Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson is an English writer and journalist. He first gained recognition in the mid-1990s with the Dirty Stop Out's Guide to Sheffield, which was published at the height of the dance club explosion of the era. This tour of Sheffield at night attracted acclaim from titles including The Rough Guide to England, DJ Magazine and The Times. His Take It to the Limit book is about the venue The Limit, which ran on Sheffield's West Street from 1978 to 1991. Sheffield's Date With Hitler was published in 2010 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Sheffield Blitz. The book formed the basis of BBC1's Sheffield The Forgotten Blitz documentary and followed over a year of research and attempts to explain why the city's munitions works were largely missed by the Luftwaffe on 12 and 15 December 1940. In 2010, Anderson wrote Signing on for the Devil, which chronicled Sheffield's heavy metal music scene in the 1980s. Anderson is a regular contributor to the international music magazine Vive Le Rock. Background Sheffield-born Anderson has been a music and entertainment writer/journalist since leaving Sheffield Hallam University in the mid-1990s. He was a Sheffield Telegraph columnist for over a decade and has written for titles spanning The Independent to The Big Issue. Anderson originally started out as a hairdresser but landed a job in Sheffield City Hall's publicity office whilst still at university. He was soon promoted to Sheffield City Council's press office. He left in 2000 to pursue his media career. Bibliography