POLITICS

One thing some of you younger kids may not remember is this thing Politics - and I'm not talking about Obama, or Suez Canal - in the heady hey-days of hardcore, the culture was infused with a sense of urgency not seen since the riots in Paris in 1968, there was a climate of understanding and caring within hardcore who's broad strokes extended from the Jnco jeans wearing dude with long hair parted in the middle, all the way to the fat guy in the Indecision basketball jersey, and all could get down to Cap'n Jazz while discussing the finer points of what donut stores in Michigan have vegan donuts, or whether or not it was morally right to perform on a stage at a festival. In this vein, please take a rare look back into this time - here is a video of the band Drop Dead playing a place in Toronto know as Who's Emma, a space essential in the forming of Fucked Up. The debate you are about to witness began during the show and eventually extended outside the venue after the set, where it crescendoed as the singer of the band was threatened with stabbings for being a "race-traitor" by a homeless man!