Bust magazine, the Something Awful website and writes for various Australian online publications including Mess And Noise and The Vine. True also fronts two Brisbane bands: The Deadnotes and The Thin Kids, the latter of which caused some controversy when they picked up a plum support to Kate Nash midway through 2010. For several years, he was the main editor and writer for the Brisbane-based online magazine, Collapse Board. His most recent project is Rejected Unknown, a media/publishing company set up in response to the 33⅓ series of music books; it takes its name from the album by Daniel Johnston. The first book came out in 2016, and is entitled 101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear, a critique of the sacred cows of the rock music canon. This was followed in 2017 by his biography The Electrical Storm: Grunge, my Part In Its Downfall, and in 2018 by the short story collection Ed Sheeran Is Shit. As Jerry Thackray, he is Course Leader in BA (Hons) Music Journalism at BIMM London. He still performs on stage as The Legend!. Discography The Legend! Singles "'73 in '83" (1983), Creation "Destroys the Blues" (1984), Creation "Talk Open (live)" (1984), Legend! (free flexi-disc given away with Legend! fanzine) Everything's Coming Up Roses EP (1986), Vinyl Drip "The Ballad" (1987), Constrictor "Step Aside" (1988), Constrictor "Breakfast in Bed" (1990), K Records (as guest vocalist with The Go Team) "Do Nuts" (1991), Sub Pop The Legend! Sings The Songs of Daniel Treacy (2005), Unpopular The Thin Kids w/Kate Nash - The Thin Kids theme b/w Kate Nash ft Everett True - Warrior In Woolworths (2012), Have 10p Records The Thin Kids ft Kate Nash - Free Pussy Riot Now! (2013), Have 10p Records Albums Some of us Still Burn (mini-LP) (1985), Vinyl Drip Everett True Connection (2001), 3 Acre Floor References 1961 births Living people People from Chelmsford English male journalists English music journalists Writers from Essex Riot grrrl Melody Maker writers The Stranger (newspaper) people