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The band toured the Eastern US in October, including a much-covered 12-hour long show
on the Bowery in New York on October 14.They were joined by musical guests including
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, Moby, John Joseph of the Cro-Mags, members of Endless
Boogie, Les Savy Fav, Dinosaur Jr., and others.In November 2008, the band participated with
other similarly named bands, including Holy Fuck, Fuck, and Fuck Buttons in the Festival of
the Fuck Bands music festival in the village of Fucking, Austria.In 2009 Fucked Up took part
in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic.The series, which featured 20 Toronto
artists, had lead singer Damian Abraham inside Rotate This talking about his love of vinyl
and punk music.Fucked Up played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New
York in September 2010 as well as an annual Halloween gig in Toronto.In February 2011,
the band toured Australia for the first time, as a part of the Soundwave Festival, along with
side-shows from the festival with artists as diverse as the Bronx, Terror, H2O, Trash Talk
and Polar Bear Club.The band's third studio album, David Comes to Life, was released in
June 2011.A self-professed "rock opera" set in Thatcherite Britain, it tells a story of love,
loss and redemption, with the story complicated by misdirection and unreliable
narrators.The record debuted at No.83 on the Billboard 200 in the US and received wide
critical acclaim.Spin magazine named David Comes to Life its No.1 Album of 2011, and put
the band on the cover, writing "Fucked Up have synthesized 40 years of rock into what's
ostensibly a hardcore record, and in doing so created its own logic."Like the previous
release, this album was also nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, the nomination
describing the record as "Excessive?Sure.Ridiculous?At times.Brilliant?Sounds pretty damn
close to it."They did not win for a second time, being beaten by Feist's album Metals.In late
2011 the year the band went on hiatus to allow Abraham to raise his family, but they
returned in June 2012 to play the Metallica-curated Orion Music + More Festival in Atlantic
City, New Jersey, and went on to play Fun Fun Fun Fest in November, 2012, in Austin,
Texas.Fucked Up's fourth LP, named Glass Boys, was released by Matador Records on June
3, 2014.Avatars of the band and their songs "Paper the House" and "Queen of Hearts" were
featured in the 2016 video game "Loud on Planet X".In 2016 the band self-released
Zanzibar, a soundtrack, recorded in 2011, to Tod Browning's silent movie from 1928 West
of Zanzibar starring Lon Chaney.Their fifth studio album, Dose Your Dreams was released
in October 2018 by Merge Records.Driven by guitarist Haliechuk, it is a concept album
focusing on the band's recurring character David, and featuring several guest lead vocalists,
alongside Abraham, Falco, and Haliechuk.The band released their sixth studio album and
the ninth installment in the Zodiac series, Year of the Horse, in full on May 7, 2021.It was
ranked number eleven on Decibel magazine's list of the "Top 40 Albums of 2021" and
seventh on the "10 best albums of 2021" list of The Plain Dealer.In November 2021, it was
revealed that longtime guitarist Ben Cook had left the band, with Haliechuk revealing that
Robin Hatch would be replacing him during live performances for the tour that
followed.=== One Day album series: 2023–present ===
On January 27, 2023, the band released their sixth studio album, One Day.The album was
recorded between 2019 and 2022, which each band member recording their parts remotely
within a strict 24-hour timeframe across the COVID-19 pandemic.Between August 6 and
August 7, 2024 the band livestreamed themselves as they wrote, recorded, mixed and
released a full studio album in twenty-four hours.The resulting album, Who's Got the Time
& A Half?, was released on BandCamp for twenty-four hours only at the end of the
livestream.The band's eighth studio album, Another Day, was released on August 9,
2024.The album is a direct sequel to One Day, and was recorded with the same parameters
of each band member having only twenty-four hours to record their parts.Each track on
Another Day corresponds to its parallel track on One Day, with guitarist Mike Haliechuk
noting that the band plans on releasing four interconnected albums all recorded in the
space of one day.== Lawsuit ==
In January 2008, Fucked Up, along with Xiu Xiu, filed a lawsuit against Rolling Stone and
Camel Cigarettes for an advertisement that included both bands in an Indie Rock Universe
special.The advertisement apparently portrayed the bands as supporters of Camel.On
January 28, 2010, The Court of Appeal of the State of California for the First Appellate
District reversed the lower court's ruling, saying constitutional principles of freedom of
speech and the press require that the lawsuit be dismissed.== Collaborations ==
Fucked Up has collaborated extensively with other artists on record and during live
performances.Hidden World features guest instrumentation from Final Fantasy, as well as
guest vocals by Ben Cook of No Warning, two years before he joined Fucked Up, George
Pettit and Dallas Green, formerly of Alexisonfire, Chris Colohan of Cursed, and Heidi
Hazelton.
