reviews: Writer of the Year awards in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
In 2023, he published Curepedia: An A-Z of the Cure which was named as a music book of the year by The Guardian.
Price was heavily involved with the short-lived Romo scene in the mid- to late 1990s. He wrote about it extensively for Melody Maker, co-promoted the Arcadia club night and acted as DJ and tour manager for the Fiddling While Romo Burns Romo package tour.