Dan Gennoe
As a music and lifestyle journalist Dan’s work has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Arena, Q, Mojo, FHM, Time Out, The Independent and the Mail On Sunday’s Live Magazine. He’s been a contributing editor on numerous titles including underground music monthly Flipside, lad’s 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.
In addition to writing for newspapers, magazines, blogs and websites, Dan has ghosted celebrity memoirs for HarperCollins and is currently writing a novel, All Neon Like Love – the story of a man who gets lost in the grey area between love and obsession as he struggles to reconcile his nightly dreams of a woman he had a short but passionate affair with, with his waking life without her.
Away from journalism and fiction, Dan is researching a non-fiction book which aims to bring together his deep love for all things pop culture and his life long fascination with the concept of COOL. A visual biography of the 20th century’s most elusive quality, The Definition Of Cool looks at the modern history of COOL, from Miles Davis’s album Birth Of The Cool to the industrial design of Apple; at the icons who have it; at the film makers, writers, musicians, artists, designers, architects and photographers who capture it; at the brands who chase it; at the marketing and advertising industries that exploit it and at the rest of us and how and why we respond to it, in an attempt to finally arrive at a working, credible, all encompassing, definition of cool.
