Back in my day we drank that shit because it was like $3 a 6-pack. I was impressed to see so many folk slamming Black Labels there. They have toured the world over and over and have a fanbase like none other.įor a Wednesday night, the club filled up pretty quick just after 8 and people wasted no time drinking all the hipster beers made available at the bar. I’d assume you have probably heard of them if you are reading this, so really there is nothing much more to say other than they rule. Lagwagon is a California punk band that started in the late 80s. I couldn’t have been more right, the night was everything I could have wanted as a fan. I knew it was going to be more of an intimate performance within a small club. I was shocked yet stoked they were playing Mahall’s and not another Cleveland venue. When they announced they were touring to celebrate “30-ish” years as being a band tour with a stop in Cleveland, it was a no-brainer for me to make sure I was there. Intruder Blue: No, actually, if you sing too much in prison, you might just get stabbed.Lagwagon has been a punk rock staple when it comes to music for me since my teenage years. Intruder Green: You can sing all you want in prison. It's very discriminatory.įrom the harmonies on "I Wish You Were Mine," it's clear you've got nice singing voices. I could be your dad, or like, Mahatma Gandhi or something. Intruder Blue: Just 'cause I got a ski mask, they're judging me. You ever looked at an "h"?ĭespite your crime-centric identities, you seem to feel that there are things people don't understand about you. Intruder Blue: It's a little embarrassing, but the different shapes of letters, the small ones, are always confusing for me. Why is your Twitter feed all-caps all the time? Intruder Blue: You see little kids wearing ski masks, you know, and I feel like we still all got the hearts of young boys. Intruder Yellow: I forgot which one I was for a long time. Intruder Green: We've got to be able to tell each other apart. Why the color-coordinated outfits? If you're hiding your identities, shouldn't you be more inconspicuous?
Intruder Blue: But that's a victimless crime! People always feel like they're so entitled to their money because they're the one that has it in their pocket, but it's like, pretty soon, I'm the one with it in my pocket, and now whose money is it? So you seem to think that's all harmless, but on "Stick 'Em Up!," you sing about robbing people at knifepoint. Show up at her house with a boom box, play her songs, and late at night, just write her poetry, and leave her presents all the time. If you see, like, a movie, what a girl wants is for you to never stop. Intruder Blue: Well, we're very romantic guys. At what point should a person just give up? On the song "ADT Security," you talk about following a girl home and watching her enter her security code. Which worked, in that a child walked up and asked if Intruder Red was Spider-Man.
#MASKED INTRUDER STICK EM UP OFFICIAL VIDEO FULL#
Though Masked Intruder is a known alias of local punk band the Gusto, the members insisted on showing up to an interview at Mickey's Tavern in full robbery regalia, gnawing on color-coordinated lollipops and Laffy Taffy in an apparent effort to appear harmless. Yes, pop-punk and gimmicky stage acts can both get old fast, but Masked Intruder make the songs nice and tight, and even ask for a little sympathy: "Won't you give a lonely masked man a chance?" Intruder Blue pleads on "I Wish You Were Mine." Stage banter in knucklehead accents, and an actually quite funny all-caps Twitter feed round out the identity.
They incorporate other criminal themes into their up-tempo songs: On "Gimme Parole," a con tells the authorities that he won't "repeat mistakes I made - allegedly."Ĭalling themselves Intruder Blue, Intruder Green, Intruder Red and Intruder Yellow, band members wear color-coded ski masks and Chucks. It's as if the band want to punch up a sick joke by downplaying the sickness, ignoring any notion of menace. In the song "ADT Security," for instance, the burglar-alarm company is an obstacle to inept but well-intentioned courtship. More often than not, the songs lapse into the comically risky subject of stalking women, the joke being that it comes more from a lack of romantic finesse than from psychotic malice - well, at least within the rationalization factory that is the criminal mind. The criminal life has its pitfalls, but it helps to revive the pop-punk genre on First Offense, the just-released debut 7-inch from the four-piece Madison pop-punk band Masked Intruder.
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