NOFX tem shows cancelados nos Estados Unidos por piada de mau gosto

NOFX tem sofrido boicotes desde que fez uma piada de mau gosto no festival Punk In Drublic em Las Vegas no final de maio. O vocalista Fat Mike fez o seguinte comentário: “tocamos uma canção sobre muçulmanos e não levamos tiros, uhul!”. Na sequência Melvin, guitarrista da banda, falou: “Acho que você só leva um tiro em Vegas se tocar em uma banda country”.

O comentário fez menção direta ao incidente que aconteceu em outubro de 2017, quando um atirador abriu fogo contra um festival de country, matando 59 pessoas e ferindo 500. No momento a banda recebeu vaias do público e depois a dimensão do problema ficou cada vez maior, resultando em várias críticas e a perda do patrocínio da cervejaria Stone Brewing.

A banda desculpou-se alguns dias depois nas redes sociais assumindo o mau gosto da piada: “Não há lugar aqui para recuar. O que o NOFX disse em Vegas foi vergonhoso. Cruzamos a linha da civilidade. Não podemos escrever músicas sobre como as pessoas neste mundo precisam ser mais decentes, quando fomos claramente indecentes” diz o comunicado enviado no Instagram.

Mas mesmo com as desculpas as produtoras tem cancelado todos os shows nos Estados Unidos! Hoje Fat Mike falou sobre os cancelamentos: “todos os shows do NOFX foram cancelados nos EUA. Nós não desistimos dos shows… disseram para nós que o NOFX não é bem vindo para tocar em NENHUMA grande casa nos Estados Unidos. Sem brincadeira! O NOFX foi banido de nosso próprio país.”

O comunicado diz que os shows marcados na Europa, México e Canadá acontecerão normalmente.

Confiras o vídeo da piada e as postagens da banda:

NOFX thought it would be "hilarious" to joke about the October 1 shootings while on stage in Las Vegas. They said "at least they were country fans and not punk rock fans". This is disgusting and callous. We will never support anything involving this band ever again. pic.twitter.com/am3R8QJIE6

— Dave and Mahoney (@DaveAndMahoney) 30 de maio de 2018

Fuck it! I’m not supposed to talk about it, but because of the comments we made in Las Vegas… every NOFX show has been cancelled in the US. We did not drop off the shows…. we were told that NOFX is not welcome to play ANY big venue in the United States. No joke! NOFX has effectively been banned in our own country. This is not our choice, but it is our reality. We are very sorry to our fans, especially the ones in Austin. For now, we are playing in Europe, Mexico, and Canada. The Punk in Drublic Festival is still happening in Europe and other continents. I’m trying my best to bring it back to the US but a lot of people don’t want it to happen. It fuckin sucks! We made a mistake, we apologized, and we gotta suffer the consequences. Maybe it ain’t fair, but whoever said life was. We are just very thankful that our fans are being so supportive. Thanks to all of you!!!!! See y’all in Slovenia tomorrow! #punkindrublicinternational #whendidpunkrockbecomesosafe #IhatednotbeinginOhio

Uma publicação compartilhada por Michael Burkett (@fatmikedude) em 20 de Jun, 2018 às 9:29 PDT

There’s no place here to backpedal. What NOFX said in Vegas was shameful. We crossed the line of civility. We can’t write songs about how people in this world need to be more decent, when we were clearly being indecent. Las Vegas has always been a welcoming city to our band, and to make light of the tragedy that occurred there was egregious. All members of the band would like to sincerely apologize to anyone who experienced loss from the Vegas shooting 8 months ago, and to anyone who was at our show who lost a loved one or a friend, or who had to witness the incredibly senseless violence that night. We were asked why we didn’t release an immediate apology. Well, we didn’t feel that we could write a sincere apology without reflecting on the actual damage we had done. No press agent was gonna write this for us. That’s why we have struggled with this for the past few days. We didn’t plan or intend on saying anything so insensitive. It was off the cuff, but just as hurtful. We won’t blame it on drugs or alcohol or Ambien. That’s too easy. NOFX said it, and we own it. We made a tasteless joke. But to be clear, NOFX does not condone violence against ANY group of people, period! As sincere as we’ve ever been, NOFX

Uma publicação compartilhada por NOFX (@nofx) em 3 de Jun, 2018 às 11:00 PDT