THERE IS a date you have to keep on Valentines Day 2011, a special rendezvous that you cannot afford too miss - it’s in Galway and it’s with Mogwai.
Mogwai, the legendary Scottish post-rockers will play their debut Galway show at a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert in the Live Lounge of the Radisson Blu Hotel on Monday February 14 at 8pm.
The great Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin says Mogwai “paint pictures in sound”, conjuring up “colours, emotions and pictures”, and as there are no lyrics (they are an instrumental band ), “all the potency, texture and variation of moods come from instruments alone”.
“Glasgow remains the band’s hunting ground, providing a source of continuing inspiration - the sounds of urban fracture, of desperate nights, fights and high-rise love affairs,” Rankin says. “All I know is, eleven years in Mogwai still sound like the future, their five-strong core membership still the coolest gang in town.”
The band recently released a new live album/DVD entitled Special Moves/Burning, with Burning being an in-concert film.
Tickets for Mogwai are €30/28 and go on sale today from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.
