Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite is releasing a new memoir later this year

13 April 2022, 10:26 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite has announced his new memoir Spaceships over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth, which is due for release in September.

The memoir will see Braithwaite revisit his childhood in Scotland, as well as his decades-long career with Mogwai, from their 1996 debut single up until their 2021 chart-topping album As The Love Continues, and is set to arrive on 1 September via White Rabbit.

On Twitter Braithwaite wrote of the book, "I am immensely proud to be releasing a book called Spaceships Over Glasgow on White Rabbit on September the 1st. It’s about my teenage idiocy, life in general, gigs and playing in Mogwai."

I am immensely proud to be releasing a book called Spaceships Over Glasgow on @WhiteRabbitBks on September the 1st. It’s about my teenage idiocy, life in general, gigs and playing in Mogwai. Check it out. https://t.co/YUo23FLsR6 pic.twitter.com/ihnpmQauY4
— stuart braithwaite (@plasmatron) April 13, 2022

In a press release, he added, "I am immensely proud to be working with White Rabbit on my first book Spaceships Over Glasgow. The process of researching it and writing it has been challenging but one that I’ve really enjoyed. It’s incredibly exciting to be able to share it with the world."

Lee Brackstone, the publisher of White Rabbit said, "From his early years in thrall to the giants of alternative music like MBV, JAMC and Sonic Youth to improbable sonic misadventures on tour with one of the greatest psychedelic bands of the present day, Mogwai, Stuart Braithwaite’s memoir is a funny and righteous celebration of a life lived on the road and in the studio, dedicated to the pursuit of aural (and occasionally) psychic enlightenment and obliteration."

Stuart Braithwaite's Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth book will arrive 1 September via White Rabbit, and is available to pre-order now.