Aarhus, Denmark (May 29, 2025) “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.” (Franz Kafka, about a doll; very probably apocryphal) But I don’t buy into that. It has almost been a completed journey with Mew, from my introduction during a liminal phase […]
London, England, UK (April 3, 2024) / Odense, Denmark (April 12, 2024) The greatest Mew show ever played was at La Maroquinerie in Paris, 12 November 2009. There were a collective of us there, and we all felt it. This was true love. We were there, but not entirely present. We could think of nothing
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Aarhus, Denmark (February 5, 2022) / Odense, Denmark (February 6, 2022) During Comforting Sounds, the man next to me shows his wife his raised arm, replete and complete with goosebumps and hair all stood up. This is Odense, February 2022, and in all respects, the few thousand of us who are the lucky ones tonight are
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Mew And The Glass Handed Kites at 15 “From a dance hall there met me as I passed by the strains of lively jazz music, hot and raw as the steam of raw flesh. I stopped a moment. This kind of music, much as I detested it, had always had a secret charm for me.
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Goethe wrote that “music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music”. That being the case, it’s fitting that part of my 15th anniversary with Frengers is diaried to take place at the Barbican Centre in London. The Big Smoke, the Great Wen, Londontown, the city where plenty of the record was germinated; Mew‘s quintessentially non-British opus. And
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