John Robb is a many-facetedcreature.
Not just a well known face from TV butalso a best selling author, musician,journalist, Louder Than War musicwebsite boss, Louder Than Words andLouder Than War Live festivals boss,Eco champion, vegan behemoth andpunk rock warlord as well as TV andradio talking head plus singer frompost-punk critically acclaimedmainstays The Membranes.
John Robb is all these things andmore and his upcoming 2026 memoirswill cover all of this and his adventuresin punk and post punk and much morein book form and is also getting madeinto a film.
His recently released books ‘LiveForever - the Rise, Fall andResurrection of Oasis’ and ‘The Art OfDarkness - the History Of Goth’ areboth acclaimed worldwide pop culturebest sellers joining his ‘The StoneRoses and the Resurrection of BritishPop’ and his 2022 book with theleading maverick green energy bossDale Vince from Ecotricity called‘Manifesto’ at the top of the bookcharts..He is currently working on the ground-breaking Green Britain Academyeducation scheme and a zero carbonclothing line called ‘Dark Forest’ in hisdowntime between spoken word toursof the UK and Europe./
John Robb grew up in Blackpool (whohave now made him an ambassadorfor the town) before punk rock camealong and saved his life. In the post-punk era he formed the Membranes -the highly influential post-punk bandwhose current critically eulogisedalbums keep pushing forward withadded choirs and textures.
He was one of the leading post-punkfanzine writers in the UK with ‘Rox’before he went on to write for the rockpress with Sounds in the 80s. He wasthe first person to interview Nirvanaand coined the expression Britpop andwas instrumental in documenting theMadchester scene with his writing. Hiswebsite louderthanwar.com iscurrently one of the top 3 most readmusic and culture sites in the UK andat the front of diverse modern culture
and saw him nearly release theFontaines DC first single and giveCharli XCX her first review amongstother many firsts.
