NOFX: BACKSTAGE PASSPORT – DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON FUSE TV

one of the other very few times i was happy to have fuse. that warped tour thing was pretty good.


Fuse TV is going to be airing a documentary series on NOFX starting on April 15th at 10pm EST. Here is a statement from the band…

So we got the bright idea to take two camera dudes on this sketchy tour we booked and make a documentary. We went to Singapore, Peru, Israel, South Africa, Korea; you get the idea…countries where maybe punk music isn't too popular.

After a few weeks we realized there's way too much semi-interesting, sorta funny, kind of embarrassing stuff going on. How are we gonna fit all this on a DVD? So we thought maybe TV? Nah, that's never gonna happen—we're not nearly as funny as Travis Barker. But we made a little trailer anyhow and showed it to some of our friends at Fuse. They loved it and showed it to some of their bosses. Their bosses didn't get it at all and told us they would call. We knew what that meant, so it was back to the DVD idea.

We kept the camera dudes on tour with us for the next year and some pretty cool stuff happened. Well…not cool for us, but cool for the DVD. Stuff like not getting paid, cops shutting down shows, Muslims getting pissed at us, Jews getting pissed at us, scoring the wrong drugs, getting beat up by Japanese women in latex, getting beat up by a Russian man in a pointy hat and basically having a super great time.

We finished the tour in South Africa and came home. We figured we might as well show it to the Fuse people again. (We showed it to HBO too, and they told us that maybe if we were U2 they would consider it…diss.) By this time Fuse had hired new people and the new folks loved it. They said they wanted to make it into a documentary series. Coolage! We signed the papers and now we have a TV show.

After months and months of editing and fighting amongst ourselves, we have 8 episodes of a show, but after you account for commercials it's only about the length of a really long movie. Think Titanic meets Spinal Tap. NOFX never had a video on MTV, but now we have a documentary on TV. Weird how things work out. Anyhow, it comes out in April sometime. My neighbors are never going to speak to me again.

NOFX : Backstage Passport


http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29763467

anyone going to watch it?

lol.. I just read that this morning on Fat and was wondering if I should post it here or not. I thought I remembered chatting with somebody in the chatbox and them mentioning not really liking NOFX so I didn't post it.. I wanna say it was Lex but I can't really remember.

It could be even more awesome if HBO had picked it up. Less censorship, no commercials. I'm still really looking forward to this.

Up the punx.

I always thought Fuse was just a website, not a TV station.

Haha I'll probably end up watching it. Even though I have no right watching any more TV.

I wouldn't mind watching it. But I don't get the station.

They used to be alright. But now they have some lame dirtbike show, a "Super Sweet 16" knockoff, some "pants off dance off" where people strip to music, but it's censored, so that sucks too.

yeah why show it if its censored.? sttupid. i have dvr with my dish so ill have to look for it cuz im super busyx100

On one hand, this might be awesome, as I'm a huge fan of people wandering around places that they are completely ignorant of and getting beaten the fuck up.

On the other hand, as much as I like NOFX, I can't stand Fat Mike. The prospect of watching him makes me shiver.

I'll probably download an episode and check it out though, as I don't have cable.

I like Fat Mike..

mike is a hero of mine. i got a picture with him but the camera died and then so did i. i admire how he just says whatever he feels like and doesnt care among tons of other things.

Ah, I can't stand Fat Mike either

this might be cool nofx are a funny bunch of guys

haha, I must admit this show is really entertaining. It's weird to see Fat Mike crying.

I've been watching It up till Ep 5 so far, it's awesome!

I really like this show too; it's better than all the other shows music stations put out.

i think its so weird NOFX agreed to actually have this on tv...the show is awesome though...and i agree it was sooo weird seeing fat mike cry...u gotta feel for him though...on a lighter note did u see kent wearing an Against Me! shirt in that one episode?

Armageddon wrote:

i think its so weird NOFX agreed to actually have this on tv...the show is awesome though...and i agree it was sooo weird seeing fat mike cry...u gotta feel for him though...on a lighter note did u see kent wearing an Against Me! shirt in that one episode?

yes i did also the drummers wife was rocking an against me shirt on the first episode.

The Israel one was crazy, I love how punk is still so blatantly alive

Yeah, that's gotta suck. You really don't feel like playing a show and then some asshole spits on you. It's sad about his daughter