Contact Details:

Editor - John Doran (john@thequietus.com)

Associate Editor, Advertising & Business Enq. - Luke Turner (luke@thequietus.com)

Staff Writer - Ben Hewitt (benh@thequietus.com)

Film Editor - David Moats (david@thequietus.com)

The Quietus - A potted history

At the start of 2008 we were of the opinion that there was a massive gap in the market for an online music publication not in thrall to snarky one-upmanship, hype, or an overload of fast-click, low-quality content. We also thought there was a gap in the market for a magazine that treated music of all genres from the last 30 years with the same reverence that titles such as MOJO and Word treat the rock & roll hall of fame.We chose a completely spurious Year Zero of 1974 because that's when Kraftwerk released ‘Autobahn’ as a single. It seemed to us the birth of modern music. Modern sounding, that is.

Since then we've aimed to bring you the best of everything. We're here to give music ranging from dubstep, death metal and post punk to hip hop, pop and spacerock the coverage it deserves. We'd like to inject some much-needed humour, intelligence and passion back into journalism, so we run in-depth features, reviews and opinion pieces from the best new writers and established greats. We also cover film, books, TV and comics, old and new, concentrating on quality over hype.

Whether we've achieved all this is not for us to say, but Record of the Day gave us the Music Publication Of The Year (Student Award) in 2008 and Music Website of the Year award in 2009. Da Capo's respected Best Music Writing guide also picked out three of our features for praise in its 2009 edition, edited by Greil Marcus. Add to this praise from publications and broadcasters including the Guardian, The Sun, Fader, Observer, Independent, BBC, New York Times and Chicago Time Out, and we're at least confident we're doing something right.

The fact that we've grown to this size in less than two years, with no post-launch investment, suggests we were right to stick to our guns. We've had a wealth of scoops on names as diverse as Slayer, Jarvis Cocker, John Lydon, Metallica, Sir Patrick Moore, Pet Shop Boys, Grandmaster Flash, Keane, Judas Priest, The Pixies, Yoko Ono, The Fall, The Bad Seeds and Marilyn Manson. This summer, we'll be moving into live events, curating stages at London's Field Day and Stag & Dagger Festivals, working with Birmingham's Supersonic Festival and Jersey's Branchage Film Festival.

Our independent approach allows us avoid the pitfalls faced by comparable print and web publications: our word-counts are generous and we're not afraid of surprising our readers. We have regular contributions from many of the best music writers working today - you may recognise their names as published authors, broadcasters on the BBC, Sky and beyond, or members of bands like The Bad Seeds and Pulp, and from newspapers, magazines and websites including... The Guardian, Independent, The Observer, The New Statesman, Sunday Times, Times, The Telegraph, Esquire, Harpers Bazaar, NME, Wire, Financial Times, Loaded, Esquire, GQ, Melody Maker, Sounds, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Kerrang!, The Face, Dazed & Confused, ID, Melody Maker, Q, Mojo, Uncut, Elle, Pitchfork and DrownedInSound.

We're proud to say that, in a list that's growing by the day, we've had contributions from: Andrew Mueller, Aidan John Moffat, Pat Long, Joel McIver, Tommy Udo, Andy Stimpson, Swells, Holly Hernandez, David McNamee, Jeremy Allen, Taylor Parkes, Ned Raggett, Joe Stannard, Niall O'Keeffe, Simon Price, Ben Hewitt, Petra Davis, Chris Roberts, David Stubbs, Alex Macpherson, Neil Kulkarni, Angus Batey, Stevie Chick, Manish Agarwal, Louis Pattison, Brother John Robb, Lee Arizuno, Dayal Patterson, Kicking_K, Frances Morgan, Derek Walmsley, Melissa Bradshaw, Mike Diver, Dan Curley, Jon Savage, Charlie Ivens, Jimmy Martin, Big Ben Myers, Dr Rock, Sam Strang, Rebecca Nicholson, Kev Kharas, Alex Denny, Gareth Dobson, Emily Mackay, Steven Jelbert, Cay McDermott, Hardeep Phull, Joe Cushley, Mark Pringle, Jon Savage, Jarvis Cocker, Jon Moore, Sam Herlihy, Robert Barry, Emily Bick, Jack Mills, Ailbhe Malone, Stevie Keen, Laura Snapes, Ash Dosanjh, Akira The Don, Adam Anonymous, Neil Kulkarni, John Calvert, Stevie Chick, Carol Clerk, Austin Collings, Toby Cook, Stephen Dalton, Mark Eglinton, Matt Evans, Steve Jelbert, Adey Lobb, Emma Johnston, Ross Pounds, Daniel Patrick Quinn, Julian Marszalek, Jimmy Martin, Josh Saco, Jim Sclavunous, Oli Simpson, Ringo P Stacey, Hazel Sheffield, Zoe Street-Howe, Roy Wilkinson, Wyndham Wallace, John Tatlock, Sean Adams, Charles Ubaghs and Everett True.

Thanks for reading,

John Doran and Luke Turner