Venue: Barbican centre london
Date: 26/07/2013
Mogwai don't play live that often so when the chance arises you have to make to effort so it was off to London to see them.
When I first tried to get tickets it said sold out and I was massively disappointed after randomly trying a few days later it appeared some amazing seats were back on sale, so they were quickly booked and plans were made.
A few years ago a film was made about the legendary Zidane it basically focused on him for an entire game and the makers asked mogwai to provide the soundtrack.
The film is effectively a silent movie with mogwai creating a soundtrack to bring the film to life. The idea of this event was that mogwai would play the soundtrack live, while the film was projected onto a giant screen.
After arriving at the barbican an immense maze of doors, stairs, corridors, weird toilets etc and £2.15 for a bottle of coke! It was time to take our seats.
Our seats were amazing! Row k right in the centre!
Words can't really do this experience justice the film was ace but mogwai were amazing the point during half time in the match was just stunning.
I have not been to a gig before where nobody moved, the crowd were motionless for close to 2hrs completely blown away by the experience.
The way the tension and emotion that was built up towards the climax of the film when Zidane got sent off was.... Well WOW!
After the film had finished mogwai came back on for an encore and finished the night with a sonic assault, so calm, yet intense and beautiful.
I really need to see mogwai again!
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