20 May 2025
British notorious post-punk bulldozers MCLUSKY, featuring diabolic loudmouth
Andrew Falkous, made a loud and clear mark on the indie list of decibels-producing
acts between 1993 and 2005 with three ear-piercing and politically outspoken albums.
The break-up wasn’t clearly a happy one.
Falkous told the world: “The three piece rock band known as mclusky have disbanded,
as of Friday 7 January 2005. The reason for this parting is private, though probably not
as entertaining as you’d imagine. Personally, I would like to thank all the people, places and times that occurred on or near us. I’m grateful for the love and to a lesser degree, the hate. There’ll be more music soon, from all of us.”
Then Falkous formed another significant, blaring group, named Future Of The Left,
including his wife on bass. They shook the planet with 5 full CDs (so far).
In between, in 2014 Mclusky returned with new bassist/vocalist Damien Sayell for a benefit gig in London and played some more here and there. In 2023, they released a new 4-track EP, called Unpopular Parts Of A Pig / The Digger You Deep to fund a delayed US tour.
And only 2 weeks ago, they launched brand-new LP THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE. A splendiferous chop-chop-chop record, which they’re now about to present to half of the world on an extensive tour.
last Sunday, they landed in Brussels at Les Nuits Botanique
festival in Brussels and they smashed it big time.
Andrew goes Aaaaaarrgghhhh
They were greeted with rapturous cheers by their old and new fans as
heroes who suddenly and unexpectedly came back from what seemed like
an eternity.
And the trio were, clearly, impressed and entranced with the ecstatic reception. In return, they delivered a bloodcurdling set stuffed with old and new sucker-punches that came out of the gigantic speakers as exploding Molotov cocktails. They produce an amount of illegal decibels that cause a sort of electric chair experience.
Bass/voice freak Damien
Mclusky is one of those noizz bullies that wield their bass/guitar/drums battleaxes with a fearless ferocity that makes your body and mind go ballistic and out-of-control. They have no mercy. They slash, trash and crash, and aim for your brain and your psyche.
Most of the crowd screamed the old and the new words along with well-oiled vocal
cords that almost matched Falkous and Damien Sayell‘s immense, clamorous, badass voices. Gloriously deafening. Everybody, all ears included, was extremely over the
moon with this exorcistic happening. One of those rare reunions that feels/sounds
totally relevant and AWESOME. They did Brussels instead of Dallas this time.
SETLIST
1. Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
2. Without MSG I Am Nothing
3. Collagen Rock
4. What We’ve Learned
5. Unpopular Parts of a Pig
6. Falco vs. The Young Canoeist
7. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
8. Autofocus on the Prime Directive
9. You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus
10. Kafka‐Esque Novelist Franz Kafka
11. The Battle of Los Angelsea
12. Alan Is a Cowboy Killer
13. Chases
14. People Person
15. Whoyouknow
16. To Hell With Good Intentions
THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE
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TOUR 2025
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume
