For the past twenty-five years, Nige Tassell has written about music, popular culture and sport for a range of titles, including the Word, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, the Independent, Q, Esquire, GQ, Rouleur, the New Statesman and the Blizzard. His last music book Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? was published in 2022 to great acclaim. Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners will be Nige's tenth book.