A stand off, staring each other down from across a local Edmonton skate ramp. That's how it started. Twin brothers Marc and Brent Belke from Del's Skate Team and Mr. Chi Pig for Skier's Sport Shop Skate Team. Eventually, it was running into each other, thrashing around to bands at the local punk shows. The formation of a band had begun. Now their devoted followers thrash around, staring at them, together on one stage with over a thousand explosive shows performed.

In 1984, SNFU released their ground-breaking first album ...And No One Else Wanted To Play, an album which remains one of punk rock's most influential records. Over the four years that followed, SNFU toured continuously, impressing crowds across North America and Europe with their dynamic and intense live show. In 1989, the band was voted 'Best Live Band' by the readers of Flipside Magazine, beating out the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fugazi, Bad Brains and Gwar. Seven years later, the band had matured but definitely not slowed down, as proven in a Vancouver weekly newspaper (Georgia Strait, May 9, 1996) review of the 1996 Music West Festival, which cited SNFU's performance as the best of the entire showcase.

The only touring breaks that SNFU took between 1985 and 1989 were to record and release If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish (1986) and Better Than A Stick In The Eye (1998). In 1991, after a brief break and a location change from Edmonton to Vancouver, the band released The Last Of The Big Time Suspenders (1991). SNFU set out on it's most successful tour to that point, and caught the attention of Epitaph Records.

1993 saw the beginning of the Epitaph era and the cementing of SNFU's line-up with the inclusion of the powerful rhythm section of Dave Rees (drums) and Rob Johnson (bass). Together, the quintet and Epitaph Records released Something Green And Leafy This Way Comes (1993) and The One Voted Most Likely To Succeed (1995) combining for sales of over 100,000 copies.

In 1996, SNFU presented their seventh release, and third Epitaph album, entitled FYULABA ("few-LAH-bah"). Tabloid-punk at its best, offering a wide perspective on everything from step families (Step Stranger): "Who the hell are you? All you do is fuck my mom and eat her food..." to bulimia (Don't Make Me Thick): "Head in a toilet bowl, two fingers down my throat...stop trying to make me thick" and mad cow disease (Don't Have The Cow): "even though I eat meat, I appreciate the irony now that cows are going mad."

Dave Ogilvie (producer; Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) and SNFU captured that manic live energy on FYULABA with a perfect mix of shredding guitars, pounding drums, boiling bass lines, and (how could we forget) those off-the-wall lyrics! All these things made this album arguably one of the band's best ever. FYULABA became an instant classic that has continued to find its way back to our stereos in the following years.

"Our combined growth, song-writing, production experience and performances made this album gel like no other album we've done. We're all very satisfied and excited about this album." - Brent Belke

In 1998, SNFU released let's get it right the first time, recorded live at the Starfish Room in Vancouver, on their own record label, Rake Records.

The band is currently under new management and is working on their ninth full-length for release in the fall of 1999.

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