Meanwhile, the band hurls together death metal, grindcore, rap and Killing Joke-type industrial punk with an intricate musicianship you'd expect from an orchestra.
But 10 years on from Gulf state D-day it is the visitors whose playing squad still looks a little piecemeal, hurled together by a succession of disconnected regimes.
Like British bands Yuck, Mazes and Dinosaur Pile-Up, Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars are in thrall to early-90s US alt.rock, hurling together Sonic Youth detuned guitars, Pavement-type lopsided melodies and (from gangly frontman Joseph D'Agostino) a Black Francis-type scream.
No, it was everything hurled together: a gleeful fusion of climate, landscape and character, the student buzz mixed with the rural pace, the fact that you can get from one side of the city to the other on a bike in 15 minutes.
Ten managers in 10 years tells its own story on that front, as does a current squad that, for all their tangible strengths, still gives the impression of having been hurled together at speed, a high-class jambalaya of leftovers and prize cuts assembled by successive occupants of the managerial equivalent of the Spinal Tap drummer's stool.
Hurling together handclaps, electronic sub bass, shuffling drums, dub, shoegaze, fuzz guitars and mournful pianos, it's a kaleidoscope of sound which changes gear from song to song and often within them, blasting from brass stabs to funk motifs with dizzying glee.
Beams of protons were hurled together at 13 trillion electron volts, 5 trillion more than the LHC's first run in 2013.
The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together.
This week Charlie was saddened to read of the death of former NME writer Steven "Swells" Wells: "I disagreed with 85% of what he wrote, but I always wished I could hurl sentences together like him – he tossed words around like a demented cartoon chef.
He grew up in Killaloe in Co Clare, down the street from Keith Wood, a fellow Munster legend, and the pair used to practise their hurling skills together.
