Emerging from a career in record retail clutching only a P45 and a lifelong love of music, Craig Brackenridge moved into the 21st century writing about movie sleaze and demented rock’n’roll for magazines such as ‘Street Sounds’, ‘Total Film’, ‘Bite Me’, ‘Mad Music For Bad People’ and ‘The Encyclopaedia of Cinematic Trash’.

His first book 'Let's Wreck' (2003) was a part-biographical look at the psychobilly scene from the early 1980's to the 2000's which had been starved of the oxygen of the mainstream music press for too long. In a bid to continue to record the history of psychobilly for posterity he launched the short-lived fanzine 'Vinyl Dementia’ which led directly to the non-fiction book 'Hell's Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly' (2007) for Cherry Red Books. 

After the mammoth task of 'Hell's Bent...' Craig made his first move into fiction, largely driven by his love of exploitative pulp paperbacks from the 1970's. 'Psychobilly’ (2009) was his debut novel then a move to Old Dog Books saw an extended version of that same book appearing in 2015 followed by the acid house / scootering crossover book 'Rave On Scooterboy' (2016) and the blood-splattered western 'Apache Gold' (2020) for the same publisher. Craig has also contributed to the Garry Bushell novels 'All Or Nothing' (2019), 'Harder Than The Rest' (2021) and 'Bad Apple' (2025) as well as working with Garry, as Jim Iron and John Steel, on the mod revival themed ‘Glory Boys’ trilogy.

Craig currently writes for the music magazine ‘Vintage Rock’ and the Italian psychobilly fanzine ‘DogEatRobot’ along with creating sleeve notes for selected rockin' releases from record labels such as Cherry Red, BMG and Western Star. Away from writing Craig’s other interests are cult TV, British horror movies of the 1960s and 1970s, listening to music and lying to his wife about how much he spends on vinyl.