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Andrew Collins hasn't decided what he is yet. He writes scripts, mostly. But he also broadcasts on BBC 6 Music; having been a proud part of the network's launch line-up, he is now a willing sub, often popping up at breakfast. He is also Film Editor at the Radio Times and films a weekly TV review for The Guardian called Telly Addict. He once penned episodes of EastEnders, then moved into sitcom with BBC2's Grass (co-written with star Simon Day), BBC1's award-winning Not Going Out (co-written with star Lee Mack), Radio 4's Mr Blue Sky and, most recently, Sky Living's team-written Gates. He is script-editing the first Pappy's sitcom for BBC3. He also writes books, including the biography of Billy Bragg, Still Suitable For Miners, and a trilogy of memoirs, Where Did It All Go Right?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and That's Me In The Corner, which detail his evolution from latecoming Northampton punk via a brush with provincial New Romanticism to fully-flown Goth and part-time art-school B-Boy, and a ramshackle media career from the NME during the Madchester years, to Select for Grunge and Q for Britpop. It was at 6 Music in the early days that Andrew's first producer, Frank Wilson, broadened his musical mind and whose infectious enthusiasm accounts for much of the music chosen here. Cheers, Frank!

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DJ Andy Smith used to work with Portishead (as tour DJ and sample finder) - Don't anymore! - Released loads of mix CD's since 1998 - The Document 1,2 &3 , The Trojan Document, The Greensleeves Document, Andy Smith's Northern Soul, Diggin' in The BGP Vaults, Freestyle Mix, Jam Up Twist.

Now fairly bored with most new music (most stuff I hear is just made for dreadful US urban radio and I don't much care for it!), yet think within older stuff there is a treasure trove of musical treats to be found (especially 50's & 60's, though I still dig the 70's and early 80's Boogie). Fairly done with Hip Hop as I HATE what it became - may come back to the better older stuff one day?.

Currently DJ every Saturday night at 'Lost & Found' at Madame Jo Jos (with Keb Darge) and do various 'Jam Up Twist' nights around the UK on Fridays (currently 1st Friday at Fluid Bar in Farringdon,London, 2nd Friday at The Clarendon, Leamington Spa & 3rd Friday at The Big Chill Bar, Bristol|).

Enjoy DJing now (not playing anything current!) more than I ever have - More of you should try doing what's in your heart musically - Give me stack of 1950's & 1960's 45's or a pile of disco & doogie 12"s and I'm a happy man - All vinyl still too (in the UK) - Serato abroad - that's why I dont DJ abroad too much these days - I prefer spinning my vinyl in the UK!

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Pete Paphides is a lifelong record collector, music journalist (writing for Mojo, Q, The Times, The Guardian, among others), broadcaster (with two series of Lost Albums, one series of Follow-Up albums, two series of Vinyl Revival and now the weekly Soho Radio show 12pm-2pm).

About a year ago, Liz Buckley at Ace asked me if I would be up for compiling a list of my favourite songs from the Ace catalogue. It was hard to know where to begin. After a while, I figured that a good way to narrow down the infinite choices available to me might be to go through my own collection and put together a continuous vinyl mix of songs that can be found in Ace’s vast inventory. So that’s exactly what I did. Twenty-eight years have elapsed since I bought the first record on this playlist (3 Mustaphas 3, Birmingham HMV, 99p). The most recent purchase happened two days ago in a Crouch End record shop. With its scarcely-seen red-and-white Brit label, The Anglos’ ‘Incense’ looked intriguing enough to play on the shop turntable. Then, not for the first time and probably not the last, I smashed through the budget I had set for myself. Hopefully, when you hear it, you’ll see why leaving it behind was not an option. And if you want to own a copy too, then hats off to the good folk at Ace, who have ensured you won’t have to shell out silly record collector money for it.

Pete's Ace Playlist by Pete Paphides on Mixcloud

Arthur Mathews has written for television since the early 1990s. Among the shows he has created and/or written (many with co-writer Graham Linehan) are Toast of London, Paris, Father Ted, Hippies, Big Train, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Brass Eye, Harry Enfield and Chums, The Fast Show, Black Books and The Eejits. He has written a ‘bogus memoir’, Well Remembered Days, as well as The Craggy Island Parish Newsletters, Father Ted - The Complete Scripts (with Graham Linehan) and The Book Of Poor Ould Fellas (with Declan Lynch). As a cartoonist he contributed Doctor Crawshaft's World Of Pop to the New Musical Express and The Chairman to the Observer Sport Monthly. In the theatre, he created the long-running musical I, Keano. His film Wide Open Spaces was released in 2009 and he has recently cowritten (with Paul Woodful) the sitcom Val Falvey starring Ardal O'Hanlon.

Barney is the former U.S. Editor of Mojo and author of, among other books, Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted (about country soul), Across the Great Divide (about The Band) and Waiting for the Sun (about L.A.). He is now Editorial Director of ROCK'S BACKPAGES, the Online Library of Rock & Roll, featuring thousands of classic articles and interviews by hundreds of the best rock writers of the last 40 years. JOIN TODAY at www.rocksbackpages.com