Was it weird being part of that brief ska boom in the late-90s?
Well we were lucky, and that’s part of the reason we are what we are. We weren’t really part of that crew of bands that was really benefiting, that were hot from it. We had good luck with the record label, but I don’t think they were necessarily trying to cash in on the third-wave ska thing that was happening. They just happened to have a couple of people that had the taste in the bands. They liked the Pietasters and they liked Hepcat and also us. It was kind of weird. Hellcat was funny like that because the guys over there knew about ska from two-tone and they didn’t even know that there was this metal thing happening. If anything, Operation Ivy was more of a 2-tone band, that’s where their taste was. We circumvented that whole thing and it always kept us out of the main loop which is good, in the long run. “Married Girl” Do you ever feel like the songwriting gets overlooked because you play a type of dance music? You know what I like is that whole English revival that’s been happenin
