Thanks to my wife Joy Press, this books first reader and most merciless editor. Gratitude also to Joy and our children Kieran and Tasmin for their patience during what has been yet another protracted pregnancy.
Thanks to my editors Lee Brackstone and Mitzi Angel for their support throughout the process and their invaluable suggestions, which contributed greatly to the finished result. Thanks also to Denise Oswald, who originally signed the book in America.
Thanks to my agents Tony Peake and Ira Silverberg for getting this project airborne.
Thanks to my assistant Judy Berman for her crucial contributions at the books research stage.
Thanks to everyone involved in the production and promotion process at Faber UK, especially Ian Bahrami, Anna Pallai, Lucie Ewin, Ruth Atkins. Thanks also to Michele Piumini for his input.
Thanks to everyone involved in the production and promotion process at Faber U.S. / FSG, especially Chantal Clarke and Steve Weil.
Many people have been helpful in terms of providing useful material or pointing me in interesting directions. I wouldespecially like to thank for their generosity Hilary Moore, W. David Marx, Ed Christman and Bob Bhamra. Thanks also to Bethan Cole, Joe Kroll, Kristen Haring, Sbastien Morlighem, Andrej Chud, Graham Eng-Wilmot, Glenn Drexhage, Sean Pemberton, Thomas Huthmayr, Nadav Appel.
Thanks to the interviewees for sharing their stories and insights: Harold Bronson, Britt Brown, Billy Childish, Mark Cooper, Peter Doggett, Jasen Emmons, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Gareth Goddard, Jeff Gold, Jim Henke, Jim Hobermann, Brian Hodgson, Barry Hogan, Julian House, Matthew Ingram, Jim Jupp, James Kirby, Johan Kugelberg, George Leonard, Ian Levine, Miriam Linna and Billy Miller, Daniel Lopatin, Mary McCarthy, W. David Marx, Dick Mills, Jo Mitchell, Baron Mordant, Nico Muhly, James Murphy, David Peace, Kevin Pearce, Ariel Pink, Ken Shipley, Patti Smith, Paul Smith, Valerie Steele, Jonny Trunk, Tim Warren, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lynn Yaeger .
A book like this does not emerge out of a vacuum. Ideas have been catalysed and thinking sharpened through countless conversations over the years, which have taken place through print and blog back-and-forth, via email and in face-to-face discussion (and in some cases go back to long before I ever considered writing a book on this subject). Big up to Mark Fisher, Matthew Ingram, Carl Neville, Dan Fox, Paul Barnes, Michaelangelo Matos, Anwyn Crawford, Sam Davies, Nicholas Katranis, Paul Kennedy, Owen Hatherley, Mike Powell, Tim Finney, Julian House, Jim Jupp, Ian Hodgson, Seb Roberts, Robin Carmody, Geeta Dayal, Patrick McNally, Andy Battaglia, Adam Harper, Alex Williams, Peter Gunn, John Darnielle and doubtless others I am forgetting.
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