Costumes

ISSUES

Hi Josh and Mike stopped by Issue Oriented the morning after we played the 12 hour show. It's in Jersey City and we had to be there at 11am. Anyhow, listen to us being super honest right HERE.

TICKETS

Hey so tommorow at NOON is the last time you'll be able to buy advance tickets to the shows this weekend. It's not sold out, its just that we don't want to deal with tickets anymore, so just come down and get them at the door. There will be lots! And I don't mean lots like you'll have to draw lots in order to buy tickets, I mean LOTS (by which I mean some). If you haven't paid for your tickets by then, you're orders will be cancelled and you'll have to line up with the rest of the plebes. Truth be told, even if you have tickets, you will probaly still have to line up at some point. Most likely at the merch table.
So yeah - BUY TICKETS BEFORE NOON THURSDAY
epicsinminutes
@
gmail.com

AND WEAR A COSTUME ON FRIDAY. The steamier the costume, the steamier the prize.

SOULS

New MIX.

TOP

FREITAG NACHT BELEUCHTUNGEN

Hey its Friday Night (literally). We're in this new TV show. Do you like FOOTBALL? Do you like SURREALISM? Do you like INTENSE, BUILDING MOMENTS? Do you like BUFFERING? If so, wait until this show loads to about 30 minutes (or watch the whole thing and tell me what it was about) and you can hear one of our tunes in Friday Night Lights:

FEST

Hiya, here is a poster for our little festival. There are still some tickets left - jump on them, email
epicsinminutes

@

gmail.com

However, if you are a "spambot", please do NOT apply!

MAILORDER

Hello folks (this is sort of a technical "business" style post so if that isn't your deal maybe you should read some of the other posts - some are funny), we are hearing that some people are having a hard time getting their hands on the LP - if you are an individual, but ESPECIALLY a small time record distributor, like in the sense that you have a smaller store, or sell records at stores, or do an online distro and don't deal with ADA or other large distribution corporations, please feel free to conduct small-scale mail order business through


dave






@




matadordirect.com




This includes the new LP, the corresponding CD, and also all the singles we've done on Matador up to this point (NOT including "Royal Swan" [OLE-848-7]) and also the soon to be repressed Year of the Pig 12" single, and it's corresponding CD, and of course any subsequent licenses, represses, mixtapes, compact discs, reel to reel tapes, long playing albums, 7" singles or any of the music contained therein to be released as compilation albums, in all territories in the world (henceforth know as "the territory"), except excluding any and all albums, compact discs, singles, 12" singles, reel to reel tapes, cassette tapes, prison issue-only "safe-plastic" (herein known as "plastic tapes") tapes, tshirts, long playing albums, cd singles, minidiscs, books, books-on-tape, plastic cylinders, hats with the FU logo on it (herein known as "hats"), toques (herein known as "beanies" [and/or "Toques" within Canada, excluding "The Territory"] and [except when containing any and all reference to Vampire Weekend in any stiched, stenciled, drawn, painted or any other form of transfer onto any such "Toque" or "Beanie"]) (and not including winter Scarfs [herein known as "scarfs"]), lunchpail kits (does not contain food [unless in reference to officially licensed Fucked Up Food {also known as organic bok choy}]), and any other formats not already covered within said agreement.
If you have any questions please feel to ask Dave.

SNICE

Hi there is this thing called Vice. Maybe you've heard of it (unless you are an alledged 15 year old twee pop didactic). We have had an ongoing relationship with them for a very long time. At first they hated us, or didn't know about us, then they liked us, then we didn't like them, then we liked them again, then they really loved us, and we started loving them as well, then all of a sudden things got very weird and they hated us, and we felt bad but still liked them but also hated them a bit. Then finally they sort of didn't mind us and then liked us again (or atleast some of them did) and then we liked them as well, and now we just like each other, but it's not the same. It's complicated.

12 HOURS

Hi for all 10 of you that weren't at the 12 hour show, Rhapsody (the company we threatened to sue for no reason about a year ago) has started editing down the footage. Here is some:

CHICAGO

A place we love. Get tickets HERE.

MOBY

It Happened

Hey there is this caption competition happening at ABEANO (?) music:



If they chose your caption you get a free Vampire Weekend/Fucked Up split 7" (Fleetwood Mac covers)

TONIGHT NYC

Tonight Oct 15
Bowery Ballroom NYC
9PM $12
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
FIASCO

12 HOUR SHOW

HOLY SHIT THE 12 HOUR SHOW IS TOMMOROW. WHAT ARE WE, CRAZY? YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO PLAY FOR TWELVE HOURS, IN A ROW!(!(!(!(@*#*#*#*#*(#*(#

ANyhow its at the Rogan Store, which is across from where CBGBs used to be, which is technically at 330 BOWERY AVE. IT STARTS AT 2PM. WE ARE PLAYING ALL DAY. THERE MIGHT BE A LINE UP AT SOME POINTS DURING THE DAY, BUT DON'T FLIP OUT, BECAUSE WE ARE PLAYING FOR TWELVE HOUSRSSSRSRSGYERGEFWHFUWEUOF



IN A ROW

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

LIIKE THE GUY FROM VAMPIRE WEEKEND

I AM NOT KIDDING

TOUR

Hey our tour starts tommorow:

Oct 11
Montreal @ La Sala Rosa
FUCKED UP
DILLINGER FOUR
STATUES
OMEGAS


Oct 12
Allston MA @ Great Scott
FUCKED UP
MIND ERASER
VIVIAN GIRLS

Oct 13
Danbury CT @ Heirloom Arts Theater
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
HOSTAGE CALM
76% UNCERTAIN


Oct 14
New York @ Rogan Store 330 Bowery
FUCKED UP
plus a million guests for 12 hours


Oct 15
New York @ Bowery Ballroom
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
FIASCO

Oct 16
Brooklyn @ Market Hotel
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
STREET CITY KIDS

Oct 17
Baltimore @ Sonar
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
AKIMBO
SURROUNDINGS
SICK WEAPONS
WHITE MICE
4th HORSEMAN
holy fuck that is a lot of bands

Oct 18
Philadelphia @ The Barbary
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
ARMALITE

Oct 19
Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
FUCKED UP
VIVIAN GIRLS
CLOAK AND DAGGER
POLICE AND THIEVES


Oct 20
Columbus Ohio @ Skully's
FUCKED UP
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT
REFLECT


Oct 21
St Louis @ The Bluebird
FUCKED UP
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT
GOD FODDER

Oct 22
Iowa City @ The Picador
FUCKED UP
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT
maybe another band

Oct 23
Chicago @ Reggies Rock Club
FUCKED UP
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT
THE MUZZLER
THOUGHT CRUSADE


Oct 24
Pontiac MI @ The Pike Room
FUCKED UP
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT

Oct 25
Buffalo @ Mohawk Palace
FUCKED UP
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT
INTO RUIN

MTV

1 Horribly untalented musicians

2 Music about as punk as Celine Dion

3 Lame attempt to look hardcore by punching out ceiling tiles

4 Drummer wearing $9.99 helmet he bought at army surplus store on Jarvis

5 Guitarist wearing ascot like some Thurston Howell III dork with eye makeup like Robin's cousin in law who hangs out at mall goth bars

6 Fatass talentless singer removes T shirt in amazing theatrical moment of blubber cool

7 Crowd in need of defibrillation during and after this lifeless performance from a bunch of losers

8 These guys need to fuck off back to their bank teller/coffee shop day jobs. They're about as edgy as a rusty butter knife with a laughable name devoid of all imagination. If I gave half a shit about these nothings I might feel embarrassed for them.

TONIGHT

Hi we are playing Tonight Oct 9th at Midnight at Sneaky Dees (Toronto) with Dillenger Four and Black Time. Its $10

WESTIVAL

HI HERE IS THE INFO FOR OUR FESTIVAL
IT ISN"T 100% FULL OR FINISHED YET SO DON'T FLIP OUT PLEASE
EMAIL EPICSINMINUTES@GMAIL.COM ASAP FOR YR TICKETS POST HASTE
"Please indicate exactly which shows you want to go to and how many tickets you want to buy for each one. You will then receive a PayPal invoice for the tickets, which you can use to pay for them online in order to guarantee entry into the shows." (that is from "David")

Also if you haven't heard back about your tickets DON'T PANIC. You will get them (until we post here that it is sold out)

Thursday October 30th
@ Sneaky Dee's 431 College
8pm 19+ $12
FUCKED UP
FINAL FANTASY
$100
THE VIVIAN GIRLS
KATIE STELMANIS

Thursday October 30th
@ Rancho Relaxo 300 College
1am Free
TROPICS
LULLABYE ARKESTRA

Friday October 31st
@ Sneaky Dee's 431 College
8pm 19+ $12
FUCKED UP
SEX VID
DEMONS CLAWS
QUEST FOR FIRE
JACK OF HEART

Friday October 31st
@ Rancho Relaxo 300 College
1am Free
TEENANGER
SOME OTHER BAND

Saturday November 1st
@ The Kathedral
12pm All Ages $15
FUCKED UP
MIND ERASER
SEX VID
RAMPAGE
THE SHITTY LIMITS
MOLESTED YOUTH
one more TBA

Saturday November 1st
@ Sneaky Dee's 431 College
8pm 19+ $12
FUCKED UP
IRON AGE
HATRED SURGE
ENDLESS BLOCKADE

Saturday November 1st
@ Rancho Relaxo 300 College
1am Free
MAD MEN
URBAN BLIGHT

AKON

Yeah.

UK EU TOUR

Hey we are coming back to the UK and EU real soon:

Fri Nov 7
LONDON @ 93 Ft East
Hobaken Festival
DON CABALLERO
FUCKED UP
PART CHIMP
zZz
TRENCHER
+ MORE TO BE ADDED

Tickets

Sat Nov 8
BRIGHTON @ Freebutt
FUCKED UP
LETS WRESTLE
BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES
Tickets

Sun Nov 9
BIRMINGHAM @ Barfly
FUCKED UP
SSS
LETS WRESTLE
Tickets

Mon Nov 10
OXFORD @ Zodiac
FUCKED UP
LETS WRESTLE
BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES
Tickets

Tue Nov 11
EXETER @ The Cavern
FUCKED UP
LETS WRESTLE
OK PILOT

Wed Nov 12
CARDIFF @ Club Ifor Bach
FUCKED UP
LETS WRESTLE
Tickets

Thur Nov 13
STOKE @ Sugarmill
FUCKED UP
SSS
LETS WRESTLE
Tickets

Fri Nov 14
NOTTINGHAM @ The Bodega
FUCKED UP
LETS WRESTLE
BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES
Tickets

Sat Nov 15
COVENTRY @ Kasbah
FUCKED UP

Sun Nov 16
GLASGOW @ King Tuts
FUCKED UP
SSS
LETS WRESTLE
Tickets

Mon Nov 17
SHEFFIELD @ The Corporation
FUCKED UP
SSS
LETS WRESTLE
Tickets

Tues Nov 18
LEEDS @ Brundenell Social
FUCKED UP
LETS WRESTLE
GEOFFREY OICOTT
Tickets

Wed Nov 19
MANCHESTER @ The Roadhouse
FUCKED UP
ROT IN HELL
LETS WRESTLE
Tickets

Thur Nov 20
GUILDFORD @ GYC Club
FUCKED UP
THE SHITTY LIMITS
LETS WRESTLE

Fri Nov 21
Antwerp @ Trix

Sat Nov 22
Amsterdam @ Paradiso

Sun Nov 23
Rotterdam @ Waterfront

Mon Nov 24
Cologne @ MTC

Tue Nov 25
Munster @ SputnikHalle - Triptychon

Wed Nov 26
Hamburg @ Hafenklang

Thur Nov 27
Berlin @ Festaal

Thur Nov 28
Malmo @ Debaser

Fri Nov 29
Olso @ Skur 40

Sat Nov 30
Gothenburg @ TBC

Tue Dec 2
Stockholm @ Debaser

Wed Dec 3
Copenhagen @ Stengade

Thur Dec 4
Leipzig @ Zorro

Fri Dec 5
Prague @ 007

Sat Dec 6
Vienna @ Shelter

Sun Dec 7
Milan @ Leoncavallo

Mon Dec 8
Zurich @ Abart W Against Me

Tue Dec 9
Toulouse @ Le Caravan Serail

Wed Dec 10
Girona @ La Mirona

Thur Dec 11
Madrid @ Wurlitzer Ballroom

Fri Dec 12
Bermo @ La Capilla

Sat Dec 13
Sant Felie De Codines @ Civic Las Fonteta

Sun Dec 14
San Sebastian @ Mogambo

Mon Dec 15
Paris @ Le Mecanique Ondulatoire

Tue Dec 16
Stay Tune

MAGIC WORD

Hey we made a video with our friend Alyssa:



Ps RIP Yung Cheesy (aka Shaquon Smith)

CHAT

Tommorow (Wednesday Oct 8) at 11am EDT (4pm in England) feel free to go to the Gigwise chat room HERE to have a chat session with 10,000 MARBLES. Should be weird.

CWAZY

Hey here is an interview we did for Revolver. It's about some of the "craziest" shows we've seen or been a part of. You can find the original content here.

WEB EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: FUCKED UP RELIVE THEIR MOST FUCKED-UP CONCERTS. FUUUUUCCCKK!!!!!

Since 2001, Toronto-based hardcore group Fucked Up have proven to be one of rock’s most unpredictable live acts. Bloody foreheads, hairy butt cracks, puddles of vomit—there’s very little that’s off limits at Fucked Up concerts, and as a result, more than a few have ended after two or three songs. As exciting as such instability sounds, though, it’s also sometimes a shame since the band’s gritty punk rock is well worth hearing in more than a few, short blasts. Frontchunk Pink Eyes (Fucked Up’s members go by aliases) growls like Fear vocalist Lee Ving with throat cancer; the band’s three(!) guitarists—10,000 Marbles, Gulag, and the group’s newest edition, Young Governor—build distorted monoliths of noise; bassist Mustard Gas, the group’s feminine faction, somehow keeps the momentum going; and drummer Mr. Jo has a harder task—getting the band to stop occasionally.
Fucked Up’s latest album, The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador), is a bit of a departure, but not to the point that it will alienate their fans. The album recalls Pink Floyd as much as Pink Flag (the seminal album by post-punks Wire), and some of the songs devolve into psychedelic jams. But knowing Fucked Up, if they’ve become (slightly) mellower in the studio, they’ll likely become something far more threatening live. With that in mind, Revolver caught up with the band members at their label’s New York headquarters and asked them to retell stories of their most fucked-up concerts. In the interview setting, the band isn’t nearly as intimidating as they are on onstage (they are Canadian, after all); Pink Eyes is even dressed way down in a hip-hop-like tracksuit. But the pictures they paint (indexed below by fucked-uppitude), tell another story.

ANOTHER KICK IN THE WALL (HAMILTON, CANADA)
MUSTARD GAS There’s this band called Haymaker from Hamilton, which is just outside of Toronto. They’re a heavy band and they tend to bring with them... psychos. Oftentimes they’ll light off fireworks inside the clubs. Including the kinds that twirl up from the ground. At the show, they started playing and within a few minutes you hear a crack. Firecrackers are going off. There was a fire that started on a chair.

MR. JO They built a pyre in the middle of the room from all the chairs at the bar. And they were ripping the lighting fixtures out of the wall, which caused an electrical fire to spark up. Everybody was dancing around and shooting roman candles into it to try and ignite it. And the police showed up. And nobody in the band wanted to go out the front door and get confronted by the cops. There’s also a side-door exit, but it was locked from the outside. The drummer, who is a huge tank of a guy—he’s all muscle—he picks up his drum kit and basically takes the entire thing with two hands and kicks through the wall, Kool-Aid style. Busts open the door and loads into his van and drives off.
MUSTARD GAS Like everyone’s running with their amps. Like, “Go! Go!” I remember this huge sense of urgency. It was pretty thrilling.

HEADBANGER’S BULB (TEXAS)
YOUNG GOVERNOR A guy smashed a fluorescent light bulb over his had and shards of it unluckily hit 10,000 Marbles and slit his face. It was the shortest Fucked Up set I’ve ever seen.
PINK EYES We stopped after that.
YOUNG GOVERNOR It was literally like 45 seconds and they were done.
PINK EYES Luckily, he was OK, so now we can look back and laugh.

LEGENDS OF THE FALL (PITTSBURGH & VANCOUVER)
PINK EYES I climbed up on top of this speaker stack…
YOUNG GOVERNOR And had a nervous breakdown onstage.
PINK EYES I was like, “I can’t get off it.”
YOUNG GOVERNOR He just lied there like a depresso madman.
PINK EYES I told everyone. I was like, “I’m not coming down. I’m just going to lie up here for a little bit.”
YOUNG GOVERNOR And if he tries, he will fall, like in Vancouver. At our last show, he fell off the stage. Before we even hit the first note, he just fucking fell off the stage.

PINK EYES I went to jump on the monitors, because we’re so used to playing these festivals with these huge monitors. So I jump on the monitor, and the monitor really can’t hold my weight. So as soon as I jump on it, it’s over. And the front of the stage wasn’t attached to the rest of the stage. So once I started to tip over, I just fell right over into the crowd. Kind of humiliating.
REVOLVER Do fans typically catch you?
PINK EYES Because of my size, I’m surprised at how ready people are. When we played at Leeds and Reading, the front row is full of people literally about a third of my size. And they carried me around.
MUSTARD GAS They held him at shoulder-height.
PINK EYES It was insane. I’ve never been crowdsurfing like that before.
MR. JO That was like Iggy Pop in Detroit in 1970.
PINK EYES If Iggy had eaten a hundred years of Big Macs.
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND BEERS (CALGARY)
PINK EYES Somebody handed me a pint glass and I smashed it into my head. And as soon as I did, I was like, Fuck, something went wrong.
MR. JO I just look over, and it’s like gushing.
PINK EYES Yeah, blood ended up getting everywhere. So I wrapped my head up and we played two more songs and I went to the hospital. We had three more left in the set list. And I went to the walk-in clinic. I still have glass in my forehead, because they didn’t get it all out when they stitched me up.

REVOLVER What did the doctor say?
PINK EYES They were like, “How did this happen?” I’m like, “Funny story. I was walking to the bar after our set and I tripped and turned around and someone hit a pint glass into my head.” You don’t want to say, “Oh, I smashed a pint glass,” because they’ll put you in an institution.

ROOM WITH A SPEW (BOSTON)
YOUNG GOVERNOR I used to puke at every show we played. Just from adrenaline. And I guess I forgot, and I ate a bunch of chili fries once. And as soon as we started playing, I just started puking them up all over the stage. At every corner on every side. And people were stage-diving, and obviously the band is trying to get into it. And it just smelled so bad. And everyone’s tripping in puke. Our guitar players are slipping, and one guitar player slipped in the puke and actually puked himself. [All laugh] It was completely disgusting. And then shortly after, we played a show and I puked again onstage. But I puked in someone’s mouth. Some kid was singing along, and he got a mouthful of puke. And after the show, I was like, “Yo, I’m sorry I puked in your mouth.” He was like, “No, it was amazing. It made me go crazy. I loved it.” (Check the video at 1.48):

RAINING BLOOD (MTV)
PINK EYES When we played on MTV, I must have hit a vein. There was so much blood. I’ve never bled like that. And kids were passing the mic, singing along, and I was bleeding into their mouths as they were singing along. I’ve been tested and everything, but it was still pretty fucked up to see.

Interview by Kory Grow

MTV

YO CANADIANS
We are playing on MTV Live this THURSDAY. It is not going to be like last time. If you still want to try and come email liveaudience@mtv.ca

PS This is in or around Toronto Canada

12 HOUR SHOW

HOLY FUCK. We are playing for 12 hours STRAIGHT in a few weeks at the Rogan Store in New York. Oct 14. Free, all ages, free booze, guest stars, free records, insanity, etc. Go here or here for more details. Please don't worry about lineups or space or anything like that - the store is small but remember we will be there for TWELVE HOURS. From 2pm until 2am.

If you are a) famous b) in a band c) in a good band d) outgoing e) etc - please feel free to come town and a) get drunk and then b) jam with Fucked Up at your leisure - we are not kidding!

A GUY DRINKING YOGHURT ON THE BEACH

Not kidding

STREAM

Hey in case you haven't already downloaded the new record, it is now STREAMING (live) on the Rhapsody website. RIGHT HERE.

THAT OTHER MIX

HERE is another mix. Here is the tracklisting:

Stud Leather - Cut Loose
Midwest Beat - JMan's Blues
Dungen - Something in Swedish
Cuban Crimewave - Snake Preachers
Jesus and Mary Chain - Jesus Sucks
Exhibit A - Digital Age
Crow - Give Up All Hope (Live at Tokyo WATTS)
Iron Age - Satori Pt. 1
Running Dogs - Blue Boats
Scrotum Poles - Helicopter Honeymoon
Tall Dwarfs - Dare to Tread
Microedge - HARDCORE