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Associate Editor, Word Magazine. Rob Fitzpatrick has written for WORD since the first issue when he delivered a piece about a Viennese dub outfit. They later sent him a small toy piano. They were probably glad of the exposure. Between then and joining Development Hell in April 2006 he spent a year as Editor of Channel 4's music website and wrote for NME, Mixmag and Guardian Guide. In a previous life he wrote for Melody Maker (death-rattle period), Ministry, Sleaze Nation and an American RnB magazine he can't recall the name of. All four of those magazines have now closed, though it might not have been his fault. His proudest moments to date include eating home made smoked salmon sandwiches at Shirley Collins' house, being called on his mobile by Usher's mother while in the pub, spending an interview talking about childcare and night feeds while bouncing Beck's baby on his knee, nearly being murdered by glue sniffers while in Istanbul with ambio-popsters Bent and being wildly over enthusiastic about John Simm's band in a live review for MM in about 1999. He lives in South London with his food writer wife and three year old son. Oh, and he invented the expression "mashup". Oh yes.

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