Well, I liked Mogwai since their second single but they were yet another scottish band who I never got to see live either in Aberdeen or when I went to Glasgow, although I did see Stuart once at a Pavement gig but I never spoke to him. But we were at the Intercity Crawl in Glasgow and saw Magoo who were fantastic and then we went to see Formula One. There were only about twenty people there which was a real shame 'cos they played a really good set but I spotted Stuart Mogwai down at the front. I was thinking about speaking to him and then he started dancing really stupidly and he would run to the front and put his drink on a speaker after every song just so he could applaud them and I thought that was really cool of him not to be all pop starry and disinterested.

So when they'd finished I went up and gave him a fanzine and asked him when Mogwai would play Aberdeen and Stuart said they'd come in March and he was definitely up for it. We then discovered we'd both been to the same Swervedriver gig in Aberdeen years ago and talked about my fab home-made yummy fur t-shirt and Eska. I told Stuart how Chris Eska seemed scared of me and Stuart showed me what I had probably done to Chris' shy psyche by spinning me around the room shouting "Chris, Chris!" at me, much to Nicolette's puzzlement. They never did play Aberdeen that tour - Stuart phoned me to apologise (!) and we arranged to do an interview in Manchester instead. So follow me as I follow Mogwai from city to city in my quest to get them to play Aberdeen.

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