Carol Clerk, the first outstanding music journalist from Northern Ireland, is to be honoured by a new bursary that will support upcoming journalists.
Carol, from Belfast, wrote her first story for Melody Maker in 1974 when she was still at school (‘Bombs, Boredom and No Bands’).
Eventually, she became News Editor of Melody Maker and wrote respected books on The Pogues, The Damned, Madonna and Ozzy Osbourne.
