Music: Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand – from homely to hedonistic

13 March 2025, The Tablet

photo: Alamy, Simon Newbury

Mogwai concerts (pictured at Jodrell Bank, 2022) are always marked by satisfied nods and ragged cheers as guitars change key for the next classic.

New album The Bad Fire (a Scottish Sunday school euphemism for hell) is the first since the astonishing chart-topping As the Love Continues.

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