Author name: Tero Heikkinen

  Produced by Kestrel Media Film by Will Hodge and Lianne Pierce.

Konnichiwa. Mew are at Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo right now. As was expected, the Australian live dates will not be the only ones around that area later this year. After Mexico, Mew will play three shows in Japan and after these dates there’s almost a week-long gap before the show in Sydney, so expect

A lovely photo gallery coming up in a bit… EDIT: Photo gallery is up now. Click here. Here’s the South Korean setlist (August 9th, 2015): Photos by Hyunji Choi

This has been a long project for Mew to perform in Australia where fans have been waiting for years. Frengers from down under even started a campaign for this cause about six years ago, but the shows never happened, even when they were playing somewhere “nearby” in Southeast Asia. This seemed to bother the band as

“Then there was Oslo, which in time has come to feel like a home to us – you guys rock! And though you are most often substantial purveyors of that magical potion Jägermeister (at Mono bar, of course), I myself (on two kinds of antibiotics) had to miss out on the glorious nights and retire

“Helsinki! You are some kind of generous galaxy of pure warmth and glowing excitement in spite of your -24 C temperature (a reverse fever). I can’t believe how much people have taken notice of our subtle magic! Every time we go to Finland it is like some strange wonderful dream.” – Mew journal (March 2006)

Since the giant that is Roskilde Festival, Mew has played three festival shows in Nordic region and a show in Ireland. First up was one of the oldest annual rock festivals in the world, Ruisrock Festival (in Turku, Finland), where Mew have performed three times before (2003, 2006 and 2009). A rather large number of

What is probably the last music video off of +-, Witness, directed by Theis Molin, is up now.

Bad news, guys. There had been rumours lately, but now we have a statement from Mew: “After 20 years playing together in Mew, the band and Bo Madsen have decided to part ways for the time being. At present the rest of us will continue with Mew. We are happy to tell you that guitarist Mads Wegner

A few weeks ago we asked our readers to come up with questions for Mew, and Jonas Bjerre, Johan Wohlert, and Silas Graae have answered nine of them. Head over to our YouTube channel to check out the playlist and don’t forget to subscribe while you’re at it.