Ever since Oasis announced their plans to reform – playing 17 shows across the UK between June and September – we’ve been told this must be a Britpop summer.

But what about another 90s band, formed four years after Oasis in 1995, who have been unrelenting in the consistency of their musical output since then, and – also unlike the Gallagher brothers – haven’t felt the slightest need to turn themselves into tabloid fodder along the way?

In Mogwai’s first NME interview, founding member Stuart Braithwaite declared the Glaswegian band were on “a crusade against the kind of person who chooses to be in a band not because they think people deserve to hear their music but because they want their face to be on the cover of magazines”. It wasn’t just Oasis they were rallying against. At T

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