Future of the Left - "Arming Eritrea" (live music video)

[satiricdistress]

So much fun at Meredith

[thrillkillkitten]

yeah seriously wtf is with the audience--it totally looks like melbourne! im seeing them in sydney in 2 days and methinks im gonna reeeeally piss some people off if its like this cos ill be up the front jumping around like a total groupie :)

[Mrkitofull]

Wow !.

[knobhead86]

this band asked me not to say this, but i'm going to anyway! cos its true! I FUCKING LOVE THIS BAND. THEY ARE THE BEST BAND EVER. PERIOD.

[ScartMolotov]

Looks/sounds great but the audience need to be tasered till they move

[wilkodevort]

1:46 is breathtakingly awesome!

[mguygh]

Nicereally good stuff two thumbs up

[TheZgodnaKrava]

is this such a great live band? wow!

[rydelrydel]

was this shot in melbourne australia? it looks like it... damndest thing... no one dances here

[morskihr]

what the fuck is with this audience? :(

[LesterSands]

From the ashes of Mclusky.......Future of the left

[snksarrr]

What do they mean by Eritrea??? someone please tell me.....

[doogdoogdoog]

@snksarrr Well, it's a country in Africa..

[snksarrr]

@doogdoogdoog , yeah i know i am from that country but i don't understand what the song is saying about Eritrea!?

[Calum4291]

@snksarrr its about arms dealing

[melo15813]

they are so fucking cool when are they coming out with a new album

[murray8520]

Good bye Kelso :( too bad i never got to see FOTL with you in it, now that would have been crazy

[Parksman78]

Why is this singer obsessed to cum on a man named Rick?

[doogdoogdoog]

@Parksman78 Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[Parksman78]

C'mon RIck(y) Bobby!!!

[bulletproofcupid007]

Seriously, who is this asshole Rick?!

[dalewebster1993]

hahahah I love the silence at the end

[PHILSFAULT1]

heard this song today on "Faction", replayed it five times. Very Cool!!

[obijuanx]

@PHILSFAULT1

This is one of the bands Rawdog made Ellis play and they just kept playing it.

[WhaleScrewed]

C'MON RICK

[christsatanatl]

YES + a zillion.

[gryzlov]

Why does it look like that guitar is missing strings... is it?

[christsatanatl]

Just one. The A string is missing, and both the E and D strings are petty massive gauges.

[xTheOxx]

Nice to see 4AD open its doors to smart music of all kinds.

This band would be worth seeing live only for the banter, and the songs are even better.

[DPRKLiberator]

my god what an awful crowd. you should've seen the mosh pit when they played at siren festival over the summer. it was insane. but it seems british people just don't know how to react to such loud hardcore music, too busy reading that nme garbage.

[auntiephos]

The footage was taken from their appearance on 'The JD Set' (corporate branding of rock'n'roll, ach) and the audience were probably not fans of FOTL (the headline act were Australian indie-poppers Howling Bells) so they probably didn't know it was the end of the song. On the version on the JD site (with live audio) it does receive a modest cheer after a couple of seconds. I've seen FoTL in London and it was pretty rowdy in the mosh pit, I can tell you.

[Ghost2867]

@auntiephos I'm pretty sure this is a music video...that's the album version of the song laid over a video of a live performance (hence the "(live music video)" in the song title).

To reiterate, there's no audience noise because this is a promotional video for the song and band using a video of one of their live performances.

[auntiephos]

@Ghost2867 Thank you, I had garnered that point (although I would take issue with calling it a 'live music video' when the actual music is not live). I was merely explaining why the audience in the video is very subdued compared to a normal FoTL crowd.

[supinator]

this audience sucks

[kpm1969]

Awesome Power! But on 4AD?

[SonicSoulCipher]

No...