MOGWAI - Classic or Dud?

This isn't exactly the first live album, is it? I mean, "Government Commissions" was a Peel Sessions disc, which was pretty live. And yes that tracklist looks solid and could be improved only by "My Father, My King".

Which I once had the opportunity to see them play live and WOW

Stuart Braithwaite playing a short 6-song solo set at the opening party for an exhibition of Spacemen 3-related artworks by Natty Brooker at Mono, Glasgow on Sunday 17th January 2009...

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get a smaller guitar man, y'look like verne troyer

Preorder http://www.mogwaispecialmoves.com/order

i was on the train wi barry burns, or his doppleganger, on Monday.

Dear Call All Destroyer, here is how to make Mogwai's first two studio LPs as good as or even better than Rock Action and HSFHP:

1. Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home
2. Like Herod
3. Tracy
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4. R U Still In 2 It
5. Mogwai Fear Satan

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1. Punk Rock
2. CODY
3. Helps Both Ways
4. Y2K Non-Compliant Cardia
5. May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door
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6. Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up
7. Ex-Cowboy
8. Chocky
9. the last 3 minutes of Christmas Steps w/ Luke Sutherland on violin and Iggy Pop's speech overlaid backwards

^^^awesome albumz

btw I don't think it would be hard to get a segue from the noise-out at the end of Chocky into the guitar figure that concludes CS (as soon as the drums cut out, is when I would pick it up)

New studio album in Feb. 2011 -> http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/52392

Mogwai play Stereo next Sunday 29th August!

Tickets onsale tomorrow morning 11am in person from Monorail or online from Ticketmaster (link is currently non-working).

Mogwai say:

Glasgow - Stereo 29th August

We are playing a show next Sunday August 29th at Stereo in Glasgow. Moon Unit are playing too. Doors are at 8pm. Tickets will be available online tomorrow morning at 11am here . They will also be available in person from Monorail records at 11am tomorrow. Tickets are £10 and proceeds will be going to Lanarkshire Cancer Trust and aid to the victims of the floods in Pakistan.

I could pretty much explode with excitement at the prospect of seeing them at such a tiny venue!

BTW, Re: Special Moves live album: tomorrow.

Physical items will ship on 8/23.
Digital downloads will be available on 8/23.

who got this today?:

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CD/LP Track listing

1. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead"
2. "Friend of the Night"
3. "Hunted By A Freak"
4. "Mogwai Fear Satan"
5. "Cody"
6. "You Don't Know Jesus"
7. "I Know You Are But What Am I"
8. "I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School"
9. " 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong"
10. "Like Herod"
11. "Glasgow Megasnake"
additional tracks on LP version and available through download
12. "Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home"
13. "Scotland's Shame"
14. "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1"
15. "Batcat"
16. "Thank You Space Expert"
17. "The Precipice"

Burning live DVD track listing:

1. "The Precipice"
2. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead"
3. "Hunted By A Freak"
4. "Like Herod"
5. "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1"
6. "Mogwai Fear Satan"
7. "Scotland's Shame"
8. "Batcat"

I did on Monday.

Me too. It's very good.

Forgot how much I still loved "Christmas Steps" -- good to have the reminder.

My personal Mogwai gigography, thus far...

1998.09.16 - Northgate Arena, Chester (supporting Manic Street Preachers)
2001.11.03 - Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
2003.10.19 - Barrowlands, Glasgow
2005.08.18 - ABC, Glasgow
2005.11.29 - Arches, Glasgow
2006.04.27 - Usher Hall, Edinburgh
2006.09.23 - Barrowlands, Glasgow
2007.07.14 - Custard Factory, Birmingham (Supersonic Festival)
2008.04.26 - Tramway, Glasgow (Triptych Festival)
2008.10.21 - Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
2010.08.29 - Stereo, Glasgow

I have the Mogwai Season Ticket for the 5 Scottish shows at the end of this month as well.

Shamefully, having a) grown up in Scotland and b) been into Mogwai since around 1999/2000, the Perth show at the end of the month will be my first time ever seeing them live. At least it's in my hometown, right? The 16 year old me would have exploded. May have a ticket for the Feb Edinburgh show too, which would help work on the total.

I dig their name, I dig their song titles, I dig their album covers and titles. But there's nothing *very* captivating about the band where I feel I have to amass multiple albums. It's unfortuante that in the sort of post-rock realm that if something touches upon being visual, it's given the OK to be recorded. I try looking for a hook but then realize there isn't supposed to be one, and really that's sort of where the subgenre fails: I usually have a hard time differentiating album to album, song to song.

i think mogwai's albums have been kinda stale since c. 2003 or so, but i'll still see 'em live when i can

show i caught Mr. Beast-era was immense

I've repeatedly tried to like them, but never gotten anywhere. (I don't like most things, come to think of it.)

The new Remember Remember album (on Mogwai's Rock Action imprint) is very lovely.

Was listening to that this morning! Good stuff.

I remember seeing him years ago playing a bar on a Sunday night where nobody was interested. He started getting heckled so he'd record the heckles and loop them into the songs.

they're playing at a planetarium here on saturday. but i can't go because i have a co-worker's wedding reception. fml!

Following a Facebook post I made about "not getting Mogwai", I can conclude that there are two types of people in the world - people who lurve them and people who think they're really boring and artless.

3: People who think the have their moments, but are basically U2 minus Bono, plus loud/quiet.

Listened to a recent live set last night and found it pretty beautiful in places. Don't think I've listened to them in a while otherwise.

Postrock fans in general are fucking awful.

That is correct, esp. Scotch ones

3: People who think the have their moments, but are basically U2 minus Bono, plus loud/quiet.

You don't get it, do you? Mogwai are Bono. They are not Larry.

Line-up for the forthcoming remix album is great...

"Tim Hecker, The Soft Moon, RM Hubbert, Robert Hampson, Zombi, Justin Broadrick, Xander Harris, Umberto and Cylob"

Looks okay, but I don't buy scientology-related products as a rule of thumb.

3: People who think the have their moments, but are basically U2 minus Bono, plus loud/quiet.

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4: ppl who loved them back in the day and are happy for them to do their thing now but have little real use for them

had stopped paying attention to these for about a decade or so, but "music for a forgotten future", as featured in that michael mayer omegamix from earlier this year, really is incredible.

god i love 2 rights make 1 wrong

yaay another boring british band who rip off superior American acts and we're all supposed to lap it up and say how interesting...

possibly the ultimate "if this lot came from Chicago instead of Glasgow no-one would give a shit about them" band

Just IMO

That is correct, esp. Scotch ones

Shouldn't be so hard on Stuart Braithwaite...

He has mellowed or is he still a self-regarding gobshite?

Lest we forget the cringeworthy Kappa outfits.

tortoise are super boring and people care about them. they have some pretty clear influences,but they don't really rip anyone off too hard.they've gone downhill since the rock action ep imo,but they're p good all in all.not that great live imo,but precious few bands are.

Saw Braithwaite in the crowd at ATP last weekend. He's still short and bald.

Loving the new soundtrack but it probably helps that I already loved the show ("Les Revenants")

Yeah the new record is really lovely. They still keep coming with this wonderful music. I'm hoping the Tv programme will come to the BBC.

Nobody will notice because they aren't good anymore.

was wondering what this soundtrack was as i watched the tv show. i ignored these for a while after rock action as it didn't seem like something i ever wanted to listen to again, but some amazing music in the last few years.

only heard "music for a forgotten future" via michael mayer's kompakt megaset, also an amazing tune.

lol i just noticed i posted about that upthread. ah well. there it is again and i hadn't posted about the returned yet, now on channel 4, uk folks.

MFAFF is the best thing they've done by quite a long way. Second might be the Like Herod Peel session, or the remix of Earth's Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine

I keep coming back to this remix of "Tracy" from the first record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJSN5V72w7s

I saw them last night at a nice open-air special event on the riverfront here in Glasgow performing the Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait soundtrack live along to the film as part of a small series of dates around the Manchester International Film Festival.

While the Zidane soundtrack isn't my favourite work of theirs, both musically and because of my utter lack of caring for football, I always enjoy a Mogwai show and this was something a little different. The outdoor setting at the end of a glorious sunny summer Sunday was excellent, they played well, and we got a nice three-song encore, which was the highlight of the night for me personally.

Being outdoors the light was pretty nice and I was enjoying using my lovely new (second-hand) 135mm f/2.0 lens, so I got a whole bunch of photos that I'm really pleased with...

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Mogwai performing live to Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait by Crimson Glow Photography, on Flickr

What was in the encore, Krakow, can you say? I'm off to The Barbican to see them on Friday and I'm looking forward to it.

We got Helicon 1, Werewolf & Glasgow Megasnake (though I'm a little unsure of what the second song was).

Previous two nights got Secret Pint & Helicon 1 and CODY & Ex-Cowboy, so I hear.

Nice. Crossing my fingers for a slice of Fear Satan. As always tbh.