
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 - Greetings From Bunezuela album review
By David Quantick Published
Cheap Trick drummer goes solo... Universe shrugs

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.

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.

The Yardbirds: Roger The Engineer (50th Anniversary Edition)
By David Quantick Published
Unparalleled blues rock.

Ronnie Spector: English Heart
By David Quantick Published
Extraordinary collection of classic 60s covers.

Tiny Tim: The Complete Singles 1966-1970
By David Quantick Published
TT wasn’t ‘unusual’, but ‘eccentric and brilliant’...

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.
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