Watch Mclusky* Play 'To Hell With Good Intentions'

Welsh post-hardcore heroes mclusky* are playing their first ever Aotearoa headline events this coming January, treating fans in Auckland and Wellington to tunes from their trailblazing first three albums. Originally active from 1996 to 2005, founders Andrew “Falco” Falkous and Jack Egglestone (also of Future of the Left) initially got the band back together 2014 for a Newport pub benefit show, and are now touring the globe with a bonus asterisk attached to their name (signifying past bandmates) and fresh bassist / singer Damien Sayell of St Pierre Snake Invasion. Experience a taste of the action to come, with fist-pumping live footage of mclusky*'s September performance in Dublin of 'To Hell With Good Intentions', from 2002's Mclusky Do Dallas...

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Press release:

Supa Dog Touring is delighted to present, for the first time ever in New Zealand, mclusky*. Featuring Future of the Left members Andrew “Falco” Falkous and Jack Egglestone, with the addition of Damien Sayell from the St Pierre Snake Invasion, the Cardiff outfit will be playing venues in Wellington and Auckland this January.

mclusky were a band most active between 1999 and 2005, in which time they made a few friends and three albums. Slow-forward 14 years and, thanks to the uncanny pull of nostalgia and gravity, they have made more friends but no more albums. Persuaded originally to reform - like ham - to help save a local music venue and for other vaguely charitable reasons, mclusky* is the name; now with Damien Sayell of The St Pierre Snake Invasion (who incidentally have an album out this year) playing bass and singing, it's loads better (technical term) than it used to be, nostalgia be twatted directly in the eye.