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Mogwai @ The Corn Exchange, 22 Oct

Music :: Preview 01 Oct 2008

Chris Cusack: There's probably someone out there that hasn't heard about Mogwai. Some bearded, shuffling hermit, dragging behind him a shopping bag full of old newspapers. As for the rest of us, there's really no excuse to be in any doubt about the potential of any ...

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Mogwai: Rock Action, By The Book

Music :: Feature 17 Sep 2008

Darren Carle: “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… All I know is, eleven year...

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The Bands that Built Mogwai

Music :: Feature 08 Sep 2008

Barry Burns: Mogwai's Barry Burns walks us through five of the bands who have helped influence and sculpt the Glasgow quintet into the aural beast we fear today. - 1) De Rosa. This Scottish Chemikal Underground band were one of the reasons we wanted to record wit...

Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

Records :: Album Review 04 Sep 2008

Darren Carle: With no child-like passages about ‘spaceships over Glasgow’, or indecipherable, forlorn vocoders, The Hawk Is Howling stands as Mogwai’s first wholly instrumental album. Furthermore, there’s precious little sentience that can be...

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The Dirty Dozen - September, 2008

Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Sep 2008

Nick Mitchell: The Dirty Dozen does like a band to seduce it a bit. So when newly-formed Londoners Rock City Sixteen send in a 7" of Lunettes Noires Pour Nuits Blanche (****, 8 Sep) in appropriate black and white design with creative press release, I am easily swayed...

Mogwai - Batcat

Mogwai announce new Album and EP

Heads Up :: News 13 Jun 2008

Dave Kerr: Glasgow's favourite sons of post-rock have announced the schedule of their return and revealed the details therein. The Batcat EP is set to appear on 8 Sept, which will usher in their sixth full length album The Hawk Is Howling on 22 Sept. Featuring a...

Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever

Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever

Records :: Review :: Album Review 29 May 2008

Nick Mitchell: With the daft, verbose album title, Errors are presumably launching a pre-emptive strike at the music journalists who will try to categorise their sound in the coming weeks and months; the point being that the Glasgow band are too disparate for the old...

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Triptych Farewell @ Tramway, 26 Apr

Music :: Live Review 13 May 2008

Darren Carle: RememberRemember (**) start off today’s Triptych send-off promisingly enough, opening with Fountain Mountain, a woozy, daydream of a song, in sync with the early afternoon, lunch-satiated crowd. Utilising office stationery as percussion, they pro...

Errors (2007)

Errors - Big in Finland

Music :: Feature :: New Blood 25 Apr 2008

Nick Mitchell: Errors are a band who have buzzed, fly-like, around the electrically charged bars of the Scottish music scene for a few years without igniting in a satisfying pop. But that could all be about to change with the release of their debut album this month, ...

Mogwai @ The Liquid Room

Music :: Live Review 10 Jun 2007

Finbarr Bermingham: The Liquid Room is heaving and with its tenth birthday celebrations in full swing, how appropriate that the inaugural performers are on show tonight. Well, "actually the second," Stuart Braithwaite points out, "Arab Strap opened for us." Right on queue...

Mogwai - Black Spider/Half Time

Records :: Single Review 12 Nov 2006

Sean Michaels: This 10" features two tracks of new material by those carefree Glaswegian post-rockers, plucked from their soundtrack for Douglas Gordon's new film, 'Zidane...'. And it sounds, inevitably, like film music. Black Spider is a pretty web of guitars and gl...

Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST

Records :: Album Review 12 Nov 2006

Nick Mitchell: The recently-released 'Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait' is not just a football documentary but an artistic, evocative think-piece that resonates beyond the touchlines of the Bernabau Stadium, and Mogwai's soundtrack is an integral part of this transiti...

Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous EP

Records :: Single Review 15 Jul 2006

Billy Hamilton: Mogwai are Scotland's most intriguing musical conundrum. Revered for vitriolic instrumentation and menacing climaxes, the band never really sustained its ferocious grip on a migrating music industry. But with the recent release of 'Mr Beast' Mogwai's p...

Mogwai @ Usher Hall

Music :: Live Review 16 May 2006

Johnny Langlands: With the recently released 'Mr Beast' consisting of a slightly more metallic leaning venture than has been their previous form, the post-rock of Mogwai delivered within the prestigious environs of Usher Hall nevertheless called on the endurance of spel...

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Mogwai Unleash The Beast

Music :: Feature 15 Feb 2006

Jasper Hamill: Playing music is always more fun than writing about it. Any honest, and no doubt earnest, music scribbler would rather have Brian May soloing on his shoulders than have to write a savage indictment of James Blunt that, unread, ends up holding some drun...