#Stuart Braithwaite

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Great Guitarists 100 - Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood, Stuart Braithwaite, and Wes Borland [CROSSBEAT (November 2009)]

Graham Coxon The reason why Blur, who have never announced their break-up, have been said to have 'reunited' is that his presence in Blur and in the UK in the 1990s was too great. He was a maniacal noise-obsessive himself, even using an electric drill when recording "Modern Life Is Rubbish", but the resulting riffs were terrifyingly poppy. The revolution of the 90s was that guitar heroes were no longer required to have technique, and Graham Coxon's ability to turn everything upside down with his unique sense of time and phrasing was one of the centrepieces of the Britpop era. As a visibly literate and nerdy guitar hero, he may well be one of the first. This year, he continues to be active with his latest solo album and touring with the original members of Blur. -Hitoshi Sugiyama

Selected Albums "Modern Life Is Rubbish" (1993, photo) Blur "Parklife" (1994)

Jonny Greenwood A child prodigy who learned to play the cello and viola from an early age and was once awarded a prize for 'contribution to the development of music at our school' when he was at the prestigious Abingdon School. He has been a key member of Radiohead's predecessor band On A Friday from the time of the band to the present day, playing a central role in the band's sound. In his early work, his guitar playing was rather straightforward, with a strong influence from grunge/alternate rock bands such as Sonic Youth, Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr, but from "OK Computer" onwards, he actively introduced all styles of music, including classical, avant-garde and dance music. He began to play experimental sounds using various effectors, such as whammy, which makes the pitch of the guitar rise and fall to extreme levels. He has always regarded the guitar as a means of expression, which is why he is able to create unique and original sounds. -Takanori Kuroda

Representative albums "The Bends" (1995) Radiohead "OK Computer" (1997, photo)

Stuart Braithwaite From flowing arpeggios to raging feedback. Mogwai's dynamic soundscapes, which move back and forth between "stillness" and "movement", are the product of a flawless ensemble. The band is built on a perfect balance that cannot be created by any one person being left out, but what really stands out (including their looks) is the guitar playing of Stuart Braithwaite, who is also the leader of the band. His sound, influenced by My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, hardcore, and heavy metal, is the cornerstone of the band. He mainly uses a Fender Telecaster and a Gibson SG, with a very conventional amp. However, there are more than a dozen different types of effectors, from distortion to spatial systems, and he switches between them (and sometimes steps on them all!), creating that high-density guitar noise. -Takanori Kuroda

Representative albums "Mogwai Young Team" (1997, photo) Mogwai "Come On Die Young" (1999)

Wes Borland The 90s saw the crossover between rock and hip-hop go from strength to strength. Guitarists had their work cut out for them. How on earth do you bridge the gap between the two? Wes Borland's answer to that question was to stick to riffs. The riff, a traditional rock technique, is treated like a sampling loop in hip-hop. In doing so, he arrived at a method that blends the two well. But for this to happen, every riff had to be catchy. He used every means possible to achieve this. The techniques are diverse, including heavy riffs with drop tuning, arpeggio riffs utilising delays, and simple riffs with only two notes. Although his eccentric looks tend to attract attention, he is in fact one of the leading riff masters of our time. -Junya Shimofusa

Representative albums "Significant Other" (1999, photo), Limp Bizkit "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water" (2000)

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It's What I Want To Do, Mum by Mogwai, live for Studio Brussel

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Mogwai - Two Rights Make One Wrong

Music

Artist

Mogwai

Composer

Mogwai

Produced

Dave Fridmann

Credit

Dominic Aitchison – Bass Stuart Braithwaite – Guitar, vocals Martin Bulloch – Drums Barry Burns – Guitar, keyboard, vocoder John Cummings – Guitar, piano Gruff Rhys – Vocals The Remote Viewer – Programming and banjo Willie Campbell – Backing vocals Charlie Clark – Backing vocals Gary Lightbody – Backing vocals Michael Brawley – Strings and horns

Released

April 30 2001

Streaming

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Live Review: ArcTanGent Festival 2024

Words: Andy Hughes / Ben Forrester (Photo Credit: Jonathan Dadds) Andy Hughes: My partner recently asked me the dreaded (but expected) question of a couple entering their mid-30s. “Would you consider going to Glastonbury?” Once I’d finished vigorously shaking my head left to right in rapid disgust, I pondered – why would I, when I have ArcTanGent? Alright, full disclosure – it might not have…

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Silver Moth - Mother Tongue (Official Video)

Taken from the album "Black Bay" by Silver moth, released 21st April 2023 via Bella Union:

 https://ffm.to/silvermoth-blackbay 

Video directed by Maddie Burton: hotgirlera.com/videos Music by Silver Moth

Silver Moth is a new post-rock collective featuring Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite, singer/songwriter Elisabeth Elektra, Steven Hill, guitarist in Evi Vine along with fellow Evi Vine multi-instrumentalist Ben Roberts, and Vine herself, plus Burning House/Academy Of Sun drummer Ash Babb and Abrasive Trees guitarist Matthew Rochford.

(vía (126) Silver Moth - Mother Tongue (Official Video) - YouTube)

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SPACESHIPS OVER GLASGOW T-SHIRTS

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god, so there was this A&R man who was reportedly uninterested in Muse and Coldplay back in the day and heard their demos and was apparently like ‘fuck off, we don’t need another Radiohead (I am so smart)’ and also later on said he thought Mogwai were gonna be the biggest band on the planet. (He ‘regrets’ not signing them for money reasons, but I don’t think he enjoys listening to either particularly even today.) Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of love in my heart for Mr. Stuart Braithwaite, but you just KNOW that A&R fella was gonna be the most insufferable man you’d have spent 4 minutes with. How the fuck did you even become A&R if your taste in music is that narrow, also.

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'from the gyrating hips of elvis through to the spit of the sex pistols, rock musicians have always taken great pleasure in outraging, offending and just plain annoying as many people as possible. but with rock now well and truly into middle age, it has become harder to get shocked by anything that musicians do. or more importantly, by anything that any musician plays. so there's something refreshing about knowing that a few bands still have the power to make music that can surprise, upset and disturb.

on their recent uk tour playing support to the manic street preachers, scottish band mogwai managed to do all three. "we saw girls crying, people begging the bouncers for earplugs, folk scrambling for exits," laughs stuart braithwaite, guitarist and, for want of a better word, frontman for the band. "there was this group of fans following the manics around for every gig, and this one girl's face just got longer and longer every night we played. it was pretty funny."

"yeah, it's really good fun knowing you're upsetting so many people," agrees bassist dominic aitchison. "it was such a hilarious 10 days, we had such a great time. there were people there who were really into us, but there were others who just didn't understand us at all. you could tell by the look on their faces they were waiting for the lyrics to come in - which obviously never happens..."'

"i think most people are not used to having no lyrics to focus on," says stuart. "lyrics are a real comfort to some people. i guess they like to sing along and when they can't do that with us they can get a bit upset."

~ from marcus dunk's 1999 interview with scottish 'post-rock' band mogwai

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Recent Reading: Spaceships over Glasgow by Stuart Brathwaite

Braithwaite is the leader of Mogwai, one of my favourite bands. In this memoire he tells the first half (or maybe a bit more) of his life and the Mogwai story. Maybe there’s a part two in the offing. It’s an unpretentious retelling of the music and artists that influenced him and the band from his childhood in the countryside outside Glasgow, brought up by respectable parents. It gradually…

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Character of the Month - DAFT PUNK [ROCKIN'ON (December 2000)]

It was Daft Punk who opened the next door of dance music! The new single ‘One More Time’, their first release in three years and eight months, is one of the greatest dance anthems of the last years of the 20th century. It's a track that strips away the melancholy and vintage feel of the strong disco of Stardust's ‘Music Sounds Better With You’, leaving nothing but rapture in its bare bones. Romanthony's JB-derived soul voice is sliced through a Daft Punk-style filter and seeps into the brain as a terribly pleasurable substance. It's a song that, when I listen to it, I can't stop thinking about the first New Year's party of the 21st century, with floors all over the world swaying to its vibe. All right, don't stop dancing! The party's not over yet.

And this time, there's one more bomb. The shaved, Doraemon-like man in the picture is the brains behind Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter himself! This wonderfully futuristic looking character I personally consider to be the next generation of characters, surpassing Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai). At any rate, the new album, which is sure to shake and tear all mankind, is due in February 2001!

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Dry Fantasy by Mogwai from the album As The Love Continues

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New Audio: Hot Pink Sauce Shares Brooding and Cinematic "Feel"

New Audio: Hot Pink Sauce Shares Brooding and Cinematic "Feel" @heygroover @romainpalmieri @DorianPerron

Hot Pink Sauce is new music project created by acclaimed Hastings, UK-based musicians Evi Vine and Steven Hill. Vine and Hill have worked together in a couple of projects, including the ethereal, post-rock outfit EVI VINE, whose last single featured The Cure‘s Simon Gallup. They were also members of Silver Moth, a collective founded by Mogwai‘s Stuart Braithwaite that released their full-length…

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Silver Moth - Black Bay Für Silver Moth begann alles auf Twitter: Auf der Kurznachrichtenplattform eines berüchtigten Milliardärs hatten Musiker*innen aus Glasgow und der Umgebung 2021 zum ersten Mal Kontakt. Man schrieb miteinander, man vergrößerte sich und bildete irgendwann ein kleines Kollektiv, zu dem auch eines Tages Mogwai-Gitarrist Stuart Braithwaite gehörte. Man sprach in Zoom-Konferenzen miteinander und plante ein baldiges […] https://www.musikblog.de/2023/04/silver-moth-black-bay/ #Mogwai #SilverMoth #Album #DreamPop #NoisePop #PostRock

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[Album] Silver Moth veröffentlichen "Black Bay" am 21. April!

Das neu gegründete Kollektiv Silver Moth veröffentlicht das Debütalbum "Black Bay" am 21. April auf Bella Union!

Aufgenommen unter besonderen Umständen, ist "Black Bay" der Sound von sieben erfahrenen Musiker*innen, die sich für sechs Tracks gemeinsamen musikalischen Zielen verschrieben haben. Stuart Braithwaite von Mogwai, Elisabeth Elektra, Evi Vine und Steven Hill trafen sich bereits Anfang 2021, um zusammen an ersten Albumskizzen zu feilen. Nach einigen für diese Zeit typischen Zoom-Calls besuchten die Vier gemeinsam mit Abrasive Trees-Gitarrist Matthew Rochford, Burning House-Schlagzeuger Ash Babb und Cellist Ben Roberts die Black Bay Studios an der Westküste Schottlands, wo alle Songs in nur vier Tagen gemeinsam mit Produzent Pete Fletcher geschrieben und aufgenommen wurden. “We went into a really intense creative mode as soon as we got there”, erinnert sich Elisabeth Elektra an die intensive Arbeitsweise auf der Isle of Lewis. “We were in a bubble and there was a lot of collective grief going on, so it was like a pressure cooker, but I think some real beauty came out of it.”

Schon der Opener "Henry" strahlt eine besondere Intensität aus. Evi Vines kristallklare Stimme thront über den Arrangements, während der Song seinen stürmischen Höhepunkt und ein lang ersehntes Gefühl von Gemeinschaft erreicht. "The Eternal", eine Hommage von Elektra an ihre verstorbene Freundin Alanna, entfaltet sich mit hymnischer Ruhe, das mit den einfühlsamen Strophen fast wie ein Gebet wirkt. Das von Vine und Elektra geschriebene, an Talk Talk angelehnte "Mother Tongue" lädt mit mehrstimmen Vocals und effektreichen Gitarren zum Träumen ein und stimmt dabei ein Loblied auf die weibliche Gleichberechtigung an. "Gaelic Psalms" basiert auf einem Gedicht des verstorbenen schottischen Schriftstellers Gerard Rochford, das von seinem Sohn Matthew mit viel Gefühl als hypnotisches Spoken-Word-Stück vorgetragen wird, das sich durch plätscherndes Wasser schlängelt. Es folgt "Hello Doom", bei dem die Band 15 Minuten lang in ein Noise-Rock-Epos und imposante Soundkulissen abdriftet. "Sedna" rundet das Album mit einem Liebesbrief an die Inselgruppe, auf der das Album entstand, ab, begleitet von atmosphärischen Synthies und verträumten Gitarren-Arpeggios.

“I knew with everything in me that we could make something powerful, beautiful, celestial and driven” führt Evi Vine aus. “Even though we had never met. We spend our lives in repetition, surrounded by certainty. It’s important to push aside the things we think we understand, because when we least expect it, change comes and we are lost.”

Tracklist “Black Bay”: 01. Henry 02. The Eternal 03. Mother Tongue 04. Gaelic Psalms 05. Hello Doom 06. Sedna

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Mogwai at The Olympia, Dublin, March 18, 1999

The Banned Issue -  Kerrang! magazine / April 3, 1999