NOFX have introduced a pair of UK headline reveals as a part of their 2023 farewell tour – tickets shall be out there right here.
Final September, frontman Fats Mike instructed followers on Instagram that the Los Angeles punk-rock band can be breaking apart this 12 months having fashioned in 1983. “It’s been an incredible run,” he wrote on the time.
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This month noticed NOFX element a string of US dates, that are attributable to happen between April and September.
“This isn’t a ultimate tour like Mötley Crüe or Black Sabbath,” Fats Mike mentioned in an announcement. “These are the final reveals NOFX will ever be taking part in. We’re gonna play with all our hearts…With all our pleasure…After which we’re carried out. We’re carried out carried out.”
Now, it’s been confirmed that Slam Dunk Competition will host “two further standalone reveals” that’ll function NOFX’s final-ever UK gigs.
The group will take to the stage on the occasion’s web site at Temple Newsam in Leeds on Could 26 earlier than they head south to Hatfield Park on Could 28.
“These are going to be ones to not be missed with 2 albums from their spectacular again catalog being performed in full every day plus hundreds extra,” organisers wrote on social media yesterday (January 16).
🚨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We’re extraordinarily honoured to be internet hosting the FINAL EVER UK reveals for the legendary @NOFXband
To provide them the large ship off they completely deserve they are going to be taking part in two further particular stand alone headline reveals on the Slam Dunk Competition websites. pic.twitter.com/goAi3APNph
— Slam Dunk Competition (@SlamDunkMusic) January 16, 2023
For these of you who need to go to each of those unmissable reveals and have already bought Slam Dunk Competition North tickets – please contact your ticket retailer they usually can facilitate swapping your SDF tickets to South on Saturday twenty seventh Could so you may have an epic 3 days!
— Slam Dunk Competition (@SlamDunkMusic) January 16, 2023
NOFX are set to play their fifth document ‘Punk In Drublic’ (1994) and their tenth LP ‘Wolves In Wolves’ Clothes’ (2006) in Leeds, whereas followers in Hatfield shall be handled to airings of ‘So Lengthy And Thanks For All The Sneakers’ (1997) and ‘White Trash, Two Heebs And A Bean’ (1992).
Tickets go on basic sale at 5pm GMT tomorrow (January 18) – you’ll be capable of buy yours right here.
The announcement added: “For these of you who need to go to each of those unmissable reveals and have already bought Slam Dunk Competition North tickets – please contact your ticket retailer they usually can facilitate swapping your SDF tickets to South on Saturday twenty seventh Could so you may have an epic 3 days!”
In the meantime, Enter Shikari and The Offspring are scheduled to headline Slam Dunk Competition 2023 on Could 27 (Hatfield) and Could 28 (Leeds). Different artists confirmed for the twin occasion embody Creeper, Billy Expertise and Bowling For Soup.
Final month, NOFX guitarist Eric Melvin instructed the band may nonetheless launch new music after retiring from touring. “He nonetheless needs to document and launch information as NOFX,” Melvin mentioned, referring to Fats Mike. “So we’ll see how that works as a result of they form of go hand-in-hand, however they don’t need to.”
NOFX launched their newest album ‘Double Album’ in December 2022, whereas Fats Mike launched a brand new band referred to as Codefendants, which he described as a “style fluid musical collective — a cross between hip hop, new-wave, flamenco, and the Beatles”.