NOFX: 30 Years of F ckin Up, SXSW Music 2016

Arguably the longest running and most successful independentpunk band of all time, NOFX has found a longevity no one would have expected when the bands debut album came out in 1988. But defying the worlds expectations has been NOFXs forté. In NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub And Other Stories, the bands members Fat Mike Burkett, Aaron El Hefe Abeyta, Erik Smelly Sandin, and Eric Melvinopen up about the band and their lives. This being NOFX, its hardly a staid memoir, but more like a funnier, grosser, and darker version of Mötley Crües The Dirt. The band joins Kyle Ryan of The A. V. Club to talk about the book, the band, and that time Fat Mike got banned from SXSW. Subscribe: About SXSW: Started in 1987, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in midMarch in Austin, Texas. SXSWs original goal was to create an event that would act as a