Writers who became writers after their music careers failed.

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I expect a long list here :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Louise Wiener
Rolo McGinty

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not just imagining that McGinty become a novelist after the Woodentops am I?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Louis L'Amour

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuart from Looper.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuart from Looper/B&S.

That said, define "failed".

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hank Penny (writing career also failed)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (original member of Mamas & Papas)
Christopher Hitchens (unironic Thatcher-era conservative power balladeer)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

uhhh, Shaun Ryder?? heh heh

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus (ironic Thatcher-era conservative power balladeer)

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Kinky Friedman is more famous as a surrealist mystery writer than he is for his old band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack White seems to be insuring himself against failure.

― Nick H, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ned raggett.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe no one's said Madonna yet.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Tennant?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Most music journalists, ha ha

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

John Robb
Blokey from the Regular Fries, oh, no hang on, other way round

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha - have you seen John Robb on that terrible Terry Christian programme? I can't work out if he is the most embarrassed person I've ever seen on television or just the dumbest - the answer no doubt lies somewhere in between.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Irvin

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

John Robb - he always finishes a sentence with a question though doesn't he? Usually a sentence that says something trite and not particularly rebellious as well aren't they?

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not just imagining that McGinty become a novelist after the Woodentops am I?

I think it was Alice Thompson, who played keyboards in the band, who became the novelist.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Usually a sentence that says something trite and not particularly rebellious...

I think most of us do that most of the time!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitch Albom

But then I consider him a writer in the loosest sense of the word.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like to hate, but John Robb really is a twot. He has a book called 'The '90s: What the Fuck Was All That About' ferchrissake, which sounds very much like 'I Wuw The 90s' in book form ie the duddest thing ever. He ends each sentence with a q-mark and a nervous titter because he can hardly believe he's got away with talking such balls. Going back to that book title tough, words fail me. Makes 'When Surface Was Depth' sound as clever as it thinks it is.

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Irvin! Bloody hell, what a brilliant mind indeed.

Bruce Dickinson is exempt from this, I presume?

How about David Keenan? But yeah, define "failure".

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Joe Carducci ever in a punk band before he was a writer?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

boris vian.
although his records seem to go for loads on e-bay, he was definitely more successful as a writer.

― joni, Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Varg Vikernes

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

what has vikernes written?

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He wrote the "Vargsmal" book in prison a few years ago. I wouldn't recommend it though...

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby Bird.

Momus (ironic Thatcher-era conservative power balladeer)

Don't give up the day job!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 October 2003 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony Burgess.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ernst Krenek.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Theodor Adorno.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Stanley (I haven't heard a record by him in years, but I read his pieces in Frieze).

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Friedrich Nietzsche

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan Moore.

― Wyndham Earl, Sunday, 12 October 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Buddy Siegal

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 12 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to learn the saxophone as a kid. That didn't work out.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 12 October 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Me. Wait, it never lived.

― Ned at Martin's place (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 October 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Stanley (I haven't heard a record by him in years, but I read his pieces in Frieze).

Momus, you should hear Finisterre, Saint Etienne's last one - it's a cracking return to form, not that it sounds much like anything else they've done.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 12 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on though does Bob Stanley count? He were a writer before he were a muso, so he's just gone back to that hasn't he?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 October 2003 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Gone back? Is Bob Stanley writing?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 13 October 2003 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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