KillYourFriends

Just finished reading John Niven’s Kill Your Friends. A rude, crude and pretty bloody accurate satire of the British music industry. Genius. Headswim, Campag Velocet, Kings Of Infinate Space, Dust Junkies, Foil, My Life Story, Luna, Arnold, Snug… remember any of these life changing acts who feature as the background of this tale of dysfuctional Brit-pop debauchery? No, you wouldn’t. I do. And they were all rubbish, which is pretty much John Niven’s point. A&R men don’t know what they’re talking about, and he should know, he was the A&R man who signed Mogwai – thinking they were the next Pink Floyd – and passed on Coldplay because he thought they were a second rate Radiohead; well, maybe he wasn’t wrong about everything.