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mogwai

General Info

  • Genre: Metal / Psychedelic / Rock

    Location Glasgow, Un

    Profile Views: 4014315

    Last Login: 9/7/2011

    Member Since 11/13/2005

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm1vZ3dhaS5jby51aw==

    Record Label Rock Action Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

  • Members

    Mogwai are: Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, Barry Burns, John Cummings
  • Influences

    Hendrix, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, The Cure, Slayer, Labradford, Sonic Youth, The Byrds, JAMC, Nirvana, Bardo Pond, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pixies, Bauhaus, God Machine, Guns 'n' Roses
  • Sounds Like

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  1. mogwai

    We're on the The Review Show tonight playing a few songs live. BCC4 at 8pm tonight. Please watch. #bbcreviewshow please RT

  2. mogwai

    We've been confirmed on the bill for the Loop curated @atpfestival Nov 29th - Dec 1st at Camber Sands. More info via: http://t.co/NnpxLVfl0e

  3. mogwai

    In case you missed it yesterday tickets for the Zidane show at the Barbican go on general sale today: http://t.co/piK5k0xFun

  4. mogwai

    The link for full details and information about the Zidane show @BarbicanCentre is here: http://t.co/piK5k0xFun

  5. mogwai

    Live: Mogwai are performing live to Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait @BarbicanCentre on Fri 26th July. More info via: http://t.co/ttr342r7Be

Comments

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  • sanmi

    hi

    2 years ago
  • 360 Miles

    thank you for the add!

    i love mogwai

    2 years ago
  • M♥Ry!

    thanks for the add...nice tune !

    2 years ago
  • doyi cet

    Hey mogwai,
    Your band rocks. I thank you for the add mogwai. Pls. keep up the good work. Keep mogwai high in the sky.
    Love You ALways.

    PS: Connect me on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/iaent

    2 years ago
  • zed mizar

    don't tell anybody but jim morrison isn't dead.

    2 years ago
  • R3ACTion \IN/ G

    Please, come to Ohio...some time this lifetime...

    2 years ago
  • Nicole Huber

    Hey mogwai!Thanks for the add!

    2 years ago
  • backspace mutuality

    wish you guys a great weekend

    2 years ago
  • Maryam Abdulrahman

    hey
    u have an awesome music , i really like it
    greetings from Arab land :)

    2 years ago
  • julie julieluvsya

    My sister has joined me in being a fan!


    2 years ago
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Mogwai Live Film "Burning" Teaser from Nathanaël Le Scouarnec on Vimeo.

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Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Batcat

Mogwai - Hawk Is Howling DVD trailer




ARTISTS BIO::: .. ..

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Member Since:

November 13, 2005

Members:

You shouldn’t be reading this. It’s completely redundant. There are no lyrics on this album, so all the potency, texture and variation of moods come from instruments alone. Mogwai paint pictures in sound; no words needed. This makes them hellish hard to write about. Everything is in the ear of the beholder: I may hear sadness where you hear laughter. If writing about music really is akin to dancing about architecture, how can anyone hope to write about Mogwai? Which is why you shouldn’t be reading. It’s also why I shouldn’t be writing the text I’ve just told you not to bother reading. I pen hundreds of thousands of words each year, and sometimes feel I’m contributing to an ongoing problem. There are too many words in the world. We are bombarded by them. We pass by street-signs as we read our latest phone-texts, on our way to the shops with their proliferation of labels and adverts. Words scroll across our TV screens. They fill our style mags and free newspapers. They are plastered across our buses and phone-boxes. But words can lie and, hell, even at their best they lack precision. It would take screeds of them to begin to unpack any one track on this album - a track such as the opener, ‘I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead’. Despite the irreverent title (and Mogwai love an intriguing title, especially one that hoodwinks the listener), this is a poignant tune, but it is the calm before the storm of ‘Batcat’, a ferocious and heartfelt thrash that harks back to the early ‘gonzo’ Mogwai of albums such as ‘Ten Rapid’ and ‘Young Team’. Glasgow remains the band’s hunting ground, providing a source of continuing inspiration - the sounds of urban fracture, of desperate nights, fights and high-rise love affairs. Romance is fleeting but palpable in a track such as ‘Local Authority’ (see what I mean about Mogwai and their song-titles?), while ‘Scotland’s Shame’ seems to me one of the group’s most personal songs. ‘The Sun Smells Too Loud’ sounds the sort of phrase a pal might utter after too much summertime cider. But it could also be a nod towards synaesthesia, which would only be fitting, as Mogwai’s music does conjure up colours, emotions and pictures. This is one of the most upbeat tracks on what is predominantly a chilled album - rizlas and cheap hooch in the park, and worlds waiting to be conquered tomorrow. ‘King’s Meadow’ continues the mood, taking us out of the park, homeward bound: music for day’s end. ‘I Love You, I’m Going to Blow Up Your School’ (with its titular nod towards cult film ‘Heathers’) adds an undercurrent of continuous menace which finally explodes six minutes in, its drama heightened by the protracted build-up. ‘Thank You, Space Expert’ meantime is the closest thing on the album to a twenty-first century lament. Maybe I’ve been at the cheap cider myself, but its melody seems to me to lend itself to massed bagpipes - and isn’t that something to contemplate? Then again, maybe it’s just me. (Are you still reading…?) And so we come to the final song in this elegant and elegiac hour-long set… and it’s a barnstormer, a guitar-heavy pelter that leads the listener, step by cautious step, towards the precipice of its title. But when we step off, do we end up tombstoning or do we soar and howl like the hawk? That’s something you’ll have to decide for yourself. All I know is, eleven years in Mogwai still sound like the future, their five-strong core membership still the coolest gang in town. I’m about to stop writing. You’re about stop reading. We’re going to listen instead. IAN RANKIN Mogwai are: Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, Barry Burns, John Cummings

Influences:

Hendrix, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, The Cure, Slayer, Labradford, Sonic Youth, The Byrds, JAMC, Nirvana, Bardo Pond, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pixies, Bauhaus, God Machine, Guns 'n' Roses

Record Label:

Rock Action Records

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