Keith Haynes (born 1963,
Cardiff,
Wales) is a Welsh author and musician.
Biography
Haynes was brought up in
Northampton
Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...
and attended Parklands infants school and then the junior school until his family split and moved to London in 1974. Living in
Marble Arch, he attended St Georges School in Hanover Square before returning to the nomadic travellers
lifestyle travelling to Lanarkshire and Essex for periods with intermittent schooling. He moved to Wales in 1977, where he attended Sir Thomas Picton School in
Haverfordwest. There he formed punk rock band
Picture Frame Seduction
Picture Frame Seduction (PFS) is a hardcore punk band originally from Haverfordwest, Wales, but later jointly based in Cadiz and Málaga in Spain and London and Bristol in the UK. In their formative years in Wales the band was considered too aggr ...
. In 1980 he appeared on the compilation album Demolition Blues with the song "Getcha Rocks Off". This is referenced in an interview with Haynes and ex-manager
Jan Molby
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by
BBC Radio Wales in 2002 after his football supporters group based in
Gloucester assisted local fans in ousting then
Swansea City
Swansea City Association Football Club (; cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Cymdeithas Dinas Abertawe) is a professional football club based in Swansea, Wales that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Swansea have played their ho ...
owners from the club.
Picture Frame Seduction split up, then reformed in 1999. In 2004 the band featured in ''Burning Britain: A history of UK Punk Rock''.
Publications
In 1998, Haynes published his first book, titled ''Come on Cymru''. His second, in 1999, was ''Come on Cymru 2000''. He has since written books on professional and international footballers and on local history. He has also broadcast for the BBC in Wales and written for mainstream newspapers and publications including ''
The Daily Mirror''.
His most recent books have been biographical accounts of his experiences following Swansea City.
Books
* Come on Cymru, Sigma, , 1998, Keith Haynes
* Come on Cymru 2000, Sigma, , 1999, Keith Haynes
* Vetch Field Voices, A oral history, Tempus, 2000, , Keith Haynes
* Roger Freestone, Another Day at the Office, Tempus, 2001, , Keith Haynes
* 100 Swansea City Greats, NPI Media Group 2003, , Keith Haynes
* The Tony Ford Story, The History Press Ltd 2005, , Keith Haynes
* Gloucester, Photographic Memories, Francis Frith, , Keith Haynes
* Walking on Sunshine, The History Press 2011, , Keith Haynes
* Shine on Swansea City, The History Press 2012, Keith Haynes
References
External links
Keith HaynesKeith Haynes BBC interview 2008Keith Haynes Discharge drummer 1980
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Living people
1963 births
Musicians from Cardiff
Writers from Cardiff
Welsh non-fiction writers