How long have the Dolomites been together?
Steve Baianu: We had our second anniversary in November, but we’re not really that steady a band–we don’t necessarily work all the time. I’ve been working on a solo project lately, so we haven’t been practicing as much as we did when we first started. But you’ve got an album coming out soon, right? Yeah, A Hogshead of Whiskey. It’s going to be on Walking Records, this label from California that’s been really cool to work with. The editing’s done, the art work’s done, and it should be out in the next couple of months. If you’re a Japanese-Romanian Briton living in America, how’d you get into Irish music? I’ve always been into more uncommon things, sort of eccentric, non-standard stuff. I got interested in the Pogues in high school, when I wanted to start a punk band. But punk was sort of…getting on my nerves, I guess, so I figured the Pogues’ approach to punk would work. You must get sick of Pogues comparisons, though. That’s all people know of to compare us to, I guess. There are ot
