The Quick has been played on NTS in shows including All Styles All Smiles, featured first on 28 August 2023. Songs played include Noah's Ark (Ham Mix).

The Quick were a mid-1970s pre-new wave/power pop band based in Los Angeles.

In their initial phase in late '74, The Quick proudly wore on their musical sleeves inspirations drawn from 1960s British Invasion bands: (The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, The Move, Love Sculpture); and were modeled heavily on the Angelenos-cum-British expatriots, Sparks (formerly Halfnelson and their later offshoot band Jet UK).

Over the course of its 3-year existence, the band rapidly evolved a sound of its own, noteworthy…