Negative — Fx-modern Problems

Negative FX would only play five shows in their entire history. They were a flash of white-hot anger that burned out almost as soon as it started, leaving behind nothing but a single self-titled album and the legend of the night they tried to fight a soundboard. Dave 'Bass' Brown from Negative FX | Echoes And Dust

Two songs in, the ballroom was a sea of flailing limbs. Kids were flying off the stage, boots narrowly missing the expensive microphones the sound man had meticulously leveled for the headliners. Negative FX-Modern Problems

Suddenly, the lights cut. The sound man, panicked about the gear and the chaos, had pulled the plug. Negative FX would only play five shows in

For a second, the room was silent. Then, Choke’s voice cut through the dark, unamplified and raw. "Fuck you, we're not stopping!". Kids were flying off the stage, boots narrowly

They were the "Boston Crew" incarnate—fast, straight-edged, and aggressively unmelodic. Jack "Choke" Kelly paced the front like a caged animal, his eyes daring anyone to breathe the wrong way. Behind him, was already hammering the kit, using Burma’s borrowed equipment because why bother bringing your own when you're just going to destroy it?