Lloyd Markham

Lloyd Markham was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, moving

to and settling in Bridgend, south Wales when he was thirteen.

He spent the rest of his teenage years miserable and strange

and having bad nights out before undertaking a BA in Writing

at Glamorgan followed by an MPhil. Lloyd started writing Bad

Ideas Chemicals in his freshman year when Bridgend was in the

tabloids for suicides and everyone was telling rotten jokes and a

similar vein of despairing charcoal black gallows humour runs

through this nightmarish social satire. He enjoys noise music,

Japanese animation and the documentaries of Adam Curtis.

His favourite book is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. He

operates synthesisers in a band called Deep Hum and has less

bad nights out these days. You can follow him on Twitter at @

lloyd_markham.