James Brown
James Brown is the man behind the new internet hit SabotageTimes.com. An online magazine and content creation company Sabotage Times has been described as ‘awesome’ by Jonathan Ross ‘superb’ by Richard Bacon and ‘fantastic’ by Stephen Fry. It was recently the 9th most recommended site by twitter in the United Kingdom and 123rd out of all 6 million tweeters worldwide.
James started in magazines as a reader of Tiger and Jag. After leaving school he started writing his own fanzine, joined the NME as features Editor aged just 21 and then launched Loaded magazine which created a worldwide genre, spawned two generations of imitators and has sold over 40,000,000 copies. It is widely considered to be the magazine of the 90s.
He edited GQ, launching their prestigious Man of The Year Awards, significantly increased revenues whilst publishing Viz Comic, and then launched Jack magazine. He sold his publishing company IFG in 2002 for £6.5m and has since run Black Ops a media agency advising numerous major media companies. In Jan 2010 he relaunched the world’s biggest sports magazine for Sky Sports.
He has been profiled in numerous titles from Vanity Fair to Newsweek. And was once voted more influential than Mrs Thatcher and the Pope by Channel 4 and The Observer (who were clearly on drugs at the time). As a writer he began his career on Sounds and the NME, since then he has written for most of Britain’s leading newspapers and magazines which currently include Readers Digest, Grazia, Glamour, Junior and Esquire.
He has also made documentary series for television and is a regular guest on leading television news and arts programmes. A popular and light hearted business speaker he has shared a stage with Prime Minister David Cameron and billing with Al Gore, Kofi Anaan and Karen Brady. This week he likes Midget Gems, The Clash, James Lee Burke and the look of the world from a beach. He reads Fortean Times, 442 and The Week.