Damian Abraham, singer with the powerful yet pliable punk group Fucked Up, is in the back of a rental van travelling south to a distant corner of England. Last night, the Toronto quintet opened their latest British tour with a date in Bristol; come this evening, the first night of the first weekend of spring will be celebrated by a date in Exeter. But with the English winter refusing to cede ground to a more optimistic season, the visitors are required to dig deep into their decades’ worth of experience of hardscrabble touring in a van in colder weather. “This is nothing compared to what it’s like back home,” comes the frontman’s tidy rebuff. Not that a day in the south west of England is entirely without creature comforts, you understand....
