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At a colossal de-meeting like this, it's really difficult to talk about the evening without considering the impact of the event for our website! Present were: myself magomarcelo, zzzzzzzzzzzz, G, joser, josi_, barrylindon, idontcareaboutyou, frantz, ummagumma, have I forgotten someone?
Scary lost in the crowd, Little at home tidying up the SMS chronology, what about Fosca?
And it wasn't just de-baser... judging by the number of comments around the web (see FFWD, EmmeBi, etc), practically everyone writing about music on the internet seems to prefer the Mogwai!
So, in the end, I ask myself: was it a concert or a social experiment?
Who can say, but the music is there, the company too, so in the end, just quote G and the anonymous admirer of Bob Marley... awesome!!!
On first listen, Mogwai gives the impression of one-song band: in reality, what stands out even more live is the complete disinterest in seeking a structure, which sometimes appears, other times is totally absent, or yet again, the songs are just an alternation of intimate and collective moments, with the guitars marking the progressions.
Perhaps to others, Mogwai brings to mind different associations, and there's a whole generation of musicians citing them as a reference. In Italy alone, I can think of Giardini di Mirò, Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick... whereas my musical education associates them with the Cure of Carnage Visors, a suite of about half an hour casually released as the B-side of the Faith cassette.
Nevertheless, they differ greatly in the absence of that voice and the prevalence of the ego of that one person, in a more modern use of keyboards, samples, and loops, in the greater layering of guitars, and in that half-tone that turns the dark atmosphere into something "happy," though not without irony. Are they really the Cure of the new millennium? At least for me, they've taken their place...
I'll skip the details on individual performances; I'm not familiar enough with their output, and the only thing I can say after half a day of web research is how thrilling Xmas Steps was. However, I can direct the curious to a review by someone who really knows and to the unofficial giglist with decent photos and setlist.
The only gem I reserve is the loot from my cell phone: a series of terrible photos and almost unlistenable samples, but useful to get the now famous ringing in the ears even in the comfort of your own home: don't do this at home!
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