Julian Gough

Julian is a bit of a genius. Read his stuff. It's great. Speaks for itself, really.

Julian is one of the sharpest minds alive at the moment. Before I knew him I was fan of Toasted Heretic who had a mind-altering take on pop music. They inspired me in so many ways. Julian was the lyricist, lead-singer and front-man. What a front man. He knew how to thrill and antagonize at the exact same time. I then recall Julian's pieces for @lasttv which I also worked on at the time. In a package for that show directed by Mike Casey he made the unforgettable proposition that anyone who eats meat should slaughter one cow themselves each year. When I was co-editing a collection of modern Irish short stories with Sarah Champion, Julian's incredible story arrived as one of the chapters of what to was become his debut novel, Juno & Juliet. His stories literally bound off the page with the immediacy of the emotion. Julian gets it. He truly gets it all. There's very little he hasn't thought of already and if he's winding you up he's doing it on purpose to see how you'll react. Have I said genius already, as that it what Julian is. There's not an imagination driven mission possible that he would not do in his sleep.

Julian has a deep and powerful intellect that can cut to the nub of the matter. He sets high standards for himself and likes to work in teams that do the same. He adds great value to any project he attaches himself to.