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8 unusual facts about Mogwai


Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies

Tracks that were to appear on Act I include another track sung by Daniel Victor entitled "Head Down", "Throwing Chairs" featuring Jonathan Foreman of Switchfoot, "John Dies at 56" featuring Mogwai, "Shipbuilding", an Elvis Costello cover featuring Andy Yorke, and "This Is My Fate", another track featuring Dallas Green.

As If to Nothing

As If to Nothing is the second independent album by Scottish composer Craig Armstrong, featuring collaborations with Bono of U2, Mogwai, Photek, Evan Dando, King Crimson, and former Big Dish vocalist Steven Lindsay.

Avinu Malkeinu

The band Mogwai's instrumental epic My Father My King is a setting of the main melody to Avinu Malkeinu.

Luke Sutherland

Since 2000, he has been an occasional and touring member of Mogwai, playing violin and more recently guitar.

A full-time member of two independent bands and an occasional member of Mogwai, he has also published a number of written works.

Peter Gzowski

Scottish post-rock band Mogwai use an audio recording of Gzowski's interview with Iggy Pop in the song "Punk Rock", the first song from their album Come on Die Young.

The Union Trade

Designating themselves "cinematic post-rock," the band describes their sound as bridging the typically instrumental rock sounds of influences such as Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, with the highly effected guitar and vocal sounds of bands like The Appleseed Cast, Ride, Slowdive, and Swervedriver.

The Vulcan Dub Squad

This era saw the band take their sound from its very washy and ambient beginnings into more orchestrated pieces, relying on the whisper-to-a-scream methodology that was used by indie rockers like The Pixies and post-rock sound-sculptors such as Slint and Mogwai.


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12Twelve

It was a big surprise in Spain and the band played with bands like 90 Day Men, Do Make Say Think or Mogwai (band).

Adam Said Galore

Adam Said Galore have toured nationally across Australia and have supported amongst others - Palace, Tortoise, Sandpit, Tren Brothers, Trans Am, The Kill Devil Hills, Mogwai, Something for Kate.

Aidan Moffat

Moffat provided guest vocals on the Mogwai song R U Still in 2 It from Mogwai Young Team, recorded in the same studio (MCM Studios in Hamilton) around the same time as Arab Strap were recording The Week Never Starts Round Here in 1997.

Moffat also contributes vocals to the Mogwai song Now You're Taken from 4 Satin.

Delicate AWOL

At various times, the band cited influences including Mogwai, Cocteau Twins, Low, art rock from 1990s Chicago (such as Tortoise and The For Carnation) and Montreal (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and 1970s Britain (King Crimson).

EP+6

EP+6 brings together all three of Mogwai's previous EPs: 1997's 4 Satin, 1998's No Education = No Future (Fuck the Curfew), and 1999's EP, in a Remastered and Enhanced CD, featuring the music video for "Stanley Kubrick".

Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology

Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology is a 3-disc compilation of Matador tracks from 1989 to 1999 from popular Matador artists such as Pavement, Modest Mouse, Mogwai and Cat Power.

Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed

Kicking a Dead Pig is a remix album from Scottish band Mogwai consisting of remixes of previously released tracks (primarily from Young Team) by various artists, including Alec Empire, My Bloody Valentine, and Max Tundra.

Mogwai Fear Satan

The EP Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes (released in March, 1998) includes the Mogwai Remix, the μ-Ziq Remix, the Surgeon Remix, and the My Bloody Valentine Remix.

RM Hubbert

A prolific live performer, Hubbert has toured extensively around the UK and mainland Europe both on his own and in support slots for the likes of Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Twilight Sad, Franz Ferdinand, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, King Creosote, Emma Pollock and Thee Silver Mt Zion.

Stuart Braithwaite

Braithwaite met Dominic Aitchison at a Ned's Atomic Dustbin show at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow on 10 April 1991, and four years later, along with school friend Martin Bulloch, they formed Mogwai.

The Hawk Is Howling

The Limited Edition contains the documentation "Adelia, I Want To Love: A Film About Mogwai by Vincent Moon and Teresa Eggers," the Dominic Hailstone-directed "Batcat" video, and the video "Batcat Animation" created by Fernando Alberto Mena Rojas.

The Recording of Mr Beast

The documentary was filmed in one week near the end of the recording of the album, and features footage of Mogwai recording "We're No Here" and "Glasgow Mega-Snake".

It is a 40 minute documentary about the recording of Mogwai's fifth album, Mr Beast, at Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow, Scotland, spliced in with footage from a Mogwai gig at ABC Glasgow on 18 August 2005, and Question and Answer footage featuring the band cynically answering questions about themselves and the album.

Uzi and Ari

Uzi and Ari is an American indie rock band based in Salt Lake City, Utah that has received favorable comparisons to artists such as Thom Yorke, Mogwai, The Postal Service, and The Album Leaf.


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