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Spaceships Over Glasgow
Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth
The story of MOGWAI, one of the most influential and revered Scottish bands of recent
times, told by founder, guitarist and lead band member, Stuart Braithwaite
Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always
destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in
MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most ground-breaking post-rock bands of the past
three decades.
Modestly delinquent at school, Stuart developed an early appetite for 'alternative' music in
what might arguably be described as its halcyon days, the late '80s. Discovering bands
like Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, and Jesus and Mary Chain, and attending seminal
gigs (often incongruously incognito as a young girl with long hair to compensate for his
babyface features) by The Cure and Nirvana, Stuart compensated for his indifference to
school work with a dedication to rock and roll . . . and of course the fledgling hedonism
that comes with it.
Spaceships Over Glasgow is a love song to live rock and roll; to the passionate abandon
we've all felt in the crowd (and some of us, if lucky enough, from the stage) at a truly
incendiary gig. It is also the story of a life lived on the edge; of the high-times and
hazardous pit-stops of international touring with a band of misfits and miscreants.
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