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Post by rob strong on Jul 23, 2004 13:04:56 GMT 1
you know Brightlight loves you. and we know you love Brightlight. we need to ask a favour. with it being the summer 'n' all, both Iain and I will be away from our computers over the next couple of weeks. we'd be very grateful if any reviews, setlists etc for the Curiosa and non-Curiosa shows could be posted on this messageboard. we'll grab them for the site when we return. please feel free to e-mail us as usual: rob-bl@youngteam.co.ukiain-bl@youngteam.co.ukparticularly if you have photos, setlist scans etc - but don't send them until we've been in touch! please! if you're going to the shows - have fun.
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Post by JebusSabes on Jul 30, 2004 10:40:09 GMT 1
Anyone? No set lists from the first few dates? Have you seen Stuart's comments on South Palm Beach: "There were many aspirations that we had when we started this band. Many things we wanted to achieve and places we wanted to go. It must be said that playing at tea time in an empty stadium in Florida was probably not one of them." www.mogwai.co.uk/words.html?class=words&cmd=showitem&words_id=11
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Post by Chrille on Jul 30, 2004 14:41:40 GMT 1
if no one attends the mogwai sets at the curiosa dates, i doubt we'll see any setlists.
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Post by gus on Jul 30, 2004 23:23:56 GMT 1
thats a pretty safe asumption - someone send an email to the band perhaps they could supply them!
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Post by postinfinite on Jul 30, 2004 23:59:05 GMT 1
hopefully they will be more satisfied with other cities, like toronto ;D
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Post by goldenwest on Jul 31, 2004 10:42:45 GMT 1
i went to the club date in jacksonville at freebird live. it went really well. they played
yes i am a long way from home mogwai fear satan helicon 1 you dont know jesus hunted by a freak ithica kappa 2 rights make 1 wrong like herod summer chocky (maybe) and for the encore they played ratts of the capital
not necessarily in that order. really good. absolutely loud. i also drove down to west plam beach for curiosa. but i had no clue they played so early and so i missed them. i was really mad but interpol was nice.
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Post by invisiblegun on Aug 1, 2004 16:46:16 GMT 1
Hey there, went to the Randall's Island show yesterday in NY and it was absolutely amazing. Each band was terrific to the point that I think I ended up going back and forth between stages for each band, ignoring my persistent hunger and thirst in lieu of getting a bit closer to the stage.
'gwai's set was:
mogwai fear satan hunted by a freak helicon 1 like herod
seem's they have thrown 'like herod' into the mix again these days huh? although it seemed like an abridged version (probably due to the 30 min. time limitation).
some thoughts:
mogwai were tremendous, and the crowd seemed really into them. however, i barely made it in time to see them and i was 15 minutes early. they really go on right away. i think that the bands on the main stage (and maybe even the second stage) should change orders each night to give them each different exposure. of course the cure can still go last, but the other bands should change it up. each band would have more and more of a crowd, but not due to more interest but rather because more people were there at that point. they let people in exceedingly slow! at least in the NY they did.
oh well, thats my thoughts. i think if they switched it up mogwai could blow away even a larger audience who would not be prepared for them.
i'll put up pics and video when i get the change to upload them somewhere.
off to the New Jersey show now in the rain, i'll be sure to put the setlist to that up here as well.
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Post by JebusSabes on Aug 1, 2004 18:49:21 GMT 1
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Post by Chrille on Aug 1, 2004 19:31:57 GMT 1
hahaha! i love this:
"First of all, their half-hour set consisted of what sounded like only two epic songs. Secondly, the last 10 minutes was like being tossed around in a dinghy by crushing swells of grinding noise. The spectacle resulted in the total abuse of their guitars, the strings hanging out like entrails. Mogwai's crushing sonic haze lingered long after they exited the stage, ceaselessly redoubling on itself. Ever watched a blank TV channel long enough to believe that you can perceive the order in the chaos?"
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Post by distance on Aug 1, 2004 20:18:43 GMT 1
i went to the club date in jacksonville at freebird live. it went really well. they played yes i am a long way from home mogwai fear satan helicon 1 you dont know jesus hunted by a freak ithica kappa 2 rights make 1 wrong like herod summer chocky (maybe) and for the encore they played ratts of the capital not necessarily in that order. really good. absolutely loud. i also drove down to west plam beach for curiosa. but i had no clue they played so early and so i missed them. i was really mad but interpol was nice. i have the setlist. i'll post/submit it soon. it's on a computer i'm doing a video transfer on currently. i enjoyed the jacksonville show, but the venue was definitely weird. looking forward to pittsburgh on thursday and buffalo next week.
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Post by Chrille on Aug 1, 2004 20:27:28 GMT 1
why was the venue weird?
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Post by distance on Aug 1, 2004 21:24:39 GMT 1
it was 1 block away from the beach. a good number of the crowd looked like they'd just happened across the place. the area from the stage edge to the back of the club was very shallow.. the place seemed really small untill i went up to the 2nd floor, then it seemed quite a bit bigger. not to mention the whole skynyrd vibe...
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Post by invisiblegun on Aug 2, 2004 6:58:57 GMT 1
Just got back from the New Jersey/Philadelphia Curiosa Show.
Setlist was:
Hunted By A Freak 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong My Father My King
totally blew me away that they would played MFMK (although from reading the orlando review i'm assuming that's what they played there as well). it's just funny b'cuz i was joking with my gf before the show that if they played that it would probably be the only song of the night. the venue was pretty cool and people (the ones that were there that early) seemed into them, mfmk was of course amazingly loud for an outdoor huge venue and it blew me away,
towards the noise-crunching end a fire started near martin's drum set (he had already abandoned the stage as his drumming duties were through) and a bunch of crew members came out with fire entinguishers and fanned the flames out (it wasn't a big fire but coming at the same time as the noise it was just the most rock and roll moment of the night, stuart looked over at it and just kind of shrugged, strings hanging off his guitar.
the band were all coordinated by wearing what looked like superman shirts, with an M instead of the S. do they wear these to many gigs? i wonder if they're going to release them in the store. all in all great time, they were the only band there that played a different set than the one on the previous day. (i don't know about the cure though i couldn't stay for them).
didn't get any pics or vids lo siento.
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Post by nowyouretaken on Aug 2, 2004 18:10:17 GMT 1
I was at the Camden/Philly show too. Are you sure they they played 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong?
I thought they played:
Hunted By A Freak You Don't Know Jesus My Father My King
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Post by redshift on Aug 3, 2004 2:53:45 GMT 1
WOWOWOWOWOW My ears are still ringing from the end of MFMK yesterday in Philly. the boys were soooo good. its a shame they had to play first when no one was there yet to really hear them. they should've played 2nd or 3rd. NowYoureTaken is right; 2nd song was You Don't Know Jesus. Dunno what happened to the drums either; i was up front but waaaay to the left to really see anything but the smoke; didn't see any 'fire'. Did anyone yesterday come across any stuff besides the two cds and two ($30) shirts?
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Post by redshift on Aug 3, 2004 2:57:13 GMT 1
oh yeah, i'll have a pic or two up by the weekend; didn't get anything really spectacular since security was giving the evil eye a row in front of us.
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Post by invisiblegun on Aug 3, 2004 4:21:41 GMT 1
sorry bout the mixup, i always get those two songs confused.
there was a small fire i saw it from where i was in the second tier center, small but aflame..maybe circuit caught papers on fire or something
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Post by Chrille on Aug 3, 2004 17:04:57 GMT 1
sigh, still no word on the planned abba medley... edit: Q: That smoke thing near the drums @ Philly/Camden Curiosa, during MFMK, was that planned or was that like a mishap? Come to think of it, what was that exactly? PS I can't thank you enough for playing MFMK. My life is complete. I can die now. A: the drum monitor set on fire. it wasn't planned. Stuart
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Post by iain egg on Aug 3, 2004 18:37:36 GMT 1
Just back from the good old US of A and 2 superb weeks in New York. Folks, if you've never been there then GO - it's amazing! Had the delight of Curiosa at Randall's Island - will be updating Brightlight later tonight and tomorrow, but I thought Mogwai were superb - a great set for the event and that's compared with the many, many times I've seen them. The sound was superb for a festival and probably better for the 'gwai than any one else. Got a lot of photos to put up but they need editing first as they're huge and a vid clip. But here's a taster... Also on the way back to the hotel on the bus and subway, more people were saying "Hey did you catch Mogwai - awesome" than were talking about the Cure or any other band on the bill.
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Post by iain egg on Aug 5, 2004 22:33:48 GMT 1
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Post by JebusSabes on Aug 5, 2004 23:45:12 GMT 1
----------- Cuyahoga Falls, 4th Aug: Several of the other bands on the Curiosa Festival bill are Cure descendants, and most made the best of their 30 minutes on stage. Glasgow's Mogwai, which opened the main stage, performed atmospheric guitar rock instrumentals for the early birds, taking elemental riffs and building them into sonic maelstroms of feedback and bone-rattling bass. www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/9324477.htm----------- West Palm Beach: July 24th In a doleful concert season that has left a once-mighty Lollapalooza Festival in the state of a flattened brass instrument, the scattered audience (which grew to capacity as the evening wore on) at a pyrotechnics-barren stage for the brief, dronish, supernal set by Scottish outfit Mogwai and the lauded dance-club stabbings of New York's the Rapture was prematurely disconcerting, doing little to support a recent exposé in Entertainment Weekly magazine on the vanishing chasm of popularity between a upwardly mobile indie rock scene and Zeta bro rock. www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2004-08-05/music2.html----------- New Jersey, Aug 1st The members of Mogwai - all sporting T-shirts from the 700 Club, the Northern Liberties bar - were first to hit the main stage. Most of the Glaswegian group's instrumentals built slowly to a noisy, hypnotic drone. If they didn't quite leave the crowd in a frenzy, the monitor by the drum kit that accidentally burst into flames at the conclusion of the set surely must have been a sign of the music's power. www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/music/9308652.htm?1c------ NY, 31st July Glaswegian rockers Mogwai opened the main stage with walls of thick, droning noise and feedback, which made for a disorienting introduction to what amounted to a laid-back day that offered something for everyone. www.mtv.com/news/articles/1489868/20040802/cure.jhtml?headlines=trueMogwai, from Scotland, played radiant introspective rock instrumentals that gradually and inexorably moved between shimmer and stomp, presaging the crescendos of the Cure's own set. www.nytimes.com/2004/08/02/arts/music/02CURE.html
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Post by distance on Aug 7, 2004 6:09:40 GMT 1
i'll email the jacksonville setlist soon. i can send a pic/scan of the pittsburgh set, but they played more than what was on the set (2-3 songs, i think? one was herod).. i'd have to listen to the tape to figure it out... or maybe someone has a better memory than me.. i don't know when i'll get around to transferring that tape exactly.
stuart says they haven't gotten too much footage yet for the dvd.. people need to start digging up stuff to send in. i know there's at least stuff from 01 and 02. there were 3-4 people filming just at the baltimore 02 show that i saw and i know there's videos of montreal and phoenix in 01.
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Post by postinfinite on Aug 9, 2004 4:39:08 GMT 1
so they are letting cameras in?
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Post by distance on Aug 9, 2004 6:17:16 GMT 1
i don't think so on curiosa, but i don't think you should have a problem at a regular mogwai show.
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Post by iain egg on Aug 9, 2004 12:41:19 GMT 1
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Post by invisiblegun on Aug 9, 2004 14:58:47 GMT 1
just got back from the montreal show, was amazing. the venue was terrific and uniquely setup. anyway i would say highlight of the show for me was ratts, as well as them playing cody to begin the encore (it wasn't on the setlist). i remember reading that the band liked this venue so i think when there was technical difficulties on 2 rights (barry's mic wasn't working) they decided to throw in cody to make amends.
i've got about 4 mins worth of real good (upclose) video of stuart singing in cody, playing herod+ may happiness.. etc etc. i'm off to china for the rest of the month but would be glad to send the videos off to anyone who wants them when i return.
would enjoy someone posting the setlist, the guy next to me took the one in front of me.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 9, 2004 17:04:48 GMT 1
Hello;
Here's the setlist for Montreal. Great show as usual. I think Barry's mic was working, you could kind of hear it but it was just a bit lower in the mix than usual... I found it that way for all of his vocoder parts, the whole night. Not really a problem, though. And yes, that venue was great. Too short as usual, I guess they are a bit hurting at the moment. Still fantastic.
yes! i am a long way from home hunted by a freak you don't know jesus may nothing but happiness come through your door summer kappa killing all the flies ratts of the capital 2 rights make 1 wrong --------------------------------- cody like herod
I'm going to the Buffalo show tomorrow night also.
Ryan
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Post by Chrille on Aug 9, 2004 17:35:33 GMT 1
review from the palm beach post: The evening began with Head Automatica on the secondary stage, followed by the spooky cool electronic instrumentals of Mogwai. The Scottish band would be the perfect choice for a score for the next wackily atmospheric David Lynch picture.read the rest of the review.
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Post by JebusSabes on Aug 10, 2004 13:12:08 GMT 1
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Post by Chrille on Aug 11, 2004 15:06:32 GMT 1
here's a link full of photos from the curiosa festival in columbia, maryland. scroll down to the middle for the mogwai pics.
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