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I've read both Nick Cave novels. And The Ass Saw The Angel is sort of Southern Gothic. Very good, but always felt Cave should have set it in his native country; it would lend itself just as well to the Australian outback and setting it in the Southern States invites comparison to the likes of William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews. The fact that it doesn't pale totally into insignificance against such greats is testament to Cave's writing. The Death Of Bunny Monroe is a blackly funny tail of middle age womanising lothario, set in and around Brighton. Both books are well worth reading. His screenplay for the film The Proposition is also excellent.
Like Marg, I have had a novel by a singer sitting on my shelves for years without being read; in my case it's Go Now by Richard Hell.
I've read one novel and a book of short stories by ex-My Bloody Valentine singer David Conway. There were a couple of stand out stories in the collection that I particularly liked. The novel, Celebrity Bedlam, reads like a sort of comic book / pulp fiction version of a JG Ballard novel. It's lurid and violent and would, I think, make a very enjoyable film, in the right hands.
Jeff Noon is probably better known as a writer than a musician, but I first encountered him playing in a band called Manicured Noise, who I saw circa 1980, on a bill with The Monochrome Set and Prag VEC. His "Vurt" series of speculative fiction works are highly recommended. I also like what I've read of his later works, but the Vurt books are the best entry way into his world.
Bought a couple of collections of short stories by Flaming Stars singer Max Decharné at a jumble sale once, but they weren't very good and he's much too proud of his punning ability. The second one is notable for having as it's titular story The Prisoner Of Brenda, which, a quarter of a century after this collection was published, became the title of a novel by Colin Bateman.
Other than that, I've read The Furies by Mick Farren, which was shit, although his somewhat self serving and totally unreliable autobiography, Give The Anarchist A Cigarette, is very entertaining; a collection of short pieces by Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka, called Adulterers Anomynous and Babel by Patti Smith, both of which I read so long ago that I've no recollection of them whatsoever.
Quite keen to read Andre Williams's Sweets And Other Stories.
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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days
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