CANADIAN MUSIC FEST 2010 & THE GREAT ESCAPE PRESENT: FUCKED UP

Canadian Music Fest 2010 and The Great Escape are proud to present Polaris Prize Winner Fucked Up live in concert at the El Mocambo on opening night, Wednesday, March 10. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes, ticketmaster.ca and canadianmusicfest.com for $15 (plus taxes and service charges). Doors open at 8:30 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m.

Toronto-based Fucked Up formed in 2002, high-school friends influenced by first and second-wave hardcore bands like Minor Threat and NOFX.  It was instantly apparent that they were not carbon-copy punks.

Their most recent album, The Chemistry Of Common Life released in 2008, earned the band 2009’s Polaris Prize Award, beating out fellow Canadian heavyweights like Metric, Great Lake Swimmers and K’NAAN. The album synthesizes diverse impulses into an expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death, and the origins of life (and re-living). Merging elements of hardcore songwriting with up to 70 tracks of guitars, organs, winds and vocals, the music remains iconoclastic and startling.

Known by bizarre aliases, Fucked Up employ creative methods of spreading information and misinformation, spurning MySpace and a band website in favour of Wikipedia and an oblique blog. Basic facts are constantly in flux. Some things nonetheless became clear during the course of the bands early existence. Though the band remains punk at heart, they have created a great, weird, heavy genre of music that stubbornly sticks in your brain and your heart.

FUCKED UP
W/ TROPICS, BASTARD CHILD DEATH CULT, BLACK SWAN EFFECT AND LIFESTORY MONOLOGUE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010
EL MOCAMBO – TORONTO
DOORS 8:30PM            SHOW 9:00PM
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Tickets available at Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes
www.ticketmaster.ca / www.canadianmusicfest.com
TICKETS $15.00 (PLUS TAXES & SERVICE CHARGES)
19+/GENERAL ADMISSION

Wristbands to gain entry into this event are available to purchase at www.canadianmusicfest.com. Wristbands are limited, subject to capacity.

For Canadian Music Fest information, please contact:
Planet3 Communications: Leanne Plummer/Joanne Smale
T: 647.346.4101 E: info@planet3com.net

Bessie Bullard – Communications Director
T: 905.858.4747 E: bessie@cmw.net

Fucked Up

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