Name: Spaceships Over Glasgow
Brand: Stuart Braithwaite

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9781399607865special

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Colour

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format Books GB

Hardback

Format detail

Slip case, with exclusive colourway.  Hardback Folio, Photographic Evidence, featuring unseen photographs. Signed by Stuart Braithwaite

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Hachette

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

9781399607865

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1 / Extended format: Yes / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: Yes

Artist

Stuart Braithwaite

Genre GB

Music

Label GB

White Rabbit

Books of the Year 2022

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/best-of/2022">Rough Trade Books Of The Year: #5</a> Born the son of Scotland’s last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most groundbreaking post-rock bands of the past three decades.

Modestly delinquent at school, Stuart developed an early appetite for ‘alternative’ music in what might arguably be described as its halcyon days, the late 80s. Discovering bands like Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, and Jesus and Mary Chain, and attending seminal gigs (often incongruously incognito as a young girl with long hair to compensate for his babyface features) by The Cure and Nirvana, Stuart compensated for his indifference to school work with a dedication to rock and roll … and of course the fledgling hedonism that comes with it.

After an initial outing in the unfortunately (and provocatively named), Pregnant Nun, Stuart – alongside teenage friends Dominic Aitchison and Martin Bulloch - upgrades the band name to MOGWAI. They release their first single ‘Tuner/Lower’ in 1996. Championed by the legendary John Peel, and making a name for themselves for tinnitus-inducing live shows, MOGWAI’S subsequent single ‘Summer’ is named Single of the Week in NME. Their first album, Mogwai Young Team, follows to significant critical acclaim.

Spaceships Over Glasgow is a lovesong to live rock and roll; to the passionate abandon we’ve all felt in the crowd (and some of us, if lucky enough, from the stage) at a truly incendiary rock and roll show. It is also the story of a life lived on the edge; of the high-times and hazardous pit-stops of international touring with a band of misfits and miscreants.

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Books GB

Discover Spaceships Over Glasgow by Stuart Braithwaite. Limited edition hardback book with signed copies, exclusively from Rough Trade. Label: White Rabbit. A love song to live rock and roll and the highs and hazards of international touring.