Keith Cameron

#nowplaying Tom Verlaine’s first solo album. Yes, I had forgotten how good it is. RIP Fred Smith.

Just two weeks until I discuss my Manic Street Preachers book with the brilliant @willhodgkinson.bsky.social at London’s Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. www.tickettailor.com/events/insti...

#nowplaying the final McCarthy album. Yes, I had forgotten how good it is.

Many. But he always comes back to ‘Faithful’.

That really is a lovely blanket!

Keith Cameron's book about Manic Street Preachers

Finished 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure by @keithcameron2.bsky.social. Real, heartfelt thanks to him for giving the Manics back to me. I have picked up the conversation where I left off (Journal for Plague Lovers FWIW). If you are a lapsed fan, you need this book. 🙏

Thanks Andy, my work here is done.

Keith Cameron - Music Writer, Mojo, NME, Sounds - Paul Weller Fan Podcast Facebook10Tweet0LinkedIn0Pin0Print0Email0 A journalist since 1988, Keith Cameron is currently a contributing editor at MOJO, with an impressive career that’s taken him from Sounds and NME to bylines i...

Had fun chatting to Dan Jennings @wellerfanpod.bsky.social. Featuring the time I saw the Modfather wearing a British Gas sweatshirt. paulwellerfanpodcast.com/keith-cameron/

‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentar...

What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts

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Cheers Andy!

Always an honour to see our books on the Penderyn Prize longlist, celebrating the very best in music writing. Another stellar year, and congratulations to all authors and publishers on there - and especially to our own @danielrachel.bsky.social, @keithcameron2.bsky.social, Budgie & Peter Guralnick!

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Very grateful to @rhysmwyn.bsky.social and @mariellisdunning.bsky.social for discussing 168 Songs on BBC Radio Cymru yesterday. Cracking show too. Diolch! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Really enjoyed this from @keithcameron2.bsky.social Like all good music books, has got me back into the records

Ahoy! @mojomagazine.bsky.social out now! Includes my Eyewitness piece on the Skids!

My first gig was The Stranglers at the Apollo and we ran to the front from the back stalls during the first song. The most I saw of Jet Black was his cymbals.

Music Books Of The Year 2025 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews If there's a counter argument to the so-called demise of the music press, it's the huge rise in popularity of music books. When CLASH were a lad - around

Thanks to @clashmusic.com for picking 168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure in their Books Of 2025 list. www.clashmusic.com/features/mus...

David Bowie Stars In The New MOJO Magazine! David Bowie's Station To Station at 50, a brilliant covermount CD, plus Chrissie Hynde, Dennis Wilson, Squeeze and more in latest issue of MOJO Magazine.

The New MOJO Is Out Now!

50 years after Station To Station, we chart David Bowie’s torrid transformation into The Thin White Duke. Plus! Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Presley, Dennis Wilson, Arctic Monkeys, Squeeze, the essential 2026 preview and more!

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Thanks Paul!

168 Songs of Hatred and Failure by Keith Cameron review 168 key songs from the Manic Street Preachers' career are examined, with contributions from the band themselves.

My @bigissue.com review of '168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers' by @keithcameron2.bsky.social.

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All of that and Misty In Roots apparently played twice…

168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure is a Times Book Of The Year. Many thanks to @victoriasegal.bsky.social

RESIDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Itemise loathing! My Manic Street Preachers book is one of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. Available for 99p until 23:59 GMT.

It was 50 years ago today…

Like Mudhoney? This is for you.

New @mojomagazine.bsky.social out now. Contains much end of year list action, plus my features on @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social and Hüsker Dü.

📰| Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire is interviewed on confronting the band's past in @keithcameron2.bsky.social's '168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure' in the new issue of MOJO Magazine (January 2026), out now.

Order: www.mojo4music.com/magazine/lat...

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Want the one you *can* have: it’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with The Smiths on the cover and a meaty Review Of 2025 inside. Lots to get into in a moment, but it's available now here www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-january... 1/3