boo hoo

LOL WUT.

Y'know, last time someone got sand in their vagina over an "offensive" band name in Canada, Barenaked Ladies became famous.

It's weird people up here get upset about retarded stuff like this, yet no one cares that we have boobies and swearing on network TV.

/Calgary sucks

It's just a word.

/I hate parents.

It's handy that you never hear 'naughty' words uttered in the street, otherwise precious snowflakes would undoubtedly be scarred for life.

No!
I can't even imagine if that happened! It's just too horrible to contemplate!

Holy Fark are actually pretty good.

Glitchwerks: Holy Fark are actually pretty good.

who is Holy Fark? They have a similar name to the band in this story; are they related musically? Maybe a cover band?

And yet you pay five bucks a month to use a not news site that filters every known naughty word ever uttered and a few that aren't.

/Penis

Bob Down: And yet you pay five bucks a month to use a not news site that filters every known naughty word ever uttered and a few that aren't.

/Penis

vagina grease.

holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Bob Down: And yet you pay five bucks a month to use a not news site that filters every known naughty word ever uttered and a few that aren't.

/Penis

vagina grease.

Quim batter

video?

CraicBaby: LOL WUT.

Y'know, last time someone got sand in their vagina over an "offensive" band name in Canada, Barenaked Ladies became famous.

It's weird people up here get upset about retarded stuff like this, yet no one cares that we have boobies and swearing on network TV.

/Calgary sucks

Alberta, reddest of the red provinces.

Holy Fark! Where's the video?

gmoney101: holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Bob Down: And yet you pay five bucks a month to use a not news site that filters every known naughty word ever uttered and a few that aren't.

/Penis

vagina grease.

Quim batter

Vag spackle.

Well if you'd keep them duct taped in the closet like you're s'posed to, they wouldn't be exposed to that stuff.

I'd take the poster down. Not because I'm worried about a snowflake reading it. I just think using 'fark' in a band name just screams 'we're so controversial and alternative, it HURTS maaaaaaan.' go fark off.

/your favorite farking band sux

Holy "Fark" is one of my favorite groups. Really good.

Wow now even FEWER people will attend the biggest of non events in Calgary.

EchoMike:

Alberta, reddest of the red provinces.

Alberta is not a red province -- you mean blue. Blue is conservative here -- the official colour of combine pilot Premiers and sweatervest-lovin' heads of government.

Marshmallow Jones: I'd take the poster down. Not because I'm worried about a snowflake reading it. I just think using 'fark' in a band name just screams 'we're so controversial and alternative, it HURTS maaaaaaan.' go fark off.

Actually there is nothing controversial or alternative to them in the least. There are hardly any lyrics or vocals. It's probably just the basic reaction they got from people, because you would think the music would all be electronically produced, when in fact, it is all produced live.

gmoney101: holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Bob Down: And yet you pay five bucks a month to use a not news site that filters every known naughty word ever uttered and a few that aren't.

/Penis

vagina grease.

Quim batter

Vag spackle.

Yoni Yogert

jordawesome: EchoMike:

Alberta, reddest of the red provinces.

Alberta is not a red province -- you mean blue. Blue is conservative here -- the official colour of combine pilot Premiers and sweatervest-lovin' heads of government.

Alberta is also bluer than any blue state in America.

And even Toronto has pulled stupid shiat like this. Remember when they tried to ban the Barenaked Ladies? Not reprint a bunch of posters, but ban them from performing because of their name.

Blame Canada.

When I saw this article, I thought that the band in question was one of two: Holy F--- or F---ed Up. It was the latter like it always is.

/both bands are rather meh.

I think it is a dumb name for a band, unless they want to stay underground that is. Good name for bad assed christian rock band though.

Doc Strange: It was the latter like it always is.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Doc Strange: When I saw this article, I thought that the band in question was one of two: Holy F--- or F---ed Up. It was the latter like it always is.

/both bands are rather meh.

I thought it was going to be fark Buttons. Between them and Holy fark and farked Up, there sure are a lot of "fark" bands lately.

/ fark

Bucky_Goldstein: Doc Strange: It was the latter like it always is.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I meant former, but I put "latter" because i am an idiot.

Too bad it wasn't Anal coont...

The flyer designer and the band both messed up. If your band is named something sort of obscene, you know that. It's not likely something you've never contended with. So you usually have one or more acceptable family friendly alternatives for printing on flyers that will be posted in public places where kids and conservatives might see them and posting on public marquees and in the paper and such. The band should have furnished the flyer designer with the edited version they already use.

Even if the band slipped up and didn't provide a shortened version,the flyer designer should have noticed that the name might be objectionable and edited it themselves. It's not that hard to just put x's or stars or dashes or something in place of some of the letters so that the offending word is no longer easily read by little kids who've lead sheltered lives. The flyer could have been designed saying "Holy F**k" and been just fine. Anyone who's a fan of the band would be able to reason that that band was on the bill and anyone who isn't wouldn't have to explain to their little ones or their customers why the flyer has an f-bomb on it.

It's hard enough these days to find places that are willing to let you post your flyer at all. If you leave the dirty words in, you limit where you're going to be able to have it up even further. Anyone who wanted the flyer to be seen should have been smart enough to censor it.

When I've designed the flyer for shows I was playing where there were bands with questionable names on the bill with us, if the offending band didn't provide me with the censored version they use, I censored their name for them. The music business is still a business. Anything that was going to reduce how much publicity the show was going to get wasn't going to be an option. If you wanted to name your band something dirty, that's fine, but that wasn't going to get put on the flyer and get my flyers taken down.

M-G: Too bad it wasn't Anal coont...

They censored their name on the flyers that went in public places when they played in this area recently.

Holy Fark kinda sucks

wish I had gone to see Crocodiles open for them this month, though

fark the Facts, a grindcore band from from Ottawa ON, currently signed to Relapse Records... newspaper article from a few years ago when some Oshawa ON residents got their panties in a bunch about posters with the band name on them... the newspaper printed the band name in full, complete with cops saying "we don't care"

Newspaper Article clicky (new window)

PumpUpDaFark: Holy Fark! Where's the video?

Link

Another side-note, at the bar I used to work at, we regularly had our upcoming shows published in the newspaper. Our manager sent in a show lineup including bands What the shiat, and Bunchofarkinggoofs. The bar's (uppity) owner saw the article, and demanded the manager issue an apology and have the newspaper print a retraction.

The newspaper printed the apology, but also featured an article where the local music scene writer criticized the bar for censorship, and said the owner should have kept her nose out of it and let the editor decide whether or not to censor the offending names.

The Donnie Darko poster had a bunny on it.

Night of the Lepus was about bunnies.

Watership Down? Playboy?

And let's not forget Fatal Attraction.

Holy Fark is nice if you dig Hawkwind and Porcupine Tree....

Nightmaretony
Holy Fark is nice if you dig Hawkwind and Porcupine Tree....

What if I dig a pony?


/when i first saw your fark handle/name thing, i thought it said:
"Nightmareotomy". i saw it as that for the longest time, until now.

ie. the removal of nightmares?

now i see it for what it truly is: nightmaretony.

My cousin taught me the F-word when I was like 4-5, and would send me out on missions to say it to unsuspecting adults, just for the shock value/laugh factor. Trust me, your kids know all those words just a few weeks after they open their mouths and start speaking... and probably before.

Nightmaretony: Holy Fark is nice if you dig Hawkwind and Porcupine Tree....

I do. Are they actually any good (despite the crappy name)?

Wrong_Intentions: I do. Are they actually any good (despite the crappy name)?

I submit to you "Royal Gregory".

check out The Pulse by Holy fark, it's pretty good


/still don't understand why people fear words
/gawddamphuquepissshiitcaulkkuntasslickdickbiitch

i love this band

this show proves they are awesome live
Link

M-G: Too bad it wasn't Anal coont...

Their posters just have A.C. on them.

And that's when you TEACH your daughter that it's a bad word and she should not be using it because it might hurt someone's feelings.


Come on, folks.

Oh sweet, The Breeders.

This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb laughs the the controversy brought up by this band's name.

Is Final Fartrag one band or two?

All rights up your butt