J.R. Moores

2 months ago | thequietus.com | JR Moores |John Doran |J.R. Moores

Call me nutty but in early January I went to see The Jesus Lizard three nights in a row. This means 2025 has peaked bloody early and that ain’t gonna be changed by Black Sabbath directed by the guitarist from Audioslave. Good luck, other bands! You lesser fools. You might as well put your equipment into storage, return to the drawing board and have a long hard think about how you might even consider topping The Jesus Lizard. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.

Jan 20, 2025 | thequietus.com | Andrzej Tichý |Bobby Barry |J.R. Moores

“. . . if anything weighty happens in my life, the last thing I want to do is write a song about it,” Stuart Braithwaite told The Herald in 2003. Discussing Mogwai’s fourth album, Happy Songs For Happy People, the man sometimes known as “Plasmatron” denied the tracks had been written about anything, per se. It was open to the individual’s interpretation regarding which numbers were happy tunes, or sad ones, or evocative of any emotions between.

Sep 17, 2024 | thequietus.com | JR Moores |Patrick Clarke |J.R. Moores

History repeats itself, according to Karl Marx, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” He was writing about Napoleon III of France, the incompetent nepo-nephew of the earlier Emperor Bonaparte. He could just have easily been predicting the 2025 comeback of Oasis. The reunion of the Gallaghers might be a more accurate description given it’s rumoured to be Noel’s Dynamic Pricing Birds with Liam tambourining at centre-stage. Best frontman ever, is he?

Jul 16, 2024 | thequietus.com | JR Moores |Patrick Clarke |J.R. Moores

In the recent election campaign Keir Starmer kept his cards to his chest in order to lure swing voters to his party and infuriate Owen Jones for the LOLs. It worked a charm and now it looks as though Starmerism is going to be more radical than the candidate for Holborn and St Pancras ever disclosed during the whole time his opponent, an entitled hedge funder, shouted “HIGHER TAXES” in his face and lamented a troubled upbringing when, like the protagonists in several Ken Loach films, he had to...