B i o g r a p h y
Born beneath a Dublin sky on a June Friday night, David Noone is an Irish writer and musician. Noone's debut novel Saint of the City (Murder Slim Press) has received praise from both critics and artists including Cathi Unsworth (author of Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth, Bad Penny Blues), singer and composer Gavin Friday, poet and translator RJ Dent, novelist and official biographer of Johnny Thunders Nina Antonia, and poet Christopher Brownsword. He has also worked with fellow writer and musician Mark SaFranko, contributing lyrics to a number of SaFranko's musical projects, most extensively on the album Demons in the Mirror which features both their collaborative work and Noone's own 'Justine's Waltz'.
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At 14 he was first admitted for what would become a continuous series of psychiatric hospital admissions to receive treatment for Recurrent Depressive Disorder consequently receiving a secondary diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder. Despite this, he began his professional writing career one year later as a music journalist for the regional arts revue Stage Left as well as contributing other non-music related articles to a number of regional newspapers. Noone, having little access to formal education within the confines of the hospital, immersed himself in the works of Poe, Camus, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud whilst listening to the music of The Virgin Prunes, Throbbing Gristle, and The Birthday Party.
He continued working in and around the arts world until the end of his 20s including acting as front of house in the Focus Theatre to serving drinks at various art galleries throughout the city. Over the course of this period Noone had several poems published in a number of literary journals and acted as lead singer and songwriter for his bands Poppy and David Noone and The Night Porters as well as touring Britain and Ireland with his solo show David Noone sings Nick Cave
He shares a small house, hidden beneath the shadows of obscurantism, with a grimalkin who knows more than she's willing to say
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