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Mogwai gig warm-up

  
 
deja_vroom
18:53 / 30.04.02
Yeah, I know it's no biggie for you, but Mogwai is about to play in Rio on the 18th! Yay! I'm all excited to watch it - it's really rare that an alternative band gets to gig around our salty shores, you can undertand me, can't you?
So yeah! an all that, If you need me, I'll be right here, warming up!
 
 
El Directo
20:12 / 30.04.02
Very envious. Have you seen them before? They're dangerously loud and rather damn fine. Enjoy.
 
 
deja_vroom
21:42 / 30.04.02
Never seen 'em before. It's a chance in a thousand. If I miss this one, who knows when I'll ever get the chance again? Thanks
 
 
Rage is back! Attack!
02:10 / 01.05.02
I guess I'm just not getting this band.

They bore me.

Is there something I'm missing here?
 
 
El Directo
08:46 / 01.05.02
I can't convince you to like them, of course, but they make a lot more sense after you've seen them live. Kinda like, "Oh.... they're a punk band. I'd always suspected..." Not that I didn't like the records before that. Listening to them LOUD helps a great deal.
 
 
Ariadne
11:05 / 01.05.02
They're fabulous. Very noisy. Enjoy!
 
 
meme buggerer
14:33 / 01.05.02
Must admit that this lot are lost on me as well...they're stuff just seems to kinda drone, and doesn;t have much variety- obviously missing the point. S'just that their fanbase seems to dovetail with those into the same kinda stuff as me(MBV,Godspeed etc), so I keep buying CDs in earnest expectation which end up being used as door-stops or whatever
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:52 / 01.05.02
Mogwai have a few great songs, but are mostly pretty dull. They're certainly one of the best "dull depressing instrumental guitar rock" bands out there, but the idea of the genre is really off-putting to me to begin with.
 
 
El Directo
20:21 / 01.05.02
LOL. There are so many dull guitar bands in so many different genres. I'd be hard pressed to work out the conventions that are true of all of them (besides the guitar thing).
 
 
Rage is back! Attack!
00:54 / 02.05.02
"I can't convince you to like them, of course, but they make a lot more sense after you've seen them live. Kinda like, "Oh.... they're a punk band. I'd always suspected..."

Kind of like Godspeed, I assume?

But Godspeed is actually good to listen to. I like Godspeed. There's just something about them that Mogwai doesn't have. Everything is flowing like a unicorn in 3D when I listen to Godspeed. When I listen to Mogwai dead turtles are groaning about their trivial life issues.
 
 
El Directo
08:19 / 02.05.02
Yep, it's official: Mogwai are the Pepsi Chart version of Godspeed...! They are the Van Halen compared to Godspeed's Led Zep.
 
 
meme buggerer
11:57 / 02.05.02
A cue for a rousing game of 'What if the 00s were the 80s?'

Eminem= Adamski
Travis= late Simple Minds
Destiny's Child= the Pointer Sisters
Badly Drawn Boy= Marillion

etc etc
 
 
suds
12:14 / 02.05.02
mogwai are also playing july 27th in hyde park, opening for the cure.
 
 
deja_vroom
14:51 / 02.05.02
Mogwai are the Pepsi Chart version of Godspeed

I'm just glad I can watch them, even if they are the Pepsi. You know how hard it is to get sodas down here?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
15:27 / 02.05.02
Destiny's Child have a lot more to do with Michael Jackson and Prince than they do with the Pointer Sisters. Show a little respect for Beyonce, eh? She deserves it.
 
 
rizla mission
15:37 / 03.05.02
Yep, it's official: Mogwai are the Pepsi Chart version of Godspeed...! They are the Van Halen compared to Godspeed's Led Zep.

That's a little unfair I feel .. I see them as being on about the same plateau of fucking-long-way-from-pepsi-chart greatness. And anyway, aside from the fact that they're both long-wiinded, instrumental and go quiet/loud, it's not like they have a massive amount in common .. same ballpark maybe, but it's not like Mogwai are a Godspeed ripoff or anything (they're obviously a Slint ripoff ).

Trying to articulate my love of Mogwai in words is going to prove rather difficult, so, um, um, you're all wrong ok? They're great. Put on 'Young Team' at top volume and see how long it is before your legs turn into liquid..
 
 
uncle retrospective
15:50 / 03.05.02

Mogwai are the Pepsi Chart version of Godspeed

Dear God man? Are you listening to the same band I am? GSYBE are with out a doubt the second most tedious band on the planet! God only Sigur Ros are more boring.
When you go to see Mogwai you see a god damn rock show, the band come on and rock out in a huge way. They have fun, put a good show and have some of the best quite bit/loud bits in the world.

As opposed to musuos sitting on stage stroking their goaties looking bored because it's what you do when your ART..
 
 
suds
17:28 / 03.05.02
member of staff overheard at all tomorrow's parties:
"fucking hell, godspeed you black emperor have just refused their lunch, because it was the wrong sort of lentils."

from popbitch.
 
 
El Directo
17:48 / 04.05.02
For the record, I love Mogwai to bits (just in case anyone thought I was dissing them). I also love Van Halen. I was also taking the piss.
 
 
pinstripe fictionsuit
19:04 / 04.05.02
the cure, hyde park - huh? more info please... I looked it up, but could find nowt. I do so love the cure, live...

For the record, I like what I have heard of Mogwai. Find them very relaxing in a depressive, meditative kind of way...night time music. But I have only heard the one album, so this is not an informed opinion.
 
 
pinstripe fictionsuit
19:14 / 04.05.02
nevermind. altavista really is crap compared to google these days, i found the info about the cure. i dunno why i cling to alta vista so pathetically... sorry.
 
 
pinstripe fictionsuit
19:29 / 04.05.02
Yay! Or Woo! Or whatever is current. I just booked tickets for the cure, which means I get to see Mogwai and the Cranes too. Fan-fucking-tastic!
 
 
rizla mission
18:42 / 05.05.02
Find them very relaxing in a depressive, meditative kind of way...night time music.

he he ha ha ho .. you've obviously never heard them when they feel like getting loud..
 
 
suds
14:06 / 06.05.02
cholister- ace! i should get some tix too, my bf really digs the cure and mogwai and he'll in in england then.
 
 
deja_vroom
17:51 / 20.05.02
Well, I survived "Like Herod". They focused on the loud end of their musical spectrum. My ears still ring, and I regret they didn't have two dates here, only in Sao Paulo. VERY good. AND they played Helicon 1. I'm a very happy NinJade today, I must say
 
 
Fly Beezy (War Minister)
18:41 / 20.05.02
T-shirt seen at All Tomorrow's Parties - mogwai: are slint.
 
 
suds
18:57 / 20.05.02
mogwai are slint? they wish!
 
 
rizla mission
19:08 / 20.05.02
That is brilliant.

So heavy on the indie in-jokes there's probably only several thousand people in the world who'd fully understand it, but brilliant all the same.

I must get one.
 
 
El Directo
19:27 / 20.05.02
I need that t-shirt! Can anyone find one online?
 
  
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