Mercer is primarily a writer focused on the
Gothic rock scene that emerged from the initial
Post-punk era in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has also photographed bands from the
Punk era onwards, In 1978, he began writing for British music paper
Record Mirror, then freelanced for
ZigZag magazine, later becoming its editor until the magazine folded in 1986. In 2023, some of Mick Mercer's photographs were exhibited as a part of "The Batcave Exhibition" at the Museum of Youth Culture on Berwick Street in
Soho. The journalist's important - predominantly goth-based - photo archive may be sampled at this page on the Redbubble website: '''' ==Bibliography==