Sarah Champion started writing when she was just 14 with the launch of the first of several fanzines. Since then she has regularly covered music, media, style, literature, travel, nightlife, technology and pop culture for wide range of outlets.
She had her first article published in The Guardian at 16, became the youngest ever stringer for New Musical Express and had her own weekly page in the Manchester Evening News by 18. Through these and her breathless teenage book And God Created Manchester she wrote with heady enthusiasm about the late '80s/early '90s Manchester music scene, a vibrant time that would later be immortalised in the movie Twenty Four Hour Party People.
Sarah then followed the party to London where she wrote about the leftfield club scene, electronic music and spread of rave culture from Berlin to Tokyo to Wisconsin for publications such as i-D, Muzik, MixMag, Melody Maker, Volume, The Wire, Generator, Interview, Trance Europe Express and Trance Atlantic.
She has also written about travel for publications ranging from New York's Black Book (where she was also literary editor for a time) to Amazon.co.uk, where she specialised in reviewing Asian guidebooks and travelogues as well as contemporary fiction.
Sarah Champion spent the early zeros working as a newspaper editor at The Nation daily in Thailand. During this time she also contributed content about backpacking, Western pop, Asian Pacific youth culture, Bangkok nightlife and traditional Thai culture to various magazines and websites such as Bangkok Metro, Farang, Popidols.net and the Tourist Authority of Thailand.
Back in the West, Sarah now prefers to concentrate on longer term editorial
and creative projects rather than journalism although she still writes occasionally
about music, books and travel. Despite several offers and many tales to tell,
Sarah has no intention of writing a novel in the near future.
Britannia rules the raves again, The Observer Review cover story, Sunday 27 August 2006