Jeremy Gluck

UK-based multi-disciplinary artist Jeremy Gluck's musical collaborations include Brendon Moeller, Lydia Lunch, Dub Gabriel, Mick Harvey, and his Bristol-based trio The Carbon Manual . Known best for his long-time work with his beloved band The Barracudas, in 1984 when the band first split (to reform later) he launched an idiosyncratic and intuitive solo adventure.

He is now working intensively with LA mastering engineer Don Tyler on the SoftWorlds project. In 2008 he released a solo compliation, "Victim of Dreams" and latterly two online successors, "Everlove" and "Unrock". Jeremy also works with Marty Thau, whose Red Star Records stewarded Suicide's debut LP. His legacy cult album "I Knew Buffalo Bill" features the formidable trio of Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks and Rowland S. Howard, all now passed; Jeremy appears in the celebrated documentary on Howard's life "Autoluminescent", debuted at the Melbourne Film Festival in summer 2011. He releases work on a number of labels including UK boutique rock'n'roll label Easy Action, on whose forthcoming Dark Globe electronica imprint SoftWorld will soon make its debut.

Written under the pen name Jeremy Clarke and originally published in 1988 to critical acclaim and strong sales, "Necrotrivia vs. Skull" is a scathing but playful satire of Western culture and materialism, its addictions and collective mental instability. "Necrotrivia" provides an interesting, fictional contrast to Jeremy's memoir, "Victim of Dreams", also available from Chipmunka. Indeed, "Necrotrivia's main character, an alien who develops a junk food addiction and ends up a copywriter whoring a narcotic breakfast cereal, is in a way a prophetic cipher of the author, whose experiences and bipolar battles he mimics. Now accorded cult status, this new edition of the book features original graphics by Birmingham animator Aston Walker.

Customer Reviews:

This is basically a tragedy. A tragedy that this book is now out of print, a tragedy that I can't find any other books by this author ANYWHERE,a tragedy that my review is number 1 and not number 111, and a tragedy that the only reason I ever read it was by finding it for about 50p ($1) in a Bargain Book Store. It's also a tragedy that the only reason you'll probably even be reading this review is if you were looking for something else. But enough of that - I would just like to say that this book is a piece of biting satire on a par with 'Catch-22' and says more about the consumerist, mass-marketing 80's and 90's than 'American Psycho'. We see society through the eyes of a first time visitor (an alien) who's entire speech is formed from the sound-bites and advertising slogans that we are bombarded with day-in, day-out. What at first sounds like complete gibberish turns out to be incredibly apt and completely relevant in most of the bizarre situations that he finds himself,from joining the Marketing Company from hell,to promoting an addictive breakfast cereal, with a few dead bodies in between, all the time filling himself with an incredible array of junk food and e-numbers to keep his strength up. This is a hilarious (like all the best satire), thought-provoking and extremely well-written book that even has the confidence to parody itself towards the end, and the fact that it isn't currently a blockbuster film starring John Cusack, Christopher Walken, Harry Dean stanton and Steve Buscemi is, you've guessed it, a tragedy..

In my quest for meaning in an absurd world and disaffected society I found my drug of choice to be of the literary kind. And having read a wide range of things from the classics to various manifestos from some brilliant to some not so bright persons, I do say with great confidence and a bit of pie in the sky megalomaniacal madness that Necrotrivia v. Skull is a superbly creative, double-plus funny, and a highly original masterpiece of prose. It should be read by everyone with at least a room temperature IQ as well as the most highly educated. Anyway, in a world consumed with economical verbiage, it is sometimes quite appropriate to buy a book. I highly recommend this great masterpiece by Jeremy Clarke! It will knock your socks off!

Its not often that a great story, well written comes along which makes me laugh and laugh. I want more, who is this man Clarke and why is he not a best sellerand where can I get more of his books from. Find it, read it and share it.