He played with The Asylum in 1986, a band featuring Kid Wig, guitarist with the Beat Seeking Missiles, in and around Oxford including the Port Meadow Festival.

[8] The band reformed in 2024 with an expanded line up and did a comeback show at The Horn in St Albans as well as a sold out home town gig in Oxford.

During the release of I Wasn't Born to Lose You in 2015, Quinn was tour stand-in for Oxford band and childhood friends Swervedriver.

[9] Though born in Cambridge, Quinn spent his very early childhood living in America before relocating to Oxford, England in the 1970s.

On 21 August 2007, Quinn was hospitalized in Toulouse, France for an operation to repair two broken vertebrae and a smashed Calcaneus, sustained after falling out of a first floor window of a rented villa he was staying in with his family.