Last night was probably the third show that I have been to so far this year due to a lack of funds and generally trying to find new ways of getting drunk on the cheap. I had made the sensible choice of buying a ticket for the show a couple of days before because I thought that it would most likely sell out. A few of my friends who wanted to go didn't think of buying tickets for ages and when they got round to it, it was too late and tickets were sold out.
This wouldn't be the first time I've gone and watched a band play by myself so I shouldn't have been bothered. However, I had a horrible feeling like I could have shit my pants at any minute and wanted to throw up in the face of whoever happened to be sitting closest to me on the train. This problem was compounded by the fact that I decided to make and eat a vegetarian chilli before leaving the house.
On top of the fact that I was generally feeling pretty shitty anyway, I got even more angry by some fucking mongoloid at Neath train station who had decided to put up this professionally composed sign to customers.
Why the fuck do people have such a weak grasp of basic literacy? Why do people capitalise random words that don't need to be capitalised? There are obviously some exceptions to this rule. For example, if I wanted to say, 'The person who wrote this must have been a right cunt', it would be acceptable for 'cunt' to be written as 'Cunt', because you have to be a cunt with a capital C to make signs like this one.
After getting to Cardiff, I sat on my own in a classy Wetherspoons establishment for a while. There was some drunk, biker-looking guy who was generally in a bit of a state who I watched for a while. He dropped a pound coin then spent about two minutes looking around for it even though it was right behind him. I got bored of this very quickly, finished my drink and left. By the time I got to Clwb, Solutions had already played and Right Hand Left Hand were just finishing up their set. I have seen RHLH play at least a thousand times before and find their brand of loop based buffoonery to be interesting for a short while, but I usually become quite bored with it pretty quickly. I wish I had seen Solutions play because their album is pretty good and I haven't seen them before.
Future Of The Left came onto the stage, called everyone in the crowd a cunt and set the tone for the rest of their set. For anyone who doesn't know. FOTL are made up of ex members of defunct Cardiff legends mclusky and Ammanford's Jarcrew. The band has been touring constantly since releasing their second album and this really shows. They tore though songs from both of their albums with a couple of highlights being 'Small Bones Small Bodies' and 'You Need Satan More Than He Needs You'.
Even though the band and the songs are awesome, a huge part of their set is abusing people in the crowd who leave themselves wide open to it. One guy got told that he looked like a fat version of Kelson's brother and got referred to as 'my fat friend'. People wearing hats indoors were also mocked and lots of other stuff I can't remember because I was drunk and my memory doesn't stretch back to remembering all of last night. Some guy from the crowd kept shouting stuff at the band between the songs that made little or no sense and eventually he decided to get on the stage and get in their face.
This went on for a short time before he got back into the crowd and literally got his arse kicked before being escorted out by the bouncers. What a fucking mug. He got marched straight past me on his way out, which gave me the chance to get a better look at him and realise it was the drunk biker-looking guy from the pub earlier on. How exciting.
I had to miss my train home because the set ran on but I didn't really care because I would rather be drinking and watching a band than sitting at home arguing with my parents over what to watch on TV. Yes, I'm 25 years old and I have to live with my parents. Overall, a pretty good set from FOTL and to anybody who reads this and doesn't already know, the band has announced another show downstairs in the same venue tonight (29/01/10) and you can get in for a fiver if you saw them last night. Also, I managed to make it home without shitting myself, which can only be a good thing.
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