A rare Saturday gig in a big city centre venue in Bristol meant, of course, that the show started pretty early and (sadly) meant that I walked into the venue just in time to hear the very last note of support band Klämp, which is a great shame as they consist of numerous members from other noisy bands and I had hoped to catch them. The final note was pretty good and had some nice feedback as they left the stage. I won’t give the feedback a score, but I feel I missed something pretty good here.
The one thing I did note was that Electric Bristol (formerly SWX, internally unchanged) was pretty sparsely populated at the point the support left the stage, unfortunately that remained the case throughout as by the time the headliners arrived on stage the venue was roughly 50% full.
Thankfully 50% is more than enough for Mclusky (8) to create a suitably bonkers party and that is precisely what happened as they tore through usual openers Fuck This Band and the always rather good Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues, as the crowd did a fine job filling the space by throwing itself around in a suitably bonkers manner.
McLusky has always been a bit of a marmite band, musically refusing to tone down the abrasiveness and lyrically being as out there as they damn well please. Those who love it, love it and those who it doesn’t mesh with just dislike it, but thankfully those who go to McLusky gigs are there because they love the band and it is clear that’s the case tonight.
Stage banter is, as always with the band, hilariously off-beat and nonsensical as leader of the pack Andy Falkous happily makes irreverent comments between tracks from their latest album The World Is Still Here And So Are We, as they reel through Unpopular Parts Of A Pig and Chekhov’s Guns in close succession.
Nobody ever feels short changed at a McLusky gig, as whilst their tracks are generally pretty short, they plough through a good 20 songs before the lights went up, including highlights Alan Is A Cowboy Killer and the always good to hear dusted off The Man Will Not Hang before closing out with To Hell With Good Intentions to send us out into the Bristol early evening with smiles on every face in the room.
It’s great to have McLusky still around after all these years, and even greater that they refuse to calm down with old age. Worth a watch if you like that sort of thing.
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