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Mogwai is: Dominic Aitchison Stuart Braithwaite Martin Bulloch Barry Burns John Cummings "I"m gonna take satisfaction/I"m gonna get rock action" - Iggy Pop: "Rock Action" "I wanted to see if fire would burn me/You"d think I would know if four walls could hold me" - Mogwai: "O I Sleep" When is a rock band not a rock band? When that rock band is called Mogwai. "A lot of people make art-rock but forget to actually rock. We"re a rock "n" roll band that avoids clichés." Thus spake Mogwai almost four-and-a-half years ago. Much has changed in their world since then, but that basic declaration of principle remains unyielding. This is a group simultaneously focused and unhinged, as rooted in tradition as they are compelled to refute conventional practice. They"re just as likely to stroke your head as mess with it, but they"ll do that too, because they can and because it"s necessary. ...