Andrew John Collins (born March 4 1965, Northampton, United Kingdom) is a British journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster. First coming to notice as a writer for New Musical Express in the early 1990s, he went on to become editor of Q. He also formed a double-act with fellow music journalist Stuart Maconie , presenting the Sony Award -winning BBC Radio 1 show Collins & Maconie's Hit Parade and Collins & Maconie's Film Club on ITV.

In 1998, he published his first book, Still Suitable For Miners, an authorised biography of the singer/songwriter Billy Bragg.

In 2001, Andrew Collins appeared, with Maconie and David Quantick, as a writer and performer in the Radio 2 comedy show Lloyd Cole Knew My Father, in which the three stars regaled their audience with anecdotes from their careers in music journalism. In 2004 he starred in another Radio 2 programme, The Day The Music Died, a topical comedy show about current events in the record industry.

As of 2005, he is a presenter on BBC 6 Music and film editor for the Radio Times. He was co-writer with Simon Day of the sitcom Grass , which debuted on BBC3 in Autumn 2003 and on BBC2 in January 2004.

He is perhaps best known for his two volumes of autobiography, Where Did It All Go Right? (2003) and Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (2004), humorous accounts of "growing up normal" in 1970s and 80s Britain. He is also the author of Friends Reunited: Remarkable Real Life Stories from the Nation's Favourite Website.

A keen web surfer, he has been known to contribute to a number of websites including the British TV criticism site "Off The Telly" [1] and the Internet Movie Database [2].

He has also written for the soap opera EastEnders.

External link

Where Did It All Go Right? - His official website