Author name: Frengers

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

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,

Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA (October 11, 2015) I first heard of Mew almost 6 years ago when a friend posted the Repeaterbeater video on Facebook. The name of the song caught my eye and I was slightly horrified, hoping it wasn’t something violent! (Kind of funny, now) As an organist, I thought Repeaterbeater

Webster Hall, New York, NY, USA (October 10, 2015) The old saying goes, good things come to those who wait, and fans (or Frengers as we are called) of the Danish rock band, Mew, have been waiting since 2009 to hear something new. As if having spent the last six years in a time capsule

9:30, Washington, D.C., USA (October 9, 2015) The first time I saw Mew live was in 2009 on the eve of the release of No More Stories… I was just a teenager then; I had spent that summer listening to them endlessly because they were one of the few consistencies in my life at the

Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON, Canada (October 6, 2015) I’m not your average “fan”, being a musician and working at a high level specifying and selling audio equipment for touring and live venues for the past 17 years throughout all of North America. So forgive me if I focus a little on the production value of

Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis, MN, USA (October 5, 2015) Mew last played Minneapolis in 2006, a short while after I had discovered them. Nine years later, nearly to the day, they came back to Minneapolis, and I would see them live for the first time. Triple Rock is a small club with a capacity

The Complex, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (October 2, 2015) Note: This review is written by a mother and son pair, from two unique perspectives. Gwensarah, mother The 2006 North American tour was an epic adventure that I’ll never forget, my first Mew show then getting the chance to take my son Rymer to his

San Francisco, California (September 26, 2015) This was my first time in San Francisco and I really fell in love the city; it is very clean, the weather is nice, the people is polite, there’s a lot of pet-friendly places to go, and of course, there’s a historic music venue and also well-known for its