Ian Mackaye
Pull a thread
The barricade was built to keep the crowd off the stage. In Oklahoma City, Turnstile used it the other way around
On 5 October, Brendan Yates stopped a sold-out room mid-song and refused to restart until a security guard left the building. The gesture has an ancestor, and it is not the one everybody reaches for.
What happened at The Criterion
Monday 5 October, The Criterion in Oklahoma City, roughly three quarters into the set. Turnstile were playing “Keep It Moving” when a fan came over the front barricade. By Brendan Yates’s account from the microphone, a guard went at them.
Turnstile on Saturday Night Live: what changed in the 45 years since Fear got the plug pulled
On 3 October 2026 a hardcore band played Saturday Night Live for the first time since 1981. The music didn’t soften; the people holding the button changed.
On the night of Saturday 3 October 2026, Turnstile opened their Saturday Night Live set with “BIRDS”, a drum solo from Daniel Fang leading it in, and came back later with an “I CARE”/“DULL” medley in front of a wall of raised phones. The host was Dakota Johnson. Taylor Swift turned up twice, in the monologue and again at the goodnights with a birthday cake.