Joe Shooman
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Joe 'Rev Shoo' Shooman is a British music journalist. He is Live Reviews Editor for The Fly and also writes for several of the country's top music publications, including Metal Hammer, Play Music, Plan B, Music Mart, Record Collector and Mixmag. He also produces a show on BBC Radio Liverpool called PMS Radio which focuses on new and underground music from across the world as well as contributing to several shows on BBC 6 Music as a reporter and reviewer.
Previously, Shooman was Assistant Editor of the Welsh music and culture magazine Sothatch and a writer on the UK's biggest independent music website Drowned in Sound. He is a keen writer and some of his short stories have been published in the UK by Tell Tales and in the USA by Thieves Jargon. Joe Shooman is also a qualified sound enginerr and has also worked as a music publicist and label affiliate of Spank Records for a couple of years until he got annoyed with the whole business.
When he was much younger, Shooman focused on performing and writing creatively. He played bass in a Welsh punk band called Vaffan Coulo which has the dubious claim of releasing an album which went to #5 in the Alternative Chart of Slovenia. Shooman also wrote plays performed at two of Wales' top theatres - Theatr Clwyd in Mold and Cardiff's Sherman Theatre, where his play was replaced at the end of its run by the stage version of Bodger & Badger.
[edit] Selected books
- Shooman, Joe. Trivium: The Mark of Perseverance. Independent Music Press, 2006. ISBN 0-95528-220-9.
- Shooman, Joe. Whose Space Is It Anyway?: An Unofficial Guide to the Sites That Changed the World. Independent Music Press, 2007. ISBN 0-95528-221-7.
