Goodbye

After 8 years, 4 small records, 1 big record, and a couple of tapes, Kim Phuc is calling it quits. Surely you, the 3 people reading this(Hi Mom), are wondering in a flabbergasted self narrative "why would they walk away from such wealth and accolades?" Well Mom, the answer is; this shit stopped being fun.

Playing in this band was a great experience on all fronts, and from making friends to crafting our musicianship we all grew in this opportunity. Nothing in the real world is going to replicate the feeling of blowing away whatever limp wristed flavor of the month band would decide to tour through Pittsburgh in a hatchback with combo amps. I hope the drive to the next city was fun, stuck for hours with the realization you were embarrassed by some yokels in a band no one talks about, from a city no one goes to.

To look at us, one can easily see that it is a miracle we get dressed in the morning. Obviously we owe some thanks to everyone that helped us accomplish all this bad ass shit we've done. Enormous thanks go out to: Jensen and John from Iron Lung records, Timmy Hefner, Greg Daly, Mikey from Dear Skull/Mindcure records, Darius at Criminal IQ, Fat Rich and Jay at Parts Unknown, WALLS, SLICES, Bomba, Jeff Gentle and all of our gf's/wives who put up with with us being in this band.

We are going to do one final show, which will be announced somewhat soon. There will be no reunions, represses or post humus releases after that. Thanks everyone and sorry for the tinnitus.

BUY OUR BULLSHIT

Up until now, you've bought all the bullshit we've passed off as music, or maybe you just downloaded it. Ok, let's face it, you never listened to this retarded band, but thanks to the 5 of you that feel sorry for us pretend you are paying attention when we play but you are really just thinking about that time you got to fingerbang two girls in one night back in high school. It's cool, we understand. Now you can put your money where every suicide girl's hands have been, right in our fucking pockets. We have new shirts for sale. Designed by fellow mutant Bill Wehmann

this is what they look like:





These are $12 bucks ppd. They come in black as pictured, and beige with black ink. Both look sick as fuck and will let any and all mutants know that you are down to get shitty. We also have unearthed copies of the Weird Skies 7" that we are selling for $6 ppd. We'll sell both for some awesome deal like $15 dollars together. How's that grab ya fuck face? You can send paypal monies to burnedtotheground at hotmail.com. Any questions about this stuff, please email us goldenhappiness at gmail. See what I did there? If you do not live in the US, do not try to buy our shit.

We are playing the following sick as fuck, punch yourself in the face, get fucking amped up on rockstar energy drink and get your best friend's girlfriend pregnant when he goes to the bathroom, shows in the next couple months. If you do not come to these, well, you are a fucking loser or maybe just busy. Probably a loser.


Ceremony //
The Rival Mob //
Hoax //
Kim Phuc //
Gods and Queens //

$5 advance
$10 day of show

Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleeker St
New York, NY
5pm doors // 5:30pm show // All Ages





Psychic TV
Kim Phuc

Johnny Brenda's
Philadelphia, PA

Sat, March 24, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm

Record release show

Here is the info for our record release show. We are renting heaters to make sure The Shop is warm enough for everyone not moshing.

KIM PHUC
SICKOIDS (philly)
RAW BLOW (pittsburgh)

January 6 2012 8pm
The Shop 4314 Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Hey this is what a record looks like

A handful of mentally ill people and one guy that could have been a model had he been born of bluer blood, get together and form a band. The band puts out a single for their upcoming lp every two years and then the lp finally drops, just as the bottom begins to fall out of the band. Then a bunch of chubby men in their mid to late twenties post on a message board asking how many copies of this record are on white vinyl. Then Ted Leo tweets about the record being for sale. Then the girlfriends of previously mentioned band members think "who the fuck cares about these idiots? they can't even deliver food from the plate to their mouths without fucking it up."

Here is the pressing breakdown for Copsucker

1000 total
100 on white vinyl
900 on black
some of the black may be swirled as the company did not clean out the machine when they switched colors. If you have a swirled record that looks cool, why not post a pic of it here? You can be part of this too, y'know?

I'm going to post a pic of the t shirts we have for sale, because that is what real bands do, they fucking sell shit.

Time to rewrite your top 10 lists of 2011

Hello music listeners, we are happy to inform you that you now must revise all of those carefully crafted "best of 2011" lists you dipshits care so much about so that you can go ahead and put our new lp COPSUCKER on the very top of that shit. Shouldn't be too hard, just write it at the top and change all the other numbers. Easy. We would like to thank the hard working gents that do Iron Lung Records for putting this out. First hundred of this beast are on white vinyl. Go get it.

We will have details of our record release show posted in like 2 hours, so chill the fuck out and wait.

Go here to listen to a preview and then buy this. We all have bills(gambling debts) to pay.

http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/kim-phuc-copsucker-lp

total gambling losses for the year to date- $387.00

So since the last time we updated this bitch the following have happened-

Iron Lung Records is putting our lp out.

We played a bunch of shows in Pittsburgh to the same hundred people, over and over and over.

Jaromir Jagr signed with the Flyers. Why would you do that? Think of the children Jags.

TFP finally sobered up from our last night in San Francisco(two year hangover).

Rob is skinny now.

Now that the lp is in the can, we are moving onto a concept record called Boobs Of Spanish Weather, which will be about an unemployed guy that falls in love with a Telemundo weather girl and learns spanish, goes to school for Meteorology, then moves to Miami to court this fine piece of Latin American tail. Anyone interested in buying the movie rights to this blockbuster story should get a hold of us PRONTO. Shit will be off the charts and make Avatar look like a film school assignment.

So, we have finished tracking our LP, I think. We will start mixing at some inopportune moment where I want to do something else, I'm sure of. Anyway, after our 7" on Criminal Iq records being out for like 2 years now, and we finally got a bad review of it. I was let down that it was by a British guy that probably doesn't understand the rules of football, or what it's like to go to a dentist, but I'll take it. Check out his review here. Check out his amazing band here.
Hopefully he reads this and wants to hang out with me when I go to England this summer.

We have some shows coming up. I will post those soon.

we are still alive, kinda

Hello Friends,
We forgot to update this thing, or spent the last 5 months attempting to repress any and all memories of our west coast tour, and didn't really feel like letting you all know what we've been up to.
After getting bumped out of our recording spot by Mushroomhead, we decided to go ahead and record the LP with the tightest dude in Pittsburgh, Jason Jouver. You may know him as the normal guy from Don Caballero, but we know him as Mr. Mother Fucking Recording Guy. Dude has been making shitty bands sound good for years now, and hopefully our session with him will be no different. Right now we have recorded the drums and they sound like drums, so we are on the right track.
We have been invited to play the Chaos In Tejas festival in Austin, Tx this year. You can use google to find out the line up and how fucking boss it is that we are playing on the same show as Bastard, Marked Men and Rival Mob. I just shook my magic 8 ball to see how the trip will turn out and all it said was "All signs point to no."

West Coast Tour

We are going on a tour of the West Coast in a mere 9 days. Anticipating the excitement of sitting in a van, waiting to go to some local vegetarian restaurant, standing outside of a record store while everyone else flips through Brian Eno records is almost too much to take right now. Regardless, here are the upcoming dates:


Nov 5 Thursday San Francisco - Li Po Lounge: 916 Grant Avenue San Francisco w/ Mouzer, Bait and Switch

Nov 6 Friday Santa Barbara - The Pink Mailbox

Nov 7 Saturday w/SNUGGLE (seattle) WEEKEND WARRIOR @ 935 E Broadway
Long Beach, CA
all ages
$5

Nov 8 Sunday San Diego The Soda Bar - 9:00 PM - Kim Phuc, Whorio Goes to Clown School (Christmas Island guys new band)
3615 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, California 92104 http://www.myspace.com/sodabarbooking [www.myspace.com] »

Nov 9 Watching the Steelers in San Francisco

Nov 10 Tuesday San Francisco The Knockout w/Wild Thing, Ruleta Rusa

Nov 11 Wednesday Sacramento Venue TBA w/Ice Capades 1

Nov 12 Thursday Portland The Know w/ Walls

Nov 13 Friday Seattle The Nursing Home w/ Walls

Nov 14 Saturday Portland @ East End Bar 203 SE Grand Ave with Sam Henry

Nov 15 Sunday San Francisco w/Christ On Parade, The Lewd @ Thee Park

Demonstrating nothing

A fellow Willie Nelson fan named Robert Collins was kind enough to post our demo in mp3 format for you sniveling pieces of shit that were too good to give me three dollars for this thing when I had 200 copies of it sitting in my bedroom, taking up space that could have been more wisely used for gun or pornography storage. Go here to download it, and go to http://terminalescape.blogspot.com to check out beardo's blog. Maybe drop him a line and tell him what your favorite Waylon Jennings song is so you do not feel so inconsequential to these great feats of humanity that have occurred with the creation, recording and then posting of music to the internet. Welcome to the future. Shit is cool.

Winning Is Our Business

Once again, we took a break from being punk rock music guys and watched the other legendary franchise from Pittsburgh win the Stanley Cup. Somehow all the day to day bullshit of record labels, tours and message boards are put in place when you see everyone's pal, Max Talbot throw up the Cup over his head. I have debated selling all of my guitar gear in order to have a replica stanley cup made for myself, so I can relive the glory every morning. Also, go here to see Hossa choke back tears like a 15 year old boy getting dumped by his girlfriend for a guy that can drive.

In case you forgot, the Steelers also won the Super Bowl this year, so we are pretty happy with life right now. This probably means our next record will be twee-pop and all songs will be about ice cream and having friends. Before that happens, we have the following shows coming up:

Friday July 24th
31st Pub
Pittsburgh, PA
w/ Mannequin Men
Davila 666
Kim Phuc
The Fitt

Wednesday July 29th
The Brillobox
Pittsburgh, PA
w/ Obits
Disappears
Kim Phuc

We will have new shirt designs printed up shortly, have started demoing for our first lp and are planning on doing some more out of town stuff. If you want us to come to your city or do an interview, email at goldenhappiness@gmail.com, please refrain from using the trailer park of the internet known as myspace. If you are a Detroit Red Wings fan please send $1 to "sorry dude, 742 evergreen terrace, springfield"

For the stupid, I will explain what has happened in this picture. Santonio Holmes caught a touchdown pass in the end zone with less than 2 minutes left in Super Bowl XLIII, putting the Steelers up 27-23, thus winning their NFL record 6th Super Bowl Championship. Most of you will never understand sports, pride or victory, but for us, this was the most important thing to happen in the last 3 years. The band decided to take some time off from playing shows to focus on the drive to glory, and the impending celebration.


Our friend Mikey from Dear Skull records won the lottery of his life recently and has been given the opportunity to release our newest single on his up and coming label. Congrats friend, on your soon to be best selling release. "Weird Skies" should be out in time for our trip to SXSW. Fingers have been crossed, sigils have been charged. Upon return, we will have a split 7" giveaway available for National Record Store Day, courtesy of Mikey and Dear Skull. The often controversial song "Rustbelt Noose" will be on this record, and will be paired up with a jam from the band Centipede Eest. As some of you may already know, "Rustbelt Noose" was a song written by the original line up of Kim Phuc and has become a source of contention amongst the current members. In addition, the song details the mundane existence of a typical Pittsburgher, their willingness to settle, self medicate and overstate their own importance. The subjects of the song are typically too dull witted to actually extrapolate a meaning on their own and will just continue on with drunken yelps from the bar "wooooo play that rustbelt song."

Here are some upcoming shows we have planned:

Friday 3/13 Kim Phuc, Full Color, Pikock @ gooskis pittsburgh, pa

Monday 3/16 Masshysteri/KimPhuc/ConfidenceMen @ Roboto Pittsburgh, PA

Thursday 3/19 sxsw warehouse party. austin, tx

Friday 3/20 sxsw w/100 bands @ club 1808 austin, tx

Saturday 3/21 sxsw Dillinger 4, Annihilation Time @ beerland austin, tx

Friday 4/17 FNU Ronnies, Electric Bunnies, Pink Reason, Drunkdriver, Baby Bird, Kim Phuc, Terrible Two's @ Belvederes Pittsburgh, PA

Thanks to all that came out last weekend for our Columbus and Chicago shows. Many apologies to everyone in Cleveland, as a delayed flight caused us to miss the show. We are done mixing the new single and the first person to land me a date with Katy Perry gets to release it. Songs on this one will be "Weird Sky" b/w "Suicide Circle."
We have a review of "wormwood star" in The Wire this month, and as a result we got a write up in the Pgh Post Gazette, which made for some interesting Christmas dinner conversation. We will be playing some shows at SXSW this year. Come hang.
Merry Christmas, Christian dogs.

We are playing the Criminal Iq Records showcase in Chicago on December 20th. We will post more details when we get them. We will be playing out of town more once football season is over.

The first 7" is sold out. Parts Unknown have copies in their distro still.

We have three shows coming up in the next few weeks. We are also mixing the new singles and writing for an lp. HERE is a link to the pics from our release show at Gooski's. Thanks to Alicia for taking them.

October 25th Polish Hill Punk House pgh, pa
VILE GASH
- hardcore punk from Ohio on Youth Attack Records
SALVATION
- "fucked up version of Rudimentary Peni/Die Kreuzen" on Youth Attack Records
KIM PHUC
- Spak Bros


November 2nd The Rock Room pgh, pa
DRUNKDRIVER
KIM PHUC
SLICES

November 17th The Roboto Project wilkinsburg, pa
WALLS
BRAIN HANDLE
KIM PHUC
SLICES

Friday September 5th will be the record release show for our new single out on Criminal Iq records. The record will feature "wormwood star" b/w "intro/squares." This will also be the release show for The Fitt's new single as well. Check them out, www.thefitt.com .

We are recording this week for two more singles, with My War Matt. Release date and label are unknown on that stuff.

We have a myspace account now. Please add us, and then post a bunch of advertisements and flyers for your distro/zine/benefit show for homeless people/podcast/dog masturbating business to the comments page. www.myspace.com/kimphuc You can also check out "wormwood star" on the page. Please send all real requests for booking and interviews to goldenhappiness at gmail dot com.

After a hectic May, we are only playing one show in June. Here is the info:
June 16, 2008 - 7:00 pm - $7

Red Dons
-Dark & melodic punk on deranged records
The Estranged
-Dark & melodic punk on green noise/dirtnap records
Kim Phuc
Icon Gallery


We are still waiting for the new 7" to come out. In the meantime, we are trying to plan a weekend of shows out towards Chicago and back somewhere around July 18th. More info on that when we get it.

We are doing our next 7" with Criminal Iq records. "Wormwood Star" and "Squares" will be on the record. It will probably be out in a month or two. We are writing for another 7" right now.

We have some shows coming up in the next month. All of them are in Pittsburgh. How fortunate for us all.

Sunday April 27 6pm $8
The Mr. Roboto Project
w/ Paint It Black, Cloak/Dagger, Static Transistor

Saturday May 3 10pm $5
Howler's Bar for the Developmentally Challenged
w/ Magic Wolf, Full Color

Friday May 9th 10pm $3
The Rock Room aka The Warsaw
w/ Under Pressure, Brain Handle

Friday May 23 7pm
The Mr. Roboto Project
w/ Invasion, Chronic Seizure

Recorded Failures

So our first 7" has been out for a bit and I forgot to put a lil pic of it up. Here is a rough mix of Constant Heart Attack that appears on the B side. If anyone still wants to order a copy of the 7"( we have less than 70 left) you can do so by sending $6 through paypal to burnedtothegroundathotmail.com. We have a bunch of shows coming up in May.