NOFX frontmanFat Mike has revealed that the band intends to split up in 2023. The punk icon let it slip that the Californian punk legends are calling it quits via a rather candid and casual reply to a fan's Instagram comment.
Fat Mike answered a fan's question about why the band doesn't tour Canada anymore, by revealing the band's plans to stage one final round of shows in 2023.
"Actually, We love Canada, it’s just that next year will be our last year. We will be announcing our final shows soon. It’s been an amazing run….” Responding to a follow-up comment from a fan about where their final show might take place, Mike revealed that “Los Angeles will be the last place we play. It’s where we started, it’s where we’ll end.”
The planned farewell tour will mark the hugely influential band's official 40th anniversary. Since forming in Los Angeles's infamous hardcore punk scene in 1983, the band has released 14 studio albums, notching up over 8 million record sales and earning the label as one of the highest-selling independent artists of all time. Their most recent record, Single Album was released in 2021.
The band are due to visit Australia for what now seems likely to be the final time in December for the stacked Good Things Festival. They will be performing their iconic record Punk In Drublic and a bunch of fan favourites which seems like a fairly decent way to see goodbye to the land down under for good.
Headlined by Bring Me The Horizon and Deftones, Good Things 2022 also features TISM who will return to the stage for the first time in 19 years, and our very own metalcore superstars The Amity Affliction. French metal goliaths Gojira, fresh from releasing their chart-topping 2021 album Fortitude will unleash all the earth-shattering polyrhythms, blast beats and thought-provoking thematics fans have come to know and love on Australian soil. Japanese rockers One Ok Rock will bring the party with the quartet’s dynamic blend of pop rock, post-hardcore and alternative rock set to simultaneously ignite some good vibes and dynamic singalong, while Italian metallers Lacuna Coil will bring a haze of goth heaviness.
Noise firebrands and habitual party starters FEVER 333 will be lending their voice to the celebrations, as will the crushingly brutal Ukrainian hell-raisers Jinjer German metalcore shapeshifters Electric Callboy will get everyone all Hyper Hyper'd up while superstar start-up JXDN also set to chalk up his first-ever Australian performances.
Swedish troublemakers Millencolin and Californian pop punk lords The Story So Far will bring the punk energy, while ex-Pagan frontwoman Nikki Brumen will bring her Norwegian death poppers Blood Command down to Australia for the very first time. Heavy metal icons Sabaton will arrive armed with their brand new album The War To End All Wars, while Soulfly will also fly the heavy metal flag, returning to their adoring down under fans after one of their longest periods away from Australia in their 30-year career.
An army of Aussie beloveds also ready to roll, with Australian punk rock institution Cosmic Psychos, indie veterans Regurgitator, emphatic ARIA-nominated rockers Kisschasy, formidable artisan punk storytellers Chasing Ghosts, Sydney metalcore monsters Polaris, recent Maniacs feature stars Thornhill and emerging rap-rock-electro-pop mutants Redhook all set to appear.
Good Things tickets are on sale now.
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