Showing posts with label McLusky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McLusky. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

// 2006 Shooting At Unarmed Men - Yes! Tinnitus!


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Shooting At Unarmed Men is the music project of former Mclusky member Jon Chapple (vocals/guitar), Steve Morgan (drums), and Big Joan member Simon Jarvis (bass). The original bassist for the band's formal incarnation was King Alexander member Simon Alexander (bass/vocals), although the band had existed as a sporadical joke since circa 1999. Alexander also co-wrote the mclusky song "Chases", from the mclusky Do Dallas album.

"Yes! Tinnitus!" was released on May 22nd 2006 - however, Chapple has since moved to Melbourne, Australia for two years (the band played their last gig in the Northern Hemisphere on April 16th 2006 at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach, where Chapple also sold most of his books, videos and some of his records). Since emigrating, Chapple has assembled an Australian incarnation of the band with members of the bands The Cheats and Riff Random - Tom Cooper and Julian Tovey. Chapple hinted at the possibility of maintaining two distinct versions of the band in order to play shows on both continents[1]. During October 2006, the band played a weekly residency at the Tote in Melbourne, played at the Melbourne show in the Big Day Out festival in January 2007 and continue to be an active part of the local music scene.
  • Pathos Ate Bathos
  • A Horse By Day Is A Horse By Night
  • Never Follow Me Again
  • All Hail Sergio
  • Girls Music
  • I Am United Nations
  • Put Yourself On The Proverbial
  • I Cry For No Man
  • Get On Out And Come Right In
  • In-Flight Instructions Are A Joke - Say I

// 2007 Future Of The Left - Curses

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Curses is the debut release of Welsh band Future of the Left.
It was released on September 24th, 2007 in the UK and October 1st in Japan. A surprise to some fans of Jarcrew and mclusky was the band's occasional move towards songs with a synthesizer, namely a Roland Juno-60, in favour of Falco's guitar - this has been met with mixed reactions both live and on record, but reviews[2] and discussions on the band's messageboard have, on the whole, been extremely positive. On August 8th 2007, Too Pure released a podcast of Falco discussing Curses - as well as his opinion on a number of other topics - with Radio Wales DJ Huw Stevens

  1. "The Lord Hates A Coward"
  2. "Plague Of Onces"
  3. "Fingers Become Thumbs"
  4. "Manchasm"
  5. "Fuck The Countryside Alliance"
  6. "My Gymnastic Past"
  7. "Suddenly It's A Folk Song"
  8. "Kept By Bees"
  9. "Small Bones Small Bodies"
  10. "Wrigley Scott"
  11. "Real Men Hunt In Packs"
  12. "Team:Seed"
  13. "adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood"
  14. "The Contrarian"

Monday, January 21, 2008

// 2002 McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas

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Mclusky Do Dallas is the second album by three-piece Welsh band Mclusky, released in 2002 by Beggars offshoot Too Pure Records. The album's title is a spin on Debbie Does Dallas, a famous 1978 pornographic movie.

  1. "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" – 1:51
  2. "No New Wave No Fun" – 2:19
  3. "Collagen Rock" – 2:52
  4. "What We've Learned" – 1:54
  5. "Day of the Deadringers" – 3:01
  6. "Dethink to Survive" – 1:58
  7. "Fuck This Band" – 3:38
  8. "To Hell with Good Intentions" – 2:25
  9. "Clique Application Form" – 1:53
  10. "The World Loves Us and Is Our Bitch" – 2:23
  11. "Alan is a Cowboy Killer" – 4:09
  12. "Gareth Brown Says" – 1:50
  13. "Chases" – 1:47
  14. "Whoyouknow / Reviewing the Reviewers" – 3:53