#McLusky

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And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I make more content in this fandom than anyone should ever need lol

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8/19/24.

I'm so happy that mclusky (Bristol, UK) are back. Word is that they're actually making a new album. Certainly, they've been revisiting old albums and touring. I got the remastered version of "mclusky do dallas" and literally cherish it. I'm a little embarrassed to say that, but there it is.

Today, came the announcement that 2004's "the difference between me and you is that i'm not on fire" is being reissued in remastered (by Bob Weston) form.

This album has some very catchy songs, but has more abrasive songs than "dallas". I've always thought mclusky were completely original, but I do know that many cite Pixies. This album tends more to Wire or The Fall at times.

This looks to be reissued by Beggars Arkive.

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Smelly’s Song Of The Week…..

McLUSKY - To Hell With Good Intentions

TOS

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Listen/purchase: unpopular parts of a pig by mclusky

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Welsh Legends Mclusky Announce First New Record In 20 Years!

Welsh Post-Hardcore legends Mclusky have just announced their first new album in 20 years: ‘The World Is Still Here And So Are We’. Set to be released on May 9 via Ipecac Recordings, the full-length follows on from their 2004 record, ‘The Difference Between Me And You Is That I’m Not On Fire’, and will arrive amid some UK and European tour dates the same month. The band have also shared two new…

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hi guys

it's one of those days when mclusky of all things is making me feel previously unknown emotions

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You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus — mclusky

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Sketch time

(I love them)

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2/25/25.

Great day-after mclusky post: Peer Pressure Zombies make quasi-egg punk music that is a bit schizophrenic in the way I thought mclusky was the first few times I listened to them.

Actually, Peer Pressure Zombies remind me of Ausmuteants - the great Melbourne band who, along with The Coneheads, predated the egg-punk movement by a decade.

I thought I'd better alert you to this release before it sells out. The drummer's name is Janet Yellen - is that real? Or is it a shout-out to former the former Secretary of Treasury?

Peer Pressure Zombies are based in Cleveland, Ohio. This appears to be self-released.

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mclusky The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 8 March 2024 article and gallery here

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Mclusky's Good Intentions

Mclusky's Andy "Falco" Falkous

BY JORDAN MAINZER

"Fuck This Band". It's the name of the song Andy "Falco" Falkous and Mclusky have been opening their sets with on their triumphant return to many North American cities, including Chicago last Friday at the Vic. It's an effective calm before the storm of noise and chaos that inevitably enraptures the moshing crowd. And it's an appropriate sentiment, tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, referential to the very loud ruckus that presumably caused the initial postponement of these tour dates to begin with. A Molotov cocktail of aural health issues forced Falkous to make fans wait a little bit longer to celebrate 20 years of Mclusky Do Dallas. It was immediately apparent from the opening chords of "Dethink to Survive" that our patience paid off: Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone donning protective headphones, the band launched into a burst of razor wire guitars and pummeling percussion, and never stopped.

From left to right: Mclusky's Damien Sayell, Jack Egglestone, Falkous

Sayell, Egglestone, & Falkous

The post-hardcore band's influence is wide-reaching. You can hear Falkous' everyman sprechgesang in the cubicle shouts of Pissed Jeans' Matt Korvette, his frantic non-sequiturs in the nervy yelp rock of Squid, both of whom were featured on the house playlist before Mclusky took the stage. But the band continues to be good at its own game, too. Last year, they shared their first new material in 19 years, and they played two of those released songs on Friday, sounding like 2002 just as much as 2023. "Two minutes and forty five seconds is the optimum length of a rock and roll song," Falkous declared, after letting the audience know it was okay not to pretend they like new songs. But "Unpopular Parts of a Pig" is a trademark Mclusky tune, alternating between deceptively melodic shouts and droning chants, plus a loud-quiet-loud dynamic and sardonic lyrics chiding useless platitudes. Thematically and instrumentally, it nestled perfectly between the ugly guitar distortion and Damien Sayell's meaty bass on "Day of the Deadringers", and crowd favorite "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues". Meanwhile, the blown-out bass of "The Digger You Deep" and unreleased barnburner "Et Tu, Edwards?" gave the crowd a chance to let loose between "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" and "You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus", two The Difference Between You and Me Is That I'm Not on Fire songs that satirize the tortured artist and toxic masculinity.

Sayell, Egglestone, & Falkous

Really, though, to a certain generation of Mclusky fans, Friday first and foremost represented an event we thought would never come. To hear Falkous' introductory chirping on "Without MSG I Am Nothing", Egglestone's brawny thuds on "Chases", and the shout-alongs of "To Hell With Good Intentions" and "Alan Is a Cowboy Killer" was a thrilling exercise in nostalgia for some and disbelief for others. Towards the end of the set, Falkous took the time to thank everyone involved in the show, even those he had met just that night, an act of working class solidarity before his effortless bout of sarcasm: "This cavalcade of sincerity must end soon." Given Falkous' ability to lighten the mood through his well-intentioned derision, it's easy to see why Mclusky continues to be great today.

Falkous

Sayell

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Think of death as a medium-sized yellow robot

That should help

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My YouTube video about the post hardcore band Mclusky.

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March 2024