Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will...
Other than creating mind-shredding, eardrum-perforating noise-rock, you can always count on Mogwai to come up with brilliant song titles, and ‘Hardcore…’ has some doozies. The Tory-baiting ‘George Square Thatcher Death Party’...
Mogwai : Happy Songs For Happy People
When Mogwai were first dragged kicking and screaming onto the music scene, people feared them for their eardrum-shredding bursts of noise. Recent rumours, however, have suggested a 'quieter, electronic direction'. This usually means that your...
Mogwai : Rock Action
It's probably all part of their Blofeld-like masterplan, but a discussion of Mogwai always risks opening up a family-sized can of serpents. They spit insurrection and punk disgust, yet their music is beauty, emotion and sudden strings as far as...
Mogwai: Isle Of Bute Rothesay Pavilion
In a world of compromise, musical, artistic and commercial, Mogwai are one of the few bands that refuse to sell out. Like the space station Babylon 5 they are a beacon and a symbol of real punk rock hope in the brand saturated universe that our...
Mogwai: Reykjavik Idno
When Mogwai arrive on stage at Idno in Reykjavik, Iceland's bobble-hatted indie-kids look like they're queuing up, but don't know why. Mogwai have a big following here (or at least as big a following as a band can have in a nation with a...
David Pajo / Stuart Braithwaite: Glasgow...
Usually members of a cult don't get to meet the object of their worship, but here a few people are about to see David Pajo - mainstay of post-rock icons Slint - in the flesh. Indeed, that other mainstay of this so-called Glasgow 'scene' has...
London Highbury Upstairs At The Garage
Few sane folk could ever quibble with The Verve 's famous dictum on splitting up, which held that all farewells should be sudden. But now Ligament have added the entirely reasonable proviso: "And preferably bloody loud, too." In a world...
Mogwai : Mogwai EP
Ah, Christmas. Rosy-cheeked children tearing into gift wrap, a warm fire crackling in the hearth, bare fens strafed mercilessly by a howling wind, genocide. Ah. Hello, Mogwai . How nice of you to disjoint us. Actually, this...
Brighton Paradox
The war on mediocrity is conducted, for the most part, by stealth. They take their time, because they know they can. And when, finally, annihilation comes, it is inevitable, comprehensive and utterly merciless. The strobes are on...
Come On Die Young
"What sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius. Myself." So declares one Iggy Pop at the start of 'Come On Die Young' . And by 'brilliant music' he refers, of course, to the power of punk...
