November 12, 2025 – Zepp Kuala Lumpur by Dita Rachma Photos by Martinus Munindra (IG @martinusmunindra) Mew’s return to Malaysia after their last show in 2017 at Urbanscapes (KL Live) felt like a long-awaited homecoming for Frengers across Southeast Asia. Eight years is no small gap, and you could really feel the anticipation building even […]

Lalala Festival, August 23, 2025 – JIExpo Kemayoran by Dita Rachma Photos by Dani Jakarta’s night had completely settled in, but the atmosphere at JIExpo felt like a dreamscape – where nostalgia, sorrow, and awe intertwined. As the opening notes of Introducing Palace Players filled the air, the crowd erupted in cheers. Mew, the Danish

Turku, Finland (June 8, 2025) “We’re having a slight technical problem, I think, with the keyboards. So, we may have to take a little break”, Jonas said after they had just finished opener Introducing Palace Players. Right in the beginning of the song, it took Nick just about two seconds to examine the problem and

You always take the fall And no one cares at all A secret life in here In morning to appear And running past the riverbed You cut up close the arch head And told us about it Now I’m falling down Or is the world bending? No, I’m falling down A slowing minute hand Is

Aarhus, Denmark (May 29, 2025) “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.” (Franz Kafka, about a doll; very probably apocryphal) But I don’t buy into that. It has almost been a completed journey with Mew, from my introduction during a liminal phase

A bunch of new Mew shows for next Winter were just announced. Among them are two gigs in Japan (the usual suspects Tokyo and Osaka) and this is great news for those who were disappointed when Mew’s Japanese tour was cancelled due to the pandemic a few years ago. It has been a full seven

Mew have added a festival show in Somerset, England (near Bristol). ArcTanGent Festival, simply known as ATG, is a popular Summer festival that started in 2013. Usually festivals don’t announce daily programs immediately, but these guys did. The festival runs from 13th of August through 16th (Wednesday to Saturday) and Mew will play on Friday

Last month Mew announced the first two shows of their Farewell Tour with Jonas. Additional dates were expected and the first one out of the gate is a Summer festival in Finland. This is the second time that Mew will be headliners at Kesärauha Festival in the city of Turku. Their previous appearance at that

Well, that was a shocking Mew announcement, wasn’t it? There will be some final tour dates for Mew with Jonas still as the lead singer. Those tickets will probably sell super fast, even when the venues are larger than normally. As of now, two shows in Denmark have been announced and the venue in Copenhagen

London, England, UK (April 3, 2024) / Odense, Denmark (April 12, 2024) The greatest Mew show ever played was at La Maroquinerie in Paris, 12 November 2009. There were a collective of us there, and we all felt it. This was true love. We were there, but not entirely present. We could think of nothing