Meet the Team
Matt Holmes
Matt co-founded WhatCulture in its earlier form - as film blog ObsessedWithFilm.com - as a direct response to Superman Lives being terrible in 2006. Since then, the Editor-in-chief has overseen major expansions and development, including his brainchild, the WWE section.
Peter Willis
Peter co-founded WhatCulture back in 2006, looking after the murky behind the scenes depths of advertising, hosting and development. If you’ve ever liked a font you’ve seen on the site, he definitely spent three weeks choosing it.
Editorial
Simon Gallagher
Having been with the site since 2008, Simon now works across all our sections as Executive Editor and is WhatCulture's most read writer. He can be found tightly clutching his trophies for User Of Longest Words, Bestest Grammar, and Least Helpful At Writing Bios.
Adam Clery
Adam arrived at WhatCulture with a murky history of publishing magazines, running websites, and lecturing his supposed wisdom to the region's university students. The thinking man's Simon Gallagher.
Scott Tailford
Scott has been WhatCulture's Games Editor since 2014, and in that time he's kindled a few bonfires, been yelled at by his genetically identical twin and thwarted an evil tyrant’s reign with a shovel. It’s been said that no one truly understands the entire Metal Gear Solid universe, but he laughs long and hard into the face of such detractors. Nanomachines, son.
James Hunt
James is an NCTJ-qualified journalist which, though impressive, wilts in comparison to how good his Instagram game is. He has a passion for fantasy dramas, but not in a weird way, and he's the best swearer in the office.
Jen Gallie
Jen is WhatCulture's resident expert on both the world of Disney, and the fantastical output of Universal Studios. On a recent visit to Los Angeles, she was forced to break up a bar fight between [name redacted for legal reasons] and [name redacted for legal reasons] from HBO's Game of Thrones.
Benjamin Richardson
Benjamin A. Richardson was born in 1987 and is still not dead. Despite styling ostentatious white specs, having a musical taste set firmly in the 1800s, and attempting his own translation of À la recherche du temps perdu, he insists he isn't an 'insufferably pretentious twit'. He is, though. And a flag fan, or 'flan', if you will. Coincidentally, Benjamin lives alone.
Michael Sidgwick
Former Power Slam Magazine scribe and author of Development Hell: The NXT Story - available NOW on shop.whatculture.com!
Michael Hamflett
Square eyes on a square head, trained almost exclusively to WWE, Sunderland AFC & Paul Rudd films. And occasionally my kids. Responsible for some of the words in our amazing Wrestling bookazines available at shop.whatculture.com, and probably every website list you read that praised Kevin Nash.
Ewan Paterson
WhatCulture's very own Comics Editor. Cats, comic books and spaghetti westerns are my thing. Rants about stuff @EwanRuinsThings
Andrew Murray
A caffeine-dependent life-form from the frozen wastes of north east Scotland. Big on football, MMA, professional wrestling, and hip-hop. He once tried to start a revolution but didn't print enough pamphlets, so hardly anyone turned up.
Audio / Video
Kris Thompson
Sometime in 2004, Kris decided to edit a video for a laugh. Well, the joke was on him it seems because now he has to come to WhatCulture and do it every single day. All that's really changed in that time is that now he exports to YouTube instead of a VHS. Yes, an actual VHS, that's how long he's been honing his craft.
Phil Chambers
Once known as Hobo Joe, he died tragically on the wrestling channel but from his ashes rose the bearded phoenix known as Phil Chambers. When he's not editing videos or appearing on the channel, Phil is the Kevin Dunn of Defiant Wrestling, only with less cuts and none of that stupid text on the screen. Follow him! Twitter: @PhilMyChambers
Adam Wilbourn
Lanky, specky, ginger bloke who loves all things wrestling, football and quiz related. The man who invented the #BloodyGoodQuiz.
Rich Hutson
Born in Theatre, sits at a Computer. After over a decade of tinkering with Video Editing software, Rich gets to spend his precious time editing whatever's thrown at him. Also the go-to for Doctor Who, and could tell you why Sans Serif fonts are better than most. Still occasionally tap dances under the desk.
Adam Nicholas
Video Editor/Presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling. Mellowest of mélomane, partial to film, TV and comics. Would ideally like to grow up to be Donald Glover, but will settle for being his best friend. Find him on The Twitter Machine: @itsadamnicholas
Operations
Laura Holmes
In 1972, a crack Executive Assistant was sent to prison by a military court for a crime she didn't commit. She promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Newcastle underground. Today, still wanted by the government, she survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find her, maybe you can hire... Laura Holmes.
Development
Chris Schofield
WhatCulture's very own Lancashire-born developer! If something is broken on the site, it was probably my fault... sorry! Let me know if you want...