bl!
bright light ! gigs

mogwai @ showbox sodo, seattle wa, usa 04/09/08

setlist

  • the precipice
  • scotland's shame
  • ithica 27o9
  • thank you space expert
  • friend of the night
  • 2 rights make 1 wrong
  • hunted by a freak
  • mogwai fear satan
  • batcat
  • cody
  • i'm jim morrison, i'm dead (aborted)
  • helicon 1
  • i love you, i'm going to blow up your school
  • we're no here

    showbox sodo
    support from fuck buttons


    reviews/comments

    from rob fickeisen:

    it’s been over 2 years since mogwai played the northwest us, and they were sorely missed.

    it was all around a very good show. maybe i’m getting old, but it seemed louder than the mr. beast shows i saw. the highlight had to be fear satan and batcat played back to back in the middle of the set. i was hoping the crowd would have enough energy to pull the band out for an encore, but as soon as the lights started to go up, the place cleared out. the new music was very good live, batcat especially stood out. i’m now quite anxious to hear the hawk.

    'friend of the night' was listed second, but due to some technical difficulty, it was played later. they stopped playing one of the new songs (jim morrison i think) a minute or so in for some undisclosed technical problem. stuart mentioned they’d had some other technical issues as well.

    i missed most of fuck buttons, but what i saw surprised me, as i had no idea what to expect.

    from michael crane:

    not my favorite mogwai show, but it had its moments. i thought the sound wasn't so great, it was way too heavy on the bass. some songs (like hunted by a freak) were just overpowered by bass. they had some technical issues, too. after the first song, they were held up by some guitar issues. then they didn't even finish i'm jim morrison, i'm dead. i'm not quite sure why, but they just stopped right before the climax. stuart apologized for that one.

    maybe i don't quite know the new songs so well yet, but i preferred their older songs, mogwai fear satan especially. ithica 27o9 and helicon 1 were also very strong. we're no here worked well as the closer, very heavy.

    fuck buttons made for a good opener. nice and loud. i would recommend checking them out.


    mogwai's us tour diary

    from mogwai.co.uk:

    seattle showday. the bus arrives after a drive on what seems like the close-up surface of willem dafoe’s face. we’re playing the bigger version of the venue we usually play called the showbox and the lights we ordered for portland came here by mistake so this is the first day that we’re going to look as good as van halen. after an eternity of waiting around and skype-ing our beloved wives and girlfriends, it’s time to eat some weird indian food and then play the show. the introduction of the show is ozzy (our guitar tech and accomplished metal singer) introducing the band in a bruce dickinson war-cry which actually turns out to be the highlight of the concert. we played so badly and even had to just stop a song mid-flight because the power went down on one side of the stage. technical problems were legion and it certainly wasn’t a modern day last waltz due to our absolutely amateurish renditions of songs we actually wrote. but it doesn’t matter because everyone is very drunk and whoops and hollers, especially during the really quiet bits and you know how much we love that shit. we have started selling pre-release versions (limited to 200) of our tour split single with fuck buttons and the first 23 sold out in mere minutes. we’re kind of regretting we said limited to 200 now. could have made nearly enough to hire bodyguards to keep fuck buttons out of our dressing room. honestly, those dudes keep trying to steal our laptops and fruit bowls. i saw one of them admiring our full drum kit at soundcheck because they can only afford one drum for their so called “music”. john cummings did their sound again, he put loads of alvin and the chipmunks style pitch-shifting on the singing and played fart noises through the pa to make them sound like a proper comedy act instead of the sub-par bill bailey rubbish they’re trying to emulate at the moment.