Dan Gennoe is one of Britain’s leading music and lifestyle journalists. His work has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Arena, Q, Mojo, FHM, TimeOut, The Independent and the Mail On Sunday’s Live Magazine. He’s been a contributing editor on numerous titles including underground music monthly Flipside, lads mag Front and women’s glossy Red, and has interviewed everyone from rap royalty (Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes) to rock gods (Guns N’Roses, Foo Fighters), pop stars (Jay Kay, Joss Stone, Sugababes) and all manner of R&B starlets, TV chefs, comedians, chancers and Spice Girls.
His debut novel, 33 Storeys, is a darkly atmospheric account of a life spinning out of control, relived by its central character as he falls to his death from the top of an East London office block. Pieced together from 33 individual memories, one for each floor that he drops, it tells of the excess, expectation and loss which took him to the edge and the obsession which sent him over it.
Dan’s other writing projects include his 2008 collaboration with TV chef James Martin, Driven (HarperCollins), which charted Martin’s life and career through his love of all things automotive; Dope, a sex, drugs and alimony memoir-in-progress based on the hapless misadventures in America of one his oldest friends; an as-yet-untitled film project and a second novel, The Assassination Of A Hitman.
