Gut Feeling Podcast #29 - Marc & Brent Belke (SNFU)
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The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Marc and Brent Belke, brothers and co-founding guitarists of Edmonton, Alberta-formed and later Vancouver, BC-based hardcore icons SNFU.
Throughout the talk, Muc and Bunt hit on: the new Come With Me, I’m On My Way horror comic featuring four gruesome tales inspired by classic SNFU songs; Trust Records’ upcoming 40th anniversary project behind debut album ...And No One Else Wanted to Play; Edmonton’s early ‘80s punk and skateboarding scenes; the absurdist and sometimes misunderstood lyrics of late frontman Mr. Chi Pig; the making of 1995’s The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed; the ‘90s punk boom, and touring with Green Day and Bad Religion; gear and guitar solos; Strain bassist and SNFU roadie Eric "Flexyourhead" Thorkelson’s very bad day; Brent’s current film score work; and more!
3Press Comics’ Come With Me comic is out now, along with an SNFU tribute 7-inch from Dad Religion; Trust Records’ Play repress out soon; and a repress of Voted is out in November via La Agonia De Vivir.
You can also read a 2020 feature I’d written around some of the most poignant, poetic and occasionally profane lyrics Mr. Chi Pig brought to the mic over at Exclaim!