Author name: Tero Heikkinen

… the summer festival season, that is… Tonight Mew will play their first show in over three months. Within a week, they will play three shows: the Danish Jelling Festival is up next (May 28th) and then Siesta Festival in Sweden (May 29th) and Skive Festival in Denmark (June 2nd). We will return with live […]

Well, it’s been quiet in the Mew world. But hey, they continue touring next week and we will review many of the shows (which should be fun)… Apparatjik – on the other hand – have done some interesting stuff recently. First of all, they have released a single that you may download for free. You

Have you noticed that Vibrashop has some new merchandise for sale? Apart from the snowglobe (or “waterball” if you will), the theme of the new stuff comes from the song Bamse. The bags come in many different colours and the t-shirts look pretty nice. All these should be available at summer festivals as well. The

Want to see Mew and many other great bands FOR FREE at this year’s Skive Festival in Denmark? Then copypaste the following text and post the tweet on your Twitter -status: I want to see @mewwire and ??? at this year’s @SkiveFestival – check @mewxinfo -fansite for contest details! Replace the ‘???’ -part with the

You may catch both Mew and Kashmir in Odense (Denmark) right after the summer festival season. The double concert will be held at Albani Bryggeriet on September 4th and reasonably priced (295 DKK) tickets can be bought here.

The 1977 science fiction masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind has quite obviously inspired the new music videos, at least partially, no-one can deny that. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, the classic film tells a story of a cable guy (Richard Dreyfuss) who is one of several people experiencing a close encounter. Soon

The wait is finally over. The music video for Beach has premiered and you may watch it from this link. It took a while, but some may remember that The Zookeeper’s Boy was also a rather late release (some six months after the album And the Glass Handed Kites was out) whereas music videos for

Some sad news for those who bought tickets to Coachella Festival just to see Mew. The band’s management just announced that the show has been cancelled due to health reasons. “Mew are sorry to announce that as a result of unforeseen health issues in the Mew family, we will need to cancel our scheduled performance

Mew have been announced to this summer’s Provinssirock in Finland (June 18th-June 20th). Located in the city of Seinäjoki, Provinssirock is one of Finland’s oldest and largest annual rock festivals and this is Mew’s second time visiting these festivities. One could say that Mew’s success in Finland really started here with their stunning 2005 performance,

Danish frengers may consider them quite lucky this summer. Mew have just announced their fifth festival show in Denmark (others being the ones in Jelling, Skive, Nibe and Skanderborg) and that will take place in the city of Aarhus on June 19th. Northside Festival’s lineup consists of some of the biggest Danish acts (including Nephew,