GO WITH NO SHOW? OH, NO, NO...

Oddly, whenever bands sack founder members, they tend to be the quiet (by which we mean dull as mid-February sermon by a priest who's lost his faith); they always approach it like it's some sort of business decision. You can just picture Snow Patrol watching The Effective Manager or something like that before giving their old friend Mark McClelland the bullet.

And yet, despite the bands usually being dull, they suddenly spark into life when they have the sacking - or at least the bloke who gets the poke who does. So, taking his cue from Stuart Cable's perpetual thorn in Kelly Jones' side routine,

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