Gordon Moakes
Bass player (Bloc Party, The None, Young Legionnaire), musician, occasional writoir and designist. Pro-guillotine moakesy.com
- Inexplicably, this response to a @gregk.co.uk post is doing the best numbers I’ve ever done on here
- 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 ) thequietus.com/news/remembe...
- 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
- Out today in record shops: numbered black sleeve 12” of THE NONE’s double EP ‘MATTER AND CARE’. idol-io.ffm.to/thenone_matt...
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- Even Oasis’ logo was the ‘flag going down the toilet’. As with Loaded, some of these writers were trying out boorish contrarianism as a way to make a mark on culture, but a lot of them were embittered, untapped reactionaries scrabbling to take their place in the establishment rather than contest it.
- …and now look. It’s 2025 and these ghouls still refuse to release their grip on anything: on the cultural discourse, on politics, on fucking anything.
- They cannot admit they got things so badly wrong: they’re so self-poisoned that the vast empty shell of ideas, music and values they trumpeted and/or created sounds and feels like the only truth left.
- 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 www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-ge...
- 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
- uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
- 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
- To be fair, Harlan Ellison’s ‘AM’ is in the right area, as an intelligence bent on torturing its own creators in perpetuity… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_...
- 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.
- 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
- The logic has been for about 40 years that punk rock was contained, co-opted by capitalism, folded into the culture industry. But if any kind of music performance has come to be deemed ‘high risk’ in 2025 we must be doing something right.
- The truth is that a ‘high risk’ performance is a performance that risks upsetting the pearl-clutching sensibilities of readers of the right-wing press. Arguably, if you’re not upsetting these people you’re doing something wrong.
