Dave Simpson is a music critic at The Guardian. He specializes in arts and entertainment, with a particular focus on music and its intersection with technology, including digital health and telehealth. His work has been featured in notable outlets such as GP Business, Uncut Magazine, and Yahoo News UK.
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Leeds, United Kingdom (Local)
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Dave Simpson's focus on music and entertainment news suggests he would be interested in pitches related to musicians, music reviews, and the latest developments in the world of rock and pop music. Given his coverage attributes with a high percentage of press releases, he may be receptive to exclusive announcements from artists or their management teams.
Since Dave’s geographic focus is local (United Kingdom), consider pitching stories about British musicians or events happening within the UK music scene. Additionally, considering his attention to specific album reviews, providing advance access to new albums for review could also capture his interest.
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By: Dave Simpson
In 2018, Paul Simon's triumphant Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour was intended as his goodbye to decades of full-scale touring.
By: Dave Simpson
Related: ‘We're not Lady Gaga and Elton John': unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year's buzziest, dottiest band
By: Dave Simpson
The polka-dotted phenomenon land their spaceship in Leeds for an ecstatic show that balances supremely complex musicianship with ridiculous good fun
By: Dave Simpson
‘It’s about loneliness, really. It was the total opposite of that “It’s Friday night, let’s have sex” macho mentality that was in most rock music at the time’
By: Dave Simpson
Adam Yauch AKA MCA's death in 2012 from cancer aged 47 effectively ended the stellar recording and performing career of hip-hop trio Beastie Boys.
By: Dave Simpson
Teeing up a forthcoming solo album, the rapper doesn’t reheat his old Beastie Boys sound, instead throwing down everything from ballads to Kraftwerk references
By: Dave Simpson
Expanding on her recent theatre tour, Allen’s one-woman performance of her zeitgeist-dominating album is full of catharsis and high camp
By: Dave Simpson
‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’
By: Dave Simpson
Nancy Boy was about reclaiming the homophobic insults that were hurled at me every time I went out because I had long hair and wore eyeliner and nail polish.
By: Ray Bianchi, Dave Simpson, Charley D. Simpson
Martha Zoller, a prominent Georgia talk-radio host and conservative political strategist whose voice helped shape state politics for more than three decades, has died at 67.
