John Moore

20 Years Later: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of St Theresa

The fall of Communism, John Peel and absinthe: some of the ingredients behind Ecstasy Of St Theresa's Free-D (Original Soundtrack), the first album made by a Czech act for a Western label after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Wyndham Wallace sets the story free

The Jesus And Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses 30 Years On

It's 30 years since East Kilbride reprobates, Jim and William Reid released their excellent early doors compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, so who better to revisit it (with Jim, Douglas Hart and John Moore in tow) than their biographer Zoë Howe

Brown Acid Black Leather: The Story Of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Psychocandy

Jim Reid and Douglas Hart give Julian Marszalek the low down on the making of one of the best rock albums of the 1980s, Psychocandy

John Moore Recalls Thirsty Misadventure With Zodiac Mindwarp

John Moore tells us that he's cheerful this January 2011. His diary takes a break as he recalls time spent with the terrifying and unpleasant Zodiac Mindwarp

John Moore Prepares His CV & Meets A Famous Record Company

Our man John Moore is worried he's turning into a couch, but finds time to tell us why he isn't rich and doesn't have a very good CV

John Moore Remembers His Friends Mr Horsley & Mr Wojas

Secret Diary Of A Rock & Roll Star, Aged 45 ½: Part Three. By John Moore

After slicing his hand open and whiling away the hours turning his hand into a newsagent's top shelf, our man Moore falls off the wagon...

Secret Diary Of A Rock & Roll Star, Aged 45 ½: Part Two. By John Moore

In his first diary for the Quietus, John Moore had a nasty accident with a pair of scissors and a shredder. Ever the artist, he didn't let this stop him making some fingerbob bongo. Pictures may appear work unsafe...

Secret Diary Of A Rock & Roll Star, Aged 45 ½: Part One. By John Moore

Former thirsty absinthe importer, Mary Chain drummer, Black Box Recorder guitarist and debonair man of letters Mr John Moore starts a new diary for the Quietus. In Part One, an altercation with a shredder leaves him rueing the fact that, all too often, the first cut is the deepest