NOFX concert in Hongdae

Last night was fun. At 5:15pm, we left our happy village and got into a cab bound for Suwon station. Since we were incredibly hungry, we decided to grab a quick combo from Burger King. By 6pm we ran and pushed our way onto the subway headed for Seoul. At 7:05pm, we arrived at Hongik University station and met up with Dayna and Steve. With some sketchy directions, we decided to get a cab to find the "Rolling Hall" Club. Once we saw all the white 20 somethings drinking outside the convenience store, we knew we were at the right place. It was very interesting to find some Korean punks, who given the cultural importance on appearance, were completely decked out in punk attire: Make-up, leather, chains, kilts. I assume that they must be shun by their families! At about 8pm, we made our way into the club to see NOFX!

Of course, these old punkers were as immature as ever making many racial and religious jokes. They happen to be American with both a Mexican and a Jew in the band, so you can only imagine.
Surprisingly, Canada was a hot topic. The band picked one guy out of the crowd who was from Ontario and all the Canadians screamed out. They were like "Why are there so many Canadians here? What's wrong with Canada?" Oh, "We're just graduates in debt with no real jobs", I wanted to say. I think we made up about 30% of the crowd.
Also surprising was that we could not drink in the club. So that would naturally explain the great liquor sales from the Family Mart directly beside the club. The cashier even popped open our bottles for us! That's the kind of service I like!

Although there were many songs we did not recognize, it was a pretty good set. They did play some of the old favourites, though. For being 40 years old, these boys put alot of energy into their music. There were some annoying little Korean girl-punks who behaved a little too enthusiastically for my liking; dancing, elbowing, pushing, stepping on my toes. It was like they had seen people on tv at a punk show and tried to imitate it. But don't worry, one strong push from me and they were out of our way for the night. At about 9:30pm, the concert was over. We were tired and sore from our long day and decided to head back home. Upon that decision, we officially came to the conclusion that we are now old. At 11:00pm we arrived back to our apartment in Suwon content that we saw one of the best punk bands in our time!