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10th January 2005

The three piece rock band known as mclusky have disbanded, as of friday january 7th, 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 occured on or near us.

I`m grateful for the love and to to a lesser degree, the hate. There'll be more music soon, from all of us.

Regards.

falco

*sigh*

― eedd, Monday, 10 January 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

never heard of you

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

That's very sad.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

falco states the bassist doesn't wanna do it anymore...

― eedd, Monday, 10 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Damn

Great live band, great records.

i'm glad i have those first two e.ps now.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

where did you get this from eedd? there's nothing on the too pure site

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

http://mclusky.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=581

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Really sad news this, they were great last month supporting Shellac.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

bugger, that's a real shame. they were a mighty wee band.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

the 'horses mouth' so to speak.

― eedd, Monday, 10 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

"Braaay"

― mei (mei), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/morethanrats/falco.jpg

― mei (mei), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Interesting choice with the head-to-face hair combo on that one.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

motherfucking fucker. i didnt even get to see them.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

you missed out, 'cos they rocked. i saw 'em twice: once at tut's in glasgow, then again last year at ATP. they were good at ATP but absolutely incendiary at tut's.

that said: their last album was badly flawed. they seemed to be trying too hard with every song; trying to force themselves to be something they weren't. perhaps the dynamic was wrong. whatever, i shall follow what andy falkous does with great interest.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

i really enjoyed their last album.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Aw, I really wish that I had gone to see them when they played in NYC recently. I'll always regret that now.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I listened to "McLusky Do Dallas" a couple of times last week at work. Bummer.

― earlnash, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

So, farewell then, McLusky
Your song titles were more often better
Than your songs
And mostly longer too, though not as loud
I gave your last album to my friend
Kat
And she liked it

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

― DJ Mencap0))), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I love Mclusky...that's too bad.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

xx-post:

"rrraWWWARARRARRgghghlightsabercocksuckingBLUES!", that was your catchphrase.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Dammit. Amazing live band, for reasons that had a lot to do with the glowering tension between them on stage...

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

'all of your friends are cunts' has to be one of the best opening lines of a song, ever.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

"an old singer is...a sex criminal" is one of my favorite singalong choruses

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

i was going to post my favourite couplet from "to hell with good intentions", but i couldn't pick one. so i'm posting the whole fucken thing.

genius, frankly. and all set to one of the most searing post-punk riffs ever.

My love is bigger than your love
We take more drugs than a touring funk band
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My band is better than your band
We've got more songs than a song convention
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
And we're all going straight to hell
My dad is bigger than your dad
He's got eight cars and a house in Ireland
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
When we gonna torch the restaurant?
Sing it
When we gonna pay the guide dog?
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
And we're all going straight to hell
My love is bigger than your love
We take more drugs than a touring funk band
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
When we gonna torch the restaurant?
Sing it
When we gonna get excited?
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
My love is bigger than your love
Sing it
And we're all going straight to hell
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Shellac was touring last month?
I loved "Collagen Rock" and that recent single - "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" I think? It had a great video.

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

AW FUCKING HELL.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

fuck this band

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

the more i think about this, the more it saddens me. in 2003 i wrote that they were the best band in britain and i'd fight anyone who said differently. ok, that might have been a slight exaggeration, but they really did fire me up. i remember first hearing "to hell ..." (in 2002?) and being absolutely blown away by it.

bugger!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

all their gear got stolen recently too, that might have also to them splitting up.

― pinder (pinder), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

maybe too pure will follow them out the door then. we can hope.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

As I understand, Falco and drummer Jack will still continue playing together, very possibly recording for Too Pure. So you may be disappointed, Keith

― Jason J, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

"an old singer is...a sex criminal" is one of my favorite singalong choruses

"our old singer is...a sex criminal" is an even better chorus.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

also, drunk as I am right now, I have to say that Mclusky deserve way more recognition than they've had...their songs are overlooked diamonds of shouty pop.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

The lyric is "our old singer is a sex criminal."

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Erm, that was the point I was making...

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh, okay, was unclear.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

maybe too pure will follow them out the door then. we can hope.

What have Too Pure done to offend you especially?

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

genius band. responsible for recording the best slide-guitar anti-war sea shanty of 2004 with the words : "come out quick and name the dead / i'm sure we got a scrabble score"

― mark.j.h, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

I dunno - from what I heard of them they sounded like Tripping Daisy. Only heard the one song though. What should I check?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

which song have you heard? start with "to hell with good intentions". if you don't fall in love, your ears are broken.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Falco is reporting on the forums that there will be a final release, a three disc effort featuring all the A sides, all the B sides, tons of live stuff (including the ULU show everyone talks about) and any remaining unreleased material.

It'll retail for the same price as the other albums "so you don't feel shafted".

Bless. < sniff >

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

superb!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

today my dear aunt anni died. yes well but now with that musicnews my day's really something destroyed, something sad, something to feel. ok, i didnt really know her well. and i dont know noone of mclusky. BUT SHE NEVER EVER SAVED MY DAY!!! MCLUSKY DID!! several times...

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

My aunt's deader than your aunt
She's got blue lips and rigor mortis
Sing it

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

The lyric is "our old singer is a sex criminal."

Even better when u know who they're talking abt ;-)

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

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― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I was at the ULU gig that apparently the live part of that new release is going to come from.

It's probably the best gig I've ever seen (competing in my mind against of all things Ulrich Schnauss in the back room of a pub in Cambridge, the Hidden Cameras at the late, lamented Boat Race, and a Mogwai end-of-tour show). I hope they leave in the absolute *demolishing* of a heckler Falco dished out...

go on, leave now, we know you've got to hurry home and tape Sex and the City

Quite frankly, I'm gutted. For the people who haven't heard any McLusky, "To Hell With Good Intentions", "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues", "You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus", "Without MSG I Am Nothing", "World Cup Drumming"...

― Andrew Walkingshaw, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

There's a brief but comic interview with Falkous on Pitchfork's news page.

― Jason J, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 53 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

McLusky Do Dallas is one of the best albums ever made.

Also, to add a current bit of minutia, I think that Idles are the heir apparent to McLusky (not including Future of the Left). I spoke briefly to singer Joe Talbot briefly when they played Philly a year or two ago and mentioned this and he confirmed that at least one Idles member was a big fan.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:06 (five years ago)

I don’t think Idles are furious in the same way as Mclusky, and certainly don’t have the same dark humour.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:20 (five years ago)

I'll let them know that they were wrong when they told me.

Oh, and no dark humor in Idles? Um, okay.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 17:53 (five years ago)

I’m sure they’ll be fascinated to hear someone disagrees with you on the internet.

Being fans does not not make them heir apparent.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:15 (five years ago)

get in. any UK folks going to manchester show?

― meaulnes, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:09 (five years ago)

♫ all of your friends are cunts, your mother is a ballpoint pen thief ♫

― meaulnes, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:57 (five years ago)

blinding set last night. wow. treated to the almost entirety of 'do dallas'. their new bassist is a tank, as well.

― meaulnes, Sunday, 21 July 2019 13:24 (five years ago)

i love mclusky a lot

― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:45 (five years ago)

the line "we do more drugs than a touring funk band" gets in my head all the time

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:09 (five years ago)

the last minute and change of "Arming Eritrea" by FOTL is pretty much as good as rock music could ever be to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTvISL53HQ

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:11 (five years ago)

YES to the Arming Eritrea song. That Future of the Left record is a powerhouse. There's a song towards the end, Drink Nike which is also a stunner.

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:39 (five years ago)

Always had these down as a not quite as good 80s Matchbox. Are any of their albums as good as Horse Of The Dog?

― Fried Egg Sandwich, Monday, 22 July 2019 12:25 (five years ago)

the 2nd and 3rd LPs are both solid, caustic, tight as fuck noise rock.

― meaulnes, Monday, 22 July 2019 12:38 (five years ago)

I agree 'Do Dallas' is their best but 'The Difference' is the one I listen to most. It is indeed tight as fuck noise rock, but that slightlier poppy side on the 3rd gives it so much more.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 22 July 2019 12:44 (five years ago)

I’m sure they’ll be fascinated to hear someone disagrees with you on the internet.

Or that several thousand people disagree with you.

That's not the royal "you" here. That's you.

http://scontent.fphl2-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67038553_10162108318355597_3892804592970235904_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_oc=AQnu1Y0kerUjJC4wOFzh0ePmINwAq5TVksH-RzSbgqPzmX8zBcThRI4Ah8Vvm8nBXC4&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-3.fna&oh=4015ae2a7a07dd494ed3dc7b18ecb47d&oe=5DB67C79

Maybe you just suck at dark humor?

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 22 July 2019 19:19 (five years ago)

I didn’t say there was no dark humour, I said it wasn’t the same as mclusky. There’s a difference.

― michaellambert, Monday, 22 July 2019 20:54 (five years ago)

So, by all means crack on, but you’re still wrong on the internet.

― michaellambert, Monday, 22 July 2019 20:55 (five years ago)

And you're a fucking idiot on the internet.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 22 July 2019 23:05 (five years ago)

your search screenshot makes that claim pretty ironic

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 23:09 (five years ago)

i'm a google search expert on the internet who would like to point out there's no way that 269,000 different web pages mention Idles the band, let alone 269,000 different pages that also mention their "dark humor"

this is page 3 of the same search query

https://i.imgur.com/Lpmz4Wd.jpg

― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 July 2019 23:16 (five years ago)

me.me!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 22 July 2019 23:20 (five years ago)

As far as humour goes, Mclusky have the distinction of actually being funny, especially on a line-by-line basis.

― vcrash, Monday, 22 July 2019 23:28 (five years ago)

four months pass...

Seeing them again tonight. By February it'll be three times in 6 months, which isn't bad for a band that split up 15 years ago.

― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:27 (five years ago)

six months pass...

McLusky is......ALIVE??

yeah, if we write a good one. If not, well, we played some tunes, drank a responsible amount of beer and had some fun https://t.co/rAp5XOJzyZ
— future of the (left) (@shit_rock) July 15, 2020

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:41 (four years ago)

that would be fucking cool imo

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:46 (four years ago)

one year passes...

US tour, fall 2022

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:04 (three years ago)

I saw them at a tiny venue in Atlanta . . . I can't remember when. Fifteen years ago? More? Anyway, they opened with "Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues," after which my friend and I were like, "You ready to go? Yeah, me too."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:07 (three years ago)

I'm guessing it was 2004. The opener was Yourcodenameis:Milo, who were touring for their first album.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:14 (three years ago)

smh

― mookieproof, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:22 (three years ago)

Good to see getting back to 'taking more drugs than a touring funk band'.

― earlnash, Saturday, 2 April 2022 01:59 (three years ago)

seven months pass...

an announcement x pic.twitter.com/FUYFl4qvlA
— falcotronic (@shit_rock) November 25, 2022

― 龜, Saturday, 26 November 2022 12:22 (two years ago)

That's terrible. Poor guy.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:06 (two years ago)

nine months pass...

=ALIVE!

https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/unpopular-parts-of-a-pig-the-digger-you-deep

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 September 2023 15:09 (one year ago)

wow!

― cajunsunday, Thursday, 14 September 2023 15:25 (one year ago)

as I get older I find I'm less and less enthusiastic about loud music but "Fan Learning Difficulties" brought a smile to my face

― Indexed, Thursday, 14 September 2023 15:29 (one year ago)

Did they ever reschedule their tour?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 September 2023 15:41 (one year ago)

i haven't seen anything

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 September 2023 17:12 (one year ago)

No, these songs are being released digitally as a fund raisers for reapplying for US visas, I believe the plan is then to hopefully reschedule the US dates next yr

― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 14 September 2023 17:18 (one year ago)

ten months pass...

New album on Ipecac next year

https://www.treblezine.com/mclusky-planning-to-release-new-album-in-2025-via-ipecac/

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 14:12 (ten months ago)

Stoked about this.

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 24 July 2024 14:02 (ten months ago)

six months pass...

https://pitchfork.com/news/mclusky-return-with-first-album-in-20-years-share-video-for-new-song-watch/

― na (NA), Wednesday, 12 February 2025 16:39 (four months ago)

this is not very good :(

― Indexed, Thursday, 13 February 2025 22:37 (four months ago)

i don’t love the single but all the falkous projects have been pretty consistent and this version of the band is great live. I’m sure there’ll be some bangers on the album.

― na (NA), Thursday, 13 February 2025 23:32 (four months ago)

agreed, long time fan but not fussed on this, production's really lacking too... i alighted the falco train when FOTL put out their sophomore.

― maelin, Thursday, 13 February 2025 23:40 (four months ago)

two months pass...

New album is really great

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 9 May 2025 20:36 (one month ago)

\m/

https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-is-still-here-and-so-are-we

― mookieproof, Friday, 9 May 2025 22:30 (one month ago)

it fucking rules and also it sounds amazing. falco is the best lyricist/singer.

― na (NA), Monday, 19 May 2025 15:31 (one month ago)

It's super weird, I know they toured, or were going to tour America, but then cancelled, and then I guess rescheduled, but I have no idea when they actually came through town, or, assuming they did, why I didn't go. Oh well, I hope they come back.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 May 2025 15:51 (one month ago)

i saw them last march at the vic, great show

― na (NA), Monday, 19 May 2025 16:17 (one month ago)

any favourite songs? the early singles kind of made me queasy

― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 12:47 (four weeks ago)

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