Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite will tell the story of his life and musical career in a new memoir, Pitchfork reports.
White Rabbit will publish Braithwaite’s Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth this summer. The Hachette UK imprint calls the memoir “a love song 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 gig.”
Braithwaite began his musical career in the bands Deadcat Motorbike and Eska before founding Mogwai in 1995 with his friend Martin Bulloch.
The Scottish post-rock band released their first album, Mogwai Young Team, in 1997. Nine more studio albums would follow, including Come On Die Young; Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will; and, most recently, As the Love Continues.
White Rabbit says Braithwaite’s book is “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.”
Braithwaite announced the book on Instagram, writing, “It’s about my teenage idiocy, life in general, gigs and playing in Mogwai.”
Spaceships Over Glasgow is slated for publication in the U.K. on Sept. 1. There’s no word yet on whether the book will be published in the U.S.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
