mclusky // The Cluny
Schedule
Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Cluny | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
f54 and core. presentsmclusky
The Cluny
17.10.25
mclusky are a band who were a band, weren’t a band, then are a band again.
they formed in the late nineties and unformed, for the first time, in 2005,
after three albums, opinions of which can be found on the internet.
the path to re-becoming a band started in 2014, with the band playing
sporadic shows to raise money for a local venue threatened with closure and
after some misadventures, which can be put down to life in its most
wonderful forms, in 2025 they will release their first record in twenty
years, ‘the world is still here and so are we’, on ipecac recordings.
the band has always been numbered three, but now in its definitive form,
being jack egglestone, damien sayell and andy falkous, a lineup who have
toured the (mostly english-speaking) world for the last six years to so
many people that, at times, they can be referred to as a ‘crowd’. nobody
has a problem with the live show (apart from maybe the intro music) and if
they do, they’re not saying anything. the record, the title of which is
either a joke or a deathly serious meditation on hope in a time of
hopelessness, is 34 minutes long and is the result of writing much more
music than that. the band say that they found it difficult to get the tone
of the record - of where and how it needed to exist in time - at first but
then it was easy. fun is the word they use. they mean it. they also say -
it was important not to cos-play the past but also not to flubbity-flub
over everything like a gang of big stupid flubs. and yes, you can quote
them/me on that.
it’s important to state that ‘the world is still here and so are we’ is the
fourth mclusky album (no qualification being needed). they had an asterisk
next to the name for a bit - out of respect for past band members and the
precious memorial glue of teenage musical crushes - but fuck that, in for a
penny, in for a pound. lyrically it touches on subjects as rich and as
varied as work-it-out-yourself and impenetrable-inside-joke-for-the-band,
but one thing is clear, all of the songs have different words.
all hilarious joking aside, the best songs are about things without being
precisely about them. mclusky endorse this sentiment. they positively
insist on it.
