Jackpot

So, we always understood it as fact, but it's become apparent that the bad guys really is using the power of the subconscious to control us and take our money. Turns out some video slot machines in this country have been programmed to spit winning images out at the player in rapid 5th of a second bursts to rope the subconscious into thinking it's using a winning machine.

Konami, the globoration behind video games like the Castlevania series, and the more mind-melting Dance Dance Revolution arcade set ups, is the manufacturer of the slot consoles that flash jackpot images at the player ever two seconds. We spent the day today listening to Konami officials explaining the flashed messages as a "programming malfunction", and wondering why the CBC was taking slow-motion footage of slot machines in the first place. Who's playing who?

We had our man Octavio St. Laurent do a little research, and he was able to track down this mechanical engineer to help us understand what's going on:



This is the war of symbols, with the subconscious as the prize. Recall the power of the subconscious to make materialize your commands through sigils, but also its inclination to succumb to the more powerful symbols and psycho-direction signs of our modern red-light-green-light culture.

Here is a recent FU interview that was aired on an AM station in NYC.

If you want hear Fucked Up songs on television, go to the new VICE TV station, and find the links to David Choe's "Thumbs Up". Hidden World is the soundtrack.

Speaking of Hidden World, someone just released it on 8-Track.

Also due to some internal BS, we had to cancel our show this Wednesday with the Viletones. The show is still happening, so you should go:
A Benefit for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

BACK TO THE CABANA ROOM
Everything new is old again!
Art Auction and Celebration of 25 Years of Toronto Rebel Culture

Wednesday February 28
at the Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street W. Corner of Gladstone and Queen
Doors Open at 7pm
Music after 10pm

Featuring Live Performances from:
* Steven Leckie and the Viletones

SXSW

Hi folks, and whats up to Apophis. Finally here is our (mostly) complete schedule for SXSW 2007. Should be fun.



























Monday March 12
Houston Texas
@ Walters (4215 Washington St.)
8pm $10 All Ages
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTEENS
I AM WOLF

















Tuesday March 13
Fort Worth Texas
@ Competition Music 3136 East Lancaster
8PM $6
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
LION OF JUDAH
MY LUCK

Wednesday March 14
Austin Texas
@ The Lamar Pedestrian Bridge
1am Free All Ages
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
REPERCUSSIONS

Thursday March 15
Austin Texas
@ The Scoot Inn
Advanced Alternative Media/Brooklyn Vegan Party
Noon Free
MEW
FUCKED UP
NEW VIOLATORS
ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL
MATT & KIM
THE TWILIGHT SAD

Thursday March 15
Austin Texas
@ Lamberts (401 W. 2nd St 78701)
Jade Tree Records Showcase
8pm
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES
FUCKED UP (12am)
MICAH P HINSON
SNOWDEN
YOUNG WIDOWS
PANDA & ANGEL

Friday March 16
Austin Texas
Vice Saves SXSW Party
@ The Vice Stage across from The Longbranch Inn (at 1133 E 11th St.)
All Ages Free (with RSVP) Doors at Noon
Vice will announce the full lineup this week, but it is really crazy believe me.
FUCKED UP (5:45-6:15)

Friday March 16
@ The Trailor Space 2421 E. Cesar Chavez
Timmy Fest
8pm All Ages $3
JAY REATARD
FUCKED UP
MARKED MEN
HIGH TENSION WIRES
LION OF JUDAH
WHITE SAVAGE (members of the Ponys and the Tyrades – only sxsw show)
SACRED SHOCK
























Saturday March 17
Austin Texas
Mess with Texas/Chunklet Party
@ Red Seven (611 E. 6th St)
Day Two Hosted By Patton Oswalt
Free All Ages Doors at Noon
THE WALKMEN
APPLES IN STEREO
SLOAN
THE BLACK LIPS
THE PONYS
FUCKED UP (3:15)
DEERHUNTER
FATAL FLYING GUILOTEENS
LADYHAWK
THE CARBONAS
THE CUBICAL
Comedians performing both days: David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, Leo Allen, Laura Krafft, Kristen Schaal, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn, Jon Glaser, Scott Auckerman, BJ Porter, Jon Benjamin, Zach Galifianakis, + more.

Here is a flyer for Philly:





















Friday March 2nd Philadelphia PA
@ The First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut Street at 22nd)
$8 advance / $10 day of show / All Ages
FUCKED UP
COLD WORLD
YDI
GOVERNMENT WARNING
Tickets



Here is a flyer for NYC:





















Saturday March 3rd
@ The Mercury Lounge 217 E. Houston St. (corner Ave A & Houston)
$8 advance $10 door
FUCKED UP
GOVERNMENT WARNING
CAUSE COMMOTION
BABY SHAKES
tickets

Here is some new stuff to download:
Video from the set at the Horseshoe last week, and the interview we did on CITR with Nardwuar last weekend in Vancouver.

News

HI

Our Mediterranean connection Octavio St Laurent took a bit of time of from his busy schedule producing house anthems recently, and took a visit to research the Large Hadron Collider, being built now in Switzerland, near Geneva. We conducted the following interview to clear up some misconceptions surrounding this massive particle collier.

How big is this thing?

Octavio: The actual particle accelerator has a circumference is 27 kms - and it's 150 meters under the ground. Most of it is actually located in France (see image below). I mean, this thing is costing about 8 billion US dollars. It's crazy. When I visited you had these cooped up scientists doing jogs around the thing, playing soccer. It was surreal, it felt like the machinery was going to start sucking people up, or that the gravity was all of a sudden going to break up.

What does it do?

Octavio: Well, I mean there's the Higgs boson - how many are there? Do particles have SUSY partners? These are the questions we don't know the answers to yet. Basically though it's being built to help us learn how to make black saturns and black holes, and to get into those new dimensions. We're sitting on the 4th dimension, wasting all this space we don't even know how to contextualize yet. We're out looking for it here.















Is it Dangerous?

Octavio: For sure it is. I mean you've got these particles of energy spinning around this thing, you've got these massive magnets. What happens when you start seeing these people folding themselves out of this plane? They're going to make a black hole down there, it's going to swallow up the planet. It's going to eat the universe. You're going to see these people pushing carts full of strange matter, strangelets spiraling out of their eyeballs, burning holes into the fabric of space time. This thing is going to unfurl like a fireman's hose gone wrong, and spew a liquid dimension all over reality. Imagine waking up to the last day on Earth.

Concievably, could this thing create magnectic monopoles that could catalyze proton decay? Or even trigger a transition into a different quantum mechanical vacuum?

Octavio: For sure.







SXSW NEWS

Here are some shows and some more information for SXSW:

Monday March 12
Houston Texas
@ Walters (4215 Washington St.)
8pm $10 All Ages
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTEENS
I AM WOLF

Tuesday March 13
Denton Texas
Venue TBA
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
LION OF JUDAH
MY LUCK

Wednesday March 14
Austin Texas
@ The Lamar Pedestrian Bridge
3am Free All Ages
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
REPERCUSSIONS

Thursday March 15
Austin Texas
@ Lamberts (401 W. 2nd St 78701)
8PM
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES
FUCKED UP (12am)
MICAH P HINSON
SNOWDEN
YOUNG WIDOWS
PANDA & ANGEL

Friday March 16
Austin Texas
Vice Saves SXSW
@ The Vice Stage across from The Longbranch Inn
All Ages Free (with RSVP) Doors at Noon
FUCKED UP (at 5:45)

The other bands on this show will be announced soon. They are crazy. If you want to get into this show you need to RSVP - email David at epicsinminutes@gmail.com and he'll get you sorted with Vice.

Saturday, March 17th
Red Seven, 611 E. Sixth St.
Hosted by Patton Oswalt FREE & ALL AGES
The Walkmen
Apples in Stereo
Sloan
The Black Lips
The Ponys
Fucked Up
Deerhunter
Fatal Flying
Guiloteens
Ladyhawk
The Carbonas
The Cubical





We just added GOVERNMENT WARNING to this show:

Saturday March 3rd
@ The Mercury Lounge 217 E. Houston St. (corner Ave A & Houston)
$8 advance $10 door
FUCKED UP
GOVERNMENT WARNING
CAUSE COMMOTION
BABY SHAKES
tickets


AND - thanks to people who are emailing about the summer tour. We are still routing it, so be patient. Basically if you want to book a show in the east, south, west, northwest, northeast, upper, Canada, southwest, get in touch with your plan vibrationandhum@hotmail.com June 20-Aug 6.


Lastly, anyone who has the newest sides by Rich Boy, should get in touch so we can hear them.

Next in Line

"This should make it hot for them..."


Also"

SXSW

Hey Dudes!

Ok, here is the first SXSW update I can do.

Wednesday March 14th
Lamar Pedestrian Bridge
Free, All Ages, like 3am
FUCKED UP
other bands TBA

this will be crazy

Saturday, March 17th
Red Seven, 611 E. Sixth St.
Hosted by Patton Oswalt FREE & ALL AGES
The Walkmen
Sloan
The Black Lips
The Ponys
Fucked Up
Deerhunter
Fatal Flying
Guiloteens
Ladyhawk
The Carbonas
The Cubical

Comedians performing both days: David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, Leo Allen, Laura Krafft, Kristen Schaal, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn, Jon Glaser, Scott Auckerman, BJ Porter, Jon Benjamin, Zach Galifianakis, + more.

Rumour has it that Ghostface Killah and Redman are gonna be added to these shows next week.

Early next week we'll be able to fill in the rest of our SXSW dates here, including the show with TURBONEGRO

Here is an article where we made the Toronto Star print "Fucked".

Don't forget the NYC show in March
Saturday March 3rd @ The Mercury Lounge 217 E. Houston St. (corner Ave A & Houston) $8 advance $10 door
FUCKED UP
CAUSE COMMOTION
BABY SHAKES
One more TBA

TICKETS

Also we're going to start work on Year of the Pig soon. It's coming out on What's Your Rupture Records.
In the mean time, come see Year of the Dog live tommorow. Tommorow night it will feature 3 guitars, probably an organ, two drum kits and a glockenspiel.

Wavelength

The next show we do is next Friday February 9th at the Horseshoe, part of Wavelength 7th Anniversary Festival
Friday February 9th @ The Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen West
9pm Pay what you Can
FUCKED UP
SKUNT
ETAOIN SHRDLU
ROZASIA
and DJ Barbi

Here's a brief interview we did for the Wavelength Zine this month (they called our style "extra crispy"). What you have to understand is that punks and indie rockers are still a little different:

So I was walking down the street carrying a plate of run-of-the-mill punk and hardcore LPs when this band ran into me and got their interesting all over my boring. I was hesitant at first but I tasted it and it was delicious. Their 12’’ “Looking For Gold” is a 17-minute opus chock-full of pounding drum solos, extended whistles and the kind of stanky raw punk that makes you wanna slap the elderly. Listening to it, I knew I wasn’t eating just a greasy snack but mowing down on the full meal deal…

After putting on their new record, Hidden World, and running his head into the wall for awhile, Matt Thomas saw some red spots, and Fucked Up’s guitarist 10,000 Marbles, who’s brain he proceeded to snack on.

Roll Call/Instruments/Favourite shit disturber in history?

10,000 Marbles. Guitar. Gilles De Rais.

Not your mother’s hardcore band-—how does Fucked Up fuck it up live?

Today we fucked up the bridge in “Blaze of Glory,” and we also fucked up by not first realizing that was already the name of a Bon Jovi song. We also always break strings and I do this thing where I pretend to faint into the crowd and make them carry me but really I’m just faking. Plus Pink Eyes always thanks people onstage that he doesn’t really mean to thank. Also this one time Mustard Gas played the bassline to “The Boy Is Mine” while we were playing “Generation” because she was so high.

If you could grant three wishes to the hardcore scene what would they be?

1) That it would implode.
2) That the shockwave would annihilate the wolf-band-name scene.
3) That finally in a glorious cataclysm of stellar destruction it would be spread over the universe like expensive caviar and never be heard from again.

I heard rumours of a fucked up film featuring Fucked Up, can you tell more of such secrets?

It isn’t about us, we‘re scoring it. It’s going to be called Triumph, and is the brainchild of epoch-maker David Eliade. It will be the first true film in history and will be fed to audiences like a fine, sugary, drug-laced mash through tubes into their brains. Its going to be the biggest movie of the 21st century. We are also working on a musical called David Comes To Life.

What advice do you have to people so they too can be Fucked Up?

Smoke raisins.

How was it working for a fancy label in a fancy studio with a fancy producer?

It was amazing. The four weeks we spent in the studio doing the record was the best episode in my life. Woke up at eight and instead of biking to the salt mine I work at normally, I got to bike to the studio and eat greaseball food for 18 hours straight and try out the most ridiculous sonic experiments imaginable and do it all on someone else’s dime. For a band like us, it was like being with the most luxurious pimp on the planet.

Whistling, mysticism, drum solos... what do you have planned next to give punk a facelift?

Uh… we are going to include homemade acid blotters on the next FU 12-inch. They will be DIY though, so a lot of important people are going to die.

How will Fucked Up end the world when they take the stage at Wavelength this year?

Haha, I’m going to be serious for a minute—we’re gonna play the show with a third guitarist and Max from the Deadly Snakes (no longer true, but he's playing with us in late Feb) is going to be playing the organ on a couple of tunes.

By Matt Thomas

Plus don't forget to check out brother Wyrd Visions this Thursday at the Music Gallery at 10.30PM.
Lastly, FUI would like to welcome a few new members into the family - hello to Octavio St Laurent, Nick Fenstle (UK), and Mister Q, plus the new philosophy we are experimenting with, Wilsim Publogy. Triumph of Life!