Kieron Tyler
Bio
Kieron Tyler has contributed to Britain's MOJO magazine since 1999 and is the author of 'Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned', the critically-acclaimed and definitive biography of the first decade of the pioneering British punk rock band. His writing has also appeared in Billboard (America), The Guardian, i (the newspaper), The Independent, Les Inrockuptibles (France), Music Week, Q, Rumba (Finland) and Ugly Things (America).

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