Off!/Fucked Up @ Le Poisson Rouge, New York NY 7/20/24

 


Bill: Off!/Fucked Up

Venue: Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

Date: 7/20/24

Door: Sold Out bought advance ticket $45.43 on Dice


Headliner: Off!

Latest Release: Free LSD (Fat Possum, 2022)

Formed: 2010 (Los Angeles)

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Opener: Fucked Up

Latest Release: One Day (Merge/Fucked Up, 2023)

Formed: 2001 (Toronto)

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I was on the fence about going to this show and not really feeling a solo venture on this one, but my old college roommate Noah was in town from LA for the show so I jumped at the chance to catch up.  I've seen Keith Morris a bunch of times recently on Circle Jerks tours but hadn't seen Off! in a while or the opening Fucked Up from Toronto.  The funny thing with Off! is I can never remember a single song by them.  I looked at my hard drive and was surprised that with 300,000 tracks, there I didn't have anything by Off or Fucked Up on it.  I fixed that yesterday.  I suspect I had their first album on a laptop that crashed around 2015 and wiped all my music that wasn't on a backup drive, but who knows.

Anyway, I ended up streaming 5 of the bands videos from the last couple albums before checking out the show and still couldn't remember anything.  The addition of sax in the band is cool (or I just recently noticed it and forgot about it in the past), and Keith Morris sounds like Keith Morris.  All the songs a for the most part short burst, but a bit different from the early Circle Jerks classics.  For whatever reason even middling Circle Jerks albums that don't sound anywhere near as good as any Off! record leave some sort of pop earworm amidst the hardcore.  That isn't what Off! do and now they are doing their last shows in NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles with special openers.  Shellac was scheduled in Chicago before Steve Albini died.

NYC's special opener was Fucked Up, who I always thought of as a form over content band again with no memorable material despite a 17 album catalog dating back to 2001.  I still think of them as a "new band" but the singer is now an angry father defending the human rights of his trans daughter, so he has something to rail about in between songs.  Although the singer Damian Abraham has been bald with a dad bod for some time, I never really thought of him as an actual dad let alone one with offspring old enough to make transitioning decisions and have a supportive outspoken "hardcore" singer for a father.  To me, this is more "Screamo" or "Indie Rock" than "Hardcore" but it seems like they get categorized that way.

OFF!


FUCKED UP



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