supporting manic street preachers

apparently mogwai's sign-off to the manics at the end of the tour was "thank you for giving us the chance to alienate 20,000 people over 3 weeks".

from a interview in select, published after the tour:

when we supported the manics, the audiences were just appalled. they were just sheep, the kind of bastards that buy 'shine' compilations, who hate anything they've not encountered before. i was like, 'we're doing this for you!' most of the gigs ended up with us screaming, 'you've got no soul!"' and apparently some mogwai fans who asked people to be quiet were beaten up.