Mogwai Returning To New Zealand This Summer

It feels like an age since Scottish avant-rock instrumentalists Mogwai touched down in Aotearoa, having last shaken the foundations of local venues eight years ago. Critical darlings from their early days in the mid-'90s right up to the launch of their 2021 Mercury Music Prize nominated, Scottish Album of The Year Award-winning latest studio record As The Love Continues — followed by 2022's Black Bird original soundtrack collection — the Glasgow four-piece will soon be unleashing their soundscape magnificence at Pōneke's The Opera House and Tāmaki Makaurau's The Powerstation. Performing material from their latest long player and "classic Mogwai tracks from their innovative career," this is what the group's legions of local fans have been impatiently waiting for. Be sure to nab tickets when they go live this coming Friday, brought to you by Solid Entertainment...

Mogwai

Thursday 29th February - The Opera House, Wellington
Friday 1st March - The Powerstation, Auckland

Tickets available now via Ticketmaster

Watch the video for Mogwai's 'Ritchie Sacramento' from As The Love Continues, a rare vocal-led track released in tribute to Dave Berman of Silver Jews...

Experience Mogwai's 'Coolverine' from their 2017 album Every Country's Sun...

Press release:

The magnificent, the majestic, the masters of some of the most sublime mind-bending music ever made. MOGWAI.

Solid Entertainment are proud to present the incomparable Scottish titans Mogwai, bringing their legendary live ferocity back to New Zealand for the first time in nine years. Unleashing their colossal sound in all its beauty and rage, the tour will feature Mogwai’s UK 2021 number one album As The Love Continues, as well as classic Mogwai tracks from their innovative career.

One of the best loved and most ground-breaking rock bands of the past three decades, Mogwai’s reputation is as vast as their thunderous music. Their incendiary live performances are known for their intensity and sonic brilliance captivating audiences with their expansive dynamic range. Mogwai shift seamlessly between delicate, mellow, tranquil melody, atmospheric soundscapes, hypnotic driving krautrock, through to pile driving headbangers and pummelling earthquake riffs.

Witnessing Mogwai perform live is a fully immersive experience – seeing, hearing and feeling a band and a sound like no other. Lost in music. You bet.