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Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
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04.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never thought I'd see the day. For what it's worth, I like it. It's got spunk.
04.03.2026 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ha. Was it, by any chance, well boring? Saw them later, on their “final tour”, and it was actually quite lighthearted and entertaining. 👇
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Billy Corgan was doing the CIA’s bidding in 1998. Pass it on.
03.03.2026 21:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is that why you released the intolerably long, feeble and non-rockin’ Adore in the late 90s? Because of the CIA? The government? Should we blame the rappers, Billy? Who should be held accountable, Billy? Billy. Billy. Billy?! BILLMEH.
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It's 35 years today since Gainsbourg died, which is a long time if you're young and not so long if you're not. That also means my book must be five years old which feels like last week when you get to my age. Anyway, just to say, it's still out there hanging just outside the Ethnomusicology Hot 100
02.03.2026 13:43 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Resigned my job to write a book reviewing pork pies. I was 2 months into my research when I realised that no-one's going to drive from Truro to Rugby, even if there's a baker there doing an absolutely fabulous pie. They're all just pork and jelly in pastry, really.
01.03.2026 13:20 — 👍 167 🔁 7 💬 25 📌 7Something I've noticed about the film influencers I see a lot here is that they "don't want to be negative" so they only post about a film if they like it or just post a photo at a premiere with no review lol
01.03.2026 10:10 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I think it bodes really well that WB invited influencers to The Bride premiere in London but no critics and there's only one small press screening on Tuesday afternoon
01.03.2026 10:06 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
“Vodka idiot.”
@thenerve.news
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Say what you like about Robbie Williams, at least it wasn’t Yungblud.
28.02.2026 23:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nigel Godrich is a massive wally
28.02.2026 12:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I feel there’s a new noise or detail in it that I hadn’t noticed every time I listen to it. Effervescent! 🫧
28.02.2026 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hmm. (Love McCartney’s Temporary Secretary ❤️)
c.c. @luketurner.bsky.social
Extract from Off The Ground👇
#ColumnfortablyNumb
#ChangesAfoot
#TheQuietus
#JRMoores
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“This season on Ted Lasso: a Predator joins the squad of A.F.C. Richmond. Did I say ‘squad’? It’s more of a ‘family’…”
#aliensforcuddles
#nohuggingnolearning
Recently watched Predator: Mary Poppins. Sorry, Predator: Badlands.
Or, Predator: Care Bears Assemble.
Alternatively, Predator: The Extra-Terrestrial Who Makes Friends With Drew Barrymore.
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27.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
But they all, like Radiohead, hate us.
Whereas HC, on the other hand…
Oh…
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As I always say, if in doubt blame Bono.
25.02.2026 22:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just me that thinks the permission structure test allowing the non-consensual imposition of AI on all our lives was U2 installing Songs of Innocence on everyone's ITunes in 2014? Team, I've found a way to blame it all Bono. @spinal-bap.bsky.social - grounds for your Bononaissance critique?
25.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Not saying I’m going to spend the whole afternoon procrastinating. But I have just Googled “chinos etymology”. #quiteinteresting
25.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy to review whoever it is. 👞
24.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, but what does Mr Agreeable have to say on the subject? 🤔 We’re all ears!👂
22.02.2026 00:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My fave. A peak that could’ve been followed by world domination and instead the wheels went wonky.
21.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ll do it. I’ll ask the tough questions. Like, why have you never been on Sesame Street, because you must have been asked?
21.02.2026 00:08 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are times when I consider We Care A Lot to be the greatest song in the whole of rock. (Chiefly because it undermines a whole lotta rock.)
21.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The post-credits bonus segment after Man On The Run was even worse than ‘Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney’ but at least it was shorter. God forbid they film a proper interviewer interviewing him anymore.
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