Refused are not fucking dead.

[Matilde Urrutia]

2x1.

We had a band once, in Umeå. We would pile in a van, like every other punkband, and thunder off in pursuit of friends and glory in some basement in front of 20 people, 50 people, in towns 4-5 hours away. Sometimes there would be more than a hundred people and we would later in the week refer to that as a "big show". We were ambitious, but we didn't think of it as a career. We never made any fiscal sense whatsoever during 7 years of touring. Like most punkbands, it never occured to us to even try. We had a scene, we had some politics and we had just a hint of artistic ambition. True to our swedish roots we got very serious very fast. And then suddenly we got good. It's a delicate path to tread for precocious twentysomethings anywhere on the planet, but this particular bunch didn't make it. And that was fine. Most enterprises in life are unrelated to incredibly violent rock music.
It's been a motley 14 years since our band came apart. We've all kept busy in our respective endeavors but we've all remained friends and kept in touch. There have been offers, and lots of jokes about these offers. We've sort of looked down from our high horses and made fun of people who've just wanted to share the psychopathic intensity that we would deliver on a nightly basis in our post-pubescent prime. A reunion has just seemed irrelevant to us. Too much other shit to do.
But then Kristofer got his degree from the Swedish opera academy, Jons medical studies began drawing to a close and Dennis and David started a new hardcore band together. Finally, after a decade and a half hiatus, Kristofer picked up the guitar again. Which made David want to play the drums again. Which in turn led to all four of us suddenly making new music in assorted constellations. As all this was brewing, Coachella got in touch. There were a couple of phone-calls, lots of skepticism, some hesitant enthusiasm before one of us basically said: "? This is ridiculous. There are friends of ours who would murder close relatives just to go see bands there. Let's just do it, one last time." And with that, socialist fag-loving pc scumbags were on the road again.
We never did "The shape of punk to come" justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the job. And suddenly there's this possibility to do it like it was intended. We wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who've kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes.
We feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is mutual.

See you in the pit.

//Refused

[fløyteHundore]

Mira que no creer mis palabras.

Confirmados en Coachella y en un festival sueco en agosto.

[Fix Me]

por mi de puta madre porke me gustaria verlos...pero menos palabreria ke me apostaria el cuello a ke el cheke ha sido bastante sugerente.

pero bueno de puta madre ke la gente no tiene ke ser esclava de sus palabras y puede ke hayan cambiado de opinion con lo de no volverse a juntar y en su derecho estan.

[rider on the storm]

tenía más gancho "Refused are fucking death"

No sé, lo de hacer justicia con el "The shape of punk to come" me suena raro. Para mi lo cerraron de puta madre cuando el año pasado(creo) sacaron una edición especial del disco con el documental "Refused are fucking death" , con un directo, y toda la pesca . lo de """volver para terminar como es debido""", que es la/mi conclusión, da pie a suspicacias

[Matilde Urrutia]

Aparte de las fechas de Suecia y California, han añadido otras dos para Berlín y el Groezrock belga. ¿Cada vez más cerca de Barcelona?

La comunidad hardcore tiene que estar mojando las bragas.

[Fix Me]

nose yo eh...creo ke tienen tantos adeptos como "enemigos"...creo ke hace unos años los primeros superaban a los segundos pero hoy en dia...nose como andara la cosa, aunke esta claro para petar una sala bien grande irian sobrados.

[fløyteHundore]

Aquí vienen con Lagwagon, AntiFlag, Hot Water Music, Bouncing Souls y diez más por cincuenta rupias europeas. Habrá que hacer el "sacrificio".

[Fix Me]

pues yo por bouncing souls y refused suelto la pasta pero por los otros no me gasto ni el gasoil.