On The Road: NOFX

On The Road: NOFX

Forever Punk: Aidin Vaziri | For their latest tour, which started sometime last year and continues well into the next, the members of NOFX decided to go to all the countries they've never been to before. Not necessarily countries where the long-standing San Francisco punk band sells any albums, just countries it's never been to before, such as Peru, Israel, Thailand, Argentina and Singapore. How has it been so far? "It's been amazing and it's been disastrous," says the group's singer Mike Burkett, a decidedly average-size man who is better known as Fat Mike. "We had two different shows where riot cops shut us down. I played in a hotel lobby once because our show was canceled. We played a tennis court at a country club in Ecuador. We played to 20,000 people in Brazil." Fortunately, a film crew has documented the journey, and a DVD will be released sometime next year. But local fans don't have to wait that long. They can get a live preview when NOFX plays three consecutive sold-out shows at Slim's this week, beginning Tuesday.