Gig Review: Colin is a Pussy, A Very Pretty Pussy

Future of the Left, Monto Water Rats, 31st December 2008

Quite surprisingly, for the first time in my ridiculously short live, I welcomed the New Year in whilst watching a band. Yeah baby. Yeah. 'Bout time.

Future of the Left were fantastically grumpy. The grumpier they got, the more I smiled. By the end, I was grinning like an E-head. It was quite wonderful.

Praise be to the band that asks for the smoke machines to be turned off. Indeed, Future of the Left are not Slade, they are not Poison and they are not Whitesnake. They are what they are. They are fucking cool.

If, in an act of cantankerous defiance, Future of the Left had played through the countdown to 2009, it would have been perfect.

It was close enough.

I also saw support acts Supernova, Muswell and Shakers in The Dark. That’s all I’m going to say about that. I had a very lovely evening.

Fabpants Recommends: Optimism.

Download MP3: Future of the Left – Manchasm (courtesy of merryswankster.com)




And, for those of you that like to jig along to unoriginal, but rather jolly, folk rock:

Download MP3: Spirit of the West - Another Happy New Year (sorry, this link has died)



The lyrics are rather apt.