Entertainment For Lively Minds
It's Friday. Which must mean...
...it's Mogwai time. A mention of Mogwai over on another thread prompted me last night to plonk a few albums by Scotland's finest purveyors of beauty-noise onto my phone for the train journey in.
My commute takes me towards London Waterloo, although I get off at Vauxhall, and on a sunny early morning in autumn, it's rather a beautiful run. This morning it was a little hazy around the horizon and over the ranks of brown brick streets, and everything was tinged a muted, washed-out blue-pink with the sun just starting to melt through. It's completely up now, and there's only the wispiest high-atmosphere cloud, which is sort of a shame. An hour ago it was lovely. There's nothing like an early morning in a city. One of my favourite things.
And this morning, with all this to look at, I had this in my ears:
(Mogwai - "Tracy")
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Mogwai do the best song titles EVER!
"Small Children In The Playground" "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead" "Hugh Dallas" "Scotland's Shame" "Mogwai Fear Satan" and, of course "George Square Thatcher Death Party."
Bad news for Mogwai as they tour Australia
They had gear stolen from their Glasgow base.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/thieves-steal-mogwai-star-s-5000-guit...
Stolen items include:
Marshall JCM800 Bass Series Guitar Head - Serial No: 117401P
Orange Thunderverb 200 Guitar Head - Serial No: 017241110
Orange ad200b Bass Head
Fender Acoustic Guitar
Orange OR120 - Serial No: 997
Fender 72 telecaster (Black)
12 Rack Guitar Stand (In Black Case)
Gretsch Country Gentlemen Guitar (Plum)
Two blog posts on the same day
Is this your Use Your Illusion I/ II moment?
Next week...
...I'm going to hire someone with a KFC bucket on his head to write all my posts.
I just wanted to give this thread a wee bump.
Mogwai are wonderful and I think a lot of the Massive who don't already dig them, should.
Nick Drake
I went to see Mogwai at the Brixton Academy some years ago and the encore was so loud my head throbbed all the way back to Finsbury Park. This is a quiet one. My favourite.