Career
Collins started his career as a music journalist, writing for the NME, Vox, Select and Q (where was editor, 1995–97). He also wrote for and edited film magazine Empire in 1995. He formed a double-act with fellow music journalist Stuart Maconie, presenting the Sony Award-winning BBC Radio 1 show Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade, after forging their style on a daily comedy strand on Mark Goodier's BBC Radio 1 drivetime show, and Collins & Maconie's Movie Club on ITV.
In 1998, Collins published his first book, Still Suitable for Miners, an authorised biography of the singer/songwriter Billy Bragg. The book was updated in 2002 and again in 2007.
Collins often appeared on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 list shows, including the popular I Love the '80s programme. He stated on BBC Three's The Most Annoying TV Programmes We Love to Hate that he had appeared on 37 such list shows, and that this would be his last one. He subsequently appeared on Heroes Unmasked on BBC Three. He devoted a full chapter to the experience of appearing as a talking head on such shows in his third volume of autobiography, That's Me in the Corner.
He has written three volumes of autobiography, humorous accounts of "growing up normal" in 1970s Northampton, struggling with art school in London in the 1980s, and forging a media career in the 1980s and 1990s: Where Did It All Go Right? (2003) (a Sunday Times and Smith's bestseller), Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (2004) and That's Me in the Corner (which draws its title from a line from the R.E.M. song "Losing My Religion") published in May 2007.
He produced a regular (generally weekly) podcast, the Collings & Herrin with comedian Richard Herring, which began in February 2008 and was named Podcast of the Week in the Times in July 2008. It was on hiatus from June 2011 only restarting 4 November 2011. The lull was due to what Herring joked was "Collins' duplicitous careerism". Herring announced that the November podcast would most likely be the last, as Collins had lost enthusiasm for it.
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