SNFU

Something completely different now.

This is a band called SNFU, snuff you, whatever, uh, from the album, uh, oh God, what's the album called? Uh, oh, I've lost the name of the album.

Uh, oh yeah, Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes.

This track I'm gonna play is called Reality is a Ride on the Bus.

I forgot what it was called.

Anyways, I was walking down the street and there was a sign saying SNFU live tonight.

And I ran in and I said, are you serious? SNFU is playing here? And they're like, yes, they're playing off the floor.

And it was probably one of the best shows I've seen.

So anyways.

think.

Yeah, and then SNFU's The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed.

Still mad it's not Snafu.

I don't...

It should be Snafu! But it's not.

It's SNFU.

Yeah, you also got...

You got scared of Shaka, friends will roam, Jughead's revenge.

I got your ministry track coming up shortly.

And before DOA, The Enemy, which is what we just finished hearing off of Something Better Change, we had before that SNFU out of Edmonton with their track Get Off Your Ass.

And that's my message to you if you haven't gone out and voted yet.

And we started the set off with classic traffic.

While they were in LA, they rehearsed every day at the Naz Pad, and they arrived without a drummer, so Dave filled in for rehearsals and possibly a few shows.

He says they got to hang out with all these bands that Dave and Maxine were putting up around that time, such as SNFU, who were in, in town recording an album, and The Hard Ons, and they ended up playing a game of Australia versus Wales rugby in Dave Naz's backyard.

So fast-forward to roughly a decade ago, and they reform for a one-off reunion show, the Darling Buds do, which leads to semi-regular shows and eventually recording and releasing fourth album, Same Sun, same Sky, released this year on Cherry Red Records.

It's great, maybe '60s-inspired paisley-adjacent rock.

You

know what I mean? And I can stare into the eyes of like, for example, like, The singer SNFU, you know, Ken Chen, Mr.

Chai Pig.

When you looked at him on stage, you knew he was just hanging by a thread.

You know, in fact, I think their first punk rock show, I mean, because they're a couple of years younger than we are.

And I think their first punk rock show was Horace Pinker playing with SNFU.

And then, yeah, and then, you know, they started, you know, Jim and those guys started that band.

And then, I mean, they used to cite us and Maxim Rock and Roll as an influence.

It's at Amigo's that Blaine met Ryder, who was going to university here at the time.

Uh, the Dead Milkmen, Dread Zeppelin, Tupelo Chain Sex, Doughboys, Blue Rodeo, Sarah McLachlan, Wheatcheifs, and SNFU many, many times, Rheostatics, 13 Engines, the Jim Rose Circus in 1992 during their heyday, Fleshtones also in '92, Asexuals, Seaweed, Sloan many times, Lowest of the Low, The Muffs, Teenage Head, The Dwarves, Supersuckers, Forgotten Rebels, Tar, Jawbox, Cub, Head, MDC, Goober & the Peas, Cadillac Tramps, Grant Hart and Nova Mob, Big Drill Car, Entombed, Ryan, Entombed.

[laughs] I, I know, I know not what they sound like.

Uh, yeah, you weren't at that show, I'm sure.

There wasn't much of a music scene or there was a couple of good bands, but you didn't really go out to go see shows like you would in Kitchener.

There was a few shows that I'd see like DOA or SNFU at the, what was the place that burned down? Metropolis, I think it was called.

Oh, at Downtown Kitchener.

Yeah, Downtown