Fucked Up 'Incites' Riot at SUNY

Thought this was a bit interesting and semi-local (an hour from New Haven, 20 minutes from Stamford). Apparently, Fucked Up had a bit of an incident when they played SUNY Purchase on Saturday.

From a Matador Records blog about the performance:

"So Damian knocks down the wooden barricades so that he’s not separated from the audience, and the band plays “Manqueller Man.” I notice suddenly that the sound is thinner, not as mighty, the guitars esp, even though it still looks and sounds amazing… and then I realize the PA’s been turned off, and we’re only hearing live sound from the amp. I go to the side of the stage and find out that the cops demanded that the sound guy cut the PA and then pulled the plug.

Damian tells me the guy is a sergeant in the state police, and told the band to get off the campus immediately or they would be arrested for incitement to riot. According to the cops, the other big mistake on Damian’s part was to turn over those wooden sawhorses… he told the police that he thought they were there to protect *him* from the audience, not the other way around, so that it would be OK to remove them. The cop replied (and I am not making this up) that when Damian tipped them over, 'you could have squished some kids to death' - that’s the actual phrase he used."

You can read the rest of the post regarding the fun in Purchase here. Fucked Up does a bit explaining on their own blog too.

Download:
Fucked Up - "Baiting the Public" (off their Hidden World LP from 2006)