Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Burning in Japan



Mogwai's 'Burning' live film will screen in Japan on 9th and 16th July.
Further details here: http://www.bakuon-bb.net/mogwai/index.html

If anyone reading this can tell me where the screenings are taking place, ticket prices etc, I'll update this post with further details.

Update- thanks to Miyuki Igarashi for this:
The screenings take place at Kichijoji Bausu Theater, Tokyo, Japan.
http://www.baustheater.com/

9th and 16th July
Tickets on sale at 7:30pm at the day, no advance tickets
1300yen (about 9 pounds)
The screening will start at 9.30pm

"Adelia I Want to Love" will be shown as well.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Crook&Flail 'Influences' mix - free download



On July 5 (UK)/July 6 (North America), Lex Records will release Unearthing, a box set of Alan Moore readings with a score by Crook&Flail (Fog's Andrew Broder and Adam Drucker, better known as abstract rapper Doseone). Other contributors include Mike Patton, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite, Jesu/Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick, and Zach Hill.
Crook&Flail (aka Andy Broder of Fog and Adam ‘Doseone‘ Drucker) created and curated the soundtrack to Unearthing – the forthcoming audiobook box set written and narrated by Alan Moore. The band will be playing with Alan reading live at 2 exclusive shows in London (info here) and will also be playing a music-only show on the following night (info here). As an insight into the influences behind their original score and musical direction, Crook&Flail have assembled and blended a free, promo-only mix.
Download here: http://lexrecords.com/2010/06/crookflail-unearthing-influences-mix/

The mix includes My Bloody Valentine's remix of 'Mogwai Fear Satan'

Pitchfork ONE WEEK ONLY: Adelia, I Want to Love

For one week only, Pitchfork are streaming 'Adelia, I Want to Love: A Film About Mogwai'. The documentary, directed by Vincent Moon and Teresa Eggers, follows Mogwai whilst they were in Italy for the Soundlabs Festival (July 2008). It was released on the bonus DVD with 'The Hawk Is Howling'.

Update: it's gone.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Mogwai collaborate with Douglas Gordon again



Back on 30th April, twitter.com/mogwaiband reported that Mogwai were "mixing The Singing Mountain".

EMSCHERKUNST.2010, the biggest art project of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010, includes a work entitled 'Monument For A Forgotten Future" by Olaf Nicolai and Douglas Gordon with Mogwai

Further info here and here. The second of these links includes mention of 'The Singing Mountain'.

EMSCHERKUNST.2010 began at the end of May and is scheduled to last 100 days. It takes place on Emscher Island, near Essen in Germany.

Mogwai previously collaborated with Douglas Gordon in 2006, providing the soundtrack to the 'Zidane' movie.

Further info as we get it. Thanks Thomas.

Update:
Thanks to Markus for translating the articles on the EMSCHERKUNST.2010 into English. These include some notes on an eventual CD release for 'The Singing Mountain'. The final sentence is worth noting for potential visitors to the project.

On "Wild Island" (which is situated to the north of the water lock in Gelsenkirchen) one of the most extraordinary projects of the Emscherkunst art festival is being created under the working title "monument for a forgotten future". It's a full scale copy of a mountain top from the Joshua Tree national park in Los Angeles which has been put on top of "Wild Island" and which is supposed to work as a (un-)natural phenomenon.

The mountain also sings: visitors can listen to a song that has been commissioned from Scottish rock band Mogwai as a hymn to the Ruhr, a "Song for the River Emscher". Under the artistic direction of Douglas Gordon, Mogwai will write this song which will be see its premiere on "Wild Island" and which can only be heard here for the duration of the exhibition. After the end of the exhibition, it will get a commercial release. The cover art for the CD will show the Singing Mountain - so that the Emscher project will finally be distributed worldwide.

Please note that this piece of art is being created during the exhibition. We will keep you informed about the exact date.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

'Burning' screening online in July, NYC next week

From exclaim.ca:
Along with the theatrical screenings, there will be a virtual screening hosted by UStream on a variety of as-yet-to-be-decided music sites. It will play on July 27 at 3 p.m. EST (8 p.m. GMT). The screening will include a Q&A at the end with Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and director Vincent Moon.

From themusicslut.com:
CONTEST: MOGWAI FILM SCREENING IN NEW YORK CITY
6/22 @ A Private Location.
Wanna catch Burning with a guest?
If so, then e-mail us ASAP!
A winner will be randomly chosen on 6/20 @ NOON.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

US 'Burning' screenings



“Burning”, Mogwai’s concert film collaboration with Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac will be getting screen time around North America this fall. Following its release on August 24th (packaged with accompanying album Special Moves), there will be full screenings of the film in multiple locations around the country. More cities are going to be announced over the coming weeks so please stay tuned for more details!

Screenings listed below:

Aug 24 Brooklyn, NY/Music Hall of Williamsburg
Aug 24 Seattle, WA/JBL Theater
Aug 24 Long Beach, CA/Art Theatre of Long Beach
Aug 26 Lawrence, KS/Liberty Hall
Sept 2 Pontiac, MI/The Crofoot
Sept 4 San Francisco/Roxie Theater
Sept 10 Portland, OR/Bagdad Theater
Sept 10 New York, NY/Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sept 12 Los Angeles/Echoplex
Sept 14 Toronto, ON/The Drake Underground
Sept 23 Denver, CO/Bluebird Theater

Update - further screenings:
Aug 24 Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Cinematheque
Aug 28 Cambridge, MA @ Brattle Theatre

Mogcast #5

http://radiomagnetic.com/main-features/mogcast-5/

This podcast I’m joined by Graeme Ronald of Remember Remember who plays us some brand new Remember Remember music and also chooses some brilliant records.
The podcast was well rehearsed as we did it one night only for the whole thing to get wiped by a weather related power cut. For that reason its probably slicker than usual. Don’t worry though the shambles will return next month without a doubt.

This month we also have out first competition in which you can win a signed test pressing of the Special Moves triple vinyl.

I really enjoyed this one, hope you do too.

Burning in Brooklyn



From Brooklynvegan:

The circle is complete, as Mogwai will screen Burning at Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 24th. Tickets are $5 and on sale Wed 6/16 at noon.

Tickets: Ticketmaster

Not 100% sure that this is the 'New York Premier' as Ticketmaster claims - wasn't there a New York screening a few weeks back?

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

New album recording - 2nd August

Recording sessions for Mogwai's new album start on 2nd August.

So Wu Tang are playing Brixton academy 2 days after we start recording our record? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - SB

Friday, June 4, 2010

The Sun Smells Too Loud (James Holden mix) #2



James Holden 'DJ-KICKS' (!K7) released 7th June 2010, including his remix of Mogwai's 'The Sun Smells Too Loud'

Bleep pre-order (one of many, I'm sure):
http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=25089