"Coming up on Backstage Passport." "What time will the money be here?" "I want a time and I want to see the money in my hand." "C'mon man." "This is fucking ridiculous." "No way." "I'm like this:" "Ahhhh!" "Oh man, I fucking hurt..." "We're NOFX Screwing up since 1 983" "But these days we've got mortgages and families." "So we're going on a sketchy tour No country is too obscure" "We're gonna drink and golf and fight and snort" "We're NOFX This is Backstage Passport" "So here we are, on our way to the airport to fly to Indonesia." "Last country of the Asia tour." "We are going to play the biggest show of the tour tonight." "They're expecting 10 to 15,000 people in Jakarta." "I have exactly no advice or information on immigration." "What are you saying Kent, we might not get in?" "Yeah, poor Kent." "No wonder he's losing his hair." "You guys got passports?" "That guy's got to deal with so much stuff, especially on a tour like this." "A do-it-yourself..." "He's in charge of dealing with all the money." "And it's really important to me that we make some kind of money so that I can go home and make my house payment." "Kent is the glue that's holding the whole thing together." "Kent has had to deal with a lot of new promoters." "Apromoter basically books the venue, they do the advertising, they get us paid, and on this tour we've been screwed by quite a few of them." "In Beijing, this guy Jason, puts on our show, it was sold out, there were 1 500 people there, and he paid us zero." "In Peru, the promoter, Yolanda, she didn't get the right permits, she kept all the money, and our crew was held hostage by the police." "And now in Indonesia we have to deal with this guy named Torkis." " Hello?" "Buddy?" "" "Hi..." "So I do one last check of my electronic mail - in the lounge, email from Torkis: 'cancel event.' basically Jakarta is cancelled." "I'm coming right now to the gate." "Don't let anyone get on the plane." "Mike, come here." "Totally unbelievable, 'Jakarta is cancelled due to chaos.'" "From Torkis Mahabasa..." "We get an email basically saying the show was cancelled about a half an hour before we were supposed to get on the airplane." "'NOFX Asian tour can't show on Jakarta, we have to cancel the event otherwise no guarantee for anything about the secure." "Other information will send later." "Thanks for your regard.'" "How do we go about getting the luggage off the plane?" "How many of you?" "It's full Yolanda, he has no permits, he has no..." "he doesn't have his shit together at all." "We send apology for agreement that we approve..." "Where's Riz?" "Riz is coming." "Okay." "Tell him not to get on the..." "Jakarta is cancelled." "Are you fucking kidding?" "Riz helped book some of the Asian shows, and he knows Torkis, so him and Kent both tried to get him on the phone." "Hi, can I speak to Torkis please?" "T-T-Torkis?" "I've got a dog barking on my phone." "Tor-Torkis?" "Did this bitch just hang up on me?" "Do you..." "You know Torkis?" "TORKIS!" "Do you know Torkis?" "What hap..." "Oh, you got him." "What, I just got an email that said the show's cancelled." "Talk to Riz." "Torkis, Torkis, this is Riz." "You just sent an email to Kent telling him the show is cancelled." "Is it cancelled or not?" "Okay, okay." "Cool, okay, bye, bye, bye." "He says it's still on..." "How crazy are these people?" "We got 5 minutes." "We got Torkis on the phone, he says, 'oh no, I just want to ask you about we have a problem with security." "But it's going to be very good for me you arrive in Jakarta.'" "Your plane is boarding now." "Let's go, everybody on!" "Let's go to Jakarta and get weird." "I was thinking this is definitely going to be dodgy at best." "Torkis says there's a show, what does he know?" "At this point, I don't trust Torkis..." "ATALL." "Welcome to Jakarta." "The local time is 1 :28 in the afternoon." "Hey, there we go!" "What's your name?" "My name is Torkis." "You must be Kent." "Right, nice to meet you, man." "Everything's okay?" "Everything's fine." "I feel good, I feel good." "Liar." "You're sketched." "I'm the guy that's going to take care of you, okay, as long as you're in Indonesia." "Mike, if you don't mind, this guy crazy nuts about you, you know?" "He want say something." "Can I kiss you?" "MIKE:" "No kissing." "Can I kiss you?" "No kissing." "Can I?" "I guess it's a custom in Indonesia." "It's not a custom there, really." "The boy just wanted to kiss me." "I have nice supple lips." "UGH!" "Thanks a lot, Mike!" "Did I mention he said we were going to get a police escort?" "There it is, there it is, there it is, there it is!" "This is going to be fuckin' awesome!" "I've only gotten escorted by the police, never a police escort." "Once I saw we had a big bus and a police escort I actually was feeling pretty confident about Torkis." "Looks like it's going off, right?" "The police are here." "Looks like the show is going down." "So everything is going to be killer, yep." "At least it's a little different than Yolanda: the police are escorting us instead of holding us." "Maybe the police escort was a little bit overboard, but we're in a country with a history of terrorist bombings and we're an American punk band with two Jews in it." "Rad... this is awesome." "Then we get to the venue and all we see are cops." "And cops...and cops...and cops...and cops and cops!" "If you added up every punk show I've ever been to, it's still not as much as the cops that were at the Indonesia show." "There's gonna be shitloads of cops in here?" "Of course." "All that people that stay on the bus absolutely was undercover cop." "So you guys don't be worried, okay?" "So all the guys on our bus were undercover cops." "Yeah, I think security is sufficient for today." "More, they're bringing in more." "There's a bunch of guys with big tear gas canisters on their back, squirt guns to keep the kids cool, just kinda squirt up in the air." "This is rad." "Everyone's uniforms seem to be clean." "They're looking pretty spiffy." "There's a bomb squad here, they're checking everywhere under the stage, there they are right now." "Everything okay?" "COP:" "Okay!" "So far, no bombs." "Things were looking really good..." "and then there was a problem." "There's no power?" "No, it's a great PA system, he's like, 'we have to stop until we ask the guy for payment.'" "We're at the venue for a little while, then all the power got shut off." "The generator went down, so the power went." "Just as we were about to start line check, it's over." "And... nothing!" "We found out, Torkis, he hadn't paid the bill for the PAyet." "They want $12,000 for us to go ahead and do our sound check." "So it still might get cancelled." "There's no fucking way...how are we ever going to get paid?" "By this point I'm not really sure that there's going to be a show." "You got something figured out, bud?" "Not really." "It's very hard to talk to these people." "Well, they want their money." "I got to tell you, I can't blame them." "I went to talk to the head of the production company to try to convince them to do sound check." "This organizer is useless." "We don't want a riot here, there's obviously an audience somewhere out there?" "There's no real negotiation." "They said, 'we're owed $12,000, when we get it we can turn the PAon.'" "That was definitely the first confirmation that Torkis was blowing it worse than we had imagined." "Also we didn't really know if there was even an audience." "Maybe the whole thing was just a bad mistake and Torkis was so insane that he put up this giant outdoor concert venue but there actually wasn't an audience." "Biggest security force we've ever seen in our lives and there's no kids." "There's gonna be more cops than kids." "What time will the money be here?" "I want a time and I want to see the money in my hand." "Probably, maybe after the show?" "KENT:" "Probably maybe?" "TORKIS:" "Yeah." "We started playing and 20 seconds after we started playing they pulled the plug." "Here we are in Jakarta, the promoter hasn't paid for anything, we're supposed to go on in four hours, and we don't even know if the show is going to happen." "Let's loan the promoter the money." "We don't have that much money." "The production company said, 'we're owed $12,000." "when we get it, we can turn the PA on.'" "But Torkis, our promoter, he doesn't know how to deal with it so so I don't expect any answers from this lunatic at this point." "I love that there's NO kids here." "There's really no one here." "Again, we still didn't really know if there was even an audience." "There's at least 1 5,000 imaginary kids coming." "There's no audience is there?" "They are outside." "They are?" "Where?" "You want to see?" "Yeah, yeah, let's go see." "Oh yeah!" "They take me on a golf cart about a mile and a half away." "We're going to see the audience!" "And sure enough there was an audience outside the gates on the street." "Tons of them, too." "It is so quiet there the band thinks there is no people!" "We have a few problems, but it is going to happen." "Don't worry." "Just be cool, everyone be calm." "I got to the gate, I went 'WOW, there IS an audience!" "Will you look at that!" "'" "At this point the show would have to happen or there was going to be a riot." "There's thousands." "We're gonna make it happen." "Are you fucking serious?" "There's definitely people in this picture, out there." "Definitely a lot of people." "Are you going to go to hotel?" "Are they taking the bus there?" "So the band have to go to a press conference and I have to get to the bottom of this." "So Kent, use your best judgment." "If Torkis balls and everything goes totally tits up and we can make a bargain with the PA company..." "Yeah, no, I'm going to start negotiating with them." "What are we going to do, gentlemen?" "I expect Kent to either fix things, or get drunk." "That's it, we just wait?" "There's no curfew...the kids can wait all night too?" "About one more hour." "Welcome, won't you please come in and have a seat?" "The lady in the front." "I hear that you don't come to Indonesia." "What's wrong?" "Actually, we were getting on a plane today, when we got a text message and one promoter said, 'show's cancelled, don't come.' And now we don't even know if the show is going on." "About two hours before the show and we still have no idea whether we're playing the gig or not." "There's no PA." "But in the middle of the press conference I get a text message from Kent." "I got a, our manager says, 'kids are coming in, we're going on at 9:30.' Okay!" "It was dark and late and in the eleventh hour, they decided to let the show happen and open the doors and the kids came in." "But I have bigger concerns, before the band goes on" "I have to talk to Torkis." "So you're going to give me the money tonight though, right?" "My money, tonight?" "I will speak to the accountant, so don't worry about it, Kent." "We'll take care of it." "I'm going to worry about it, we just spent five hours waiting for money to have the show, we flew all day to get here, I'm going to worry about it." "This is my job." "I want to see that money." "I'm really pretending to believe that I can convince him to pay us, just in case he comes up with some money." "What time will the money be here?" "I want a time and I want to see the money in my hand." "1 7,000 U.S. dollars, it's very important to me." "Probably, maybe after the show..." "KENT:" "Probably maybe?" "TORKIS:" "After the show." "Indonesia, Indonesia!" "Hello!" "Jakarta did end up going off." "It was great cause there was 8 to 10 thousand people there, and the kids were going nuts." "It was kind of weird because there was still about a hundred cops between us and the kids and the cops weren't really rocking out...not that stoked on NOFX...but the kids were." "Thanks very much..." "I had a very nice time tonight, thank you very much." "After the show I have to talk to Torkis because" "I really do want to try to get some money out of this guy." "Of course Kent has to try every night, he can't just, 'oh, really, no money?" "Okay, I'll leave, sorry to bother you.' It's his job to fight for us." "What's up, Kenny?" "I want the money." "When I talked to Torkis after the show, it was a whole line of bullshit." "It'll take a little bit of time you know." "So, just, you're going back to the hotel, take a rest..." "I'll take care of it, okay?" "Give me a time." "He tells me, 'oh, I can't get you the money tonight, but, I will bring it to you at noon tomorrow.'" "Twelve o'clock." "No later, 'cause twelve o'clock we're leaving for the airport." "Okay." "The promoter is going to pay us our money today at 12 noon." "Woohoo!" "I'm absolutely certain he's not going to bring me any money, so of course I get up at eleven and wait around excitedly for him to show up with some money at noon." "And then a young lady shows up." "This is for you and Torkis, not me." "Yeah, where is he?" "He told me to beg your understanding because there is a problem about our account." "I don't understand." "This is a total atrocity." "Torkis guarantee that the money will be given to you in a week." "Torkis has guaranteed that the money will be given to us in a week, Mike." "Okay, where is the bus?" "We need the bus RIGHT NOW or I am gonna pile all these guys into cabs." "Can I make sure how about the payment in a week?" "Can you accept that?" "Please get me a bus, that's all that matters now." "We got jacked again, here." "Not only did Torkis totally rip us off in Jakarta, but he said he had a show booked in Bali and he didn't." "So now it's up to Kent to book us a show in one day." "This really is just like the old days, you show up in a city, with nothing booked, and you figure out how to make it happen." "After everything else on this tour, this is a lot to put on Kent's shoulders." "Come on man, this is fucking ridiculous." "No way." "I'm insulted." "I'm like this:" "AHHHHH!" "Jakarta was a total disaster." "Torkis barely pulled off us having a show there." "So we get to Bali, he didn't book anything in Bali and we just had to book a gig all on our own." "We have one day to book a show, find a venue, and promote it." "Hahaha." "We get to this beach resort and then we notice they've got like a nightclub with a stage and everything in it so I track down the manager named Baggis and all he says is, 'yeah,' but we've gotta go" "on after the house band." "So if we selling at 50,000..." "That's five dollars, right?" "I mean..." "Baggis and I agree that we'll sell the tickets for 5 dollars and that we will get 2 of those 5 dollars to take home with us." "Now we have a show." "Now all we have to do is get kids to go there." "It was exactly !" "ike a NOFX show from the 1980s." "You book a show, not much in advance." "You make flyers, you pass them out, you hope kids are going to come." "I don't even know how long it has been since I flyered my own show." "In the old days Eric Melvin used to do a lot of our flyers, so we gave him the job." "Hey, you guys rock music fans?" "We're playing tonight." "Oh, it's your band!" "We're playing tonight." "Okay, we come tonight, yeah." "Will you?" "I wonder if any of them are music fans." "Do you have this band?" "Yeah." "Cool...see that guy?" "Oh, you!" "Same shorts." "Could you put this?" "Okay, thank you very much." "Thank you, bye." "It was fun having, like, a D.I.Y. show." "Melvin went out and flyered and all of sudden we got thrown back into the year of 1 984." "Doing it ourselves and just going for it." "We did it, we found a club to play in Bali, and an audience was arriving, so time to start drinking." "Kent started drinking a little early because, you know, he was celebrating." "He just pulled off a show in one day and it looked like it was going to be a huge show." "I'm at the show, I'm sitting on the front steps just checking the people out, just having a good time, talking with locals, and here comes big Kent..." "BAAAAHH his eyes are crossed and bloodshot." "JAY:" "Man-a-ger!" "SMELLY:" "Yeah you're almost to that point." "You're wobbling." "Yeah, but I can do sound, even monitors." "I'm like, 'dude, no more drinking.'" "Boss cut me off." "He seems to think that I'm a drunken." "No more drinks." "Which means until we go on." "Hello..." "So the Bali show was a total success, there had to be 1000 kids there so I was easily expecting $2000." "Before the encore even started I ran up to try and find Baggis and discuss our money." "Bali is the number one destination for NOFX for sure, to date." "One day notice to do that gig?" "So great!" "It's nice that Kent's trying to get us some money, but he's pretty hammered." "This is 10 million... 10 million." "So when Baggis handed me roughly $1000 in Balinese trinkets or whatever the currency is called," "I'm thinking, 'well, this is half.'" "What happened?" "How many people came?" "We counted, it's only 428." "You're fucking kidding me." "428 people came here today?" "Were you at the same show as me?" "428?" "Take your money back, that's fucking bullshit." "You're crazy." "One thousand people in there, minimum." "BAGGIS:" "Some people is come for dinner as well." "600 people had dinner?" "Yeah." "Come on, man." "This is fucking ridiculous." "No way." "I'm gonna spill beer on myself now." "It's gonna be ugly." "You watch." "Yes, when Kent drinks, man, it's like a ticking time bomb, he's just ready to explode." "I'm insulted by it, I'm like this..." "AHHHH!" "WAAAHHHH!" "You're telling me 400 people paid to get in here?" "Are you fucking crazy?" "You're killing me." "Oh man, I fucking hurt, oh, you stuck me right in the gut..." "Once again ripped off." "I'm sorry I'm so fat I broke the chair." "But it happens often." "We got ripped off but Kent, he gets us as much money as he can." "And it was okay, in the end." "So I finish settling with Baggis and I hear the band go back on, so I grab my pitcher of beer and run back upstairs to get back to the soundboard." "Kent, he's trying his hardest and although we're hemorrhaging money," "Kent is, he's still doing a great job." "Kent, he's the big papa bear, man." "He holds it together." "He's the glue." "He really fights for us, he's a great manager." "He's the best, best in the industry."