thanks andy

'surprise' show at the uk premiere of the 'all tomorrow's parties' film.
http://www.ourtrueintentisallforyourdelight.com/

this special event will see the film brought to life with edinburgh's picturehouse transformed into a vintage holiday camp for the night, a surprise live set from a major scottish band, midnight bingo with warp and atp give-aways, belle and sebastian djs and much much more.

reviews/comments

from andy mcculloch:

it was an excellent, noise heavy set as you can see from the setlist.

from 'sitar_tattoo':

mogwai - i did not expect that to be that good. or that heavy. fuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!!!

from jared earle:

my ears are still ringing. on the way home last night, my ears were distorting, like they were being overdriven through a cheap amp. they were in a worse state than when i was at my bloody valentine's 130+db gig at the barrowlands last year.

it was the loudest mogwai gig in a long, long time. superb.

from paul cavers:

the show was really good - and really really loud!

from the scotsman:

"i know we're not the boredoms or the fall," noted mogwai's stuart braithwaite on his band's unveiling as the special live guests at this uk premier of the film all tomorrow's parties, "but i hope we'll do". of course they would. for those who know aadvertisementnd love all tomorrow's parties – aka atp, a thrice-annual alternative music festival held in off-season holiday camps in england – mogwai are idols, perhaps matched only by fellow atp regulars sonic youth and shellac.

whether the correct tone of the festival (intelligent, modest, doesn't like to shout about itself) had been met for its first foray north of the border was debatable, as this presentation of the edinburgh international film festival, event producers future cinema and filmmakers warp x kicked off with donkeys, bluecoats and boisterous "holidaymakers" parading up and down lothian road, all in the name of recreating a bit of 50s holiday camp tack. also performing promenade-style through the street and venue were local outfits the second hand marching band and jesus h foxx.

yet mogwai (performing after the film, an excellent cinema verite document) are a most atpish band. epic, affecting and resolutely ungimmicky – although some accompanying live video footage mixed with monochrome local authority architecture added a new visual element – their current set spans early triumphs summer and helicon 1, the mid-period hunted by a freak, and the more recent scotland's shame and i'm jim morrison i'm dead, rumbling to a thunderous conclusion with the 20-minute my father my king. it would be lovely to see them curate their own scottish leg of the festival one day.

from news of the world:

this surprise gig may well have been the worst-kept secret of the edinburgh international film festival - the band play after the premiere of music fest movie all tomorrow's parties - but it's a solid reminder that stuart braithwaite and his crew have lost none of their power to thrill. their unique instrumental rock flows like molten lava, guitars switching between snaking melodies on hunted by a freak and white- hot fury on helicon 1. epic finale my father my king is superb too.

http://broonstunes.blogspot.com/2009/06/atp-film-premiere-mogwai-picture-house.html

http://andrewrhill.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-tomorrows-parties-night-of-musical.html

from http://www.edinburghguide.com/.../..alltomorrowsparties:

i can’t hear anything this morning. my ears are bleeding thanks to scotland’s premier psychedelic post rock band who didn’t just play very loudly last night at the hmv picture house but played through speakers that were actually 747 aircraft engines. well, it seemed that way to me. i had to retreat to the relative quiet of lothian road a couple of times. now there’s something - how often does ‘quiet’ and ‘lothian road’ appear in the same sentence or thought process.

it was the worst kept secret in scotland this year that the secret band that was playing the secret gig at the hippest event of the film festival (last night june 24th) was mogwai. all you heard all week from anyone you bumped into was ‘yeah it’ll be great…oh and by the way the secret band is mogwai but i didn’t tell you that.’ even mogwai told me. ‘we’re not playing the secret gig wink wink’. the comedy presenter who introduced them (a deliberately crap poet with a dolls house on stage) hinted that ‘they are a bit like the shadows’, which is like saying that nat king cole is a bit like diana ross.

yes, i admit mogwai don’t sing much but that doesn’t make them the shadows. i thought perhaps the mogwai rumour was a curve ball so that we’d be caught off guard when in fact it turned out to be belle and sebastian or aberfeldy or girls aloud doing sex pistols covers with the london symphony orchestra conducted by john williams. that would have been a genuine surprise and probably quite enjoyable.

i hope guest director joe dante, who was also in town last night having dinner with the slightly more legendary roger corman, took a moment to pop his head in as the band’s name comes from his…um very influential…. ..er…’landmark’ film….um…gremlins (bright light! bright light!).

and more here: http://www.edinburghguide.com/.../eiffledonkandatppartiesreviewed-3571

photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edfilmfest/sets/72157620401603173/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/futurecinema/sets/72157620728526342/

photo by jared earle

photos by paul cavers