Fuck Buttons in the UKI can happily announce that Fuck Buttons are playing with us at our 3 shows in October (London, Edinburgh and Manchester). John will probably be doing their sound. Bring ear defenders. SB |
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Guadalajara Venue ChangeHiya, Just a quick post to let you know there the show in Guadalajara, Mexico on 24th June will now be at Teatro Estudio Cavaret. You can get tickets for the show by clicking here. |
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The Hawk Is Howling: some facts Our new album The Hawk Is Howling is released by PIAS/Wall Of Sound on September 22nd and Matador in America on September 23rd. It is just over 63 minutes long. It was recorded by Andy Miller at Chem 19 in February apart from one song which was recorded by Tony Doogan at Castle Of Doom last summer. It was mixed by Gareth Jones at Castle Of Doom in March and mastered at Abbey Road by Sean Magee in April. The songs on it are: 1 I'm Jim Morrison, I'm dead
2 Batcat
3 Danphe and The Brain
4 Local Authority
5 The Sun Smells Too Loud
6 Kings Meadow
7 I Love you, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
8 Scotland’s Shame
9 Thank You Space Expert
10 The Precipice
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US Tour DatesDates for our US tour in September are announced and up on the Dates page, click the button from the panel above and you'll see all the shows we're doing. There are quite a few so I can't list them all here. Support on the tour is coming from Fuck Buttons. We're also pleased to say we're heading back to Mexico at the end of the month. Information on those shows are on the Dates page as well. By the way, there's a new video from Desalvo up on Youtube the track is from their debut album 'Mood Poisoner' coming out on our very own Rock Action label, check it out as they're AWESOME! To have a watch click here. |
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Ticket Update and Errors Album out tomorrowCouple of things i should point out. 1 - we sold out of all the presale tickets for our London show through our shop yesterday. The remainder will go onsale (along with the Manchester and Edinburgh shows) tomorrow morning at 9am. Details are in the post below. 2 - Errors debut album "Its not something but it is like whatever" is out tomorrow on Rock Action Records (our label). You should check it out as it is a great record. Cheers. Stuart |
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October UK tourWe're excited to be able to announce we're doing some UK shows in October. Dates are below and you should be able to get hold of limited number of pre-sale tickets by clicking the following link to our online shop around noon today (Friday May 30th) www.resonancestore.com/mogwai/index.html?c=viewtickets The dates are: October 21 - Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
October 23 - Manchester Academy, Manchester
October 24 - Hammersmith Apollo, London
The shows will go on general sale on Monday June 2nd at 9am. Details are below. Regular music and Evol present
Mogwai + special guests
The Corn Exchange
Edinburgh
Tuesday 21st october
Tickets £17.50
hotline 08448 472269
online: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/170040BED81373E6 ATP Concerts by arrangement with Asgard present
Mogwai + special guests
Manchester Academy
October 23 2008
Tickets £17.50
ATP Concerts by arrangement with Asgard present
Mogwai + special guests
Hammersmith Apollo
October 24 2008
Tickets £20
Tickets for both ATP shows available from www.seetickets.com , www.ticketmaster.co.uk , www.wegottickets.com , www.stargreen.com & www.gigantic.com
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3-in-a-RowMogwai would like to congratulate Glasgow Celtic on winning the Scottish Premier League last night. As a sober bystander it was absolutely amazing to watch Stuart hugging unknowns in the pub we watched the game in and then managing to buy the last bottle of champagne they had left. The screen went down a few times in the bar but we decided it would be better to just wait until it went back on instead of rampaging through Glasgow, fighting the Police. I believe they call that dignity. Tommy Burns Tommy Burns Tommy Burns Barry Burns |
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Mogwai Young Team reissue out next weekNext week youse can all get the expanded and remastered Mogwai young team from all your favourite music emporiums. Its available to pre order from our shop now and i feel the need to say that the quadruple vinyl box set is a thing of great wonder. We'll be letting you know more details of our (really) new record too in the next few weeks as well as more tour dates. Fun fun fun! Stuart |
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Things So thanks to everyone who came to see us in Inverness and London over the last week. I don't think i can remember two gigs being so completely different from each other before, though they were both a lot of fun.Aidan and Graeme (Remember Remember) were both great too. This week Errors mega new single Toes is out and the average IQ in Scotland is set to rise by 50 over the next 48 hours. Stuart B
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London supports and CanadaHallo, We're pleased to be able to let you know that the supports for our show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall will be Aidan John Moffat and Remember Remember . Also, we're heading over to Canada for a couple of shows, one at the Sled Island Festival on 28th June and another in Toronto at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on 30th June. You can find more information about the Sled Island festival by clicking here. |
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This Week This week: you should all buy Plan B magazine as it has a free Rock Action cd with a new song by us called Dracula Family, we got our new ep mastered, we start rehearsals for our Tryptich show at the Tramway which is now sold out (thanks!), i will be feeling very disappointed that one of my favourite bands has threatened to sue one of our bands because their name is named after one of their songs (boo!!), i will be getting very excited about the new Batman film and will be checking all the daft websites they've set up up to get numpties like me even more excited about it. Thats it, i can't wait for next week! Stuart B |
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New date - InvernessWe've a new show to announce, this time it's in Inverness on May 9th at The Ironworks. Box office number to call is 0871 7894 173 and you can book online through The Ironworks website which can be found by clicking here . |
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Mogwai Young Team - LiveAfternoon, a special announcement of sorts. We're going to be doing a exclusive performance of the 'Mogwai Young Team' record live in its entirety at this year's Summercase in July. For more information about the festival you can visit their website here. Tickets are available through www.ticktackticket.com
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Nearly Done! Good day. We are almost finished mixing our howling hawk of a new record and we're so pleased with it that we might never release it and instead just put it on our own iPod shuffles and walk the streets of Glasgow, never speaking, Syd-Barrett-style forever. It's got it all, dreamy ballads about forbidden love gone awry, one minute pointless instrumentals and even some spoken word about the future of the music industry in India. If and when you allow yourself to hear these bitching jams you're going to want to buy some seriously good crystal meth just to take the edge off. You know how Radiohead let their album be downloaded for free? Well, our very own John Cummings had his own method of doing this when he left his new mogwai-new-album-containing laptop in Nice n Sleazies by accident the other night. Don't worry, it's all fine. Okay, just a wee update. I hope you are all well. Barry |
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Queen Elizabeth HallHello everyone. We've a new date to announce, London this time. See the details below; 12th May 2008 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
w/Remember Remember plus very Special Guest
Tickets go on sale at 10am Tuesday 18th March.
Box office details: 0871 663 2500 and www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Tickets are £20 plus booking fee Ticketholders will get a Rock Action compilation too... |
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Moron Of The Week “The O2 is a corporate venue if what you mean by corporate is that the toilets aren't overflowing, there are plenty of bars, the sound is great and everyone can see the bands,”. This piece of unadulterated drivel was uttered by Steve Sutherland in The Times who is an old fart who has something to do with the NME and probably claims to have invented Britpop or some other shite. Here's a bit of news Steve. The O2 is called a corporate venue because its named after a mobile phone company. You are a moron. Stuart Braithwaite |
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TriptychHello, we're excited to announce we're playing as part of Triptych this year. It's part of an all day style event at the Tramway in Glasgow alongside a host of bands, a few of whom are on our Rock Action label. Which is exciting. Full line-up includes Clinic. Dirty Projectors. Malcolm Middleton, Errors, Frightened Rabbit, Magik Markers, Correcto and RememberRemember. Find out more info about whats going on at Triptych and to book tickets click here. |
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Good Morning everyone. Here we are, second day of mixing with Gareth Jones already. We're in Glasgow's sunny west end again, so if you see us up at the Sainsbury's garage on Woodlands Road, do say hello and wish us luck, maybe buy us some Green and Blacks if you see fit. The 85% stuff is the best.
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Recording Update Right, here what's happening. Today is our last day of recording with Andy Miller at Chem 19. We're just mixing a song called Dracula Family thats going to be on a Rock Action cover cd on Plan B magazine in a few months. Today we're going to try and remember if there's anything we've forgotten to do and then do it. We're mixing the album with Gareth Jones at Castle Of Doom in a week and a half and then that should be us finished by April. So far it sounds really great but i would say that. SB |
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Life is good So thats us one week into our recording session with Andy Miller at Chem 19 and i'm delighted to say that its going great. We'll also be announcing our first shows of 2008 in the next week or so. Rock Action is also preparing for a frenzy of activity too. The debut albums by Errors and Desalvo are currently getting finished up and we received the long awaited second record from James Orr Complex the other day too. I'm listening to it right now and its amazing. I also heard some new demos by Part Chimp and they are fantastic. Aren't we lucky boys! |
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Happy New Year Happy new year to you all from all of us Mogwais. 2008 is setting itself as being a very busy year for us. this will be in stark contrast to 2007 which was pretty frustrating, idle and disappointing to be honest. Next month we go into the studio to finish recording our record. Its getting mixed in March and with any luck it'll be all done by the summer so that we can get back to playing concerts. I haven't had jet lag in ages, i can't wait!! Tomorrow night i'm DJ'ing at Stereo in Glasgow at the Spectrum (Sonic Boom, ex Spacemen 3) concert which should be fun. Stuart B |
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Merch SaleWe've found some merch from tours long since past that we thought we'd sold out of but turns out we have a handful kicking around so seeing as Xmas is coming up we thought we'd have a sale... Click the LINK and it'll take you straight to the SALE page. Most of the shirts are like £6, however we literally only have one or two of some designs so it's pretty much first come first served.
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Hear our Pixies coverA website has our cover of The Pixies "Gouge Away" available for download here . Its available on the Pixies tribute "Dig For Fire", though you all know as well as we do that nobody buys cd's anymore. Stuart |
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November 18th 2007 Oh well, another glorious Scottish failure comes and goes. You'd think it would stop coming as a surprise but unfortunately it doesn't. No wonder we drink a lot. Anyways enough football related mopery i should probably write something to tell you what is happening with our band. We have resumed rehearsing (meeting up and talking rubbish and occasionally playing music). We have the studio booked to finish recording (Castle Of Doom is currently homeless) and we are going to get the record mixed in Spring. If everything goes to plan the record (provisionally titled "The Hawk Is Howling") should be out early autumn. It will probably have a song on it called "The Precipice". Martin and i are going to see The Sex Pistols tonight and i had veggie sausages and beans on toast for dinner. Oh Barry and me are dj'ing next Friday a Firewater in Glasgow. Stuart B |
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Hunted By A FreakHunted By A Freak taken off our 'Happy Songs...' album is featured in a new film from Tartan Films called Ex-Drummer, if you want to find out more about the film click the link here |
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Roll up! Roll up! Pacemaker for auction!The time has come folks, Martin's used pacemaker is on e-bay with the proceeds going towards the British Heart Foundation charity. Get bidding! Click the link here... |
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Good news, Bad news Good news: Martin is on the mend and his Pacemaker will shortly be available for a morbid Mogwai fan to cherish via auction. Bad news: Celtic FC have unbelevably appointed failed politician, war criminal, sex pest and all round creep John Reid as their new chairman. Utter, utter disgrace. Stuart Braithwaite |
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Annie Lennox has called her new album "Songs of Mass Destruction" That's really topical. Honestly though, I hope we come up with a better title for our new album than that. It's so half-arsed it makes "Mr. Beast" sound cerebral. Any suggestions are always welcome. Anyhow, Martin is recovering well thankfully and I'm sure he'll soon be the little animal drummer he always is. xxxx |
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Pacemaker Auction 2007 Martin has in the last few hours come out of surgery fitting a new pacemaker. As happened last time we will have a charity auction for his old one with the proceeds going to the British Heart Foundation. Details will follow in the next few days. Get well soon Martin! Stuart
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New Songs (keys) On Tuesday and Wednesday Dominic and Martin Recorded a song in D Minor. "D Minor: Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood". Yesterday Martin and myself recorded a song in D major "The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war cries, of victory rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key". Today we are recording a song that Barry wrote in the key of A flat "grumbler, heart squeezed until it suffocates; wailing lament, difficuit struggle; in a word, the colour of this key is everything struggling with difficulty". Thanks to the internet for the descriptions of the keys. Stuart |
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