David Quantick

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

Bun E. Carlos Welcome to Bunezuela! album cover
Bun E. Carlos - Greetings From Bunezuela album review

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Cheap Trick drummer goes solo... Universe shrugs

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The Traveling Wilburys band photograph
The Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection album review

By David Quantick Published

The 80s supergroup’s albums remastered and repackaged with a bonus DVD.

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Paul McCartney photograph
Paul McCartney - Pure McCartney album review

By David Quantick Published

Macca scours his solo-career catalogue for a compilation that, even at 67 tracks, only scratches the surface.

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The Yardbirds Roger The Engineer album cover
The Yardbirds: Roger The Engineer (50th Anniversary Edition)

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Unparalleled blues rock.

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Ronnie Spector English Heart album cover
Ronnie Spector: English Heart

By David Quantick Published

Extraordinary collection of classic 60s covers.

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Tiny Tim The Complete Singles 1966-1970 album cover
Tiny Tim: The Complete Singles 1966-1970

By David Quantick Published

TT wasn’t ‘unusual’, but ‘eccentric and brilliant’...

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Shonen Knife: Adventure

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Babymetal’s cutesy, gabba-gabba Godmamas.

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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.

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Todd Bernhardt & Andy Partridge: Complicated Game: The Songs Of XTC

By David Quantick Published

XTC mainstay dissected.

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The Wilde Flowers: The Wilde Flowers

By David Quantick Published

The Canterbury tales.

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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.

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Ronnie Spector: The Very Best Of Ronnie Spector

By David Quantick Published

Timeless hits and more from a timeless pop icon.

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Paul Du Noyer: Conversations With McCartney

By David Quantick Published

Revealing chats with Sir Macca of Fab.

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The Pretty Things: Reissues/Live At The BBC

By David Quantick Published

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They could have been the Rolling Stones, you know...

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Status Quo: Reissues

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The Frantic Four line-up’s Qulassics expanded.

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Mike Oldfield: The Space Movie

By David Quantick Published

Where orchestral Bells and Ridges collide.

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Bernard Sumner: Chapter And Verse: New Order, Joy Division And Me

By David Quantick Published

Significantly jollier than one might expect.

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Penetration: Resolution

By David Quantick Published

Long lost north-east punk champs return.

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The Damned: Reissues

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Neat neat neat: three of the punk pioneers’ choice cuts re-released on deluxe vinyl.

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Dave Edmunds: On Guitar... Rags & Classics

By David Quantick Published

Classics done for fun.

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FFS: FFS

By David Quantick Published

Franz Ferdinand and Sparks. Yes, really.

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Mike Oldfield: The Best Of: 1992-2003

By David Quantick Published

Nobody knows or understands...

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Live: Wire

By David Quantick Published

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No talk. No hits. Art rock’s misfit sons celebrate 40 uncompromising years.

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Boz Scaggs: A Fool To Care

By David Quantick Published

Ex‐Steve Miller Band jukebox stalwart makes good.

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Fotheringay: Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay

By David Quantick Published

Comprehensive round-up of Sandy Denny’s other band.

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