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kill your friends

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by cumulous_nimbus

has anyone read kill your friends by john niven? just started reading it, its real dark and funny, a bit like american psycho but set in the late nineties record industry. the chapter about new bands is genius "A couple of words for all you hopefuls out there in unsigned bands: Fuck. Off. Seriously, your parents were right. You may as well spend your guitar string money on lottery tickets"

cumulous_nimbus | 18 Apr '08, 20:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Lol

sounds good,

shall check it out.

Also check out 'Howling at the Moon' by Walter Yetnikoff and David Ritz, if you wanna read how fucked up the record industry can be.


really good satire

of the music industry, especially the little quotes from simon cowell inbetween chapters.

unfortunately....when you say its a BIT like american psycho yr making quite an understatement. whilst some parts were deliberate homages (the band called hardbody), other parts were just a joke (the first interview with the policeman-"one more thing, heres a cd").

in the end i couldnt really take it seriously as a novel, but its worth reading for the industry pisstakes, and the chapter about glasto...


um, Hardbody were real.

He's not making homage to American Psycho by referring Hardbody. I have a single of theirs and saw them a couple of times in 1995. :-) Their drummer now plays for Wojtek Godzisz and the singer is doing her own stuff under the name Quinn...

All the 'buzz' bands he mentions in passing in the book were real bands.


haha

i stand corrected. but there are references in there, like how he constantly orders the same drink as patrick. also, just because theyre real doesnt mean its not a reference.


fairy nuff.