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With the last twelfth of 2015 nearly upon us, we’re offering you the chance to win some ultra rare, and therefore undeniably valuable, Mew goodies. Over the years our favourite threesome have developed a link with winter. Song titles such as Snow Brigade, Snowflake and Saviours of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me December) and lyrics like […]

Music on Vinyl has announced that they are reissuing 2009’s No More Stories… on limited edition transparent blue vinyl. The pressing is a 2xLP set on 180-gram wax, with a gatefold jacket and limited to just 1,000 copies. The release will be available on December 7, 2015, and a handful of stores are now accepting

This post is going to read a bit like a love letter to KEXP, and for good reason. This morning, at long last, the video from Mew’s live session at KEXP during their September visit to Seattle was finally posted. I’ve been waiting patiently (if not a bit anxiously) for this to happen for a

Copenhagen, Denmark (November 4, 2015) Sometimes for reasons unknown things don’t quite go as you want them to. As I look around the venue I wonder whether this is the oldest crowd I have ever experienced at a Mew gig. Things have definitely happened since those early concerts in 2006 where you would have lines

It is extremely rare that Mew is announced to play a show on such short notice, though this had been rumoured for weeks now. The band will play Korea once again and the venue will be AX Hall in Seoul. It is a hall that they are already familiar with, as they have played there

Helsinki, Finland (October 29, 2015) Mew have always sold out their shows in Finland and last week’s gig was no exception. This time it took weeks to sell all 1.500 tickets though. They had sold twice as many tickets in a matter of minutes when And the Glass Handed Kites was hot and new. This

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