On October 9th, Brooklyn Steel got an adrenaline injection straight from FIDLAR, and let’s just say, there were no survivors—only drenched beers and pure punk bliss. The band hit the stage at 9:05 PM, kicking off with The Clash’s “Koka Kola.” Launching into “FIX ME” next, the first track from their new album SURVIVING THE DREAM, the venue fully detonated. Fans at the rail were headbanging so hard, you wondered if neck braces were being handed out at merch table.
And then came “Cheap Beer,” the anthem of the scrappy and broke, which promptly transformed the crowd into a chaotic mass of crowd surfers and moshers. Beers were spilled with abandon, but no one cared—it was the cost of punk-rock joy. FIDLAR was just getting started.
In true FIDLAR fashion, they threw in a few curveballs with covers like On Drugs bleeding into Queens of the Stone Age’s “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” and “No Waves” crashing seamlessly into Sublime’s “Santeria.” The crowd was there for it. Then, frontman Zac took it up a notch, stopping the show to clear a space for a girls-only mosh pit. The directive? If any guys jumped in, push them right back out. Punk rock with a feminist twist—who knew? The ensuing chaos was just as much about empowerment as it was about good old-fashioned mayhem.
After a whirlwind of headbanging, stage diving, and shout-along anthems, FIDLAR closed out the night with a blistering encore featuring “Bushwick Kids Fuck Yeah,” a Blink-182 “Damnit” cover, and the gloriously reckless “Wake Bake Skate.”
The night was everything you’d expect from a FIDLAR show: sweaty, wild, and irresistibly fun. If you weren’t there, well, sucks to be you.
Catch FIDLAR on the remainder of their Surviving the Dream tour. Tickets available on the band website.
