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

Copenhagen, Denmark (November 4, 2015) Sometimes for reasons unknown things don’t quite go as you want them to. As I look around the venue I wonder whether this is the oldest crowd I have ever experienced at a Mew gig. Things have definitely happened since those early concerts in 2006 where you would have lines

It is extremely rare that Mew is announced to play a show on such short notice, though this had been rumoured for weeks now. The band will play Korea once again and the venue will be AX Hall in Seoul. It is a hall that they are already familiar with, as they have played there