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The scuzz-rock heavyweights Future of the Left have announced that founding member and bassist Kelson Matthias has left the trio. Despite coming mid-may, this is still filtering through to fans - the band reportedly "sad, happy, annoyed and relieved at the same time." As of yet, no reason for this revelation has been found, but is pretty gutting for those familiar with the band...

Articles of 2009 - #3 Future Of The Left

Christmas might as well be here now. The rest of December should be abolished so that we can get to the New Year quicker and back to more clement weather. However this would mean I couldn’t tell you about my top 3 articles of this year by…err…me. So without further ‘ado’ here’s my Future of the Left article from the June issue of Playmusic Pickup If there...

Guest top 10s: Pulled Apart By Horses

We’ve been going on about them all year - now the mighty Pulled Apart By Horses take turns to tell us what rings their collective bells. 1 - Future Of The Left So the second FOTL album was released this year and we got to go on tour with them in the UK and abroad a few times and to be quite honest I genuinely think these guys are the tightest, loudest and kick ass rock bunch...

Truck Festival - full line up announced

The full line up for Truck 13 has just been announced and it’s looking as choice as ever. One of our favourite festivals, Truck scores points for keeping it ecclectic without compromising the quality and for allowing their local vicar to sell ice creams. Rock n roll! The line up includes acts of genius like Pulled Apart by Horses, Fists, Future of the Left and Redlands Palomino...

Top 100 records of 2009: 20-1

Street Chant So here is our top 20 records of 2009 list. I use the word ‘genius’ a lot on this page, but I’m not going to apologise for it. Because it all is. =20: Todd - Riot Season Brilliant, complex and joyous ear-battering LP from Todd. A noise lasagne - layers of brutal sound served up with a special sauce of audio surprises. Plus they...

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Future Of The Left interview

You Need Satan More Than He Needs You If you read Future Of Left’s myspace blog you’ll discover that Andrew Falkous is a very complex individual who likes to express his thoughts in public. Unfortunately via email he wasn’t as talkative, preferring to leave many topics in the past, including his anger towards the individual who leaked the band’s latest album; constantly...

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The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love

The Big Pink are a band who make me feel as if I know them already from somewhere, or else should. It’s partly why I opted to get a hold of a copy of their debut album (and was surprised that it was only a debut) – especially given that they signed to 4AD – label of Future of the Left – early 2009. After I’ve discovered the amount of hype that’s been building...

CAMDEN CRAWL DIARY - PART TWO

Venue: Camden Town Teaser: Lewis navigates all the gothic dope-peddling noodle sellers to bring us this report on Acoustic Ladyland, Official Secrets Act and Future Of the Left! Pull quote 2: they left one half of the crowd rapturous - and the others cowering in the corner of the venue… First para: Saturday evening began with a case of deja-vu involving...

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Venue: Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Teaser: Surreal, fucked up, incredible - there are many ways to describe Future Of the Left. We sent our new Cardiff correspondant Richard S Jones down to Club Ifor Bach to think up some more of them. Pull quote 2: FotL are now masters in the art of musical abuse – and they render the very idea of regularity obsolete… First para...

Siren Fest '09

Do not go to Siren Fest hungover! This should be a rule that’s written on the post because it is a pretty awful feeling to stand in the sun on one of the warmest days of the year when you were drinking till 4am the previous night. Yeah, sometimes my decision making is not what it’s supposed to be at this point in my life, but I did my best to battle the hangover and my sudden aversion...

LES SAVY FAV, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, LOS CAMPESINOS!

Venue: Astoria, London Teaser: Mat Beal invades the NME Awards tour to see which rock stars are proudly sporting the sponsor’s hair gel. As you might have guessed, his survey results are meagre. But then who’s complaining when Les Savy Fav are performing in knee high boots? Pull quote 2: Frontman Gareth certainly isn’t afraid of biting the hand that feeds,...

Parsley's Commlock: EuroYeYé 2010, Gijón, Spain – Part 2 of 2
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Festival Review : EuroYeYé 2010, Gijón, Spain 29th July to 2nd August – Part 2 of 2 On Saturday night back at the Oasis, the main gig venue for...
Parsley's Commlock: EuroYeYé 2010, Gijón, Spain – Part 1 of 2
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Festival Review : EuroYeYé 2010, Gijón, Spain 29th July to 2nd August – Part 1 of 2 Took up a long-standing invite back to Gijón to enjoy some...
Parsley's Commlock: Sherlock and the IT Crowd
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK TV/Media Review: Sherlock, BBC1, 26/07/10Well the BBC did an excellent job of hyping up their 21st century adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes character, with appearances on...
Parsley's Commlock: The Prisoner (2009) – episodes 4 to 6
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKTV Review: The Prisoner (2009) – episodes 4 to 6After my review of the first 3 episodes I received other peoples’ thoughts and interest as to what I would make of the...
Parsley's Commlock: Primitive Festival Volume 7, Rotterdam
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKFestival Review: Primitive Festival Volume 7, 02-06/06/10, Rotterdam Holland (www.primitive-festival.nl)I had the great honour of co-hosting the final Primitive festival in...
Parsley's Commlock: Fanfest 2010
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Event Review: Fan Fest 2010 Review (24-25/04/10)3 months ago the London Film Museum played host to an ambitious array of Bond girls, Bond villains, film technicians and...
Parsley's Commlock: On the road and in the studio with Glassglue
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKDiary: On the road and in the studio with Glassglue (myspace.com/glassglue) On hearing that my friend Matthew’s band Glassglue were going to do some recording in Germany I was...
Parsley's Commlock: Marketing Week/Insight Show and Mary Portas, Queen of Shops
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Show Review : Marketing Week/Insight Show, Olympia 29-30/06/10Popped into this ‘four shows in one’ marketing event to see what was new. First I went into one...
Parsley's Commlock: Southend Film Festival 2010 and Bobby Jo's 50's diner
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Festival Review : Southend Film Festival April/May 2010Not sure who reasoned that a seaside town with occasionally nice weather might be worth holding a film festival at,...
Parsley's Commlock: The Prisoner (2009)
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK TV Review: The Prisoner (2009) Caught up with the 3 starting episodes of this courtesy of my friend Tony Reeve. God knows the world needs more opportunity for paranoid self-...

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