In November 2008, the band participated with other similarly named bands, including Holy Fuck , Fuck , and Fuck Buttons in the Festival of the Fuck Bands music festival in the village of Fucking , Austria. In 2009 Fucked Up took part in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic…
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In October and November 2008, the band toured the United States (with a final show in Toronto) with Chiodos , Escape the Fate , Alesana , and A Skylit Drive , during which they performed the newly written song “Broken Stars”, also made available as a demo on their Myspace…
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Following this, in October 2008 Helix produced their first Christmas CD . Although Brian Vollmer has recorded Christmas songs before on a charity CD for his church called Raising The Roof on Mary Immaculate , A Heavy Mental Christmas was the first such release from the band.
By July 2008, the two began to perform live, and they released their first independent EP , Welding the C:/ (pronounced “Welding the C Drive”) later that same month. The band then parted ways to pursue different avenues; Parsons travelled to Alberta to work on an oil pipeline and Buchholz…
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The band, with Superchunk , performed another two free concerts for Obama on May 1 in Greensboro, North Carolina , and on May 2 in Carrboro, North Carolina before the state’s May 6 primary.
Them vs. You vs. Me was certified Gold in the U.S. in March 2008, peaking at No. 14 on the Hot 100.
Arcade Fire performed two free concerts for Obama in Cleveland and Nelsonville, Ohio on March 2 and 3, 2008, before the state’s March 4 primary.
In March 2008, they released their fourth album No Intensity . This album is similar to their first album No Worries , with anti-government songs like “Corrupted To The Bone”, “Redemption”, and “Papillon”. The latter song is based on the book Papillon by Henri Charrière , an autobiography relating Charrière’s…
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In February 2008, Win Butler announced on the band’s journal that the Neon Bible tour had come to an end, after one year of touring and a total of 122 shows (including 33 festivals) in 75 cities and 19 countries. Critics met the self-produced Neon Bible with acclaim. Publications like…
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On October 9, 2008, the band returned to MTV Live , this time performing in the men’s washroom. Once again, the band (and their fans) caused a large amount of damage, destroying the ceiling, spray painting walls and knocking over amps and a motorcycle which was brought into the washroom…
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