My Fucked Up Life: Damian Abraham

A few years ago had a sit down with Damian Abraham, frontman of the award winning punk band Fucked Up. We went over almost everything about his childhood, his record collection, and the origins of Fucked Up. Here is that interview in full.

Where and when were you born?

I was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 16^th 1979. 

What was your upbringing like?

I was raised in a middle/upper-middle class family. My mum was a flight attendant and my dad worked in advertising, so both my parents were away a lot, but it was a very pleasant upbringing until I was about eight and then my parents got divorced, and then my mum remarried a pilot, and he was an asshole – definitely not a cool guy – and then my dad moved to England so I’d come spend time with my dad over here and then my dad moved to Australia and I’d go spend time with him in Australia. But it was a very, generally speaking, pleasant upbringing. My mom went to great lengths to ensure that my parents divorce didn’t affect my brother and I, but my stepfather was a really strict asshole, but you get the picture now… he fuels my punk rage I guess. I remember we went to see the Circle Jerks and he was like “You’re not allowed to go see some ‘cum-in-your-face-band’. We went anyway, we snuck out. In retrospect it wasn’t that bad, like certainly it’s all relative y’know, but he was an asshole.

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