Lucie Wood (Editor & Founder)

After telling the careers officer at school that she wanted to be a journalist, it wasn’t until Lucie upped sticks to Santa Cruz, and started writing for the University of California’s student newspaper that she got the bug. After graduating, she worked on the The Mail On Sunday’s picture desk for two years and then freelanced for The Saturday and Sunday Times Magazines, Night & Day and You Magazine. As London Metro’s health and fitness editor she wrote about everything from punk-rock aerobics to laughter yoga. More recently as an arts-lover and foodie, Lucie set up and edited the Metro Life arts section covering Bristol and the South-West. She is rarely to be found without a packet of plasters, on account of her love for dabbling in fused and stained glass.

Velimir Ilic (Editor & Founder)

Helped along by an unbridled passion for arts, food, grammar and – somewhat misguidedly – Sheffield popsters The Human League, freelance writer and hack Velimir Ilic has contributed to a variety of UK and global publications for over 14 years. In addition to a recent stint as arts staff writer for Metro’s Bristol office, Vel has written extensively on arts, lifestyle and food for a diverse range of publications including Venue, The Independent, The Wire, Plan B and others. Something of a music geek, with a penchant for vintage shirts, preppy spectacles and playing badminton like a stricken giraffe, he has authored two popular music biographies and penned a regular football column for Birmingham City FC’s matchday programme. Brought up on cheap cuts of meat by food-obsessed Serbian parents, he continues to be traumatised by hairy pigs’ trotters.

Holly Rose (Illustrator)

Holly is a graphic designer who designed our flyers: ‘Free-time, Play-time, Night-time’. She specialises in editorial and book design so can often be found drooling over great book covers. When she isn’t lingering around bookshops, she is out and about around Bristol taking photographs and visiting exhibitions. After a long walk, Holly can be often be found in a good pub nursing a cider and listening to a bit of fiddling folk.


Tim Rogers (IT Wizard)

Tim is a professional and semi-freelance web developer and a bit of a magician at solving our technical problems. He likes nothing more than going downhill fast on two wheels towards a good pub. He is not a fan of pseudoscience and pub menus that call chips ‘frites’.


Evan Hollands (Technology Guy)
Originally a country-boy from Australia, Evan relocated to the UK in 2003 and has worked in IT & Software Development for 12 years. He is an out-and-proud technology-geek, and if you buy him a drink he’ll share his knowledge of all things computer-related. Evan’s perfect weekend involves a lie-in, bacon sandwich, a visit to Forbidden Planet, the Saturday Guardian, some sunshine and a pint.


David Baldwin (comedy writer)

David is a freelance journalist who started out in local radio, but soon realised that 5am starts didn’t really suit him. He has since penned articles for the likes of Metro, Hotline, Total Sci-Fi, London Lite, Filmstar, Shortlist, 69 Magazine and – rather randomly – The Official Heroes Magazine. He greatly admires the work of Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi and thinks that Charlie Brooker is over-rated. David is also an occasional film-maker and scriptwriter; probably more ’occasional’ than he’d like, although he’s produced a couple of short films and a sitcom pilot. He really hopes you like his writing, but will arrogantly assume you’re wrong if you don’t.

Daniel Humphry (Film Writer)

Daniel is a born and bred Bristolian with a penchant for pop-culture. Since he has fulfilled all his ambitions of running a live music venue, penning overly academic disseminations of graphic novels and writing for some of the country’s top arts and culture magazines, he dreams of one day making it as a full-time screen-writer. Don’t ask him about it though or you’ll have a pile of scripts pushed into your hands. Likes include fresh socks and the films of Woody Allen, while he isn’t too keen on people who wear festival wristbands after said festival is over and the phrase ‘texted’.