Bunchofuckingoofs

Bunchofuckingoofs, or the BFGs, was an infamous Canadian 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]

Bunchofuckingoofs
Crazy Steve Goof of bunchofuckingoofs, 1988
Background information
OriginToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresPunk rock, hardcore punk
Years active1983–present
LabelsGod Records, Fringe Product, Back Alley Records
Associated actsArmed and Hammered
Dayglo Abortions
The 3tards
MembersBaron Wasteland
Crazy Steve (Johnston)
Godzilla
Mad Dog
Merrick Atkinson
Stompin Al Miller
Scumbag

They ran a 24-hour a day, seven day a week boozecan for five years from July 1983 to July 1988 at their Baldwin Street address known on the street as "Fort Goof". Their "live like there is no tomorrow, end of the world by nuclear war" attitude and lifestyle was documented in Ruth Taylor and Edward Mowbray's Victory Video Arts Presentation's "Not Dead Yet" in 1984.

History

For another three and half years they continued their antics at the 26A Oxford Street warehouse (Goof World) until May 5, 1991. Spawned from this local scene were the bands 4½ 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] anti social outbursts and violent behaviour on and off stage as well as their followers.[3] They were label mates with the Dayglo Abortions on God Records and Fringe Product.[4]

Joey Only states them as one of his first major influences after seeing them play at Punkfest in his teens.[5]

Founding members
  • Crazy Steve Goof - vocals
  • MadDog - drums
  • Brian "Scrag" Gallagher aka By-T - bass
  • Bambi aka Jules - guitar

Discography
  • Theres No Solution So Theres No Problem (1986, EP), Back Alley Records
  • Drunk? Destroyed? Demolished! - The Demo (1989, EP), Independent
  • Carnival Of Chaos + Carnage (1992), Fringe Product

References
  1. "Montreal Mirror – Interview with Crazy Steve". Archived from the original on 2002-11-23. Retrieved 2009-02-23.{Dead link|date=March 2022}}
  2. "Exclaim Magazine - Interview with Bunchofuckingoofs". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10.
  3. "Exclaim - August 2000". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10.
  4. (PDF). 19 February 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090219144350/http://absoluteunderground.ca/pdf/au_issue_3.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Political ex-punk makes rabble-rousing folk". 4 August 2005.
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