We’re a little late with these Japanese setlists (February 20th-23rd), but here they are: As was mentioned before, Jonas Bjerre finished the visuals for Tricks of the Trade on their way to Japan. Images created by the Bacon team (above right), they look amazing and very weird. Very suitable for Mew who are now on […]

Mew are headlining this year’s Truck Festival in Hill Farm, Steventon. Truck Festival is one of United Kingdom’s longest standing (13th consecutive year) independent music festivals, and it’s as small as they come (with approximately 5000 attendees). The festival takes place on July 23rd to July 25th and Mew take the stage on the 24th,

Do you remember that the song Hawaii had completely different visuals when Mew first started playing it live? Then the animation quickly changed and became the one where the joyful reindeer skulled dancers fill the screen. Jonas Bjerre, now back in Copenhagen, explained us something about the replacement in Hawaii and about the new added

House of Culture / Helsinki, Finland (February 16th, 2010) Pakkahuone / Tampere, Finland (February 17th, 2010) After the two successful Norwegian shows, it was Finland’s turn once again. First up was the sold out show in Finland’s capital city Helsinki, and more specifically at the 1400-capacity Kulttuuritalo (House of Culture) where Mew previously played two

Mew played an amazing show in Helsinki, Finland last Tuesday and just before the last song (Louise, Louisa) they took a little moment to mention this website and how we are more up to date than any of their own sites. That was one glorious moment. What they couldn’t know then is that we have

Sentrum Scene (Oslo, Norway – February 13th, 2010) After kicking off the Slick Monsters Tour in Trondheim the day before, Mew went to Oslo straight away, to pay the Norwegians yet another visit – as promised. It seems that Mew are quite pleased with their Norwegian fans, and they seem to be aware of our loyalty

The short tour of only eight gigs – now called Slick Monsters Tour 2010 – kicked off yesterday from Trondheim, Norway and today is Oslo’s turn. Finland next and then Japan. Make sure that you buy the new tour shirt that contains the dates for these three countries. Yesterday’s 90-minute show was played without Comforting

Mew have been announced to this summer’s Bukta Festival in Tromsø (July 15th-July17th). They have played these festivities before in 2006 and have been in great demand by the public ever since. A rising new festival called Slottsfjell (in Tønsberg) will announce more bands today and Mew will be among the new names. This festival

Apparatjik, WMF Club Berlin (Berlin, Germany, February 1st 2010) With all the mysterious hints of what the show would be like, I still didn’t really have a clue of what the show would be alike. Bauhaus, cubism, music and visuals combined with technique and science. Some said the guys would be performing inside a cube

Apparatjik have released their debut album We Are Here and it’s available for purchase here. Once you have ordered the CD/DVD, you immediately get access to the songs. Here’s the video for Antlers. 01. Deadbeat (2:52) 02. Datascroller (2:57) 03. Snow Crystals (4:32) 04. Supersonic Sound (3:32) 05. Arrow and Bow (4:19) 06. In a