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Mclusky
Origin Cardiff, Wales
Years active 1996 – 2005
Label(s) Too Pure
Members
Andy "Falco" Falkous
Jonathan Chapple
Jack Egglestone
Former members
Mat Harding

Mclusky was a three-piece alternative rock group from Cardiff, Wales. Cardiff ( 'kɑːdɪf) is the Capital and the largest city and county in Wales. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996. Events January 1 - In most of Europe copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier including In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Too Pure is a London, United Kingdom based Independent record label that was formed in 1990 by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of Cardiff ( 'kɑːdɪf) is the Capital and the largest city and county in Wales. The group consisted of Andy "Falco" Falkous (vocals, guitar), Jonathan Chapple (bass, vocals) and Jack Egglestone (drums), who replaced previous drummer Matthew Harding in late 2003. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells

History

According to the band, they originally formed in 1996 when Falkous and Harding met at the Blackwood Miners Institute, a venue in their home town from which they were both ejected for dressing as miners. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body The pair met Chapple a short time afterwards at the Reading Festival when they caught him urinating on their tent late in the night. Urination, also known as micturition, voiding, and more rarely emiction, is the process of disposing Urine from the Urinary bladder A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope

More realistically it has been suggested that Andy and Matthew met when working together at Anglian Windows, a small double-glazing call centre in Cardiff. A call centre or call center (see spelling differences) is a centralized office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by They discussed their musical ambitions after a conversation about Reading Festival, Falkous gave Harding a tape of songs he had written on his own, and shortly after they formed a band called Best after early Beatles drummer Pete Best. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 Pete Best (b 24 November 1941 in Madras, British India) is a The original bass player for Best was Geraint Bevan, Harding's old musical comrade from The Derelicts.

Best existed in this form for almost a year before Geraint left to concentrate on his acting career, but not before Best had played a show with a band called 'Myrtle' who happened to feature one animated character on bass guitar: Jon Chapple. Acting is the work of an Actor or Actress, which is a person in Theatre, Television, Film, or any other Storytelling

Shortly after the departure of Geraint the remaining two members managed to convince Jon to join the band; this was based on the strength of the three track demo Best had recently finished at 'Ocean Studios' in Cardiff (this cassette - which was sold by the band themselves - was the unofficial debut, entitled the Benedict EP).

Best signed to London label Seriously Groovy and released their official debut record, the 3-track single Huwuno. Seriously Groovy is a London -based guitar-oriented indie rock Record label and publisher

The band changed its name to Mclusky in 1999, releasing their first full-length album My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours in 2000 on the Fuzzbox imprint before drawing international attention with their critically praised second album Mclusky Do Dallas in 2002. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours is the first album by British rock band Mclusky. Mclusky Do Dallas is the second album by three-piece Welsh band Mclusky, released in 2002 by Beggars offshoot Too Pure Records In 2004 they released their third album The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire to generally positive reviews. The Difference Between Me and You Is that I'm Not on Fire is the third and final album from Welsh Indie rock band Mclusky.

They worked frequently with recording engineer Steve Albini, whose influence through his now-legendary work with bands like Nirvana, the Pixies and The Jesus Lizard, along with his own bands Big Black and Shellac, can be easily recognised in mclusky's dense, raw sound. Steven Frank Albini (born July 22, 1962) is an American Audio engineer, singer songwriter Guitarist, and music journalist Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen Washington. Pixies are an American Alternative rock band formed in Boston Massachusetts in 1986 The Jesus Lizard was a Rock music group formed in 1987 in Chicago Illinois. Big Black was a Noise rock band founded in Chicago Illinois, United States that was active between 1982 and 1987. Shellac (sometimes referred to as "Shellac of North America" is an American Noise rock group composed of Steve Albini (guitar and vocals Bob

Breakup

The band called it quits on January 7th 2005, with Falkous making the following announcement on the band's website on January 10th:

The three piece rock band known as mclusky have disbanded, as of Friday January 7th, 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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.

Little was said of the reasons behind mclusky's split, but it later emerged that tensions had arisen between Falkous and Chapple. The root of these tensions can be traced back to an incident in 2004 when all of the band's equipment was stolen on the Arizona leg of their American tour (this equipment - worth over £5000 - has still not been recovered). The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

After Mclusky

A compilation of the band's singles, Mcluskyism, came out in February 2006; a limited-edition version came with two additional CDs of B-sides (labelled as B-sides and C-sides), rarities and live recordings from their final headline performance at the University of London Union (The band would make one further live appearance on 01/12/04 supporting Shellac at the Scala in London). mcluskyism is the final posthumous release by Welsh rock band Mclusky. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s The University of London Union (commonly referred to as ULU) is the university-wide Students' union for the University of London. This compilation is, without doubt, the final chapter in mclusky's nine-year saga, as Falkous informs in the Mcluskyism liner notes, "that's it, then. For a bibliographic format for citing liner notes see WikipediaCiting sources/example style Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes No farewell tour. . . no premature deaths (at time of writing), no live DVDs. . . ". With the revelation in 2007 that Falkous and Chapple have not spoken since 2005 (and are no longer on the same side of the equator), it is probably safe to assume that there is no possibility of a reunion. The equator (sometimes referred to colloquially as "the Line") is the intersection of the Earth 's surface with the plane perpendicular to the

The first mclusky member to release material after mclusky's demise was Chapple, with his outfit Shooting At Unarmed Men - Chapple had dabbled with the band as a side project to mclusky in the years prior, and wasted little time in making it his first priority after mclusky disbanded. 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 band released two albums before Chapple emigrated to Australia in 2006. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. He has since revived the band in Australia with a new lineup, and released another album with the Australian lineup.

Falkous and Egglestone were not heard from publicly for a number of months - after Andrew had conducted a handful of interviews discussing the then-fresh mclusky breakup, the pair were not heard from again for some time. Almost immediately, rumours began to swell that the pair were collaborating with some members of also-defunct Cardiff noise-core act Jarcrew (the project, which received no official title for eighteen months, was jokingly referred to as "Jarclusky") - however, the full extent of the collaboration was not known until Falkous created an unassuming MySpace page for the group under the name Future of the Left, complete with unpolished recordings of the band's first songs. Jarcrew was a five-piece Progressive rock band from Ammanford, Wales. Future of the Left is an Alternative rock supergroup based in Cardiff, Wales.

It was then revealed that Kelson Mathias, former Jarcrew frontman, had taken on the role of bass player (Hywel Evans, a local musician who had played bass for Jarcrew towards the end of the band's career, was also originally listed as a member, but was later removed - he went on to form the instrumental group Truckers Of Husk, which now also contains an ex-Jarcrew member in drummer Rhodri Thomas). The group first appeared live - under pseudonyms to elude large throngs of expectant Jarcrew and mclusky fans - in the Summer of 2006 before finally performing their first headline show in Camden Barfly on September 1st, 2006. In 2007, the group released three singles - "Fingers Become Thumbs!/The Lord Hates A Coward", "Adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood" and "Small Bones Small Bodies" - and a full length album, Curses, which surprisingly featured Falkous favouring a Roland synthesizer on some songs over his guitar. Curses is the debut release of Welsh band Future of the Left, released by Too Pure in 2007. The band have - surprisingly, when considering the apathy displayed towards mclusky and Jarcrew - been championed by the UK music press, most notably the NME, who have written extremely favourably of the band (and more recently inviting them to play at their Awards show at the London Astoria in support of Les Savy Fav). The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been The London Astoria is a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road in London, England. Les Savy Fav (pronounced lay-SAH-vee-FAHV is a New York City band that produces an Idiosyncratic style of Indie rock.


Discography

Official full-length releases

Official single/EP releases

External links

My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours is the first album by British rock band Mclusky. Mclusky Do Dallas is the second album by three-piece Welsh band Mclusky, released in 2002 by Beggars offshoot Too Pure Records The Difference Between Me and You Is that I'm Not on Fire is the third and final album from Welsh Indie rock band Mclusky. mcluskyism is the final posthumous release by Welsh rock band Mclusky. Colin Murray (born March 10 1977)is a BBC national radio and television presenter from the Ballybeen estate in Dundonald, east
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