Siesta Festival – Hässleholm, Sweden (May 29th, 2010) Skive Festival – Skive, Denmark (June 2nd, 2010) Mew kicked off their summer festival tour from the town of Jelling (Denmark) on May 28th and the following day they were already performing in Southern Sweden. Hässleholm is a nice little town only an hour’s drive from Malmö, […]

Once again, we asked Jonas Bjerre some questions that fans might be interested in. If you want to read the beginning of this interview (merely about festivals), click here. How many albums, approximately,  have you sold total (worldwide)? – I actually don’t know. I haven’t read any worldwide statements since Kites. I think it’s going

… the summer festival season, that is… Tonight Mew will play their first show in over three months. Within a week, they will play three shows: the Danish Jelling Festival is up next (May 28th) and then Siesta Festival in Sweden (May 29th) and Skive Festival in Denmark (June 2nd). We will return with live

Well, it’s been quiet in the Mew world. But hey, they continue touring next week and we will review many of the shows (which should be fun)… Apparatjik – on the other hand – have done some interesting stuff recently. First of all, they have released a single that you may download for free. You

Have you noticed that Vibrashop has some new merchandise for sale? Apart from the snowglobe (or “waterball” if you will), the theme of the new stuff comes from the song Bamse. The bags come in many different colours and the t-shirts look pretty nice. All these should be available at summer festivals as well. The

Want to see Mew and many other great bands FOR FREE at this year’s Skive Festival in Denmark? Then copypaste the following text and post the tweet on your Twitter -status: I want to see @mewwire and ??? at this year’s @SkiveFestival – check @mewxinfo -fansite for contest details! Replace the ‘???’ -part with the

You may catch both Mew and Kashmir in Odense (Denmark) right after the summer festival season. The double concert will be held at Albani Bryggeriet on September 4th and reasonably priced (295 DKK) tickets can be bought here.

The 1977 science fiction masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind has quite obviously inspired the new music videos, at least partially, no-one can deny that. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, the classic film tells a story of a cable guy (Richard Dreyfuss) who is one of several people experiencing a close encounter. Soon

The wait is finally over. The music video for Beach has premiered and you may watch it from this link. It took a while, but some may remember that The Zookeeper’s Boy was also a rather late release (some six months after the album And the Glass Handed Kites was out) whereas music videos for

Some sad news for those who bought tickets to Coachella Festival just to see Mew. The band’s management just announced that the show has been cancelled due to health reasons. “Mew are sorry to announce that as a result of unforeseen health issues in the Mew family, we will need to cancel our scheduled performance