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, Veto and – of course – Mew). Ticket costs 245 DKK if you are able to buy it before April 30th.

If memory serves, this is Mew’s first ever show in Poland. OFF Festival 2010 will take place in the city of Katowice in Dolina Trzech Stawów (Three Lake Valley). The festival is held on August 5th through August 8th, but we have no exact date for Mew yet. Still, it will be on one of the festival’s first three days, because Mew will play in Skanderborg, Denmark on August 8th.

EDIT: Mew announced the exact date, it’s August 7th.

Let’s take a look at some recent Mew cover versions from YouTube. This is our third part of the series, check out Part I and Part II as well.

156 (piano/vocals), Bamse (piano), Behind the Drapes (drums), Circuitry of the Wolf (guitar), Comforting Sounds (acoustic guitar/vocals), In Time Do You Forget (Daydream) (acoustic guitar/vocals), Introducing Palace Players (bass), King Christian (drums), Repeaterbeater (drums), Repeaterbeater (guitar), Silas the Magic Car (acoustic guitar/vocals), Snow Brigade (bass/guitar), Special (bass), Start (piano/vocals).

Ok, let’s wrap this up (this has taken us months to complete)…

Jonas Bjerre’s favourite movie he saw in 2009 was the Swedish vampire masterpiece Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In, 2008) which will get its unfortunate “remaking” in the US very soon. He also listed two of his favourite Danish films and they are the wonderful Festen (The Celebration, 1998) which was the first of the Dogme 95 -manifesto, and the only really good one of them. The other Danish flick is called Applaus (Applause, 2009).

His favourite animated films are Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967), Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke, 1997) and “for its time and its music” Akira (1988). From music themed motion pictures he mentioned True Stories (1986) by David Byrne and Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984).

About the most disappointing movie ever, he talked about David Lynch’s 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me:

“I was so into the series, and the film just didn’t feel connected to the same universe. Later on though, I have learned to appreciate certain parts of it, like the scene in the pink room. But it still doesn’t compete with the series, especially season 1“.

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As many had expected, Nibe and Skanderborg are now added for next summer. Nibe Festival will be held on June 30th through July 3rd and Mew will take the stage on July 2nd. Skanderborg Festival will be held on August 4th-8th and Mew will play on the last day. It is now pretty much a certainty that Mew will not play at Roskilde Festival where they had a massive audience last summer.

We’re a little late with these Japanese setlists (February 20th-23rd), but here they are:

As was mentioned before, Jonas Bjerre finished the visuals for Tricks of the Trade on their way to Japan. Images created by the Bacon team (above right), they look amazing and very weird. Very suitable for Mew who are now on a two-month long break from touring…

Shibuya AX, Tokyo setlist:

Reprise / Hawaii / Circuitry of the Wolf / Chinaberry Tree / Am I Wry? No / 156 / Introducing Palace Players / Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy / Medley / Beach / Tricks of the Trade / Apocalypso / Saviours of Jazz Ballet / Bamse / Cartoons and Macramé Wounds —– Special / The Zookeeper’s Boy —– Snow Brigade / Louise Louisa

Shibuya Duo Music Exchange, Tokyo setlist:

Intro / Introducing Palace Players / Am I Wry? No / 156 / Repeaterbeater / Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy / Hawaii / Apocalypso / Saviours of Jazz Ballet / Bamse / Silas the Magic Car / Beach / Special / The Zookeeper’s Boy / Tricks of the Trade / Cartoons and Macramé Wounds / Snow Brigade —– Comforting Sounds

Club Quattro, Nagoya setlist:

Snow Brigade / Hawaii / Introducing Palace Players / Tricks of the Trade / Silas the Magic Car / Apocalypso / Saviours of Jazz Ballet / Bamse / (Uda Pruda) / Beach / Am I Wry? No / 156 / Repeaterbeater / Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy / Cartoons and Macramé Wounds —– Special / The Zookeeper’s Boy —– Louise Louisa

Club Quattro, Osaka setlist:

Circuitry of the Wolf / Chinaberry Tree / Introducing Palace Players / Snow Brigade / Hawaii / Hawaii Dream / Am I Wry? No / 156 / (Uda Pruda) / Repeaterbeater / Silas the Magic Car / Cartoons and Macramé Wounds / Apocalypso / Saviours of Jazz Ballet / Bamse —– Beach / Special / The Zookeeper’s Boy / Comforting Sounds

Thanks to Hyunji Choi (aka Shinichi).