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Bunchofuckingoofs

Bunchofuckingoofs, or the BFGs, are an infamous hardcore punk band from Kensington Market in Toronto, Ontario who formed in November 1983 as a response to "a local war with glue huffing nazi skinheads."[1] They ran a 24 hour a day, seven day a week boozecan from July 1983 to July 1988 at their Baldwin Street address and for another three and half years at the 26A Oxford Street warehouse til May 5, 1991 in Toronto. Spawned from this local scene were the bands 4 1/2 Reasons For Retroactive Abortion, Brutally Honest, Ded Fuck, No Identity (No I.D.), Blasphamy, Nunoyerfuckinbiziness (N.F.B.), Armed and Hammered, B. Bob's Banned, Verboten, PolitiKILL inCOREct and the singer of the present line-up for Random Killing. The band has a notorious reputation for their excessive beer drinking [2] and violent behaviour on and off stage as well as their followers.[3] They are labelmates with the Dayglo Abortions on God Records and Fringe Product.[4]

In 1985, Kierin Plunkett, the present singer and bass player for UK punk band The Restarts, spraypainted the Bunchofuckingoofs logo on the Berlin Wall and after the fall of the wall, that section of the wall was taken off to be viewed in art expositions in Basel, Switzerland and New York City. The 8, 4 meter tall pieces of the wall (measuring ten meters in length) were then to be auctioned off at Sotheby's. [5]

Joey Only states them as one of his first major influences after seeing them play at Punkfest in his teens. [6] Former bassist, Thor also played in hardcore punk band Armed and Hammered and goth band Peridition. [7] The BFGs can be seen in the Canadian series T. and T. where they played a street gang in the first episode. They were extras in many other T. and T. episodes and numerous other television series such as Night Heat, Captain Power, Street Legal, Friday's Curse, Knightwatch, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, My Secret Identity, Katts and Dog, War of the Worlds and Friday the 13th. They can also be seen in movies such as Millenium, Amerika, Dragon Hunt, Twin Dragon Encounters, Freakshow, Class of 1984, Apology, Short Circuit 2, Still Life, Pater Noster, Blindside and The Fly.

Founding Members

  • Crazy Steve Goof - vocals

formerly bass for 4.5 Reasons For Retroactive Abortion and PolitiKILL inCOREct

  • Scrag aka By-Te - bass
  • MadDog - drums
  • Bambi aka Jules - guitar

Members

  • Crazy Steve Goof - vocals
  • al-Qaetor - bass
  • Gregoose - drums
  • Fetus - lead guitar and back up vocals
  • Mike Murderio - rhythm guitar

Past members

  • Scrag aka By-Te - bass and back up vocals
  • MadDog - drums

formerly of Blibber and the Rat Crushers and presently of FingerBanger

  • Bambi aka Jules - guitar and back up vocals
  • Merrick "Scumbag" Atkinson - bass

formerly of Lummox and presently of FingerBanger

  • Godzilla - guitar

formerly of Elvis Manson

  • Cisco - Dr. Valdez - vocals on the song "Religion Made By Hypocrites"
  • The Tepperman Brothers - vocals on the song "Sony Walkmans"
  • T-Bag - guitar
  • Baron Wasteland - guitar

formerly of 4.5 Reasons For Retroactive Abortion and Brutally Honest

  • John "Yngwie Grovestien" Grove - bass and guitar

formerly of almost every punk band to ever exist in Toronto and presently AWOL

  • Terry Rubberstone - guitar

formerly of Groupoem

  • Mike Anus Jak - guitar

formerly of Dayglo Abortions, the Impaired and Karnig

  • Thor - bass

formerly of Armed and Hammered and Perdition

  • Stompin Al Miller - guitar

formerly of Living Proof and currently of FingerBanger

  • Steds Dead - guitar
  • Hardcore Dave - guitar

formerly of Armed and Hammered

  • Airock - guitar

formerly of Shitloads of Fuck-all and presently of the 3Tards

  • King Kong Goof - bass

formerly of SnapperHead, Fucknuckles and The Terrorists.US and presently of Bouncing Betties

  • Bones - guitar and bass

presently guitar for Fucknuckles and drums for Pallbearer

Discography

  • 1986: Drunk - Destroyed - Demolished demo
  • 1986: There's No Solution - So There's No Problem
  • 1992: Carnival of Chaos and Carnage
  • 1997: Totally Unmarketable
  • 2000: Barrage of Battery and Brutality (God Records)

Compilations

  • 1984: Questionable - Jonestown Records
  • 1993: A Touch of Fringe
  • 1993: Dead on the Road - Songs Without Keyboards
  • 1999: Disease Control - Volume 1
  • 1999: Kin of Kensington
  • 2001: The International Punk 10-CD Box Set

[8]

  • 2007: Canuck Punk

References

  1. ^ Montreal Mirror - Interview with Crazy Steve
  2. ^ Exclaim Magazine - Interview with Bunchofuckingoofs
  3. ^ Exclaim - August 2000
  4. ^ Absolute Underground - Issue 3
  5. ^ Bunchofuckingoofs on the Berlin Wall
  6. ^ Straight.com - Joey Only
  7. ^ Toronto-goth.com - Peredition
  8. ^ Bunchofuckingoofs.com - discography
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