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On Lloyd Cole Knew My Father

Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, February 2003

"WHAT WOULD entice social misfits from provincial hellholes like, say, Northampton, Wigan and Exmouth to join the world of sex, drugs, travel and free records that is music journalism?" So asks David Quantick, one-time New Musical Express scribe now turned radio quipster, and one of the stars of Lloyd Cole Knew My Father, a series just finishing a six-week debut run on Radio 2.

Total word count of piece: 962

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