Here’s what went down at NOFX’s mammoth final-ever live show

7 October, 2024

Fat Mike of NOFX. Credit - Barry Brecheisen.

NOFX wrapped up their final live tour with three shows over the weekend in San Pedro, California, as part of their Punk in Drublic Festival.

Their last ever live concert on Sunday (October 6) had 33 songs on the setlist and featured special appearances from Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley.

The American punk-rock band formed over four decades ago, and announced the stacked lineups for their final shows earlier this year. 

Each of the three shows had festival-style lineups, starting with performances in the early afternoon. Sunday’s agenda featured Fishbone, Subhumans, The Flatliners, Codefendants, Frank Turner, The Vandals, and Pennywise, all building up to NOFX’s headlining set.

The band’s penultimate song was one they had never performed live or released before: ‘We Did It Our Way’, a self-referential take on the Frank Sinatra classic. As Rolling Stone reports, frontman Fat Mike told guitarist Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta: “This is a song we went over in the trailer, and you didn’t remember it,” to which Abeyta replied; “oh, right.”

Fat Mike introduced the song as their way of thanking the fans and everyone onstage. Following some sentimental opening chords, the band kicked into their signature high-energy punk sound, while Mike recounted the band’s history, from how he met guitarist Eric Melvin in 1983 to how they’ve “been brothers” ever since.

Check out some fan-taken footage of NOFX playing ‘We Did it Our Way’ at their final gig on Sunday night.

Fans have also been reminiscing about the gig on X and posting footage from the iconic final performance, including clips of NOFX playing with Bad Religion.

NOFX full setlist on the final night of their farewell tour was:

‘60%’
‘Murder The Government’
‘Bob’
‘Falling In Love’
‘Quart in Session’ (Lyrics partially changed to “Franco Un-American”)
‘Kids of the K-Hole’
‘Leave It Alone’
‘180 Degrees’ (with Nate Albert)
‘Six Years on Dope’
‘Radio'(Rancid cover) (with Tim Armstrong)
‘Shut Up Already’
‘NOFX’
‘Six Pack Girls’
‘Green Corn’
‘Straight Edge’ (Minor Threat cover)
‘The Cause’
‘Perfect Government’ (Mike Curry cover)
‘Idiots Are Taking Over’
‘Mattersville’‘The Longest Line’ (Preceded by a snippet of Green Day’s ‘Basket Case’, lyrics also partially changed to ‘Basket Case’)
‘She’s Gone’
‘I Don’t Like Me Anymore’
‘What’s the Matter With Parents Today?’
‘You’re Bleeding’
‘Reeko'(Fat Mike (bass) and Eric Melvin (guitar) swapped instruments)
‘The Separation of Church and Skate’
‘Intro’
‘Linoeleum’
‘Bottles to the Ground’
‘We’re Only Gonna Die’ (Bad Religion cover with Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley)
‘Stickin It In My Eye’
‘We Did It Our Way’ (live debut)
‘The Decline’ (with Chris Shiflett plus many other guests; Fletcher Dragge began smashing people’s guitars at the end of the song)

The Los Angeles-formed punk rock band announced last November that they would be embarking on their final run of shows in 2024 to wrap up a 40-year career. The confirmation came after frontman Fat Mike told fans on Instagram that the band would be breaking up in 2023, having formed in 1983. “It’s been an amazing run,” he wrote at the time.

In a press release, Fat Mike assured fans this would be the last time the band would tour. “This is not a final tour like Mötley Crüe or Black Sabbath,” he said. “These are the very last shows NOFX will ever be playing. We are gonna play with all our hearts…With all our joy…And then we are done. We are done done.”

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