A contributor to such titles as The Times, Shortlist, The Guardian and Uncut, Beaumont's writings have predominately appeared in the NME where he has written numerous reviews and interviews since 1996 and has also functioned as the magazine's letters and singles page editor. Considered by NME editor Conor McNicholas one of the title's "star" writers, Beaumont was frequently been assigned the task of reviewing latest releases and gigs from high-profile artists (Arctic Monkeys[1], Black Rebel Motorcycle Club[2], Coldplay[3]).

In his writings, Beaumont has often favoured a caustic, confrontational and at times humorous prose style, especially when writing on artists or records that he doesn't hold a particularly high regard for.

Beaumont has been a consistent champion of cult indie band Mansun, frequently being the only journalist to write approvingly of them from 1998 onwards as well as contributing a band biography to the liner notes of their posthumous album Kleptomania.

Beaumont is also believed to be a big fan of the British band Muse and in the autumn of 2008 released a biography of the trios rise to stardom entitled "Out Of This World".

2007 Keith Richards interview

In April 2007, Beaumont found himself at the centre of a media storm when NME magazine published his now-infamous interview with Keith Richards. Beaumont had asked Richards what the strangest thing he had ever snorted was, and quoted him as replying:

Amid the media uproar that followed, Richards' manager claimed the remark had been made in jest, but Beaumont told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that he believed Richards had been telling the truth, adding that "He did seem to be quite honest about it. There were too many details for him to be making it up". He later told Uncut magazine that the interview had been conducted by telephone and that he had misquoted Richards at one point (reporting that Richards had said he listens to Motörhead, when what he had said was Mozart), but that he still believed the veracity of the ash-snorting anecdote. Richards later confirmed in an interview with Mojo magazine that he had, in fact, snorted his father's ashes - with no cocaine mixed in - before burying them under an oak tree: "I said I'd chopped him up like cocaine, not with."