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MOGWAI - THE SPIRIT OF PUNK (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th February 2025
Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai celebrates the rule breakers & disruptors of the music world. From trailblazers like The Velvet Underground to the DIY noise makers of the 2020s. Featuring music from The Sisters of Mercy, Suicide, NEU!, and closing with a track Stuart considers "the best minute of music ever made"...
Adolescents - Kids Of The Black Hole
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
The Sisters Of Mercy - Floorshow
Sacred Paws - The Conversation
Elisabeth Elektra - Broken Promises
K U T E - Take It Off
Neu! - Super
My Bloody Valentine - Drive It All Over Me
Kurt Ralske & Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat
Piney Grove Spiritual Singers - Get Back Satan
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
The Velvet Underground - Rock And Roll
Zola Jesus - Night
Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
Black Flag - Wasted
MOGWAI - IN THE FRAME (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th February 2025
Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai curates a collection of cinematic music, featuring scores from his favourite films & TV shows, plus tracks he believes are movie soundtrack worthy. Including music from Hiroshi Yoshimura, Siouxsie & The Banshees, the iconic 'Escape from New York' main title, and a tribute to the visionary filmmaker, David Lynch.
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Dance PM
Labradford - Streamlining
Richie Culver - Slow Car
claire rousay - ii
Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
Boards Of Canada - Gyroscope
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Escape From New York Main Title
Stars Of The Lid - Another Ballad For Heavy Lids
Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
MOGWAI - SONIC TRIP (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th February 2025
Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai takes us on a journey through his favourite psychedelic tunes, from the pioneering sounds of the 1960s to the contemporary scene of today. Featuring tracks from the likes of The Zombies, Autechre, The Cure and a cut from Fontaines D.C.'s latest album.
Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed
Silver Jews - The Wild Kindness
Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me
Bardo Pond - Tommy Gun Angel
Grouper - Headache
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
Fontaines D.C. - In The Modern World
Angel Olsen - Lark
The Cure - Endsong
Autechre - Crystel
MOGWAI - ROADNOTES (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 24th February 2025
Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai shares the tracks that accompany him on his travels, spanning from his university days to the tunes he turns to while touring with his bandmates. Expect a mix of influences, with artists like Oneohtrix Point Never, Burial, Bdrmm, and Lana Del Rey shaping the soundtrack to Stuart's time on the road.
Lana Del Rey - A&W
Rudolph Taylor - Doorsteps To Sorrow
Oneohtrix Point Never & ANOHNI - Returnal
Kathryn Joseph - The Bird
David Bowie - My Death (Live In Santa Monica '72)
The Chills - Pink Frost
Cloth - Low Sun
Burial - Come Down To Us
Bob Dylan - Isis
The Twilight Sad - VTr
bdrmm - John On The Ceiling
MOGWAI - LIVE 6 MUSIC FESTIVAL (2025) (320kbs-m4a/166mb/1hr12mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th March 2025
Mogwai, and some very special guests, headline the Friday night at the 6 Music Festival 2025.
Mogwai - God Gets You Back
Mogwai - Hi Chaos
Mogwai - Richie Sacramento
Mogwai - Fanzine Made Of Flesh
Mogwai - Auto Rock
Mogwai - Remurdered
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
Mogwai - Lion Rumpus
Mogwai - Ether
Mogwai - Burn Girl Prom Queen
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
MOGWAI - LIVE AND IN SESSION (320kbs-m4a/138mb/1hr)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th March 2025
Mogwai: Live and in Session. 6 Music Festival headliners Mogwai recorded in session at Maida Vale and live at the Reading Festival.
Mogwai - Waltz For Jo (Radio 1 Session, 22 Dec 1996)
Mogwai - Mogwai Salute The Brilliance Of Steve Lamacq (Radio 1 Session, 22 Dec 1996)
Mogwai - Spoon Test (Radio 1 Session, 23 Aug 1998)
Mogwai - Cody (Radio 1 Session, 23 Aug 1998)
Mogwai - Superheroes Of BMX (Radio 1 Session, 22 Dec 1996)
Mogwai - Summer (Priority Version) (Radio 1 Session, 22 Dec 1996)
Mogwai - Ithica 27 ϕ 9 (Reading Festival, 25 Aug 2001)
Mogwai - My Father My King (Reading Festival, 25 Aug 2001)
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 21.11.21 (320kbs-m4a/135mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st November 2021
Stuart Braithwaite closes out the current series with a relaxing playlist, including music from The Velvet Underground, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey and more.
The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll [Verve]
Primal Scream - Imperial
PJ Harvey - The Ministry Of Defence [Island]
Koreless - Black Rainbow [Young]
Elisabeth Elektra - Sadie (Ajimal Remix) [Occult Babes]
Low - Days Like These [Sub Pop]
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder [20/20/20]
Hood - Useless [Domino]
Circuit des Yeux - Vanishing [Matador]
Rev Magnetic - Sunny Windy Winter Morning (Rainbows Spanning The Valley) [Rock Action]
bdrmm - Momo [Tugboat]
The Pastels - Lonely Planet Boy
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle [Polydor]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 31.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st October 2021
Stuart is back as host with a calming playlist to soothe your soul. Including music from Nick Cave & The Badseeds, Sam Cooke, The Orb and many more.
Angel Olsen - Lark [Jagjaguwar]
Anohni - Crisis [Rough Trade]
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground [Sony]
Sam Cooke - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen [RCA]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen Speaks [Ghosteen]
Spiritualized - Broken Heart [Sony]
Brainwaltzera - Kurrytee [MIDI_2_CV] [2017 FILM]
Clark - Labent Rag
Son House - John The Revelator [Sony]
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds [Virgin]
Tortoise - Gamera
Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream [Columbia]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 10.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th October 2021
Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite is back as host, playing you a relaxing mix of music he loves to travel to. Including tracks from Burial, David Bowie, Cat Power, Arab Strap and more.
múm - The Colorful Stabwound [Morr Music]
Lubomyr Melnyk & Jamie Perera - Sunshimmers [Erased Tapes]
Karen Dalton - Reason To Believe [Delmore Recording Society]
David Bowie - Blackstar [Sony]
Burial - NYC [Hyperdub]
Julianna Barwick (Feat. Mary Lattimore) - Oh, Memory [Ninja Tune]
Num Num - South Quay [A Colourful Storm]
Arab Strap - The Turning Of Our Bones [Rock Action]
Purple Mountains - Margaritas At The Mall [Drag City]
Pavement - Strings Of Nashville [Matador]
Cat Power - Good Woman [Matador]
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You [Philips]
Leonard Cohen - Sing Another Song, Boys [Sony]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 19.09.21 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th September 2021
A relaxing mix of music to encourage a meditative state and evoke the feeling of being on the move, put together by Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite. Including music from Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Grouper and more.
Labradford - I [Kranky]
Neu! - Hallogallo [Grönland]
Grouper - Call Across Rooms [Kranky]
Brian Eno - By This River [Virgin]
Belong - The Door Opens The Other Way [Belong]
My Bloody Valentine - Drive It All Over Me [Domino]
Low - Lust [Virgin]
Julian Cope - Safesurfer [Island]
Mdou Moctar - Tahoultine [Sahel Sounds]
The Staple Singers - Will The Circle Be Unbroken [Vee Jay]
Boards Of Canada - Gemini [Warp]
Stars Of The Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers Part 1 [Kranky]
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th [Warp]
MOGWAI (STUART BRAITHWAITE) - BREEZEBLOCK 26.05.03 (320kbs/73mb/32mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 26th May 2003
Ivor Cutler - Jam (Peel 97) [White Label]
Nova 23 - Unknown [White Label]
Nas - Made You Look [Columbia]
The Rapture - Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks [Sub Pop]
Japanatha - Unknown [White Label]
Mobb Deep - Quiet Storm (Remix) [Loud]
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love [Mute]
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl (Kid606 Remix) [Kill Rock Stars]
Juvenile - Back That Ass Up [Universal]
Wire - Ex Lion Tamer [EMI]
MOGWAI (STUART BRAITHWAITE) - BREEZEBLOCK 17.06.02 (320kbs/109mb/48mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 17th June 2002
Schneider TM - Reality Check [White Label]
Kling Klang - Rocker [Guided Missile]
Codec - Breakout Maru [Forte]
808 State - Flow Coma (AFX Remix) [Rephlex]
Dream Sequence - Codine [Dance]
Cylob - Cut The Midrange, Drop The Bass [Rephlex]
Bis - Love Will Tear Us Apart [White Label]
Datathief - Bandwidth [Orange]
OutKast - Bombs Over Baghdad [White Label]
Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher [Warp]
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman [Capitol]
THE STORY OF MOGWAI (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th August 2017
Mary Anne Hobbs talks to Stuart Braithwaite of the band about their career to date, with contributions from Gruff Rhys, Clint Mansell and journalist Jane Graham.
They move through his early influences and how the success of fellow Scottish bands such as Jesus And Mary Chain and Primal Scream really helped give them confidence. They discuss how the band create their music and why there are very few vocals. Mary Anne asks about John Peel who was a key player in their early career, they discuss just how important sessions and records of the week use to be before moving into talking about their more recent soundtrack work. Live performance is at the heart of what the band do, and they discuss why this is so important.
First broadcast in 2015.
Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak [PIAS]
Mogwai - San Pedro [Rock Action]
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs [Verve]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cracking Up [Creation]
Bauhaus - Double Dare
The Pastels - Check My Heart [Domino]
Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven [Blast First]
Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power [Virgin]
Mogwai - New Paths To Helicon (Part 1) [Rock Action]
Mogwai - Summer [Rock Action]
Joy Division - Transmission
Sonic Youth - Shadow Of A Doubt [Geffen]
Mogwai - Summer (Priority Version) (Radio 1 Session, 22 December 1996)
Mogwai - Tracy [Chemikal Underground]
Mogwai - Mogwai Fears Satan (Live At Glastonbury 1999)
Mogwai - Mogwai Fears Satan (Surgeon Remix)
Mogwai & Kronos Quartet & Clint Mansell - Holy Dread! [Nonesuch]
Mogwai - Half Time [Play It Again Sam]
Stars Of The Lid - Another Ballad For Heavy Lids [Kranky]
James Orr Complex - Angry Mob
Errors - Lease Of Life (Radio Edit) [Rock Action]
Mogwai - Teenage Exorcists [Rock Action]
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th March 2017
As part of the 6 Music Festival in Glasgow, Stuart Braithwaite of local heroes Mogwai picks his favourites moments from the BBC's concert and session recordings of his own band. These include the Chemikal Underground 5th birthday celebrations in Glasgow in 2000, Mogwai's first Peel session (22.12.1996) and highlights of their appearance at the 2015 6 Music Festival in Tyneside.
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th March 2017
As part of the 6 Music Festival in Glasgow, local band Mogwai take over 6 Music for four hours and mine the BBC archives for gems.
For the first hour bandmembers Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns present a mix of some of their favourite music. This includes: Laraaji, Popol Vuh, Boards of Canada, Charlie Patton, Gaelic Psalm Singers From Lewis, Max Richter, Zyna Hel, Kaspar Hauser, SUMS, Unwound, Part Chimp, The Flaming Lips, Funkadelic and Konx-Om-Pax.