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Future of the Left
Origin Cardiff, Wales
Genre(s) Rock
Years active 2005 – present
Label(s) 4AD
Website Official website
Members
Andy "Falco" Falkous
Kelson Mathias
Jack Egglestone

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Members

It consists of singer/guitarist Andy "Falco" Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone, both previously of Cardiff band mclusky, alongside singer/bassist Kelson Mathias, formerly of the Ammanford-based group Jarcrew. Mclusky (often stylized as mclusky) was a three-piece Alternative rock group from Cardiff, Wales. Ammanford ( Rhydaman) is the third largest Town in the County of Carmarthenshire, Wales, with a population 5299 according to Jarcrew was a five-piece Progressive rock band from Ammanford, Wales. The band previously featured Hywel Evans, who has since gone on to start one of Cardiff's only notable math-rock bands, Truckers of Husk - he was also a former member of Jarcrew towards the end of Jarcrew's tenure, replacing fired bassist Ben Milner (Evans is also credited as a writer on Fingers Become Thumbs' B-side, The Fibre Provider). The band formed in mid-2005 after both Mclusky and Jarcrew split up within two months of each other at the beginning of the year - this was due to tensions within both bands. The band are signed to Too Pure (mclusky's label, and the label that is currently home to fellow mclusky off-shoot, Shooting At Unarmed Men). Too Pure is a London, United Kingdom based Independent record label that was formed in 1990 by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox 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 The label's good working relationship with Falkous and Egglestone - during both mclusky's career and breakup - ensured that the new band would have a home on the Too Pure roster.

First performance

Future of the Left played their first concert at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff on the 2nd of July 2006. A concert is a live Performance, usually of Music, before an Audience. Clwb Ifor Bach (Little Ivor's club is a Cardiff Nightclub, Music venue, Welsh-language Club and Community centre. Cardiff ( 'kɑːdɪf) is the Capital and the largest city and county in Wales. They used the alias the Mooks of Passim to avoid the concert being attended by large numbers of expectant mclusky and Jarcrew fans. Further secret gigs occurred with the band using aliases such as Guerilla Press and Dead Redneck. The first official headline show (and the first show the band played under the name Future of the Left) was played in Camden Barfly to a capacity crowd on September 1st, 2006 (it was also the only show of the tour - which hit Southampton, Bath, Brighton and the band's hometown of Cardiff - to sell out; the Cardiff show was inexplicably ill-attended, possibly why Andrew Falkous later went on to call it "[their] worst show so far" in a MySpace blog entry). Camden Town is the district of London, England around Camden High Street, in the London Borough of Camden. Barfly is a chain of Nightclubs in the UK. It has venues in Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Glasgow, Cardiff Southampton ( IPA /ˌsaʊθˈhæmptən/ is the largest city in the county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. Brighton ( is a town on the south coast of England and with its neighbour Hove, forms the city of Brighton and Hove.

Myspace

The group have posted songs on their MySpace account - Falco has also taken full advantage of MySpace as a communication medium, frequently posting blog entries with his thoughts on past shows, political situations and incidents from his youth that he feels are worth sharing with the band's fanbase. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of

Singles

The band released their debut single, the double A-side "Fingers Become Thumbs/The Lord Hates A Coward" (along with B-side The Fibre Provider) on 7" vinyl on 29 January 2007 in extremely limited quantities. A Too Pure newsletter sent out in March announced that the Future of the Left live set-closer "adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood. . . " would feature on a split 7" alongside Fierce Panda Records' Winnebago Deal on May 10th. Fierce Panda Records is a London -based Independent record label, with its first release in February 1994. Winnebago Deal is a rock music band from Oxford, United Kingdom. However, Falco stated that it would only happen "over [his] dead body". [1] The song was released as a 7" single on June 4th 2007, however it was not split with Winnebago Deal, or anyone for that matter; the B-side was a BBC Radio Wales session track entitled "March Of The Coupon Saints". Winnebago Deal is a rock music band from Oxford, United Kingdom.

On September 10th, the band released Small Bones Small Bodies as a single on 7" vinyl (with The Big Wide O - a former MySpace demo - and I Need To Know How To Kill A Cat as B-sides).

Debut album

Their debut album, Curses, was released on September 24th, 2007 in the UK and October 1st in Japan. Curses is the debut release of Welsh band Future of the Left, released by Too Pure in 2007. 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 (including some lucrative - and favourable - coverage from the NME, who have been surprisingly complimentary about the group when considering their apathy towards the members' prior groups). The Roland Juno-60 is a popular analogue 61-key polyphonic Synthesizer produced by Roland Corporation in the early 1980s and a successor to the slightly earlier 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. A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download [3]

After Curses

Falkous revealed in an early 2008 online blog entry that work had commenced on the second album - new material began to creep into the band's live performances, including a number of songs that feature distinctively more ambitious use of Falkous' synthesizer. The band's bolstered profile with the NME led to the group being invited onto the bill of the NME Awards tour, supporting Les Savy Fav at London Astoria. Les Savy Fav (pronounced lay-SAH-vee-FAHV is a New York City band that produces an Idiosyncratic style of Indie rock. The London Astoria is a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road in London, England.

On a tour of Australia, the band surprised one audience with a cover of signature mclusky track Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - the performance was recorded and a video appeared on YouTube shortly afterwards. Mclusky Do Dallas is the second album by three-piece Welsh band Mclusky, released in 2002 by Beggars offshoot Too Pure Records YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees

On April 8th 2008, their fourth single "Manchasm" was released (with album track "Suddenly It's A Folk Song" and new recording "Sum Of All Parts" as B-sides), receiving a single of the week recommendation from the NME. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been

Discography

Singles

Albums

References

  1. ^ Future Of The Left, Interview

External links

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