David Stubbs
Photos by Tom Sheehan
BIOGRAPHY

Welcome to my website, where you’ll find a selection of my work from over the years, which has ranged across football, TV, film, and music both avant and apres. You’ll also find current blog musings. All opinions my own except those I subconsciously stole.

David Stubbs
THE BLOG ARCHIVE
THE VAULT ARCHIVE

Watching Thomas The Tank Engine with my boy with continuing distress. These “engines” have the emotional development of seven year olds, yet have been pressed into long, unpaid hours in dangerous industrial conditions at the bidding of a tyrant.

Friends

Some old pals of mine, with whom I was wont to exchange and meld views, mostly in the pub.

Neil Kulkarni
Neil Kulkarni

Scourge of what he terms the “English Rock Defence League” and connoisseur of the finest crisps and biscuits, this is the raging blog of the ex-Melody Maker star.


http://theincrediblekulk.blogspot.com/
ANDREW MUELLER
ANDREW MUELLER

Wagga Wagga-born rock journalist and broadcaster, Andrew once made a round cycling trip in his native Australia to buy a Skinny Puppy album on my recommendation in Melody Maker, only to discover to his eloquent dismay that it was, he felt, a load of old rubbish.


http://www.andrewmueller.net
SIMON REYNOLDS
SIMON REYNOLDS

The website of my erstwhile compadre at Melody Maker, and before that, Monitor magazine. Remains a font of immense wisdom – his son, Kieran, is proving a chip off the old block as a talented writer himself.


http://blissout.blogspot.com
TOM SHEEHAN
TOM SHEEHAN

Smudger to the stars and world leading expert on Cockney rhyming slang.


http://www.tomsheehan.co.uk
SIMON PRICE
SIMON PRICE

Ex-Melody Maker colleague, today a colleague on the Chart Music website. Author of the brilliant Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers).


https://twitter.com/simon_price01
THE QUIETUS
THE QUIETUS

Britain’s foremost music website – music and beyond. Key in my name in the search engine and you’ll find numerous articles I’ve been proud to write for them over the years.


https://thequietus.com
ROCK'SBACKPAGES
ROCK'SBACKPAGES

More pieces by me can be found on this marvellous archive of music journalism dating back to the dawn of the genre. It’s subscription-only, but the fortnightly podcast, which you can link to on the home page, is free and always excellent.


https://www.rocksbackpages.com
CHART MUSIC
CHART MUSIC

The podcast on which I sometimes appear, hosted by the excellent Al Needham, with fellow guests ex-Melody Makers Sarah Bee, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni, in which we dissect at length an old episode of Top Of The Pops.


https://www.facebook.com/ChartMusicPodcast

Bookshop

I wrote a book once. Green, it was. I decided to write a few more.

Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen
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Future Days: Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany
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Mars By 1980: The Story Of Electronic Music
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1996 And The End Of History
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