Jeff Noon, a Lancashire-based thirty six year-old (1995).
"At fourteen he taught himself guitar and went on to play in several punk/new wave bands in Manchester, the best known being Manicured Noise. He says he still writes the odd song and is still driven on by the energy he picked up from punk". --Jim McClellan (from the intro to an interview with Jeff Noon, 1995).
Check Jim McClellan's homepage on the web for a full transcript of this interview:
http://www.gold.net/oneday/jim/
"Jeff Noon has been a pop musician (guitarist with Manicured Noise), a painter (exhibited as part of the Northern Young Contemporaries ) and a playwright. His first play, Woundings , won The Mobil Playwriting Competition, and he was subsequently playwright in residence at The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Vurt , his first novel, won the 1994 Arthur C.Clarke Award". [publisher's bumpf, Pollen , 1995]
Lives in Littleborough, near Rochdale, England.
Other links:
Bianca's Bookcase
Hear Pollen Read by Jeff Noon
Jeff Noon Answers Questions
Jeff Noon Comes for Tea
Pollen
Pollen by Jeff Noon
Ringpull
State 51
Of related interest:
Axcess #8
note: Links courtesy of Keith Lawson (e-mail: keith@portobel.demon.co.uk).
(review of Vurt )
(brief book reviews of Vurt and Pollen at Bianca's Smut Shack)
(radio readings of Pollen on The Mark Radcliffe Show, Radio One, UK)
(live radio session... 3 November 1995)
(interview with Jeff Noon)
(book review by N.Jay Babcock)
(itinerary.... reading tour, Dillons, Manchester, 7 November 1995... and Waterstones, London, 9 November 1995)
(publishers of Pollen ... e-mail: up@ringpull.demon.co.uk)
(book review of Pollen )
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