Future Of The Left @ Stereo

Rising ashen-faced from the embers of Mclusky and Jarcrew, Future Of The Left dropped a huge blood-stained masonry block into the stagnant waters of rock last year with debut album Curses. A cloth-eared public collectively shrugged and carried on having a paddle anyway. If you like your pop music to sound as if it's being hog-tied and gang-banged by three Welsh blokes armed with power tools and indelible maniacal grins slapped on their faces then FOTL could prove to be your raison d'etre. Previous live shows have bore witness to a thunderous work-through of Curses, but with the work ethic of singer Andy 'Falco' Falkous (a man more accustomed to a nice feta salad than a bag of skag), expect plenty of new material which, if they follow their current demented trajectory, will be about strapping Tories to bulldozers and ploughing into the nearest country club house. Violence solved everything, apparently. [Darren Carle]