Ben Myers

Benjamin Myers (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist.

Early life

Myers grew up in Belmont, County Durham, and was a pupil at the estate's local comprehensive school where he become interested in reading and skateboarding.

Myers attended his first concert in Durham in March 1990, when he was fourteen. Headlined by Steadfast, it led to him forming the punk rock band Sour Face the next year. The band quickly became involved in the Durham hardcore punk scene, alongside Steadfast, False Face and XdisciplineX. Despite being one of the few bands in the scene that was not straight edge, Sour Face became the mascots of the scene, with their third performance seeing them open for NOFX. Voorhees' first performance was opening for Sour Face in September 1991.

As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly ''Melody Maker''. In 1997 he became their staff writer while residing in the Oval Mansions squat for several years. In 2011 he published an article, about his brief time as an intern at ''News of the World''. He has spoken about failing English Literature at A-level and being rejected by "more than a hundred" universities before being accepted by the University of Bedfordshire (formerly Luton University).

Work

Journalism

As a journalist, Myers has written about literature, music and the arts for a number of publications including ''New Statesman'', ''Mojo'', ''The Guardian'', ''NME'', ''The Spectator'', ''BBC
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