Mogwai on BBC4 - Sunday 19th May 2013

Nearly 18 years after forming, Mogwai make their BBC TV debut.

BBC Review Show - BBC 4, Sunday 19th May 2013, 8pm

The show is usually repeated on BBC 2 a few days later.

Mogwai to close last-ever ATP holiday park festival

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/mogwai-to-close-last-ever-atp-holiday-camp-festival:

With All Tomorrows Parties confirming that their upcoming weekend events at Camber Sands in November and December will be their final outings, it’s now been confirmed that Mogwai will be the last band to ever play the holiday camp fests.

Speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music earlier today, organiser Barry Hogan said that it was a natural choice for the band who first curated an ATP festival to close the event.

The Glasgow post-rock outfit headlined and curated the first All Tomorrow’s Parties festival back in April 2000 and will now appear at the Loop leg, taking place between 29 November – 1 December. Tickets for that can be found here.

The first leg of the End of an Era series is to be headlined by Television, held from 22-24 November.

Stuart at Tectonics Festival, Glasgow last night

Stuart played live at Tectonics Glasgow last night (Saturday 11th May) with Aidan Moffat and Hildur Guðnadóttir.

Anyone seen any reviews, photos, video, audio?

Mogwai on Grammys playlist

http://www.grammy365.com/news/explosions-sky-mogwai-and-sigur-ros-have-post-rock-euphoria

Over the past two decades, a curious musical insurgency has raged on the outermost fringes of the international music scene. Dubbed "post-rock," this burgeoning movement was pioneered by ambitious bands who largely discarded vocals and traditional verse-chorus structures in favor of euphoria-inducing song cycles. Now, eccentric outliers such as Canada's Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Scotland's Mogwai, Iceland's Sigur Rós, and Chicago-based Tortoise are increasingly being recognized as rock visionaries.

Deafheaven - live video of Mogwai covers

Via http://unartignyc.com/2013/05/04/deafheavenuncut/

Thanks Martin

New interviews

Stuart Braithwaite is the interviewee for The Scottish Independence Podcast 24
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/the-scottish-independence-podcast-24-stuart-braithwaite/

Martin Bulloch features in The Drummer's Journal Issue 3
http://thedrummersjournal.com/

Zidane in London - 26th July

Mogwai
Performing live to Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
A film directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno and produced by Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Anna Lena Vaney and Victorien Vaney
Fri 26 Jul 2013 / 19:30, Barbican Hall
Tickets: £25 – 30

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14870

Tickets on sale to members now.
General sale starts Friday 26th April 10am.

Mogwai / Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - RSD single stream

Rock Action have posted streaming audio of the two tracks from the Record Store Day 7" single.

Hopefully these tracks will be available to buy digitally at some point.

Stuart on Tectonics Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite plays alongside Aidan Moffat and Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir at Tectonics Glasgow on Saturday 11th May.

http://www.list.co.uk/article/50322-mogwais-stuart-braithwaite-discusses-upcoming-aidan-moffat-collaboration-as-part-of-tectonics/

At the time of writing, these three artists have yet to be seen in the same room together. ‘There’s been some email exchanges and sharing of ideas,’ Braithwaite explains. ‘She’s a really great musician, so I’m excited about that.’ He remains uncertain as to exactly what shape their performance will take, but that’s all part of the fun. ‘It’s going to be at least partially improvised. At this stage I actually don’t have a clue what’s going to happen, which I find quite exciting.’