Credit: Michael MullerSeems there are few places Nickelback can go without getting bashed. The band's currently touring Australia in support of their album No Fixed Address, and some authorities are none too pleased. The Queensland Police Service posted a fake BOLO -- be on the lookout -- warning for the band on its Facebook page. The poster features drawings of the band members and says they're "wanted for crimes against music."
"Police are on the lookout for these men who are believed to be impersonating musicians," the caption reads. "Avoid the area. It may be hazardous to your hearing and street cred."
Nickelback is no stranger to this kind of trolling -- last year, a British man started a Tilt charity campaign to stop the band from ever playing London. Some anti-Nickelback campaigns have done good things, however: earlier this year, Jesse Carey of the Relevant magazine podcast promised to listen to nothing but Nickelback for a week straight in order to raise money for Charity: Water.
Perhaps the Queensland authorities didn't see the recent SeatSmart study that declared Nickelback has the most sophisticated lyrics of any chart-topping rock band of the last 10 years. Of the songs surveyed, which included any song that spent at least three weeks atop the Billboard rock charts, Nickelback's lyrics required an average reading grade level of 3.3, beating out the likes of Foo Fighters and Linkin Park.
Nickelback's tour will return to the U.S. in June.
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