MUGSTAR back on stage and gigging!
Many thanks to Richie Yates, Jack Horner, Barry Houghton and all involved in The Conjuring Festival – Northern Lights at Fell Foot last weekend, in the Lake District.
Thanks for the cool photo Paul Evans at painted.papillon.smile

Apologies to those of you planning to see MUGSTAR at Foxlowe Arts Centre in Leek on Friday 30th August. The show has been cancelled at short notice. This is nothing to do with MUGSTAR. The decision has been made by the venue & the promoter.

The show has been cancelled at short notice. This is nothing to do with MUGSTAR.
The decision has been made by the venue & the promoter.

Following an unexpected extended hiatus, plans are beginning to coalesce…
Finger poised over the button to restart the MUGSTAR engines!

Released a year ago today!
Many thanks again to the awesome guys at Cardinal Fuzz & Centripetal Force Records for working their magic! Cool cover design work by painted.papillon.smile.
If you haven’t got your copy yet… we have black vinyl still available at Mugstar base camp. Email us direct via mugstarhq@gmail.com – Includes full colour insert and download code.

Many thanks to all that have supported MUGSTAR throughout the last twelve months. Obviously, we really missed being able to play live shows and meet up in person with friends and bands. But, we did get to release two albums: “Invisible Wind Factory”, recorded live performance with Damo Suzuki – and our latest studio album “Graft”. Thanks to The Weird Beard and Cardinal Fuzz / Centripetal Force labels respectively. Thanks too for the positive reviews for the albums (some of which are posted on the “Reviews” page here on this site) such as the most recent in from The Obelisk below…

BEST WISHES TO ALL FOR 2021!

The Obelisk – Graft album review…

MUGSTAR, GRAFT

“Not that the initial droning wash of “Deep is the Air” or the off-blasted “Zeta Potential” and warp-drive freneticism in “Cato” don’t have their appeal — oh, they do — but when it comes to UK lords-o’-space Mugstar‘s latest holodeck-worthy full-length, GRAFT, it’s the mellow drift-jazz of the 12-minute “Ghost of a Ghost” that feels most like matter dematerialization to me. Side B’s “Low, Slow Horizon” answers back later on ahead of the motorik linear build in the finale “Star Cage,” but the 12-minute vibe-fest that is “Ghost of a Ghost” gives GRAFT a vastness to match its thrust, which becomes essential to the space-borne feel. It’s 41 minutes, still ripe for an LP, but the kind of album that has a genuine affect on mood and mindset, breaking down on a molecular level both and remolding them into something hopefully more evolved on some level through cosmic meditation. Fast or slow, up or down, in or out, it doesn’t ultimately matter. Nothing does. But there’s a moment in GRAFT where the one-skin-on-another thing becomes apparent and all the masks drop away. What’s left after that?”

JJ Koczan (H.P. Taskmaster)

Quarterly Review: Fuzz, Crippled Black Phoenix, Bethmoora, Khan, The Acid Guide Service, Vexing Hex, KVLL, Mugstar, Wolftooth, Starmonger