Tim Burrows is an author and journalist who writes about popular culture, music, art and geography - often at the same time - for a number of publications including the Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Quietus, The Stool Pigeon and Tank. He recently walked 40-odd miles from east London to his hometown of Southend-on-Sea, near the mouth of the Thames Estuary in Essex - an area referred to by some locals as "London's sphincter".
