Mogwai Announce US Public Screenings Of Concert Film "Burning"

"Burning," Mogwai's concert film collaboration with Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac will be getting screen time around the US this fall. Following its release on August 24th (packaged with accompanying live album Special Moves), there will be full screenings of the film in multiple locations around the country. More cities are going to be announced over the coming weeks so please stay tuned for more details.

For Parisian visionaries Moon and Le Scouarnec (REM: Supernatural Superserious; Take-Away Shows), the three night residency they recorded at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg in early 2009 presents itself as a 45-minute modern, urban noir thriller through the electrifying streets of New York. In grainy black and white, the show unfolds. The band make their way through a rain-washed Manhattan as ‘I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead' hovers like a commuter's soundtrack in the background.

A Mogwai gig is an experience of the senses, and "Burning" comes as close to the real thing as one could ever hope. As the opening quote to the bands debut album Young Team, a recording of a Norwegian fan reading a review of the band, suggests: "this music is bigger than words, wider than pictures; if the stars had a sound, they would sound like this." Yes, that they would...

Public Screening Dates in North America

• Aug 24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

• Aug 24 - Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Cinematheque

• Aug 25 - Seattle, WA @ JBL Theater

• Aug 26 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall

• Aug 28 - Long Beach, CA @ Art Theatre of Long Beach
• Aug 28 - Cambridge, MA @ Brattle Theatre

• Sept 2 - Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot

• Sept 4 - San Francisco @ Roxie Theater

• Sept 10- Portland, OR @ Bagdad Theater

• Sept 12 - Los Angeles @ Echoplex

• Sept 14 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake Underground (2 showings)

• Sept 23 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater

Tracklists:

Special Moves

1. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
2. Friend of the Night
3. Hunted By a Freak
4. Mogwai Fear Satan
5. Cody
6. You Don't Know Jesus
7. I Know You Are But What Am I
8. I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
9. 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
10. Like Herod
11. Glasgow Megasnake

Extra tracks on vinyl and CD download

1. Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home
2. Scotland's Shame
3. New Paths to Helicon Part 1
4. Batcat
5. Thank You Space Expert
6. The Precipice

"Burning"

1. 1. The Precipice
2. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
3. Hunted By a Freak
4. Like Herod
5. New Paths to Helicon Part1
6. Mogwai Fear Satan
7. Scotland's Shame
8. Batcat

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