Liquid Courage



McCafferty is a dance punk project, started by Nicholas “Nick” Hartkop as a solo project. Formed in 2012, the band has had a tumultuous history, repeatedly breaking up and rejoining. The most recent break up in 2020 shedded the rest of the original full-band line-up that joined Hartkop, as allegations of abuse from Hartkop surfaced from now former band members, who formed their new band Sister Sandy afterwards. As a response to this, McCafferty released the song “Isn’t it beautiful?”. Afterwards, Hartkop, and thus McCafferty, vowed to never make music again. Hartkop later changed his mind and returned to music, as he started releasing singles for the album Snoqualmie Welcomes You. In October of 2022, said album was released and is the latest addition to the McCafferty discography. Nick Hartkop continues to give updates on the future of McCafferty as well as his personal life on the band’s blog. Nicholas Hartkop’s writing focuses often on his struggles with addiction and mental illness and takes great musical inspiration from the band The Front Bottoms, as Hartkop himself states in multiple songs. Nick Hartkop is open about having bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. The raw lyrics describing Hartkop’s experiences with said personality disorders are defining for McCafferty’s music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.