Toby Manning is a writer on popular culture and popular music, and has written for Red Pepper, NME, The Big Issue, The Guardian, The Word, The Independent, Q, New Statesman and The Quietus. He is the author of the Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (Penguin, 2006), John le Carre and the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Mixing Pop and Politics (Repeater, 2024). He has contributed chapters to Sean Albiez and David Pattie’s The Velvet Underground: What’s Going On (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the forthcoming Talking Heads (Bloomsbury, 2025), and essays to the journals Key Words, College Literature and Red Wedge. He has taught at the University of Birmingham, Brunel and Queen Mary University, and given talks at the Barbican, the Victoria and Albert Museum and at St George’s Hall, Blackburn.

Twitter: @TobyManning