Fun People

Fun People is a melodic hardcore band formed in Argentina in 1989 by Sebastián Garay, Julián Pogiese, Carlos A.K.A "Nekro" Rodríguez (also known as "Boom Boom Kid"), and Lucas Sequeira. The band was originally named "Anesthesia" as a tribute to Cliff Burton and his song "anesthesia pulling teeth", which now is the name of their first album. They renamed themselves "Fun People" following legal problems with their original name. Fun People toured Europe in 2000 but disbanded the same year, and the band members are currently in solo careers:

Carlos "Nekro" Rodríguez (Fun People's singer) started his solo career as Boom Boom Kid.

Carlos "Gori" Loncharich (Fun People's guitar), created a new band called Fantasmagoria (in which he also became a singer).

Lucas Sequeira formed a new band called "Cucsifae".

The group realized a hit with the song "Masticar", from the album Kum Kum, released in 1996.

Origins, Ideals, Background

Fun People started to play within the context of the "Buenos Aires Hardcore" musical scene that existed in the late 1980s & early 1990s. However they became quite different from all the other bands of the scene. If almost every other band was trying to emulate the rude attitude of bands like Biohazard and Agnostic Front; Fun People was offering an absolutely different view:

Sometimes Nekro (singer) would assume the point of view of a woman in order to sing some songs (he used to sing: "Woman in these days / my ovaries are aching / my belly and my tits are aching" in the song "Woman in these days").

Whilst other songs like "Fuck Male Supremacy" were directly attacking the conservative way of dealing with the gender roles that the Buenos Aires Hardcore scene had ("Why women in the back and men in the front?" was asking that song -within the context of a scene in which the typical gig involved a violent pogo (dance) of males next to the stage and a group of women in the backside of the room who were trying to stay away from the violent pogo (dance)).

The band also used to quote Morrissey and The Smiths among their influences and adopted their Meat Is Murder slogan in order to promote their vegetarian ideals.

Ecology, the right of legal abortion, animal rights, disarmament, non-violent action, feminism and gay rights were other issues that the band used to try to promote.

Discography

# 1995 - Anesthesia (1st LP)
# 1995 - Arlequines 23-09-95- (bootleg)
# 1996 - Desarme! y Sabore's (B sides and oddities)
# 1996 - Kum-Kum (2nd LP)
# 1997 - Pinguilandia (bootleg)
# 1997 - Toda Niño Sensible Sabrá De Que Estamos Hablando (3rd LP)
# 1998 - Adios, Adios, Dust Bunnies (bootleg)
# 1998 - Cemento 06-12-98 (bootleg)
# 1998 - The Fun People Experience (4th LP)
# 1999 - Cemento 27-03-99 (bootleg)
# 1999 - Gori & Nekro - Golden Hits (Acoustic)
# 1999 - Leave Me Alone (Single)
# 1999 - Middle Of The Rounds (Single)
# 1999 - Ramos Mejía 19-03-99 (bootleg)
# 1999 - The Art(e) Of Romance (5th LP)
# 2000 - Angustia, No, No (6th LP)
# 2000 - El Aborto Ilegal Asesina Mi Libertad (7" Split with the Argentinian punk rock band She-Devils; this recording had been previously released in tape format in the mid 1990s)

ee also

*Cucsifae
*Boom Boom Kid
*Argentine punk
*Buenos Aires Hardcore

External links

* [http://www.funpeople.com.ar Fun People website] (Spanish)

* [http://www.bbkidz.tk Boom Boom Kid] (Spanish)

* [http://www.cucsifae.com.ar Cucsifae Website] (Spanish)

* [http://www.fantasmalandia.com.ar Fantasmagoria Website] (Spanish)

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