THEY'VE already soundtracked the dead rising from the grave and a film on French footballer Zinedine Zidane - but Glasgow greats Mogwai fancy some sci-fi in the future.

The group are currently enjoying a terrific year that saw eighth album Rave Tapes crack the Top 10 in the charts, and they'll headline the East End Social's Last Big Weekend this Saturday in Richmond Park.

Soon they'll be working on scoring the second season of The Returned, the French supernatural show that featured the dead coming back to life.

But there's another couple of genres the band fancy exploring.

"Our music has a certain atmosphere to it, and we're probably best sticking to things that suit it," muses Stuart Braithwaite, their guitarist.

"I would like to try something sci-fi, maybe a bit more surreal, but I have a feeling we'll be stuck with miserable things about dead people for a while. Although that's not bad at all - we could be stuck doing rom-coms."

The prospect of a Mogwai-scored romantic comedy does raise bizarre possibilities, but is perhaps best avoided.

After nearly two decades together, they are still one of Scotland's best bands, and they'll be giving a typically thunderous display on Saturday, closing the first day of the Last Big Weekend in style.

The varied bill will feature classic guitar groups like The Wedding Present and Swervedriver alongside emerging talent such as local duo Honeyblood and hip-hop trio Young Fathers, while Sunday's DJ and electronica dominated bill will be co-headlined by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, Hudson Mohawke and Jeff Mills.

It caps off the first East End Social, which Stuart reckons has been a big success.

"I think the whole East End Social has been good at bringing music to the East End, and the Commonwealth Games as a whole was brilliant for the city, so this is the end of a very good summer for Glasgow," he says.

"The East End's always been a neglected bit of the city for music, and with more and more people moving there it's good to take things from the city centre or the west end and move them there, and maybe introduce some people to some different music."

The band will be coming to the Richmond Park show fresh off a busy summer that's seen them tour Japan and play Glastonbury.

They also re-visited their classic 1999 second album, Come On Die Young, with a new deluxe edition featuring demos and unreleased songs.

"It was quite weird going back to it," adds Stuart.

"We're not big on looking back that much, and some of the songs we found when looking back we couldn't remember playing them.

"It felt like we'd found some songs by a different band on some tapes that said Mogwai on them by mistake."

Away from music, Stuart's been actively supporting independence, and he's pleased the debate has dragged political issues into everyday debate.

"I think that whatever the outcome is, it has illuminated how politics affects people's lives," he says.

"They've had to look at decisions that certain governments make, and they've looked around the country and asked if we're doing as well as we could.

"The amount of engagement has been good and I really hope that the turnout is as high as people are saying it will be."

As for the group's own future, plans are underway to make a milestone next year.

"There's an EP out in the autumn, and then we're planning a lot of stuff next year for the 20th anniversary, although exactly what we're not sure about yet.

"It's really weird thinking about it but we should give ourselves a wee pat on the back, it's quite extraordinary.

"We didn't even think we'd ever make it to recording an album…"

l The Last Big Weekend, Saturday/Sunday, Richmond Park, 1pm. Tickets £38.50 day/£70 for weekend.