Mclusky (often stylized as mclusky), originally known as Best, were a three-piece post-hardcore group formed in Cardiff, Wales. The group consisted of Englishman Andrew "Falco" Falkous (vocals, guitar) from Newcastle Upon Tyne, Jonathan Chapple (bass, vocals) and Jack Egglestone (drums), who replaced previous drummer Matthew Harding in late 2003.
According to the band, they originally formed in 1996 when Falkous and Harding met at the Blackwood Miners Institute, a venue in their home town from which they were both ejected for dressing as miners. The pair met Chapple a short time afterwards at the Reading Festival when they caught him urinating on their tent late in the night.
More realistically it has been suggested that Falkous and Harding met when working together at Anglian Windows, a small double-glazing call centre in Cardiff. They discussed their musical ambitions after a conversation about Reading Festival, Falkous gave Harding a tape of songs he had written on his own, and shortly after they formed a band called Best after early Beatles drummer Pete Best. The original bass player for Best was Geraint Bevan, Harding's old musical comrade from The Derelicts.
Secret fuhrers got your tongue
And bitches got your car
And if it wasn't for the '86 World Cup
It wouldn't have got this far
But she was unempty in recontrary
Pissed but almost right
And if it wasn't for the snakes in cummerbunds
It would happen every night
Dethink to survive, dethink to survive
Dethink to survive, dethink to survive
Cartoon monkeys got you hard
It must have been the hair
Though jive bunny stole your creative fire
You really didn't care
She was un in re and de-decided, happy killing time
But there's an eight percent chance
That you know Charles dance
And you're no damn friend of mine
Dethink to survive, dethink to survive
Dethink to survive, dethink to survive
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