Mogwai Burning Up Glasgow

Noise mongers hit the cinema

You know what you are getting with Mogwai, and it is usually quiet, quiet, quiet, LOUD!

The band are always associated with film soundtracks and cinema-style music so the fact that they have released a concert film, ‘Burning’ is no surprise.

The footage for the film was recorded over three nights in Brooklyn in April 2009.

It is a slightly surreal feeling watching concert footage in a cinema venue with other people. Watching a DVD at home is okay but the public arena and the crowd makes a strange ‘in-between’ like feeling, leaving you not quite sure how to react.

This led to a number of the audience applauding at the conclusion of songs but that just indicates the admiration for Mogwai that their fanbase has.

Seeing the band close up, counting in the time changes or seeing their reaction to the crowd was fairly illuminating. Seeing the fans respond to the lunges and lurches in the music were also very good and made the film well worth watching.

Needless to say, the soundtrack was formidable and the real highlight of the film. The black and white footage and New York scenes were very good (being geeks we really enjoyed the ‘Bill Callahan’ poster in the background at one point) but the music works perfectly well by itself.

The brief Q&A session hosted by Vic Galloway after the film was very enjoyable and showed the band to be very humorous and insightful. It was not that type of film but a little bit of conversation during the film may have taken it up a notch.

The Wilco film ‘I Am Trying To Break Your Heart’ is our favourite rock movie so that colours our thinking and of course, we caught the White Stripes film at the GFT earlier this week. However, as a reflection of the Mogwai live show, ‘Burning’ stands as a great rendering of the band’s live show.

The band hopes to have the film released on DVD in May and there will be a live CD released alongside the film. Mogwai then hope to record a new album in the late Summer for an early 2011 release, with live performance to follow. And if that wasn’t enough, the remastered version of ‘CODY‘ is scheduled for the Autumn.

The band were scheduled to dj in Mono later on the Sunday night.

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