Check out the full review of Mogwai's performance in Sydney, including their use of a Palestine flag as a political statement and their reflections on career highlights and lessons learned. Gain insights into their independent approach, especially in their music releases for North America, and their appreciation for the younger generations that have discovered their music
’s irrepressible wall of sound has been wailing out of amplifiers for three decades, unbowed, undented by fluctuations in pop culture. Undefeated. The Scottish post-rockers are a sonic force of nature, a swirling hurricane of guitars.
Sometimes heavy, sometimes not. Soft, loud, soft. Yoonchae Says She 'Forgot' How to Speak Korean When KATSEYE Met BTS: 'My Brain Was Blank'RHOSLC's Whitney Rose Prompts Hilarious Response From Rihanna After Saying She's Sad Because 'We Still Haven't Had Any New Music' From the very start, Mogwai has been independent. DIY, even.
“Once in a while” the major music companies would come knocking, frontman Stuart Braithwaite tellsbackstage ahead of the concert, a production for Vivid LIVE. “Yeah, well,” he points out, “we are completely indie, you know. ”. That label, like the band, was established in the mid-1990s and remains fiercely independent.
Today, it’s home to a diverse roster of artists, including Arab Strap, The Twilight Sad, Kathryn Joseph, Cloth, Sacred Paws, Errors and Remember Remember. For North America, their music is released through the Brooklyn-based independent label Temporary Residence. The band flexed those indie muscles with a show Saturday, May 23, at the Concert Hall within the iconic SOH. Mogwai is mostly instrumental, mostly guitars.
With a setlist featuring “Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home,” “Ritchie Sacramento,” “Auto Rock” and the blistering encore “Mogwai Fear Satan,” and playing against a backdrop of an all-purpose ridge, Mogwai reels the house in, fixes them in a trance. On this occasion, Braithwaite is the only bandmate who chats with the audience. His banter rarely rises above a “thank-you so much.
Cheers. ” Mogwai let their respective instruments do the talking. On stage left, a Palestine flag tacked to a Marshall stack. A “soft loud soft” political statement.
Before the sonic chaos and subtlety, Braithwaite reflects on his career highlights. And of lessons learned. He’s reminded of the late Lou Reed, who in 2010, staged “Music for Dogs” on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
“That’s quite a painful memory for me because he actually asked us to come and play with them,” he recounts. “We didn’t do it, and then he died. To be honest, it was a teaching moment, as they say. Because I think anytime we get opportunities like that, we always really take them because you don’t want to miss out.
Especially with older because you don’t know how long they’re going to be around. ” Braithwaite’s tracksuit has touches of green, a nod to his beloved Glasgow Celtic soccer club, which, some hours later, would complete the “double” by winning the Scottish Cup against Dunfermline Athletic, by a scoreline of 3-1. Mogwai had a massive win, too, during the pandemic.
The band scored their first No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart in Feb. 2021 with“Yeah, that was crazy,” he remembers.
“When I got the first chart through, I thought it was like the Scottish chart or the vinyl chart or something. Someone was like, ‘no, that’s the real chart. I was like ‘wow. ’” All up, they’ve collected 11 appearances on the U.K. top 40 albums chart, including four top 10s, most recently with 2025’s, which peaked at No. 5.
But a No. 1?
“That was really cool. It wasn’t even a dream come true because I don’t think any of us had dreamed about it. It was just this insane thing to happen. ”studio album, not this year.
Or cut a soundtrack.
“I’ve also got nothing to do next year, so yeah, I need to think of something,” he quips. For the months ahead, Braithwaite and his bandmates are soaking up their extended birthday party, which includes“That’s one thing about the anniversary is just really grateful that people are still coming to see us and want to hear our music.
And yeah, it’s pretty insane after a really long time,” Braithwaite continues.
“And to get younger generations as well. People that maybe, definitely, weren’t even born when we started the band. Anyone under the age of 30, yeah, they weren’t born when we started the band. ” festival, which runs through June 13.
Vivid Sydney is owned, managed and produced by the New South Wales government, Destination NSW and Feel New Sydney.
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