MTV gets Fucked Up... Again
When inviting local punk band Fucked Up back to MTV Live, they had to have suspected that something out of the ordinary might happen.
The first time they were on the show back in January of 2007, overzealous fans ended up ripping apart parts of the stage, moshing, and causing a couple of thousand dollars worth of damage.
Tonight, the band was back. Sound check went alright, but when they went live, they kinda... um... trashed the bathroom.
Ceiling tiles were ripped down, spray paint went up on the walls ("Kurt RIP VP" and "Fucked Up", are my interpretations), and motor oil was spilled on the floor (as weird as that sounds) from a motorcycle that was brought into the building by the band and apparently damaged in the fray (you can see it on knocked over onto its side in the video).
Is pulling stunts like this gets how Fucked Up plans to take a shortcut to fame? Some might argue that you can't buy press like this for a mere few thousand bucks, but you can fix the bathroom for a few thousand bucks. One thing is for sure - they won't be getting invites to play at venues that like to have their walls remain intact.
I spoke to MTV Live host Daryn Jones about tonight's show. He seems to be taking it in stride. "We're happy to have them on the show because we really like their music, Daryn insists. "We figured that having them perform in the bathroom would look cool."
But from the first beat of the drum, things were going haywire. "It was crazy... it was chaos." And after seeing the photos, one can only assume that the clean up will cost some more dollars.
Fucked Up play tonight at midnight at Sneaky Dee's. Let's hope they've padded the walls and checked for Krylon cans at the door. Or not. It's not like Sneaky Dee's couldn't use some more graf and holes. If they're lucky, frontman Pink Eyes won't get fully naked.
My suggestion for the next time they play on MTV Live? Put them in a room full of things we want to see them fuck up.
Photo courtesy of MTV Live. More photos popping up at raymitheminx.com.
Update (October 11th, 12:08pm):
More photos, these by Phil Ogynist:
Comments (55)
Is pulling stunts like this gets how Fucked Up plans to take a shortcut to fame?
Ummmm yes. Is this newsworthy?
LOL
MTV deserves it for having such a shitty band play.
Pulling stunts like this is how a band with zero talent and minimal musical ability distracts you from realizing how awful they really are.
And these guys trash Billy Talent?
This band reminds me somewhat of the Royal Canadian Air Farce's Chicken Cannon. Who shall we submit to the Fucked Up treatment? This week's victim: Rosie DiManno! (cut to scenes of Fucked Up trashing her desk at the Star, chasing after her through the halls, finally catching up to her and spraypainting slogans on her while singing a jaunty tune.
What do you expect from a Fucked up wanna be band and a Punk band to boot? None of them are musicians and their excuse for music sucks the Big One! You're right Rob, they are all destructive and hide their non-talent behind their ridiculous actions. They eventually cave in and die a slow, painful death, just like Sid Vicious did. Same with the Rappers, which most of them are outright criminals, who end up dead, like so many have, already! No talent, no musical abilities and brain-dead to the world! Not impressed!!
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.
Snore Zzzzzz, I don't think any of these pathetic losers have enough brains or ambition to hold down a real job! Nobody in their right mind would hire them, not even as dish washers at a Chinese food restaurant on Spadina!
Unfortunately, or Fortunately, depending on how you look at it, they Don't!! Just like the Drug dealing, gun totting Rappers! No talent whatsoever!
I hate to break it to the rest of you commenters, but this "minimally talented", "pathetic losers" without "brains" are sitting back laughing at your chumps from their gold plated limousine right now. Lame attempt to look hardcore? This band has made a natural evolution (from a very hardcore original sound) while holding on to their roots, something very few can claim
also, re: "We figured that having them perform in the bathroom would look cool." Yeah fucking right. You put them in the bathroom, and posted your security guards out front, because you KNEW what happened last time, and you KNEW that if you didn't make a halfassed attempt to cage fans into a little area to "mosh and go crazy!" something else would happen. As it clearly did. And to the MTV security guards, and the little prick in the suit, you are a bunch of repressed cunts. Punching girls, very cool. I hope someone loses their job over this.
Seriously, I want anyone who has a problem with this statement to email me. This was a pathetic attempt by MTV to seem cool. The point of fucking things up is not to get publicity, they are just showing MTV how they do things, how it is supposed to happen. It doesn't matter where you see them, anytime Fucked Up plays it's chaos, you really cannot judge a band you know nothing about. I don't really know what else to say, if you are not a Toronto hardcore kid, this really doesn't make sense to you. If I was there, I would have been kicking as many holes in the wall as I could, learn how to have fun assholes
"4 Drummer wearing $9.99 helmet he bought at army surplus store on Jarvis"
Actually, that helmet was used in the Vietnam war.
MTV sucks. A little "contained." Please don't play again at that shit venue.
The set at sneaky dee's was fantastic. I liked the helmut - very practical.
that's totally awesome! this is great stuff! the more chaos the better! do you really think we need more boring lame bands in this city?!??
this is boring and lame to me. Kurt RIP? Gimme a break.
I'm going to go destroy a washroom today, let's see if I get famous.
At least MTV is trying to do something halfway interesting. Maybe you guys are more interested in the hills, or the jonas brothers on MOD. And how typically canadian to hate on a band as soon as they get international recognition.
I refuse to believe MTV didn't expect this to happen... or even maybe encourage it. Let's face it, it's publicity for the band, and publicity for MTV.
Any one remember Tom Green's numerous appearances on the Mike Bullard show?
maybe they expected something to happen but at the same time, if they did, why did they have shithead security guards trying to pull people out of the bathroom? I saw a guy literally manhandled out of there from my spot at the back. Either way, MTV fucking sucks. Good for them for promoting canadians, but I guess they kind of have to now dont they? Fuck em
"I hate to break it to the rest of you commenters, but this "minimally talented", "pathetic losers" without "brains" are sitting back laughing at your chumps from their gold plated limousine right now."
having a gold plated limousine is real hardcore punk these days isn't it.
"Either way, MTV fucking sucks. Good for them for promoting canadians, but I guess they kind of have to now dont they?"
They could choose to promote some other shit mainstream band.
I personally think this is awesome. The one thing I can't figure out is if they pulled the wool over their eyes again, or if MTV just gave up and lets them do whatever.
As for all the Fucked Up detractors...wow. You guys are boring. Sorry they don't lull you to sleep like a Jason Collette show that so many of you probably frequent. Maybe if any of you actually knew of said band, I'd lend credence to your criticisms. But chances are, your wide knowledge of 'punk' starts at the Ramones and ends at The Sex Pistols. You guys are hardly ones to be castings stones as to what musician is talented.
Liking their music notwithstanding, releasing a critically acclaimed album in punk circles, being signed to Matador and having a solid-booked tour schedule seems pretty successful to me. What are you guys doing?
It's a performance people. A happening, a la nuit blanche...
No comment on the band or MTV, other than it looked pretty tame. That ain't no big deal, no shocker. They were caged in the bathroom, not like they were outta control or anything, gee what will happen next, this is getting crazy, think he'll pull another ceiling tile down?
I'm with DeLaMax, it wasn't anything special to even bother writing an article about on here hence my first comment. But hey with the amount of comments made maybe i'm wrong.
"...are sitting back laughing at your chumps from their gold plated limousine right now."
Posted by: anonymous at October 10, 2008 1:25 AM
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Yeah, right - a bunch of 7" singles with ooooh! edgy names like "Doxton cunts" sure makes you a lot of money, doesn't it. So does playing teeny tiny venues like Sneaky Dees. Don't kid yourself, Captain Internet - these guys are renters who live on Raman Noodles and still worry on the 30th of each month whether the rent cheque is gonna bounce.
Actually, that helmet was used in the Vietnam war.
Posted by: blah at October 10, 2008 3:40 AM
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Yeah, sure it was, and the sweat on the fat lead singer came from Colonel Kurtz's ass.
Actually Rob, they all eat Rat meat at the Lucky Seven restaurant down on Spadina. That's about all they can afford, by the looks of them! They have to break in through the back door and steal whatever's left over, since the Health Inspectors Red Flagged the dump! :)
"having a gold plated limousine is real hardcore punk these days isn't it."
Hey, Duthie, these Bozos couldn't afford a gold plated limo, even if one was donated to them!! They all ride the Red Rocket to their few and far between gigs, don't you know?! Losers!!
hahhahhahh! what do you expect? Small price to pay to have such a great band play. And for buddy that said they were talentless, hey Rob, you don't know talent if it fucked you in the eyes and ears son....clearly
Man, you guys are a real judgemental bunch of serious pricks. Obviously the band musically isn't for everyone, but I'd much rather watch that on MTV than some boring usual bullshit ANYDAY. Why all the haters? I mean seriously. Who cares if people take the TTC or have to worry about rent? Is those really things you need to mention while bashing a band? Where are you all from.. Forest Hill ?
Both MTV and the band are lame. I don't want to see anything regarding either on blogto again. Thank you!
Anyone who says these guys have "no talent" need to actually listen to their music. If you don't like punk, thats fine. But saying they suck is false.
you people are a bunch of horrible mean bitter idiots. i dont much care for mtv or fucked up but good for them for there sucsess and im happy when mtv (rarely) puts TO bands on. lamewads.
totally george, like totally the most awesomenest band in like totally all of total canada. They like totally totalled that bathroom
Back in '78 the band 'Scum of the Earth' ripped it up and ripped it apart on and episode of WKRP. Rememebr that shit, it was a parody of this exact thing, but way before these original.
30 years later 2008 - 'fucked up' does the same thing on MTV. They are just a parody, of a parody, of a parody, of a parody, of a parody, of a parody, of a parody of themselves.
Theyre a great post-hardcore band but if you don't like that kind of music then yeah you probably won't like them. suprise suprise. This is just what happens at shows people mosh stuff gets beat up it's just not normally in a tiny bathroom on a shitty tv show. MTV just don't know what happens at shows so they weren't prepared. The security and staff were dumb assholes they couldn't control the bigger dudes so they started trying to show they could 'handle it' by punching/shoving girls and small guys so they could pretend they were doing something. Some angry blonde chick got levelled by an MTV dude helping the camera man for like no reason at all.
I repeat - totally george, like totally the most awesomenest band in like totally all of total canada. They like totally totalled that bathroom
hahaha
fucked up dont have other jobs, they make enough being a band to not have to work. you know, being on the cover of NME, Exclaim, etc and all... I mean, probably not as cool as any of your bands, right.
Dear middle/upper class hipsters.
Wanna know what's hardcore for a musician?
Taking an acoustic guitar to Iraq and film a documentary.
Stay in the shitter because that's where hipsters and your music belongs.
like it or not, pix from the inside here:
http://philogynist.blogspot.com/2008/10/fucked-up-played-mens-room-in-basement.html
haha, fucked up are sooo lame. i saw them open for iggy and the stooges and they just tried way too hard to look hardcore in front of a massey hall crowd who were so obviously not interested.
singer thanked the secrutiy for not shutting them down like he thought they would, when..everyone remained sitting, and the extent of their antics was him climbing up onto a speaker, and then..climbing back down again.
there are soo much better canadian punk bands.
and your band laurel, have they ever been personally asked by iggy pop to be the only openers for them? thought so.
I'd love to hear what Henry Rollins would say about this,
although he probably wouldn't waste his time, alongside any other credible musicians that would never make it onto MTV.
Henry Rollins would never make it onto mtv? You sure about that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja8oxvk0iVw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Hnkqw_M3k
Seems like most of you leaving the negative comments know nothing about punk outside of a few big names.
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