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NOFX frontman Fat Mike has spent years working on his punk musical Home Sweet Home, which follows a group of runaways as they cope with life on the street, and next spring the show will finally hit the road for a tour of the United States.

Assisting him with songwriting and production are his dominatrix girlfriend Soma Snakeoil and Jeff Marx, co-creator of naughty muppet musical Avenue Q, while the soundtrack itself has seen Mike enlist a bunch of collaborators from the worlds of punk and Broadway. Among them are British Bragg-alike Frank Turner, Tony-winning actor Lena Hall, Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba, Bad Cop/Bad Cop’s Stacy Dee and the late Tony Sly, frontman of No Use for a Name.

The soundtrack album, which is due for release on February 10 via Fat Wreck Chords, also features contributions from members of all the punk bands whose patches you used to sew onto your schoolbag, including NOFX, the Descendents, Lagwagon, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmes, Old Man Markley, Mad Caddies, the Aggrolites, the Living End and the Real McKenzies.

Some songs on the soundtrack won’t appear in the stage show, and vice versa. “I was trying to record this album for three years, so I got some of the best singers that I knew, and when we got the producer Jeff Marx on board, the story started changing, and we had to keep dropping songs and writing new ones,” said Mike in a statement.

“A lot of them didn’t make it for plot reasons, not because they weren’t really good. Knowing that we couldn’t get a perfect take for all these songs, I just decided that this will be the demo album. There are more singers than characters, but I think it makes it kind of cool.”

There’s no announcement on who’ll be in the actual musical cast yet, nor are there firm dates for the US tour, but the show is scheduled to play in New York City in June. [via Rolling Stone]