A while ago, we launched a photo contest entitled “Fear Mew December”, where we asked you to send us photos which captured both Mew and winter. Entries came in thick and fast like sledges whizzing through some sort of fir tree wood at Christmas. Many included angels, many included recent shots of the band playing […]

Brisbane, Australia (December 4, 2015) Aerials kicked off the last night of Mew’s debut Australian tour. The band themselves have spoken about how much they love the band and an excitement shows through their live performance. Although the crowd is a bit thin, these Brisbane locals give us a taste of their last few releases

Melbourne, Australia (December 3, 2015) Seven years ago we were listening to And the Glass Handed Kites while driving to the shops, each trying to predict when we would be able to see Mew live. One of us gave an optimistic bet of a tour whenever the next album would be released, the other was

Sydney, Australia (December 2, 2015) Halcyon Drive arrived on stage as relative strangers to a still-growing crowd, but there’s a lot to be said for what quick turnaround their was in converting the early attendees. The Melbourne trio worked their way around what was quite the busy set-up – a drummer moving between a trigger

Osaka, Japan (November 27, 2015) Let me start by saying that “soma” is also a Finnish word – meaning something sweet, cute, pretty. Soma, the venue, was really not that “kawaii” to be properly named such in my home country, Finland. Jonas Bjerre had just said in a Tokyo interview that Japanese words often sound

Tokyo, Japan (November 25, 2015) This is the very first concert I have ever attended in Japan and I don’t intend it to be the last. After several times Mew held concerts there, I could finally see them live in the Country of Cherry Blossoms. The weather that day was cold (for me); 10 degrees,

Yesterday, as they were gearing up for the Japanese shows in this current tour, Mew rather unexpectedly dropped a brand new music video in our laps. Those who were fortunate enough to see the new backdrop animations at the live shows will already recognize the Making Friends visuals with their limited palette, scratchy overlays, and

With the last twelfth of 2015 nearly upon us, we’re offering you the chance to win some ultra rare, and therefore undeniably valuable, Mew goodies. Over the years our favourite threesome have developed a link with winter. Song titles such as Snow Brigade, Snowflake and Saviours of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me December) and lyrics like

Music on Vinyl has announced that they are reissuing 2009’s No More Stories… on limited edition transparent blue vinyl. The pressing is a 2xLP set on 180-gram wax, with a gatefold jacket and limited to just 1,000 copies. The release will be available on December 7, 2015, and a handful of stores are now accepting

This post is going to read a bit like a love letter to KEXP, and for good reason. This morning, at long last, the video from Mew’s live session at KEXP during their September visit to Seattle was finally posted. I’ve been waiting patiently (if not a bit anxiously) for this to happen for a