Ian Peter Cullimore is an English musician and journalist. He played guitar, between 1983 and 1988, for the Hull-based

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...

band

The Housemartins The Housemartins were an English indie rock group formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s and charted three top-ten albums and six top-twenty singles in the UK. Many of their lyrics conveyed a mixture of socialist politics and Christiani ...

Early life

He was born in

Stapleford, Cambridgeshire Stapleford is a village located approximately 4 miles to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England on the right-hand bank of the River Granta. Stapleford is first mentioned in 956 when it was given the Latinised ...

. He moved to Birmingham, where he went to school at

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, also known as Camp Hill Boys, is a highly selective grammar school in Birmingham, United Kingdom. It is one of the most academically successful schools in the United Kingdom, currently ranked thirteenth ...

, a state

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. He studied

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at the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

from 1980, graduating in 1984.

Career

Music

Cullimore responded to a local newspaper advertisement by The Housemartins singer

Paul Heaton Paul David Heaton (born 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer and main lyricist of the Housemartins, who had commercial success in the UK and other European countries between 1985 and 1988, releasing several singl ...

seeking musicians in 1983. Most of the band's songs were written by Heaton and Cullimore. After leaving the band, Cullimore ran a

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shop for about five years.

Journalism and writing

Cullimore went on to become a journalist and the author of many children's books. He has written for publications such as the ''

Hull Daily Mail The ''Hull Daily Mail'' is an English regional daily newspaper for Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The ''Hull Daily Mail'' has been circulated in various guises since 1885. A second edition, the ''East Riding Mail'', covers ...

'' and the ''

Bristol Post The ''Bristol Post'' is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. It was ...

''. He began working as a journalist in 2014 and wrote a column in a local Bristol paper. Alongside this he has been working with AuthorsAbroad, teaching young children creative writing and music.

References

External links

Cullimore's website
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Books for Keeps article
1962 births Living people Alumni of the University of Hull English composers English rock guitarists English children's writers People educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys People from Stapleford, Cambridgeshire The Housemartins members {{UK-composer-stub