Justin Quirk

Justin Quirk is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster from London. He first wrote for The Guardian’s music pages when he was 19, and began contributing to Kerrang! shortly afterwards as a reviewer. Since then he has written for everyone from Arena and Esquire to the Times, Sunday Times and The Independent about art, music and culture, regularly appears on the BBC World Service and DJs at places like Spiritland and Supermax in London. This is his first book, which has been listed as one of the top ten music titles of 2020 by The Times, a 4/5 hit by Uncut magazine and one of the books of the year by Word Magazine's 'Word In Your Ear' podcast, where David Hepworth called it 'A very intelligent book about some very dumb music.'