Kill Your Friends
27 February 2008
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London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. Twenty-seven-year-old A&R 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 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 cut-throat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny exposé of the music business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where talent means nothing, ambition means everything, and anything can be achieved as long as you want it badly enough.Born in Scotland, John Niven played guitar for 1980s indie hopefuls the Wishing Stones before reading English Literature at Glasgow University and going on to work as an A&R man in London. He escaped while he still could, to write full time, and is the author of the novella Music From the Big Pink. Kill Your Friends is his first novel.
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