#Stuart Braithwaite

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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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'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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New Audio: Hot Pink Sauce Shares Woozy "Don't You Wake Me"

New Audio: Hot Pink Sauce Shares Woozy "Don't You Wake Me" @heygroover @romainpalmieri @DorianPerron

Hastings, UK-based musicians Evi Vine and Steven Hill have worked together in several different projects together, including EVI VINE and Silver Moth, a collective founded by Mogwai‘s Stuart Braithwaite. The duo’s latest project together Hot Pink Sauce released their debut single, the  A Storm in Heaven-era The Verve-meets-Slow Air-era Still Corners and Beach House-like “Feel.” Hot Pink Sauce…

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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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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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Dry Fantasy by Mogwai from the album As The Love Continues

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Mogwai at The Olympia, Dublin, March 18, 1999

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

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Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake

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We have to applaud Mogwai for having a lengthy career, their early works contained the hype that destroys many musicians. I mean, they could become another one of those cautionary tales about the perils of fame, yet they persevered, because they knew the music business is a fickle one. Every Country's Sun, their current last album, shows their resolve paid off, they sound more relaxed than usual on the LP. True, the record does feel like a typical record for them, i.e. they have a certain formula with their discs, but they can still surprise us. Moreover, they still manage to hit a nerve with their pieces. The one in the link, for instance, has a sustained euphoria, which is hard to pull off. Mogwai makes this seem easy.

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Mogwai & Nina Nastasia Live Preview: 4/12, Metro Chicago

Mogwai; photo by Neale Smith

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Mogwai’s 10th studio album As The Love Continues, released last year via Temporary Residence, was supposed to be recorded in L.A. with producer Dave Fridmann, but the pandemic forced much of the collaboration to be remote. The writing was done virtually in early lockdown, and the band ended up traveling to England to record, with Fridmann Zooming in. Impressively, not only does the album sound cohesive, but the recording process allowed the Scottish post-rockers to expand their sound a bit. Multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns provided buzzing vocoder melodies on “Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever” and “Fuck Off Money”. Colin Stetson’s unmistakable, yet subtle saxophone highlights the wiry “Pat Stains”. And the Nine Inch Nails-adjacent-sounding “Midnight Flit” indeed features Trent Reznor’s film scoring partner Atticus Ross, who remote conducted an orchestra in Budapest for the song’s string arrangements. It’ll be thrilling to hear how the band adapts the more ambitious material to a live show tonight at Metro.

As The Love Continues also sports some of the most straightforward rock tunes Mogwai’s ever released, like the crunchy “Drive the Nail” and the hilariously titled “Ceiling Granny”, a distorted instrumental that could have been lifted from the Siamese Dream sessions. The highlight of the album is “Ritchie Sacramento”, whose title is a mondegreen of Ryuichi Sakamoto and is dedicated to musicians who have left us like David Byrne and Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison. It also contains the only clean vocals on the album. “Managed to somehow find a way out of here / Dagger in everyone’s heart,” coos Braithwaite, just as heartbreaking and beautiful as any of the quintessential Mogwai slow-builds on the album.

Nina Nastasia; Photo by Theo Stanley

Opening for Mogwai is folk singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia, who just announced her first solo album in 12 years, Riderless Horse, also via Temporary Residence. The album was born out of tragic circumstances that she describes in a longer note, but the gist is that it’s inspired by the grief resulting from the suicide of Kennan Gudjonsson, her former romantic and creative partner, and their relationship that centered around “abuse, control and manipulation.” So far, she’s only released lead single “Just Stay in Bed”. The entire album is just as raw and heartbreaking, both in terms of theme and instrumentation. Riderless Horse was produced by Nastasia, Steve Albini, and Greg Norman, recorded at a house in upstate New York. By the end, you realize it’s an empowering album for Nastasia; as much as she feels “sadness and guilt,” the process of writing and recording an acoustic album that features only her showed her how powerful she could be on her own.

As of publication, tickets are still available tonight. Doors are at 7 PM, and the show starts at 7:45 PM. Bring proof of vaccination!