DAN GENNOE

London, United Kingdom.

DAN GENNOE

London, United Kingdom.

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“I write. Sometimes it’s stunning and beautiful, art masquerading as prose. Sometimes it’s words strung together, masquerading as sentences.”

Dan Gennoe is a London-based music and lifestyle journalist. 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, comedians, chancers and Spice Girls.

In addition to writing for newspapers, magazines, blogs and websites, Dan has ghosted celebrity memoirs for HarperCollins and written a novel, All Neon Like Love – a dark and sensual meditation on loneliness in the city and the grey area between love and obsession, set in London and Paris.

Dan's also 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 20 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, definitive, definition of cool.

And as if that wasn't enough, Dan's currently UK Head of Music Programming for YouTube's streaming service, YouTube Music.

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