San Francisco’s Spiritual Cramp/Spy/World Peace-related, no-distortion-pedal-using hardcore band Fentanyl kicked off a tour with Mexican Coke, their Houston-based Convulse Records labelmates known for wearing ski masks and waving a shotgun around on stage, plus Asbestos, and apparently things got messy for Mexican Coke at the Salt Lake City show over the weekend (10/5).
A post on the r/Hardcore subreddit titled “Vocalist from Mexican Coke got his ass beat in SLC tonight” said that “the vocalist for Mexican Coke spent the entire show drinking in excess, treating young concert goers poorly, cussed out the audience, and continued to egg on a group of drunk punks in the audience, and then refused to start performing until he had another beer in his hand,” and then added, “After a song and a half of drunken mumbling, people start throwing beer cans and one of the drunk punks came up and started swinging on him on stage. Multiple other people came to aid both sides and it ended with the vocalist having his shirt torn off.”
One commented added, “Missed half the the story. He was calling audience members homos and f*gs, throwing beer cans into people’s faces. He then broke an $80 piece of microphone equipment, and then on top of that proceeded to call someone the N word. People who came up to kick his ass were the people running the venue… Also the rest of the band seemed as bewildered as everyone else there. Talked to Fentanyl and they said he hasn’t been like that at all on tour. Don’t wanna throw the rest of the band under the bus, it was just the singer who decided to throw a drunk temper tantrum.”
Mexican Coke haven’t publicly commented on the matter, and so far these semi-anonymous reports are the only recounts of the night that we’ve seen, but Fentanyl vocalist Kenny Turner posted on Sunday, “Mexican Coke are no longer playing this tour. Pull up for Asbestos as direct support.”
The tour continues in Spokane, WA tonight (10/7), followed by shows in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, and San Francisco. You can see the tour poster with all remaining dates below.
Meanwhile, a full-set video of the Albuquerque show suggests Mexican Coke might not be doing the ski mask/gun bit as much these days, and it also begins with them covering The Romantics’ “What I Like About You.”
