Gordon Moakes
@moakesy.com
Bass player (Bloc Party, The None, Young Legionnaire), musician, occasional writoir and designist. Pro-guillotine moakesy.com
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Gordon Moakes
@moakesy.com
· Oct 10
THE NONE -MATTER AND CARE (12")
Remaining copies left at indie shops. Bandcamp is sold out.
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Out today in record shops: numbered black sleeve 12” of THE NONE’s double EP ‘MATTER AND CARE’.
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Inexplicably, this response to a @gregk.co.uk post is doing the best numbers I’ve ever done on here
One cannot overstate the extent to which you should not do any of this in a bar or anywhere else
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Inexplicably, this response to a @gregk.co.uk post is doing the best numbers I’ve ever done on here
Reposted by Gordon Moakes
'#TheStoneRoses were built on Mani’s tiptoe-light touch – something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something, borne of an internal rhythm and beauty that burnt a trail from itself outwards.'
Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes
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Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes
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November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'#TheStoneRoses were built on Mani’s tiptoe-light touch – something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something, borne of an internal rhythm and beauty that burnt a trail from itself outwards.'
Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes
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Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes
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Me, on Mani for @thequietus.com:
The musician Gordon Moakes remembers the late Gary "Mani" Mounfield, the bass player’s bass player whose delicate but propulsive anti-rock energy was The Stone Roses’ life and soul in microcosm
Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes ( @moakesy.com )
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Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes ( @moakesy.com )
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November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Me, on Mani for @thequietus.com:
AI slop is in part for people who don’t have an imagination, right? I can imagine Marilyn Monroe smoking a hookah pipe: I don’t need a computer to draw that for me
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
AI slop is in part for people who don’t have an imagination, right? I can imagine Marilyn Monroe smoking a hookah pipe: I don’t need a computer to draw that for me
Reposted by Gordon Moakes
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
Out today in record shops: numbered black sleeve 12” of THE NONE’s double EP ‘MATTER AND CARE’.
idol-io.ffm.to/thenone_matt...
idol-io.ffm.to/thenone_matt...
THE NONE -MATTER AND CARE (12")
Remaining copies left at indie shops. Bandcamp is sold out.
idol-io.ffm.to
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Out today in record shops: numbered black sleeve 12” of THE NONE’s double EP ‘MATTER AND CARE’.
idol-io.ffm.to/thenone_matt...
idol-io.ffm.to/thenone_matt...
Muting the words ‘Bari Weiss’ but somebody tell me when she does eventually crash and burn
October 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Muting the words ‘Bari Weiss’ but somebody tell me when she does eventually crash and burn
They fuckin’ better not try and replace Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time with Amol Rajan
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
They fuckin’ better not try and replace Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time with Amol Rajan
Of course these clowns haven’t read any Orwell, except at best the last line of Animal Farm, which presumably they take to mean: it doesn’t matter who you vote for, you always get pigs
What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Of course these clowns haven’t read any Orwell, except at best the last line of Animal Farm, which presumably they take to mean: it doesn’t matter who you vote for, you always get pigs
Mandelson is the firing gun on the last lap for Starmer. And it is of course in part because a certain cadre of journalists has decided it must be so.
fuck, he's done isn't he
Graham Stringer: “He doesn’t seem to have the basic skills that most politicians have.
“I have had a lot of conversations with MPs. You don’t start a conversation by saying, isn’t Keir poor, or isn’t he making mistakes? It is given that he’s doing poorly at the job.”
“I have had a lot of conversations with MPs. You don’t start a conversation by saying, isn’t Keir poor, or isn’t he making mistakes? It is given that he’s doing poorly at the job.”
September 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Mandelson is the firing gun on the last lap for Starmer. And it is of course in part because a certain cadre of journalists has decided it must be so.
Mandelson should be toast at this point, but there’s no better example of the rot at the heart of Labour than that he’s been allow to repeatedly rise, like pond scum, to the top of the party machine
September 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Mandelson should be toast at this point, but there’s no better example of the rot at the heart of Labour than that he’s been allow to repeatedly rise, like pond scum, to the top of the party machine
The Starmer project’s disinterring of undead Blairism is of a piece with the Oasis reunion. One will be vastly more successful than the other (for certain wallets at least) but both come from the same grave
It was clear very early on that Sir Keir’s project was a forced restoration of an old guard their party didn’t particularly want, and that it was imposed by lying, stitch ups and shenanigans. The words required here are not things like “unusual” but “calculated fraud” and “total media complicity”.
September 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Starmer project’s disinterring of undead Blairism is of a piece with the Oasis reunion. One will be vastly more successful than the other (for certain wallets at least) but both come from the same grave
This album is the first long-form physical record I’ve been involved in since Young Legionnaire’s ‘Zero Worship’ in 2016. There’s still a handful of vinyls left on bandcamp.
Fans of Jesus Lizard, Unwound, Silverfish, Brainiac should enjoy
thenone.bandcamp.com/album/matter...
Fans of Jesus Lizard, Unwound, Silverfish, Brainiac should enjoy
thenone.bandcamp.com/album/matter...
MATTER AND CARE, by THE NONE
8 track album
thenone.bandcamp.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This album is the first long-form physical record I’ve been involved in since Young Legionnaire’s ‘Zero Worship’ in 2016. There’s still a handful of vinyls left on bandcamp.
Fans of Jesus Lizard, Unwound, Silverfish, Brainiac should enjoy
thenone.bandcamp.com/album/matter...
Fans of Jesus Lizard, Unwound, Silverfish, Brainiac should enjoy
thenone.bandcamp.com/album/matter...
The outcomes we’re going to see for the Labour government were baked in the moment the right of the party took over the Starmer leadership campaign.
There was *never* a future in it politically. It was always a case of taking turns at the wheel until the plane inevitably ploughed into a mountain.
There was *never* a future in it politically. It was always a case of taking turns at the wheel until the plane inevitably ploughed into a mountain.
Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge
September 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The outcomes we’re going to see for the Labour government were baked in the moment the right of the party took over the Starmer leadership campaign.
There was *never* a future in it politically. It was always a case of taking turns at the wheel until the plane inevitably ploughed into a mountain.
There was *never* a future in it politically. It was always a case of taking turns at the wheel until the plane inevitably ploughed into a mountain.
The deep irony at the heart of this moment, where certain groups are viciously demonised for supposedly stealing our culture, our sovereignty, our jobs, blah blah blah, and clowns like this (and those behind the tools they use) are celebrated as ‘democratisers/disruptors’. The world’s upside down
“‘I have no musical talent at all,’ he said. ‘I can’t sing, I can’t play instruments, and I have no musical background at all’”
The success of AI music creators sparks a debate on the future of the music industry
Oliver McCann, a British AI music creator, uses AI to produce songs across various genres. Despite lacking musical talent, McCann signed with Hallwood Media after one of his tracks gained 3 million st...
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September 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The deep irony at the heart of this moment, where certain groups are viciously demonised for supposedly stealing our culture, our sovereignty, our jobs, blah blah blah, and clowns like this (and those behind the tools they use) are celebrated as ‘democratisers/disruptors’. The world’s upside down
I can’t with these bloviating fash-huggers anymore. I was at Trans Pride, how much coverage did the media give tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting government legislation? Have a guess
Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work"
Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
Hard agree with @davidkr.bsky.social here. Moreover shouting at them that the flags are tainted by imperialism and colonialism (heard in Bristol), while true, hardly wins over the average bystander to our side.
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I can’t with these bloviating fash-huggers anymore. I was at Trans Pride, how much coverage did the media give tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting government legislation? Have a guess
Morrissey got absolutely railed in the music press for waving a Union flag in ‘92, yet five years later it had come into vogue. Something definitely broke in the brains of the commentariat in between. illnessasart.com/2020/11/26/n...
August 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Morrissey got absolutely railed in the music press for waving a Union flag in ‘92, yet five years later it had come into vogue. Something definitely broke in the brains of the commentariat in between. illnessasart.com/2020/11/26/n...
While Philip K. Dick et al are increasingly being vindicated for their dystopian predictions, they assumed it was authoritarian states who’d drive this stuff, not the trust-fund Palo Alto huckster class
New from 404 Media: the LAPD has shown interest in GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that can geolocate photos in seconds, per emails we obtained. GeoSpy’s founder recently made a video demoing GeoSpy in relation to “illegal immigrants” and sanctuary cities, including LA
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LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds
Emails obtained by 404 Media show the LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an AI tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.
www.404media.co
August 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
While Philip K. Dick et al are increasingly being vindicated for their dystopian predictions, they assumed it was authoritarian states who’d drive this stuff, not the trust-fund Palo Alto huckster class
Absolutely this. It’s no accident all these tech bros wanted to monetise the things they were scared about doing through human interaction - things that in many cases had always been done for them by their mummies
If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships
Like, the surveillance tech adds nothing that doesn’t exist with basic human interaction
August 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Absolutely this. It’s no accident all these tech bros wanted to monetise the things they were scared about doing through human interaction - things that in many cases had always been done for them by their mummies
HAHAHA ‘AI shaming’ - these people are so soft in the head. AI Shaming! Get a fucking grip
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
HAHAHA ‘AI shaming’ - these people are so soft in the head. AI Shaming! Get a fucking grip
Some of your most inventive dystopian sci-fi writers (think Philip K Dick, Robert Harris, Norman Spinrad) may never have come up with an artificial intelligence that imagined itself to be Hitler reincarnated but here we are
July 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Some of your most inventive dystopian sci-fi writers (think Philip K Dick, Robert Harris, Norman Spinrad) may never have come up with an artificial intelligence that imagined itself to be Hitler reincarnated but here we are
Sad news. I grew up in Milton Keynes in the 80s: everything was fresh and new and a bit stark, but I saw many films here. Got turned away from Dick Tracey which was one of the first 12 certificates: I must have been 11. Got into Batman though.
Absolutely shitty news. All concerned should feel ashamed
BREAKING NEWS: Planning permission has just been granted for the demolition of The Point in Milton Keynes (BDP, 1985) - Britain's first multiplex cinema. The previous refusal of permission was overturned on appeal, paving the way for a cluster of 21-storey residential towers by Galliard Homes.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Sad news. I grew up in Milton Keynes in the 80s: everything was fresh and new and a bit stark, but I saw many films here. Got turned away from Dick Tracey which was one of the first 12 certificates: I must have been 11. Got into Batman though.
One of these days I will flesh out my thesis that Limp Bizkit—far from being the jock-rock villains of Woodstock ‘99—were in that moment a flashpoint for a generation of gaslit, ignored teens, enabling them to correctly channel their rage into destroying an edifice of the 90s culture industry.
Of course Durst is a trans ally, Rollin openly supports non binary people.
July 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
One of these days I will flesh out my thesis that Limp Bizkit—far from being the jock-rock villains of Woodstock ‘99—were in that moment a flashpoint for a generation of gaslit, ignored teens, enabling them to correctly channel their rage into destroying an edifice of the 90s culture industry.
One thing that gets me about this Labour government is they can’t even govern by ‘vibe’. Of course there was never going to be an ideological break from managed-decline Toryism, but you can still govern like that and make it *feel* like centrism. Blair was a master at that.
July 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
One thing that gets me about this Labour government is they can’t even govern by ‘vibe’. Of course there was never going to be an ideological break from managed-decline Toryism, but you can still govern like that and make it *feel* like centrism. Blair was a master at that.
It’s going to get very tiresome very quickly so let me be the first (or rather the latest) to say Oasis are, and always were, complete shit
July 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It’s going to get very tiresome very quickly so let me be the first (or rather the latest) to say Oasis are, and always were, complete shit