Sarah Champion (journalist)
Sarah Champion (born 1970 in Manchester) is an English music journalist and author. She started publishing at 14, creating the fanzine Alarm on a photocopier. Alarm led to writing for Debris, and she later worked for NME after moving to London before returning to Manchester as a freelance writer. She also ran an indie label and PR company and wrote And God Created Manchester about the city’s music scene. Champion later covered London’s electronic music, traveling to Berlin, Chicago, and Tokyo to write about club culture. In the 1990s she edited four fiction anthologies for Sceptre and Penguin, often with accompanying CD releases and club events. Her other books include Disco 2000, Shenanigans, and Fortune Hotel. She spent time in Bangkok writing for Asian pop and travel sites and worked as a news editor for an English-language newspaper. In 2004 she was mistaken for Belle de Jour. She has lived in San Francisco and Manchester, taking on various projects including Radio Regen, before moving back to London in June 2006 and writing a cover story for The Observer’s Review about the return of rave culture in August 2006.
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