The second and final part of our Truck 13 Festival coverage which sees Andy Johnson take in Keyboard Choir, Fucked Up and Teenage Fanclub. In between being asked to buy booze for under-age children, that is.

Fucked Up – Couple Tracks
When a band unexpectedly finds success a few years into their career, it is the norm for them to release the obligatory singles album. Canadian hardcore punk outfit Fucked Up are no different, with their release of Couple Tracks.

ATP curated by My Bloody Valentine – Butlins, Minehead 4-6 December ’09
A general consensus that this wasn’t a vintage ATP, but still, compared to camping thigh-deep in mud surrounded by twat hat-sporting wacky idiots who “like a bit of everything”? There isn’t, and nor will there ever be, the slightest hint of competition.

TLOBF Hopes you get Fucked Up this Christmas
Forget about RATM…there is only one single that deserves to beat the X Factor this Christmas. Fucked Up team up with the members of of Yo La Tengo, Husker Du and Andrew W.K.

Fucked Up win Polaris Prize
TLOBF faves and sub-editors nightmare Fucked Up walked out of Toronto’s Masonic Temple last night with the Polaris prize and a healthy C$20,000 check tucked in to their coats.
Pitchfork Festival – Chicago 17-19 July 2009
Just because you operate the world’s most influential independent music website doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to put on a decent festival. Pitchfork give it a damn good try though…

Shred Yr Face 2, Birmingham Academy 06/03/09 [Photos]
Jacob Saunders captures the live excitement of Fucked Up, Rolo Tomassi and Bronx as the Shred Yr Face bus rolls up to the Birmingham Academy.

Fucked Up play secret warehouse party this Saturday night…
This Saturday, live and for cheap, Fucked Up will be playing at Corsica Studios, located at Unit 4/5 Elephant Road SE17. They will be joined by Mob Rules, Male Bonding and The Sceptres plus a lengthy list of top notch DJ’s. Details inside.

Sonic Youth, MBV, Aphex Twin and Bloc Party annouced as headliners of Primavera
Check out the lineup for this years Primavera Festival. Full details in the official press blurb inside.
SHRED YR FACE 2 hits the Cities next month and beyond!
Another Shred Yer Face tour takes to the cities next month. The line-up including Rolo Tomassi, The Bronx and F**ked up… hearing defenders recommended.
Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
Despite their juvenile name, The Chemistry of Common Life proves that Fucked Up are much more than just an idiotic, nihilistic punk band who leave trails of destruction and wrecked studios in their wake.
F*cked Up announce full UK November tour
F*cked Up have announced a full UK tour for November if you can’t catch them when they come to town this week!
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