Initially a sports writer, Eddy Brimson has seven books to his name, plus the 1998 documentary Tear Gas & Tantrums about English football fans attending the World Cup in France, which became a video bestseller.

The following year, he started stand-up, and appeared as part of the Gilded Balloon Midnight Show at the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe. He made his solo debut with the Free Festival show Eddy Brimson Is Free in 2007.

He has also appeared in a number of TV shows as an actor, including EastEnders, where he played the villain who turned over Frank Butcher's car lot.

Outside of performing, he has also invented a board game, Initial Subject, is a qualified hypnotherapist and was press officer for the national anti-foxhunting campaign.