
David Quantick
David Quantick is an English novelist, comedy writer and critic, who has worked as a journalist and screenwriter. A former staff writer for the music magazine NME, his writing credits have included On the Hour, Blue Jam, TV Burp and Veep; for the latter of these he won an Emmy in 2015.
Latest articles by David Quantick

Shonen Knife: Adventure
By David Quantick published
Babymetal’s cutesy, gabba-gabba Godmamas.

The Pop Group: For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
By David Quantick published
Mark Stewarts’s ever-relevant agitp(r)op noiseniks.

Todd Bernhardt & Andy Partridge: Complicated Game: The Songs Of XTC
By David Quantick published
XTC mainstay dissected.

Ian Shirley: Never Known Questions: Five Decades Of The Residents
By David Quantick published
All you needs to know and more in this fan’s must-have.

Ronnie Spector: The Very Best Of Ronnie Spector
By David Quantick published
Timeless hits and more from a timeless pop icon.

Paul Du Noyer: Conversations With McCartney
By David Quantick published
Revealing chats with Sir Macca of Fab.

The Pretty Things: Reissues/Live At The BBC
By David Quantick published
Not yet ratedThey could have been the Rolling Stones, you know...

Status Quo: Reissues
By David Quantick published
Not yet ratedThe Frantic Four line-up’s Qulassics expanded.

Mike Oldfield: The Space Movie
By David Quantick published
Where orchestral Bells and Ridges collide.

Bernard Sumner: Chapter And Verse: New Order, Joy Division And Me
By David Quantick published
Significantly jollier than one might expect.

The Damned: Reissues
By David Quantick published
Not yet ratedNeat neat neat: three of the punk pioneers’ choice cuts re-released on deluxe vinyl.

Dave Edmunds: On Guitar... Rags & Classics
By David Quantick published
Classics done for fun.

Mike Oldfield: The Best Of: 1992-2003
By David Quantick published
Nobody knows or understands...

Live: Wire
By David Quantick published
Not yet ratedNo talk. No hits. Art rock’s misfit sons celebrate 40 uncompromising years.

Boz Scaggs: A Fool To Care
By David Quantick published
Ex‐Steve Miller Band jukebox stalwart makes good.

Fotheringay: Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay
By David Quantick published
Comprehensive round-up of Sandy Denny’s other band.

Chris Spedding: Joyland
By David Quantick published
Session man gets a little help from his friends on 13th album.

Anthony Phillips: Harvest Of The Heart: An Anthology
By David Quantick published
Former Genesis man’s prolific solo output collected.

David Bowie: Nothing Has Changed.
By David Quantick published
Compilation featuring Sue, DB’s anti-commercial exclamation point to his The Next Day era.

Fripp & Eno: Live In Paris 28.05.1975
By David Quantick published
An official release for what was a rather curious evening.
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