David Stubbs

No Regrets – 25 Years Of The Butthole Surfers’ Locust Abortion Technician

For 25 years David Stubbs has been having bad dreams and attempting to put endings on them like he comes out a winner but thanks to the Butthole Surfers' finest album, Locust Abortion Technician, he's been getting nowhere

A Glittering Prize – Jim Kerr Of Simple Minds Interviewed

As Simple Minds tour their glorious first five albums round Europe, front man Jim Kerr takes time out to speak to David Stubbs

Maggieography: Why The Thatcher Biopic Should Be Resisted With Prejudice

Meryl Streep's latest Oscar-seeking vehicle The Iron Lady purports to show Margaret Thatcher's 'human side'. David Stubbs is not for turning

Matters Of The Utmost Concern: Prince Charles Letters

Following the recent publication of his compiled Prince Charles Letters, David Stubbs assembles a number of the Prince Of Wales' letters on "matters of the utmost concern"...

A Boor, A Creep, A Bully And An Oaf – What Happened To Ricky Gervais?

One-time Ricky Gervais fan David Stubbs asks if The Office was simply a fluke piece of brilliance from an otherwise unpleasant man

A Little Too Much Of Fry & Laurie? Celebrity Mediation Hits Overkill

You might expect better of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, but even these doyennes of the English highbrow are now part of the depressing trend for everything to require celebrity involvement

Colin Stetson

New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges

Silence! Why John Cage’s 4’33” Is No Laughing Matter

The Quietus is always happy to see the excellent charities CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), the British Tinnitus Foundation and the Nordoff Robbins Trust given publicity. But, says David Stubbs, stop treating John Cage's 4'33" like a joke...

Merzbow

Merzbient

World Cup 2010: The Wing Commander On A Past Transatlantic Skirmish

Tomorrow night, England play their first game of the 2010 World Cup against former Colonial foes, the USA. Digging into his archive, the Wing Commander brings us his match report of the last time the two teams clashed

Eleven Tigers

Clouds Are Mountains

Strewth! Country & Western On The Quietus? The Blazing Zoos Interviewed

Andrew Mueller - journalist, author and now singer with The Blazing Zoos - talks to David Stubbs about his new band. Photo by Stephen Dowling

Walls

Walls

Gayngs

Relayted

Lou Reed

Metal Machine Music (reissue)

30 Years On: Remembering Public Enemy’s Fear Of A Black Planet

David Stubbs takes a look at Public Enemy's classic LP _Fear Of A Black Planet_, which was released 30 years ago

Kompakt (various artists)

Pop Ambient 2010

A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?

The Quietus kicks off a series of essays looking back at the past decade with David Stubbs' look at the evolution of what we call pop

AGF/Delay

Symptoms

Mr Agreeable: Drinking Outside The Box

Kompakt Compilation

Total Vol. 9

David Stubbs Remembers Getting Arrested With The KLF Back In 1991

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Back catalogue reissues