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14 apr 2011, 09:11
Plot of Mogwai at Kosmonavt, 2011
With this piece of paper Glaswegians expose some amount of robust pragmatism in a way they do. Kind of they have candies but they’re hidden until the dessert time ;-)
Looking at Mogwai events’ setlist.fm it’s getting clear that guys play about half of set from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will and the rest from 5 recent albums.
Entering the venue it was kind of surprising to see the warming up artist. As well as the response of the audience, which he was visibly affected with in positive way. It was sort of two-side communication with sense of humor.
His name is RM Hubbert, though the initial thought was about Andy McKee. He performed all tracks from his only record in a half-hour set. It was about flamenco inspired instrumental stuff having defined bass and melody parts with accidental body tapping. Kind of pretty in my taste. His record is available online at bandcamp.
Some people were trying themselves in rhythm part with a varying match ;-) – You guys are clappy, – he told. Before last song he told a thankful speech which ended with list of people which part sounded a lot like Mogwai lineup. He played for some seconds, then stopped, – oops, I’ve forgot one, Mike, – he told that Mike’s name and started the song over.
He summarized his experience of that night in his twitter account by the status.
That was fucking mental. In a very good way. Russians are demented :D
When he left, 5 technicians were tinkering up the guitars and drums. Barry had been quietly setting own keys and software by himself. The background songs weren’t pleasant at all. It lasted for next half of hour. And then with a minute accuracy they’ve appeared at 9 p.m..
Flow
Hello. We are Mogwai from Glasgow, Scotland. It’s good to be here.
01.White Noise
Spasibo. Thank you very much!
The new album opener serves its purpose at live shows as well. Obviously it’s a mid-level song of them, not good, not bad. Though, it’s valuable as an exponent. It’s not common to hear Mogwai-ish tune with polyrhythm or shifted accents sort of thing. Further experimenting that fields could result in some modern and tasty things.
02. Hunted by a Freak
Spasibo. Thank you. Cheers.Are you doing okay?
And here started the magic I come for. Waves of thin bass part were reaching the skin slightly lifting its hairs. The connection was nearly the tangible. Everything was in the right place. So enjoyable, it drew the mood at the spot. The performance was perfect as well :-)
03.Rano Pano
Thank you. Cheers.
That song wasn’t quite easy for me. It took me some time to understand its textural layered beauty. Though usually such things happen to me with fusion songs. They Mogwai were in doubts about the song as well, consider some interviews ;-) Interesting thing is that Barry plays bass and his key parts as well, resembling that character. Dominic is on 3rd layer guitar duty. And he was lowering 4th string to B by his own. Either he doesn’t trust technicians or just doesn’t have enough guitars for the swap. The sound was appropriate.
04.Death Rays
Spasibo. Thank you very much! Cheers.
This song is so incredible so to me. It touches deep as only the best of Mogwai songs do. Truly they keep making such masterpieces. Though, it’s the only of the kind on the new album. It was performed flawlessly. Just maybe some slight lack of fuzz taste at the refrain, the “ray impact“ part, was missing. But since it doesn’t change a thing, I’d been almost crying to the end of the song. It’s merely possible to express the reason of such feeling, just thank you for this precious song!
05.San Pedro
Spasibo. Thank you very very very much! Cheers.
Since perfect things wouldn’t exist without imperfect ones because of necessity of comparison, such things happen. The song itself is good and on the record it doesn’t sound like uses high-gain distortion, or at least doesn’t sound like than. But in this live version three guitars blended in a single indistinguishable mess of noise. Rhythm section was kind of OK. I don’t whether it’s idiosyncratic thing or just bad position, which was about 4th row at the center. The only result is it sounded crappy.
06. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
Spasibo. Thank you very much! Cheers.
In fact, it’s hard to estimate the way this song affects me. It’s very powerful but very fragile as well. The resolution of main climax, at most end of 4th minute of record version is the clue. The key part at front is like light-trace of butterfly wings which is backed by the Earth’s crust shift. That range makes it is so dramatic, end obviously it’s hard to reproduce it live. Oh, please, let the wings of butterfly be on a foreground, and the lithosphere processes be happening on a background. Don’t make guitars too loud to suppress the keys. It’s very important for keeping the spirit and power of the song. So the version that has been performed is happened to be simplified in that way. No, I mean, it sounded pretty well, and it had most of its original power, but it could be more.
07.How to Be a Werewolf
Spasibo. Thank you very much. Cheers.
Here things are pretty straight. The song is obviously good, it’s light and positive. It’s been performed pretty well. The flaw is missing, say, moody break, which is at the end if 5th minute on the record’s version. In the rest it was quite enjoyable.
08. Helicon 1
Spasibo. Thank you very much. Cheers. Thank you.
Kind of old and pretty Mogwai landscape drawer. It’s long enough to walk this set up land, to expand it imagining but… But the dense part blended guitars altogether again, into a noisy mess :-( The only thing that consoles the loss is the pretty ending part, so the result is about something neutral.
Funny thing is that in long-drawn pause after this song, the some of audience were trying to suggest the next song. The acknowledged candidates were Cody, Christmas Steps and Folk Death 95.
09.You're Lionel Richie
Spasibo. Thank you veryeryery m-uuuuu-ch. Cheers.
That was massive. And sounded rather pretty. Just a big miss is that Italian “Disse che l'aveva trovato”, “voleva uccidere il lupo” and so forth. It serious part of song’s mood and reminds of I Chose Horses. But taking into the account their true approach to the extra “instruments”, this absence doesn’t make much disturb.
10.Mexican Grand Prix
Thank you very much. Spasibo. [We’re kind ??? what do staring on]. Cheers. Thank you.
And here things get the most complicated. Having the same attitude to the kraut-rock in general as Mogwai has to the Blur it has no much sense for me to stroke much about. Nonsense. Btw, jerks on left were happily slamming to predictable constant beat. It’s unclear what Stuart said in the middle, but he showed to the left side.
11. 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Spasibo. Thank you very very very much.
Cleaning around from the last one the song is wonderful, and was performed accurately well. It’s long enough to get saturated with all the grace it delivers. The bass waves were gently touching, and the moment lasted sublime.
We have one more song to play tonight. Am. Before we play I wanna say “thank you”. First of all I wanna thank you all for coming tonight to watch us. [As though we see it took us long time to coming here, I’m sorry ? for roaming, hopefully, ?? long ???. ? the last neighbor tour. I wanna thank everyone ?, crew, for coming tour with us. Also I wanna thank RM Hubbert for playing tonight. ???? And last of all I wanna say big “thank you” to your local football team for kicking Rangers from UEFA cup.] Thank you very much.
What kind Rangers, what kind of UEFA? ;-) Stuart, I though you’re not interested in soccer, or is it about football, specifically? ;-)
12. Batcat
And the time has come beast to wake up, the beast is raging awfully. But song’s high-gainy makeup didn’t mean anything good for the sound. As so it happened to be a mess again. Barry was definitely missing in middle key parts. Then strobe like started to blink in middle quiet part. The last “journey summary” guitar part was missing, though it features the video some. It wasn’t the way too bad, but it could be much more.
Thereafter they’ve left. For the next 4 minutes the venue has been filled with lots of expectations, fragile waiting. With modest and urgent shouts and screams. We wanted more Mogwai. As though, they’ve sent one technician on stage to fake the beginning of deconstruction process. How could we know, they’ve scheduled everything ;-) On the fifth minute they’ve come back :-)
Spasibo. Thank you-uu. Cheers.
13. Auto Rock
And those pleasant and well-know sounds have started to emerge from Barry’s keys. John had been busy on crashes with soft-head sticks. He hit constantly but with varying strength. It was kind of unexpected to see him at such position, though listening to the record hints it’s the original way. They seemed very handy in that sense, exchanging instruments with each other. The song sounded great.
14.George Square Thatcher Death Party
Here’re the issues arise again. The song itself is rather straightforward for Mogwai but it doesn’t reduce its value. They’ve had sort of discussion at album production, whether it’s kind of too radio-friendly or not, though. But the way it’s been performed… am, is the weakest way. Very odd sounding Stuart’s vocoder part, with disturbing pitch slides. Dominic played chords in the refrain which suppressed guitars and keys completely leaving a hum in place of. Also some guitar bends were missing in the middle of the verse, where John played them only quite before the refrain. It’s been distinctly raw.
15.Mogwai Fear Satan
But after few moments of the tone facilitation, I knew I had an extra trip! Right away they’ve started to emerge images which everyone could interpret I their own subconscious way. They drew the land, and drew the skies. They rushed you above. Getting quiet, the picture changed slowly, but was more close and touching. They kept you there for some time and moments after crushed it away. The magic of impressionism. I don’t remember the way I’ve been at the song time. Truly, I’ve been half there, half somewhere else.
Then they got quite. Martin, Barry and Dominic left. Looking to each other Stuart and John were building something preciously beautiful on top of the song. Everyone was getting mesmerized. It was so charming that even those who were clapping or screaming along the performance got quite as well.
Then Stuart left. He moved to the left balcony where putting his legs on the rail he was watching John pains the sky. The streaming wall of sound was swelling louder, and some spikes might seem harmful. And from the outside it could be treated as crowd of hipsters stumbled by a nonsense noise. But taking it as a whole, the moment couldn’t be less sublime.
John was faithfully turning his pedals, counting 4 beats at pushing to some pad. Some promo girl come to Stuart and balcony and I guess she might ask something like, – excuse me, it’s going ok, is John doing fine, – which Stuart could reply cool with, – everything is fine!
Then from behind of stage, the bottle of wine with knocking spoon has appeared. Then swinging iron. Yes, the iron :-D The things that might attract John, I guess. Some minutes after, he left, leaving as with the stacked pie of noises. A technician appeared, who was evidently unhappy the amount of noise he experienced. He moved to the John’s gear, looked at engineers, counted 3, 2, 1 and sound muted. The audience exploded in applauses and cheers. Some were shouting, “Thank you”. That moment two hours with a minute accuracy has passed.
Epilogue
I haven’t ever felt that complete after a gig, or maybe lately haven’t felt ever. It was even about some sort of happiness. No doubt, I’ve not been to such wonderful and whole-gripping performance. Any kind of flaws was neglected in the ending. It’s been a brilliant day. The day barley could be forgotten. The day will be the reference to compare with. The day I’m thankful for you Mogwai so much!
Someone claim, wandering, – Damn dude, these were Mogwai!
References
Photos sources:
Other posts:
Good “Hardcore” interviews: with Barry and with Dominic.
Audio part (demultiplexed from videos) is available here, if someone would like to have a sonic remembrance. It’s mostly full-length butRano Pano.
With this piece of paper Glaswegians expose some amount of robust pragmatism in a way they do. Kind of they have candies but they’re hidden until the dessert time ;-)
Looking at Mogwai events’ setlist.fm it’s getting clear that guys play about half of set from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will and the rest from 5 recent albums.
Entering the venue it was kind of surprising to see the warming up artist. As well as the response of the audience, which he was visibly affected with in positive way. It was sort of two-side communication with sense of humor.
His name is RM Hubbert, though the initial thought was about Andy McKee. He performed all tracks from his only record in a half-hour set. It was about flamenco inspired instrumental stuff having defined bass and melody parts with accidental body tapping. Kind of pretty in my taste. His record is available online at bandcamp.
Some people were trying themselves in rhythm part with a varying match ;-) – You guys are clappy, – he told. Before last song he told a thankful speech which ended with list of people which part sounded a lot like Mogwai lineup. He played for some seconds, then stopped, – oops, I’ve forgot one, Mike, – he told that Mike’s name and started the song over.
He summarized his experience of that night in his twitter account by the status.
That was fucking mental. In a very good way. Russians are demented :D
When he left, 5 technicians were tinkering up the guitars and drums. Barry had been quietly setting own keys and software by himself. The background songs weren’t pleasant at all. It lasted for next half of hour. And then with a minute accuracy they’ve appeared at 9 p.m..
Flow
Hello. We are Mogwai from Glasgow, Scotland. It’s good to be here.
01.
White NoiseSpasibo. Thank you very much!
The new album opener serves its purpose at live shows as well. Obviously it’s a mid-level song of them, not good, not bad. Though, it’s valuable as an exponent. It’s not common to hear Mogwai-ish tune with polyrhythm or shifted accents sort of thing. Further experimenting that fields could result in some modern and tasty things.
02. Hunted by a Freak
Spasibo. Thank you. Cheers.Are you doing okay?
And here started the magic I come for. Waves of thin bass part were reaching the skin slightly lifting its hairs. The connection was nearly the tangible. Everything was in the right place. So enjoyable, it drew the mood at the spot. The performance was perfect as well :-)
03.
Rano PanoThank you. Cheers.
That song wasn’t quite easy for me. It took me some time to understand its textural layered beauty. Though usually such things happen to me with fusion songs. They Mogwai were in doubts about the song as well, consider some interviews ;-) Interesting thing is that Barry plays bass and his key parts as well, resembling that character. Dominic is on 3rd layer guitar duty. And he was lowering 4th string to B by his own. Either he doesn’t trust technicians or just doesn’t have enough guitars for the swap. The sound was appropriate.
04.
Death RaysSpasibo. Thank you very much! Cheers.
This song is so incredible so to me. It touches deep as only the best of Mogwai songs do. Truly they keep making such masterpieces. Though, it’s the only of the kind on the new album. It was performed flawlessly. Just maybe some slight lack of fuzz taste at the refrain, the “ray impact“ part, was missing. But since it doesn’t change a thing, I’d been almost crying to the end of the song. It’s merely possible to express the reason of such feeling, just thank you for this precious song!
05.
San PedroSpasibo. Thank you very very very much! Cheers.
Since perfect things wouldn’t exist without imperfect ones because of necessity of comparison, such things happen. The song itself is good and on the record it doesn’t sound like uses high-gain distortion, or at least doesn’t sound like than. But in this live version three guitars blended in a single indistinguishable mess of noise. Rhythm section was kind of OK. I don’t whether it’s idiosyncratic thing or just bad position, which was about 4th row at the center. The only result is it sounded crappy.
06. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
Spasibo. Thank you very much! Cheers.
In fact, it’s hard to estimate the way this song affects me. It’s very powerful but very fragile as well. The resolution of main climax, at most end of 4th minute of record version is the clue. The key part at front is like light-trace of butterfly wings which is backed by the Earth’s crust shift. That range makes it is so dramatic, end obviously it’s hard to reproduce it live. Oh, please, let the wings of butterfly be on a foreground, and the lithosphere processes be happening on a background. Don’t make guitars too loud to suppress the keys. It’s very important for keeping the spirit and power of the song. So the version that has been performed is happened to be simplified in that way. No, I mean, it sounded pretty well, and it had most of its original power, but it could be more.
07.
How to Be a WerewolfSpasibo. Thank you very much. Cheers.
Here things are pretty straight. The song is obviously good, it’s light and positive. It’s been performed pretty well. The flaw is missing, say, moody break, which is at the end if 5th minute on the record’s version. In the rest it was quite enjoyable.
08. Helicon 1
Spasibo. Thank you very much. Cheers. Thank you.
Kind of old and pretty Mogwai landscape drawer. It’s long enough to walk this set up land, to expand it imagining but… But the dense part blended guitars altogether again, into a noisy mess :-( The only thing that consoles the loss is the pretty ending part, so the result is about something neutral.
Funny thing is that in long-drawn pause after this song, the some of audience were trying to suggest the next song. The acknowledged candidates were Cody, Christmas Steps and Folk Death 95.
09.
You're Lionel RichieSpasibo. Thank you veryeryery m-uuuuu-ch. Cheers.
That was massive. And sounded rather pretty. Just a big miss is that Italian “Disse che l'aveva trovato”, “voleva uccidere il lupo” and so forth. It serious part of song’s mood and reminds of I Chose Horses. But taking into the account their true approach to the extra “instruments”, this absence doesn’t make much disturb.
10.
Mexican Grand PrixThank you very much. Spasibo. [We’re kind ??? what do staring on]. Cheers. Thank you.
And here things get the most complicated. Having the same attitude to the kraut-rock in general as Mogwai has to the Blur it has no much sense for me to stroke much about. Nonsense. Btw, jerks on left were happily slamming to predictable constant beat. It’s unclear what Stuart said in the middle, but he showed to the left side.
11. 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Spasibo. Thank you very very very much.
Cleaning around from the last one the song is wonderful, and was performed accurately well. It’s long enough to get saturated with all the grace it delivers. The bass waves were gently touching, and the moment lasted sublime.
We have one more song to play tonight. Am. Before we play I wanna say “thank you”. First of all I wanna thank you all for coming tonight to watch us. [As though we see it took us long time to coming here, I’m sorry ? for roaming, hopefully, ?? long ???. ? the last neighbor tour. I wanna thank everyone ?, crew, for coming tour with us. Also I wanna thank RM Hubbert for playing tonight. ???? And last of all I wanna say big “thank you” to your local football team for kicking Rangers from UEFA cup.] Thank you very much.
What kind Rangers, what kind of UEFA? ;-) Stuart, I though you’re not interested in soccer, or is it about football, specifically? ;-)
12. Batcat
And the time has come beast to wake up, the beast is raging awfully. But song’s high-gainy makeup didn’t mean anything good for the sound. As so it happened to be a mess again. Barry was definitely missing in middle key parts. Then strobe like started to blink in middle quiet part. The last “journey summary” guitar part was missing, though it features the video some. It wasn’t the way too bad, but it could be much more.
Thereafter they’ve left. For the next 4 minutes the venue has been filled with lots of expectations, fragile waiting. With modest and urgent shouts and screams. We wanted more Mogwai. As though, they’ve sent one technician on stage to fake the beginning of deconstruction process. How could we know, they’ve scheduled everything ;-) On the fifth minute they’ve come back :-)
Spasibo. Thank you-uu. Cheers.
13. Auto Rock
And those pleasant and well-know sounds have started to emerge from Barry’s keys. John had been busy on crashes with soft-head sticks. He hit constantly but with varying strength. It was kind of unexpected to see him at such position, though listening to the record hints it’s the original way. They seemed very handy in that sense, exchanging instruments with each other. The song sounded great.
14.
George Square Thatcher Death PartyHere’re the issues arise again. The song itself is rather straightforward for Mogwai but it doesn’t reduce its value. They’ve had sort of discussion at album production, whether it’s kind of too radio-friendly or not, though. But the way it’s been performed… am, is the weakest way. Very odd sounding Stuart’s vocoder part, with disturbing pitch slides. Dominic played chords in the refrain which suppressed guitars and keys completely leaving a hum in place of. Also some guitar bends were missing in the middle of the verse, where John played them only quite before the refrain. It’s been distinctly raw.
15.
Mogwai Fear SatanBut after few moments of the tone facilitation, I knew I had an extra trip! Right away they’ve started to emerge images which everyone could interpret I their own subconscious way. They drew the land, and drew the skies. They rushed you above. Getting quiet, the picture changed slowly, but was more close and touching. They kept you there for some time and moments after crushed it away. The magic of impressionism. I don’t remember the way I’ve been at the song time. Truly, I’ve been half there, half somewhere else.
Then they got quite. Martin, Barry and Dominic left. Looking to each other Stuart and John were building something preciously beautiful on top of the song. Everyone was getting mesmerized. It was so charming that even those who were clapping or screaming along the performance got quite as well.
Then Stuart left. He moved to the left balcony where putting his legs on the rail he was watching John pains the sky. The streaming wall of sound was swelling louder, and some spikes might seem harmful. And from the outside it could be treated as crowd of hipsters stumbled by a nonsense noise. But taking it as a whole, the moment couldn’t be less sublime.
John was faithfully turning his pedals, counting 4 beats at pushing to some pad. Some promo girl come to Stuart and balcony and I guess she might ask something like, – excuse me, it’s going ok, is John doing fine, – which Stuart could reply cool with, – everything is fine!
Then from behind of stage, the bottle of wine with knocking spoon has appeared. Then swinging iron. Yes, the iron :-D The things that might attract John, I guess. Some minutes after, he left, leaving as with the stacked pie of noises. A technician appeared, who was evidently unhappy the amount of noise he experienced. He moved to the John’s gear, looked at engineers, counted 3, 2, 1 and sound muted. The audience exploded in applauses and cheers. Some were shouting, “Thank you”. That moment two hours with a minute accuracy has passed.
Epilogue
I haven’t ever felt that complete after a gig, or maybe lately haven’t felt ever. It was even about some sort of happiness. No doubt, I’ve not been to such wonderful and whole-gripping performance. Any kind of flaws was neglected in the ending. It’s been a brilliant day. The day barley could be forgotten. The day will be the reference to compare with. The day I’m thankful for you Mogwai so much!
Someone claim, wandering, – Damn dude, these were Mogwai!
References
Photos sources:
Other posts:
- Рассказ про Mogwai
- Mogwai will never die
- Культура: Mogwai
- Mogwai. Публика в восторге, а Сатана испугался
- Moments have you. - Antony Crook
Good “Hardcore” interviews: with Barry and with Dominic.
Audio part (demultiplexed from videos) is available here, if someone would like to have a sonic remembrance. It’s mostly full-length but
Rano Pano.