For the T-Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Mew played their first full-length show since their November tour of the Nordic countries. Mew will continue their Asian tour with stops in Singapore and Indonesia, so you can look forward to reviews and photos from those shows. Photo: Mavis Ku Setlist: T-Festival Satellites / My Complications / Am […]

Mew kicked off their 2015 tour with a week-long return visit to the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music/Film/Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, where they’d last played in 2007. SXSW is an enormous festival held each year which showcases music from over 2000 artists from across the globe. Like many festivals of this type, artists often

Last November Mew played the intimate solo shows, and a year later it is time for the bigger venues. Like before with Nordic tours, the band will perform in the biggest Danish cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus. In the capital city Mew will be seen at Falconer Salen which holds a capacity of 3.000 spectators, making

Five weeks before the album release, the reviews are now coming in, and Lithium Magazine has the first one here. The rather short review highlights the 11-minute track Rows and compares it to Comforting Sounds. As daring as that may sound, these comparisons are expected in many future + – reviews, and like with No

Mew have released another teaser from the upcoming album. The song is Water Slides and you can listen to it on Pitchfork. Now, seven weeks before the album’s global release date, this is only the second published studio recording out of ten tracks… Third, if you count Making Friends, for which you’ve heard an early

New tour dates pop up every other day now, so we’d rather do these update posts than write about each new addition separately. Our events calendar is always up to date still, as is Mewsite’s tour section. For now. Since our last post a little over a week ago Mew has added two major Summer

Pretty busy week this has been in Mew world, but that’s how we like it. During the almost nine years of this website’s existence, it has sometimes been very hard to find anything to write about. Now Mew are really active. So much so, that Monday’s somewhat sudden release of the Satellites video (first Mew

The first music video for +- has been released. Satellites was directed by Casper Balslev who has previously not made any music videos for Mew. What do you think? Crew Director – Casper Balslev Cinematographer – Niels Thastum Production Manager – Alina Alta Producer – Cathrine Bjørn Editor – Ian isak Lights ELEKTROPASTETE Production NEW LAND

Read the first part of this 2-part article. Back to Satellites, and, since Johan Wohlert’s return, it’s taken on a new lease of life. Over its six-minute duration the band have managed to combine the immediately memorable chorus, great dynamic and structural shifts, and space for every band member to take centre stage in its arrangement.

Towards the end of 2010, it felt like Mew were signing off. Having fulfilled their reported four-album contract with Sony, following the release of Eggs Are Funny, they wrapped up the year, and a phase in their career, with a couple of shows on home soil. These were special shows; in theatres in Copenhagen and Aarhus