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NOFX's Fat Mike Reveals Urine-Spiked Tequila Was a Hoax

NOFX's Fat MikeWell, this is a relief. In March, NOFX frontman Fat Mike (aka Mike Burkett) made headlines after serving what appeared to be urine-spiked tequila to fans at SXSW. Now, as Punknews reports, it appears that it was all one big prank designed to, well, we're not exactly sure.

At the show at Austin venue Emo's, Burkett, performing acoustically as his disturbing alter ego Cokie the Clown, came out with a bottle of Patron tequila and served up shots for himself and the audience. After a bizarre set in which Burkett told unsettling stories about suicide, rape and bondage, the singer played a video that showed him urinating in the bottle of tequila then bringing it onstage.

In the ensuing fallout, Burkett was banned from Emo's and authorities were looking into the incident. For his part, Burkett played up the veracity of the video, saying in subsequent interviews that it was all real and that he had looked into the legality of serving urine. But this week, the punk icon posted a video on YouTube that reveals he switched out the bodily fluid-enhanced bottle for a clean one. The clip, which blurs Burkett's offending instrument but is still extremely NSFW, ends with one simple message for fans, haters and press alike: "SUCKERS." Looks like there's egg on all our faces, which isn't so bad, considering the substances involved.

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Dr.Worm

and to everyone who thought it was real is an ass seriously it was just a good prank and i laugh at you all

May 27 2010 at 1:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DrSoze

Coulda been real. Ever see a GG Allin show? I don't ever recall hearing much music, but there were plenty of bodily fluids ALL over the place (88-89, the height of AIDS fear). We, the audience, had to pull him off some girl he grabbed & mounted during a show at Medusas.
Yeah, people pissing in your beverage was a time honored, albeit disgusting, practice at punk shows/warehouse parties/etc. Granted, once you get a taste, if your sense of taste&smell is intact, you usually instinctively spit very quickly- and then you're on the lookout for it the rest of your life. Even in tequila, urine is pretty strong to the senses.
So, it may have been a gag- or Fat Mike might just be covering himself in case of a lawsuit... but to think it hasn't been done, or was out of the realm of possibilities for an old hardcore band, is naive thinking at best.

July 16 2010 at 3:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply