First off I'd just like to say that stuck behind my University's firewall Mog-o-matic doesn't seem to be able to talk to the outside world, despite getting all it's proxy settings from Internet Explorer which works absolutely fine! If anyone has any suggestions let me know, as half the point of this thing seems to show what I'm listening to and with Mog-o-matic blocked or whatever that isn't going to be happening.Anyway, I thought I'd start off this journey into the Mog-o-sphere with a post about my third favourite band of the moment (more on numbers 1 and 2 later on...) Guillemots who I saw perform at Newcastle University a couple of weeks ago.I picked up the album way back when it came out at the beginning of the summer but it didn't really grab a hold of me for a couple of weeks. The opening track, Little Bear is kind of deceptive, in that though quite beautiful, it doesn't jump out and grab you like some of the other tracks do on the album. In fact, the track that has had the biggest impact around the world seems to be Trains to Brazil. This was certainly reflected at the gig in Newcastle. Through most of it (and most suprisingly through Made-up Lovesong #43 which is just gorgeous) the crowd watched in almost revered silence. It wasn't until the encore and they literally launched into Trains to Brazil that the place came alive and all of a sudden people were singing every word along with Fyfe.However, no matter how good a song Trains to Brazil is (and it is a very, very good song) it was Sao Paulo that I was waiting for, and they didn't disappoint, the freaky jazz out and the end of Trains to Brazil slowly melded, twisted and contorted until out of it rose the haunting piano refrain that kicks off Sao Paulo about 1:30 into the album version. For me it is easily their finest work to date. A sweeping tale that is both heartfelt and elegiac (__I've lost love in many places / not least the streets of Sao Paulo__) but also completely uplifting. The variety in the music is equal to these themes as well, the band really showing their breadth of talent. It is a song that makes you want to sing from the rooftops, but also a very personal experience and it was awesome to be able to share that with Guillemots themselves at their gig. They are easily the most inventive British band out their at the moment and I can't wait to hear what they come up with next.I've added a couple of photos I took at the gig, the first of Fyfe at his keyboards, and the second of Aristazabal singing one of their new songs.