Douglas MacIntyre was a key part of the Scottish postpunk scene and since 1994 has operated the Creeping Bent Organisation, the Scottish independent label viewed as a successor to Fast Product and Postcard.
  
Grant McPhee is director of the film, Big Gold Dream, interviews for which have been revisited to partly contribute to the book. 

Neil Cooper is an arts journalist and has chronicled Scottish postpunk manoeuvres.