Meet The Team

Everyone behind Milkcow is totally committed to ensuring that the magazine delivers well beyond our readership’s expectations. Milkcow have a dedicated team of both full and part time members and the very best support from people within the 40s and 50s scene.

Milkcow's team combine a mix of creative, technical, editorial, musical, fashion and automotive expertise. Plus a huge amount of passion for the lifestyle and culture to ensure that this is reflected in everything that we do.

Milkcow’s team is headed up by the two founding members, Bruce and Danny who between them organise, run, create and produce the magazine. Both Bruce and Danny have an extensive background in magazine design and print for several national and international magazines as well as several specialist club magazines.

The support network within the rest of the team offers a host of different specialities along with a fantastic team of contributors from every corner of the UK scene.

Email: bruce@milkcow.co.uk

Tel: 07775 661 067

As Chief Editor Bruce is responsible for writing and editing the content for Milkcow Magazine and booking the advertisers for each issue. Bruce also takes care of the contributors and articles sent in to Milkcow.

Bruce has extensive experience within the print and media industry and has written and edited several club magazines and publications in the past. He has been involved in the print and publication industry for over 30 years producing and printing countless titles. He currently runs Mill Print Consultancy offering a full print service and specialist media consultancy to companies both small and large.

Away from the media industry, Bruce has a passion for music and has played bass since a very early age still playing with The Cougars on a regular basis in pubs and clubs and events across the UK. As well as a deep-rooted passion for the music, he also has an unrivalled knowledge of classic American and British cars and has owned and restored several vehicles to show winning standard.

Danny Bedocs
Partner and Creative Director

Email: danny@milkcow.co.uk

Tel: 07785 575 552

Danny is in charge of the promotion and creative element for Milkcow covering events and shows from a photographic angle and putting together the design and artwork for the magazine and for customer adverts and taking care of the Milkcow website.

Danny is a seasoned Design and Marketing consultant with more than 23 years' experience in media design and publication. Danny runs award winning design agency – Room 2 Design, and has worked extensively within the 40s and 50s scene over the last twenty years producing design and artwork for CDs, Flyers, Posters, Websites and Shows across the UK.

Danny’s passion for the 40s and 50s lifestyle started from an early age and never seemed to go away. Danny has been extremely lucky to be able to mix this passion with his design work and offer design and marketing services to record companies, bands and businesses that involve themselves in the scene.

Danny also has a huge passion for classic and custom cars from the 40s and 50s and has run Dream Classics American Autos for over fifteen years offering cars for weddings, events and photographic use.

Julie Burns
Style & Culture

Email: jamburns@hotmail.com

WRITER and stylist Julie Burns has enjoyed being on the rocking scene since her teens. Having lived in London half her life and now back in her native Manchester, gives her a bird's eye view of the rocking life and style both North and South.

Julie started out writing pop star interviews and music reviews for Jackie, Smash Hits and Sounds, went onto Woman's Weekly and Next fashion magazine, before broadcasting at the BBC beckoned.

Here, she researched on chatshows for Esther Rantzen and Nick Ross, was a vintage consultant on collectables series, Trading Treasures and created the original format for style show, What Not to Wear.

Career highlights so far include helping produce Radio 4's Woman's Hour and being the first to put Linda Gail Lewis live on air in the UK and in the mid 90s, compiling a rocking special for the Mail on Sunday's YOU magazine.

Not forgetting featuring on film, sometimes in jive dance work in period productions such as The Madness of King George, Goodnight Sweetheart and The Hello Girls. 

To date, inbetween editing an international bridal style magazine, collecting and consulting on vintage clothes and 'whenever possible dressing up and going rocking up and down the country - jiving myself alive!' - Julie's now looking forward to style and lifestyle writing for Milkcow.

Paul Bussey
Cars & Bikes

Email: pbpublishing@supanet.com

Classic & Vintage Vehicle journalist and photographer. Formerly a writer on commercial transport, nautical, maritime and industrial hertitage subjects, but nowadays a  regular contributor to numerous UK-based classic car magazines covering everything from veteran through to supercars.

Specialist in restoration features, American cars, microcars and event reports. Freelance part-time from 1991, full time from 2000. 

Currently owns radically modified/customised award winning 2001 Smart Four-Two Coupe, 1967 Goggomobil TS300 Coupe, 1991 Bentley Turbo R, and 1959 Volkswagen Type 2 Pick-up.

Interests include Yanks, Customs & Rods, Airbrush & Pinstriping artwork, Vintage & Classic Motorsport, Glamour Photography, Burlesque, Acoustic Guitar, Live Music, Dancing.

Fleur
Vintage Clothing

Email: fleurdeguerre@gmail.com

Fleur is a copywriter by trade, and for the last two years has also been moonlighting as a pin-up model. She is a vintage clothing devotee, who dresses in a 1940s style every single day, from head to toe, straying into 1930s and 1950 fashion on occasion. She's also an avid swing dancer, who can often be found doing the Charleston stroll in her living room (inbetween refreshing eBay every 30 seconds in an effort to find her next vintage bargain), and at 40s events all around the south of England.

Fleur is often praised for her authentic look, which has led to her modelling for some of the UK's top reproduction vintage brands; and even some in the US. She has made it her personal crusade to bring a bit of old Hollywood glamour into people's everyday lives, and so, last year she launched her style blog, Diary of a Vintage Girl, which now has readers from across the globe. Following on from its success, Fleur has recently started branching out into video-based hair tutorials to help others perfect their own vintage look, as well as real-life 40s hair styling for friends' weddings and events.

Fleur is now looking forward to lending her vintage bargain-hunting and 40s styling expertise to Milkcow, and hopes that readers will enjoy her contributions ... not that anyone on the scene needs any help looking fabulous, really – one could never hope to meet a more stylish crowd of people!

John Connolly
Film reviews

John spent his early working life pounding the streets of East London as a cop. It was here that he came to value and understand the harder side of life and the film depictions of all that it encompassed. His love of film was nurtured and entrenched in his early years spent watching endless Sunday matinees. An injury forced him to retire from the police and he spent the free time following his passion, obtaining his BA Honours Degree in English and Film from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. John has taught film at various educational levels and his favourite film is Pedro Almodovar's 1999 production 'Todo sobre mi madre' ( All about my mother).

His other big passion is his trusty (read rusty) steed, 1960 VW camper van, and both John and the bus are regulars on the Summer festival and show scene.