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Former NME journalists David Quantick and Stuart Maconie have admitted they
have reviewed gigs without attending.
Maconie even wrote that Gracie Slick was great fronting Jefferson Starship
at the 1989 Reading Festival, even though she had left the band two years
before.
The revelations come in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Lloyd Cole Knew
My Father, which blows the lid on the world of rock journalism.
In the show, Quantick tells how he once reviewed three gigs in a week but
only heard three songs at one of the shows.
He missed a Fine Young Cannibals gig after a date mix-up, gave his friends
his tickets to see Blue Oyster Cult, and got bored of the Elton John show so
left after three songs. He made up reviews of all three shows.
Fellow critic Andrew Collins, who also appears in the Edinburgh show,
revealed that he was once sent a gift-wrapped box of faeces by The Levellers
following a bad review of one of their albums.

Story filed: 13:26 Monday 20th August 2001


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