JR Moores
@spinal-bap.bsky.social
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.
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.
On this day in 1985, Spies Like Us was released. Hardly Paul McCartney’s finest moment, the single was one of the many things from which his reputation needed to recover in the following 90s era. #OffTheGroundBook #PaulMcCartney 🎶
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
On this day in 1985, Spies Like Us was released. Hardly Paul McCartney’s finest moment, the single was one of the many things from which his reputation needed to recover in the following 90s era. #OffTheGroundBook #PaulMcCartney 🎶
#RecentlyRead XSTABETH by @reversediorama.bsky.social
There are so many great lines (or half-lines, if that’s what they are) in this experimental, intoxicating and rather-rude-in-places novel. “Art should be like a hand grenade thrown through an open window.” #booksky @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
There are so many great lines (or half-lines, if that’s what they are) in this experimental, intoxicating and rather-rude-in-places novel. “Art should be like a hand grenade thrown through an open window.” #booksky @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#RecentlyRead XSTABETH by @reversediorama.bsky.social
There are so many great lines (or half-lines, if that’s what they are) in this experimental, intoxicating and rather-rude-in-places novel. “Art should be like a hand grenade thrown through an open window.” #booksky @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
There are so many great lines (or half-lines, if that’s what they are) in this experimental, intoxicating and rather-rude-in-places novel. “Art should be like a hand grenade thrown through an open window.” #booksky @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
We all have our moments…
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We all have our moments…
OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
“We had some seriously good turnips.” - Paul McCartney
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November 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“We had some seriously good turnips.” - Paul McCartney
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Defo. Last time we saw them he looked like mad Santa.
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Defo. Last time we saw them he looked like mad Santa.
Few live bands are as grin-on-your-face entertaining as Les Savy Fav, especially on Halloween. 🎃 @lessavyfav.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Few live bands are as grin-on-your-face entertaining as Les Savy Fav, especially on Halloween. 🎃 @lessavyfav.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In the latest singles roundup for Record Collector I have an overdue pop at Nine Inch Nails and appeal for some complimentary Boursin. 🧀 @boursinuk.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In the latest singles roundup for Record Collector I have an overdue pop at Nine Inch Nails and appeal for some complimentary Boursin. 🧀 @boursinuk.bsky.social
Entry to the pub quiz is a pound per person. Someone asked if they could pay with their smartphone. 🪙
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Entry to the pub quiz is a pound per person. Someone asked if they could pay with their smartphone. 🪙
#nowplaying Plastic Fang by THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, on CD of course. 💿 #ROCKNROLL
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#nowplaying Plastic Fang by THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, on CD of course. 💿 #ROCKNROLL
Pitchfork will have to employ an army of people who could otherwise be writing music criticism to moderate all the commentators comparing each other to Hitler.
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Pitchfork will have to employ an army of people who could otherwise be writing music criticism to moderate all the commentators comparing each other to Hitler.
If anyone would like signed copies of ELECTRIC WIZARDS or OFF THE GROUND before XMAS (for yourself or others), I can get some stock here, scribble inside and send them out. RRP plus postage to wherever you are. Let me know. 📚 ❤️ 🎶
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
If anyone would like signed copies of ELECTRIC WIZARDS or OFF THE GROUND before XMAS (for yourself or others), I can get some stock here, scribble inside and send them out. RRP plus postage to wherever you are. Let me know. 📚 ❤️ 🎶
Delighted to see Professor Quentin Bell (b. 1910) on this week’s BBC Four repeat of Call My Bluff. His essay on ‘Bad Art’ would inform the defence of Lou Reed & Metallica’s LULU (=good art!) in Electric Wizards. If only he had known. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #BBCFour #CallMyBluff ⚡️ 🧙♂️
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Delighted to see Professor Quentin Bell (b. 1910) on this week’s BBC Four repeat of Call My Bluff. His essay on ‘Bad Art’ would inform the defence of Lou Reed & Metallica’s LULU (=good art!) in Electric Wizards. If only he had known. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #BBCFour #CallMyBluff ⚡️ 🧙♂️
This is the best book about Sir Paul McCartney I have ever written and also one of the better ones I’ve read.
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is the best book about Sir Paul McCartney I have ever written and also one of the better ones I’ve read.
"Before he gets to grip with the latest psych and noise rock releases, JR Moores has a brilliantly bleak brainwave..." @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"Before he gets to grip with the latest psych and noise rock releases, JR Moores has a brilliantly bleak brainwave..." @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
My interview with the frontperson of an indie band who’d been out the night before and kept repeating the questions back to me, to discover my opinions on the mooted subjects, as if that would’ve made for serviceable copy.
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My interview with the frontperson of an indie band who’d been out the night before and kept repeating the questions back to me, to discover my opinions on the mooted subjects, as if that would’ve made for serviceable copy.
My interview with Hawkwind when they couldn’t get their laptop camera to work.
October 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My interview with Hawkwind when they couldn’t get their laptop camera to work.