NOFX and Bad Religion tickets

Remember Christmas time when you were a kid - the extended family in your backyard, BBQ's and drunken adults? You loved seeing your slightly strange uncle. The one with the piercing and the tattoo of the stoned tuna. He was different to your Dad, mysterious, exciting, a little dangerous. Well, imagine if there wasn't just one uncle, but two of them, and instead of Christmas it was your local beer drenched rock and roll venue. And instead of this entire laboured metaphor, it was BAD RELIGION AND NOFX! The two slightly weird uncles of punk, coming to our backyard together!
 
NOFX and Bad Religion. Sharing a stage. We're talking political and socially aware diatribes wrapped up in tight-as-f*%k punk rock. They're older than you, and they rock a lot harder than you ever will. Kind of like your drunk uncle.

NOFX was formed in L.A. back in 1983 and has released 10 studio full lengths, about 6 EP's, and a metric ton of 7”s. They’ve somehow managed to sell over 6 million records worldwide, which is an unprecedented feat for an independent band. They’re true pioneers of the genre as they’ve toured all but one continent—no Antarctica yet, sorry. No band has achieved more success independently, and no band has turned down major labels and MTV more often. Although they’re reluctant to admit it, they’re musically influenced by bands like Bad Religion, Misfits, RKL, etc. At least they were back in the day, now they do all the influencing. After years of working with mega-indie Epitaph, the band switched to Fat Mike’s own imprint. According to Fat Mike himself "We don’t make videos, we don’t do interviews, and we only play shows in warm months (good golf weather). We even got a gold record a few years ago. Cool. It never even charted once, but it went gold anyway. So there it is. NOFX, a hella happy punk band"

In a world ruled increasingly by superstition and intolerance, Bad Religion’s rousing wall-of-sound punk seems about as necessary now as ever before. It is the impassioned sound of reason, anthems of a bittersweet idealism and a guarded hope set to propulsive guitars and charging drumbeats. And while most groups with even half the artistic output have long ago morphed into stylistic self parody, Bad Religion is currently surging forward with a renewed creative intensity. Their fourteenth album, entitled New Maps of Hell, is both a nod to the band’s defiant past and an undeniable step forward in the evolution of a genre they helped to define. While many of the new songs are as brutally fast and unflinchingly heartfelt as anything the band has done before, the record is also filled with unexpected sounds, inventive rhythms and lush pop choruses.

This show is a genuinely not to be missed. These punk rock heavy weights do it best. Tickets on sale April 24th - Get set for a sell out and be sure to be quick!