Mogwai

Celebrating 20 years exploring the colossal extremes of rock mythology, the Scottish instrumental heavyweights continue their momentous run of two sold-out performances at London's Royal Festival Hall and a rapturous Glastonbury appearance to unleash their searing guitars on the Sydney Opera House – fresh from drawing a whole new legion of fans with their electronic-tinged Rave Tapes and soundtrack to the hit television series, The Returned.

Expanding the emotional blueprint of wordless rock in the footsteps of Slint whilst taking cues from Sonic Youth, the Pixies and The Cure, the guitar-driven quintet have scaled the endless cycles of rock 'n' roll rebirth with a near-religious cult following since their early back-to-back classics, Come On Die Young (1999) and Rock Action (2001). Maintaining a steady spread of albums whilst slowly expanding their sonic palette to feature the likes of Manic Street Preachers, My Bloody Valentine, Snow Patrol and Henry Rollins, Mogwai's recent ventures have seen them collaborate with film legend Darren Aronofsky, the Kronos Quartet and the prodigious Nils Frahm.

Championed by late radio legend John Peel and signed to Seattle's influential Sub Pop records, Mogwai have proved a rare band already embedded in the pantheon of greats whilst still operating at the peak of their powers. Maintaining a flicker of surprise in their ever-changing sets and signature, self-effacing humour in their song titles, Mogwai are set to submerge audiences in a titanic journey from symphony-like sweeps through to transcendent walls of guitar, upon guitar, upon guitar in an evening of pure rock-drawn drama.