Dean Smith is a songwriter. He famously created the songs that appear of the Warehouse CD in an electrical goods warehouse on night shift, keeping out of sight of the supervisor by writing on top of a stack of fridges. Dean went on to become a poetry promoter, putting on outlandish sell-out shows across the north of England. Currently he is running his own landscape business.
After five years studying Art & Design and Film & TV Production, Simon spent four ‘mind numbing’ years as a warehouse operative on the Whitwood and Normanton Industrial Estate. He makes music under the name The Intergalctic Orangutan. His stories appear in Warehouse.
M S Green is an ex-journeyman musician who has previously run a small record label and a Manchester based music fanzine. His stories appear in Warehouse and Next Stop Hope. His novel Tin Hats is published by The Other Side.
Alan Green is a writer and blues harmonica player from Knottingley, West Yorkshire. A veteran of many a short term contract, he knows his way around the warehouse estate. A passionate researcher of local history, he is acknowledged as an authority on Knottingley’s Wild West hero, Ben Thompson. A book on Thompson is an ongoing, long-term project.
Three of his stories appear Warehouse. and his story 'Devon' features in Route Compendium.
A musician and songwriter, Clayton has been the lead guitarist for an assortment of bands, primarily playing blues and funk. He has composed and produced soundtracks for several websites, and a number of his articles on music have been published in the Route newspaper. He is a member of Budists and The Freewheel. His stories feature in Warehouse.
An all-round versatile musician, he pushes himself to create the kind of music he likes to hear, rather than what he already knows. This has inspired him to experiment with dance grooves and soulful synthesised sound. He has played drums for a number of bands and was a founder member of Budists in 1999. His story 'Survival Instinct' features in Warehouse and was told almost verbatim one night over a dinner table.
The Budists are a four piece band who play improvised urban punk sounds. Their album Ain't That A Bitch comes free with the book Warehouse.
Ian Daley was born in Featherstone, West Yorkshire. Destined for a life working underground, he left school during the miners’ strike of 1984 and somehow became a book publisher. He is the founding editor of Route and lives and works in Pontefract with his wife.
