{"id":8683,"date":"2010-12-07T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:55:04","slug":"future-of-the-left-science-bastard-clwb-ifor-bach-cardiff-09-12-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/future-of-the-left-science-bastard-clwb-ifor-bach-cardiff-09-12-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Of The Left \/ Science Bastard : Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff : 09.12.10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello there.\u00a0 This is quite the pre-Christmas treat, whether you’re a\u00a0follower of Britain’s most consistently entertaining live combo, a lazy ticket purchaser or just someone with functioning ears.\u00a0 Slept on getting tickets\u00a0for Arcade Fire’s stadium tour?\u00a0 No matter; the invigorating sandpaper blast of Future Of The Left <\/em><\/strong>is here for you, up close and personal and debuting a revamped line-up and tunes from their third album.<\/div>\n

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FOTL are, if anything, even more irksomely underrated than Mclusky were; at the very least, we should have been prepared for their brilliance second time around.\u00a0 But no, label sluggishness and bafflingly middling sales have greeted two of the last decade’s most acerbic, witty, furious and tune-stuffed albums.\u00a0 You don’t deserve them, but thankfully they remain to point out the error of your ways.\u00a0 They’re now a full-time four-piece; \u00a0Strange News From Another Star’s inimitable frontman Jimmy Watkins is an inspired choice of onstage foil for Falco’s deadpan world-weariness, and ex-Million Dead\/Who Owns Death TV bassist Julia Ruzicka\u00a0is now a full-time addition.\u00a0 The hints at new songs to date (sample title: ‘I Am The Least Of Your Problems’) suggest a continued unwavering focus and commitment to gallows-humour entertainment.\u00a0 Like Mclusky, they’re enough of a regular fixture around these parts that you might be tempted to take them for granted.\u00a0 Bloody well don’t.<\/div>\n

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Local hot guys Science Bastard<\/strong> have a deservedly high-profile support here, for what is essentially a warm-up gig for the Diverse Xmas party.\u00a0 Ha.\u00a0 Twitchy, frantic keyboard-heavy post-punk buoyed by the likelihood of a Joy Collective writer being caressed; this is what you want, friends.\u00a0 See you there.<\/div>\n

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FUTURE OF THE LEFT<\/strong><\/div>\n
SCIENCE BASTARD<\/strong><\/div>\n
Clwb Ifor Bach, Thursday 9th December<\/strong><\/div>\n
8:00pm | \u00a38 \/ \u00a310 | buy tickets<\/a>\u00a0\/ 18+<\/strong><\/div>\n
www.myspace.com\/futureoftheleft<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
www.myspace.com\/sciencebastard<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Future of the Left is an alternative rock group based in Cardiff, Wales. FACT!<\/div>\n

What Falco has to say today …<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 20, 2010<\/p>\n

post-cuts paste n’pop<\/p>\n

I have a friend(*1) who has taken to using the word ‘Corluka’ (as in the Tottenham right back) as a form of greeting whenever he’s drunk(*4). It is most perplexing and, even for an idiot, almost entirely without precedent(*5). Sometimes, indeed, the level of my perplexitude completely circumvents my remember-about-human-laws circuit and I threaten to kill him, sometimes with a rock, sometimes with my fists.
\nThis is my way of saying ‘Hello’.
\n‘Hello’.
\nSo, news.
\nHere – is the news.
\nNow.<\/p>\n

BAND
\nThe band is now four but hey, perhaps you knew that. Here are the people who are in it –
\nMe
\nJack
\nJimmy Watkins
\nJulia Ruzicka
\nMe is, well, this guy.
\nJack is as Jack does.
\nJimmy Watkins is a Libra(*6), 27, and enjoys playing Daley Thompsons Decathlon(*7), only in REAL LIFE. He also plays guitar and ‘sings’ in the rock band ‘Strange News for Another Star’ who I really liked until I found out that they were named after a Blur song(*8). The band also features everyones favourite rehearsal room owner\/ misquoted modern sage Mark Foley, who plays bass from a specially erected podium on stage. No joke. No. Joke. Jimmy is ‘short’ for James. SHORT.
\nJulia Ruzicka is an Australian (new star sign(*9)), 21ish, and when she’s not playing bass guitar she enjoys looking at and talking about bass guitars. Some of you may know her from the band Million Dead, or, latterly, Who Owns Death TV? (question mark not authors own). This winter (summer if you’re Australian) she gets to play her home town, Melbourne, which is pretty exciting if you’re her(*11) or anyone connected to her, like say, this band.
\nSteven Hodson, as some of you may have noticed with your eyes, played bass for us this summer. He was fantastic(*12) but is now back playing in two other bands, one of whom, Oceansize, is on tour through Europe EVEN AS I WRITE THIS. Sorry, really wanted to capitalise that clause. Aside from being a great bassplayer, Steven is the third funniest man in rock and roll. Who is first and second, you may ask? Well, you may ask.
\nKelson is now studying and playing bass in ‘Truckers of Husk’ which also features Hywel Evans, once of this parish. Incidentally, anybody who claims that the band will not be the same now that ‘kelso’ has left is disqualified from any and all retrospectively enhanced nostalgia on the basis of being a halfwit.
\nBob Champion died of being in a film in 1986. Kids everywhere remember his incredible will to win(*13).<\/p>\n

SHOWS
\nThe following shows are FACTS. Less FACTUAL shows are being talked about as we speak\/write\/read. I will only list the factual shows.
\nI am Aslan.
\n9th December – Cardiff (UK), Clwb Ifor Bach
\n14th December – Freiburg, Cafe Atlantik, GENERIQ festival
\n15th December – Montbeliard Le Palot (FRA), GENERIQ Festival
\n31st December – Phillip Island (AUS), Pyramid Festival
\n2nd January – Melbourne (AUS), Corner Hotel
\n3rd January – Brisbane (AUS), The Zoo
\n5th January – Sydney (AUS), Annandale<\/p>\n

SONGS
\nThere are many, many new songs. I will tell you about them when I can be arsed.
\nWhich will be soon.<\/p>\n

falco<\/p>\n

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(*1) acquaintance (*2)
\n(*2) guy I hate (*3)
\n(*3) yes, it\u2019s a strong word.
\n(*4) which is anytime after 5pm.
\n(*5) my fourth favourite word, due in part to excessive misuse.
\n(*6) I have no idea what one of these is, but it sounds like it has something to do with swimming.
\n(*7) best computer game ever in the history of 1984.
\n(*8) I like them again now but don’t tell Jimmy.
\n(*9) I’m just emailing Russel Grant(*10) now.
\n(*10) fat astrologer who stole Leo Sayers hair in the late 70s.
\n(*11) which I’m pretty sure you’re not, unless you are.
\n(*12) scientific term.
\n(*13) and his forehead.<\/p>\n

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