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Refused Head Home

Posted by: Jason Tate (10/26/12)
Refused have posted an update on facebook about past few months, and their return home from the road.
From the BlogSo there were those years right after school, when you were 15 and pissed off and everyone thought you were a loser and you ran around with the other weirdos, generating weirdness and little else. And there were those years when what set you apart from the others become a fixation and a lifestyle and you had a band and people talked about what you did but you were so used to being weird you just lumped them in with the rest of the slanderers. Then there were those years when the ideas you'd clung to through late adolescence were beginning to ring hollow and you got more and more confused and destructive and the band broke up and you had rent to pay. That was among the tougher years. And then slowly, over a span of time, you began to sort yourself out and your friends started making sensible decisions in their lives and it suddenly began to seem like most of you were gonna be ok.

And then there was the year when you stopped being a petulent kid and you got your favorite musicians together in a room again and decided that you were gonna accept the love of thousands of listeners, accept the success that was waiting there to be had and just in general enjoy being appreciated for the exact same qualities that made you a freak to your contemporaries in your teens. This was one of the better years.

And now it is coming to a close. It's been kind to us. And that old punkrock golem "The shape of punk to come" has done good. The hatchet is buried, 1998 is not such a terrible memory for us anymore. We're going home. And we're doing it in style.

With old friends and new acquaintances in tow we're gonna take over our old hometown Umeå for one more night, just because we can. On the 15th of december at the Exel arena we'll be sharing the stage with these magnificent comrades: Randy (http://www.randytheband.com/), a band of punkrock bandidos from the north who we befriended years before we even were Refused, Two White Horses, an excellent sister/brother-duo from Sävar, both of whom we've individually collaborated with in different musical projects through the years, and Råd Kjetil Senza Testa, a new and exciting musical collective consisting of old Umeå pop and hardcore scenesters, among them the guy who produced the very first version of New noise for a local hardcore compilation in early 1997. We unconditionally endorse these bands.

Great music, good crude fun, what more do you need? It's going to be one of those nights.
www.tickster.com/sv/events/j6z64866u2u6y9y

Thank you for populating the pit in 2012.

Over and out.

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12:26 PM on 10/26/12
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ACA
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I caught one date of the reunion, and they were really solid.
12:29 PM on 10/26/12
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nice... i'm glad they did a reunion and are ending it there. they got to finally realize the impact they had on the hardcore/post hardcore scene.
12:40 PM on 10/26/12
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ONE WEEK
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12:55 PM on 10/26/12
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the shape of punk just came
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Saw em in Chicago. So good.
01:13 PM on 10/26/12
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I'm glad I had the chance to see them; I have a feeling it'll never happen again.
01:16 PM on 10/26/12
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Really glad they decided to play again this year. I caught the Chicago show, and it was the best show I saw all year.
01:49 PM on 10/26/12
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Polyrhythms!
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FML.
01:49 PM on 10/26/12
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They were amazing at Coachella.
02:02 PM on 10/26/12
Bryan Mac
Suck It.
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I'm glad that they finally realized how much they ruled.
02:21 PM on 10/26/12
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Totally worth the trip to Vancouver.
02:48 PM on 10/26/12
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they forgot to write " Oh and we are gonna record another record for you guys thats gonna fuck you up"
04:27 PM on 10/26/12
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Their shows sound like a really fun time. Uggh...
04:49 PM on 10/26/12
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Fuck I wish I has gotten a chance to see them..
04:49 PM on 10/26/12
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Ugh. I want a new record
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