Kill Your Friends It s not dog eat dog around here s dog gang rapes dog then tortures him for five days before burying him alive and taking out every motherfucker the dog has ever known Meet Steven Stelfox London
It s not dog eat dog around here s dog gang rapes dog then tortures him for five days before burying him alive and taking out every motherfucker the dog has ever known.Meet Steven Stelfox.London 1997 New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith Twenty seven year old AR man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, a wIt s not dog eat dog around here s dog gang rapes dog then tortures him for five days before burying him alive and taking out every motherfucker the dog has ever known.Meet Steven Stelfox.London 1997 New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith Twenty seven year old AR man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, a world where no one knows anything and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public Yeah, those animals.Fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine Stelfox blithely criss crosses the globe New York, Cologne, Texas, Miami, Cannes you shout at waiters and sign credit card slips and all that really changes is the quality of the porn searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self gratification.But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the record business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved as long as you want it badly enough.
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Kill Your Friends Best Read || [John Niven]
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John Niven
Born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Niven read English Literature at Glasgow University, graduating in 1991 with First Class honours For the next ten years, he worked for a variety of record companies, including London Records and Independiente He left the music industry to write full time in 2002 and published his debut novella Music from Big Pink in 2005 Continuum Press The novella was optioned for the screen by CC Films with a script has been written by English playwright Jez Butterworth Niven s breakthrough novel Kill Your Friends is a satire of the music business, based on his brief career in AR, during which he passed up the chance to sign Coldplay and Muse The novel was published by William Heinemann in 2008 and achieved much acclaim, with Word magazine describing it as possibly the best British Novel since Trainspotting It has been translated into seven languages and was a bestseller in Britain and Germany Niven has since published The Amateurs 2009 , The Second Coming 2011 , Cold Hands 2012 and Straight White Male 2013.He also writes original screenplays with writing partner Nick Ball, the younger brother of British TV presenter Zo Ball His journalistic contributions to newspapers and magazines include a monthly column for Q magazine, entitled London Kills Me In 2009 Niven wrote a controversial article for The Independent newspaper where he attacked the media s largely complacent coverage of Michael Jackson s death.Niven lives in Buckinghamshire with his fiancee and infant daughter He has a teenage son from a previous marriage.