Mogwai

London supports and Canada

Hallo,

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.

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

New date - Inverness

We'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 .

Mogwai Young Team - Live

Afternoon, 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

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 

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Hello 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... 

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

Triptych

Hello, 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.

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.

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

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!

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 

Merch Sale

We'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.

Hear our Pixies cover

A 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

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

Hunted By A Freak

Hunted 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

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...

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

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 

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

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

This Week

Quite a busy week coming up. Aidan Moffat and the Best Of's are playing their first show tomorrow night in Glasgow opening for Slint and then on Tuesday Sonic Youth are playing Daydream Nation. We're also rehearsing before going to Paris. This week i will mostly be listening to Mum's new record "Go Smear the Poison Ivy", Peter Cook and Chris Morris "Why Bother?" and the new Stars of the Lid album. I'm also very excited about the new series of Saxondale. Stuart Braithwaite

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