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Future Of The Left clash with violent heckler

Future Of The Left

Future Of The Left

London show ends in slanging match

Future Of The Left's London show erupted into chaos amid violent heckling last night (September 26).

The Cardiff-based band were playing at the Water Rats, to mark the release of album 'Curses' this week, in front of a rapturous crowd.

Throughout the hour-long show the band played the likes of 'The Lord Hates A Coward', 'Fingers Become Thumbs' and 'Small Bones, Small Bodies' to an audience which became increasingly rowdy.

By the final song, frontman Andy Falkous was prompted to ask the front rows of the pit to look out for each other, to which a drunk heckler replied, "Go and get an office job if you don't like it."

This touched a nerve with Falkous, who let out an expletive-ridden tirade, which lasted for minutes, branding him a "fucking prick".

After the lengthy and colourful diss, Falkous turned the crowd on the heckler, and then had the last word: "And to think all we were trying to do was stop people from getting punched in the back of the head."

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sarahtip 

Sep 26, 2007

Were we at the same gig?! I don’t remember the crowd’s ‘rapturous’ response… they were like a bunch of stiffs! A handful of blokes started jumping about at the front and Falkous told them to stop!! What’s wrong with the bloke?!! There was plenty of room there and no one was going to get hurt. It was such a tiny number jumping around. Given FOTL play punky, vitriolic and edgy music you would think they’d be up for a bit of pogo-ing. It really was woeful. I also think the bloke in the specs would have won the argument had he also had a mike ;)

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