[2] Raised in the City's Perry Barr district, he attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston.

[6] On 11 November 2008 (starting at 11 am), Bounds spent eleven hours on Birmingham's number 11 bus route, the outer circle, documenting his journey online, using Twitter, Facebook and a blog, elevenbus.co.uk.

[7] The next month, he organised TwitPanto, a pantomime on Twitter, which featured a cast that included Government Minister Tom Watson MP and Guardian writer Jemima Kiss.

A further TwitPanto, on 18 December 2009, in which Watson – by then a back-bench MP[citation needed] – again had a part, was hosted by Birmingham Hippodrome[8] and named as an Official Honouree by the Webby Awards.

[16][17] In the meanwhile, in 2014, Bounds co-authored a book with Birmingham City University lecturers Jon Hickman and Craig Hamilton.