Video Premiere: Future of the Left: "Manchasm"
Mclusky may still be as done as they did Dallas, but long live Future of the Left. "Audience, please, every minute matters," lead Left-ist Andy Falkous shouts on the riotous and funny "Manchasm", the latest video selection from the brawny yet oblique Welsh punks' 2007 full-length Curses. And what do you do when every minute matters? That's right: W-ever-TF you want. So as the band wail on some drums, chintzy keyboard, and bass, we see a middle-aged white dude in a wrinkled suit defying authoritay and walking straight into offices and restaurant kitchens, onto bowling lanes, whatever, as if nobody else exists. "Mark Foley was right ... There are no obstacles here," Falkous shouts, referring-- as Jason Crock points out in his review-- to a Cardiff studio boss and not the scandal-clouded ex-U.S. congressman. "All he ever wanted was a detonator," anyway, until a cat stalks the screen and the song rumbles into a chanted coda: "Colin is a pussy." That is, a "very pretty pussy cat," of course. And his band is still better than your band. SING IT! (Directed by Dugdale of Us3 Productions.)
[from Curses; out now on Too Pure]