Fat Mike Says NOFX Will Break Up in 2023

NOFX to interrupt up? Bandleader “Fats” Mike Burkett could be the happiest clown with the largest frown, nevertheless it seems he is planning on disbanding the veteran California punk rock act in 2023.

Will NOFX say So Lengthy and Thanks for All of the Sneakers subsequent 12 months for actual?

Based on responses to feedback that Fats Mike made on his newest Instagram put up on Thursday (Sept. 1), as Spin and NME reported, that seems to be the case.

The band hasn’t formally introduced a cut up or any closing exhibits but. However Fats Mike seemingly leaked the information to his followers in his shock remarks.

They got here in response to feedback to an Instagram video displaying the NOFX lead singer and bassist getting a “shave and a haircut” in Alaska. He is at present up north for NOFX’s Punk in Drublic Competition dates in Canada this month.

“Really, We love Canada, it is simply that subsequent 12 months will likely be out final 12 months,” Fats Mike mentioned to 1 fan. He continued, “We will likely be asserting our closing exhibits quickly. It has been an incredible run….”

To a different remark about upcoming, and evidently closing, NOFX gigs, Fats Mike replied, “Los Angeles would be the final place we play. It is the place we began, it is the place we’ll finish.”

NOFX final launched an album, Single Album, their 14th studio effort, in 2021. The outfit began as a hardcore band in Los Angeles in 1983 earlier than turning into underground pop-punk heroes within the ’90s with efforts corresponding to Punk in Drublic (1994).

NOFX additionally consists of longtime members Eric Melvin (guitar), Erik “Smelly” Sandin (drums) and Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta (guitar). Fats Mike owns the punk label Fats Wreck Chords.

Fats Mike Instagram Feedback – Sept. 1, 2022

NOFX, “Linoleum”