THE MI BAR, FALMOUTH (12TH NOVEMBER)



CLUB CUCKOO LAUNCHES IN FALMOUTH

(Review by Joseph Maguire)

Landing in Falmouth for the first time indie, rock n roll club night ‘Club Cuckoo’ took over the upstairs of the MI Bar on Monday night and to great success.

With an audience full of Falmouth’s beautiful young things, intermingled with Cornwall’s rock n roll royalty, you could’ve easily been mistaken for thinking you were having a night on the tiles in London. There was an atmosphere that brought back memories to this reviewer of his first time at something like Erol Alkan’s now defunct, but
legendary, ‘cool place to be’ club night, TRASH.

Penzance band DISCO PIP opened the show with a rocking performance that proved why they are heirs to the indie-disco crown in Cornwall. Next up, using the night as a launch party for his new (amazing by the way) album was Redruth rap star, HEDLUV. Featuring his mate Passman on backing vocals and electric drum pad ‘thing’ the pair at one point broke into a chaotic, yet somewhat moving, cover the Spice Girls classic ‘Two become on’ and to rapturous applause.

With indie DJ duo extraordinaires The Earls of Suave on the decks before and after each live act the dance floor was starting to move in the build up to Falmouth’s very own, EYELIDS. Four girls, playing punk rock psychobilly via influences such as The Cramps and using a double bass, how can this formula not work? If you haven’t yet seen The Eyelids then put it at the top of your to do list now!

Headlining were Bude’s resident Rock stars, THE FIRES. The Fires never fail to impress, with new tunes thrown into a set of ‘punchy, attacking melody loaded’ rock n roll these guys were on Fire tonight. It was a shame that some people had gone because they missed one of the best bands in Cornwall on form.

Perhaps the people who missed out had a good excuse. Maybe they had to go to work the next day, it was a Monday night after all, well Tuesday morning by now actually. Or perhaps, even worse, it was that age old Cornish problem of routine, the lure of the free night club down the road playing a bit of chart and cheese? Who knows?

One thing is for sure that if promoters SUAVE continue to put on nights that rock like this then give it a year and it’ll be ‘cheese? What cheese?’


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