Calvert on his novel: "HYPE focuses on the music business but it isn't based on my own experiences as such. It is derived obviously from stuff I picked up hanging around record companies. I've drawn characters who are recognizable types but not individuals from these experiences, but the story line of the book and the events in it are not based on my own experiences but are fiction. "The book describes what happens to a young band that is exploited by a record company and internal power struggles between two over-ambitious individuals, who use this band as an elaborate game of spy vs. spy. "I wanted it to be a comedy and had in mind doing it almost like PG. Woodhouse would might have written about the music business, had he known about it. I wanted to write about the music business in the late 70's the way he wrote about Hollywood in the 20's. Although the plot is very much a sort of fast moving thriller type it has got elements of black humour and sarcasm."