Los Angeles band, The Interrupters, have shared an animated video for the track ‘Alien,’ off their fourth studio album ‘In The Wild’. Ukrainian sisters Olga and Vira ‘MadTwins’ Ishchuk known in the punk scene for their animation works for punk bands such as Social Distortion, NOFX, and Flogging Molly, created the ‘Alien’ video based on a plot invented by Aimee Interrupter.
Mad Twins share: “The song ‘Alien’ spoke to us strongly because we know what it is like to be an abandoned child and a weirdo. Aimee and the guys wanted the main character to be a skeleton, and that was a challenge. In punk rock and metal there are a lot of visuals of skeletons, we wanted the main character to be different and the audience to empathize with him. The value of the song is precisely in the openness of the emotions of suffering due to the difficulty of finding one’s place in society, which are well known to those who come to the punk rock subculture. The “happy end” at the finale of the video is not so important as the story about that the character sincerely tried to find his path. This is not the time to lie down in the pit of death, life is precious even if you are feeling yourself as an alien.”
Fresh of a month-long US headline tour, The Interrupters will be back for a selection of festival and headline shows across the UK and Europe, starting at Slam Dunk coming Saturday. The band will also be supporting Green Day in France and The Netherlands and The Hives in Italy. See below for the full list of dates.
UK and European summer tour dates:
May 25th – Slam Dunk – Hatfield, UK
May 26th – Slam Dunk – Leeds, UK
May 28th – Le Splendid – Lille, France
May 30th – O Son Do Camino – Santiago De Compostela, Spain
May 31st – Lisboa Ao Vivo – Lisbon, Portugal
June 1st – Road To Rio Babel – Madrid, Spain
June 3rd – Repvblicca – Valencia, Spain
June 4th – Santana 27 – Bilbao, Spain
June 5th – LDLC Arena # – Lyon Decines, France
*supporting Green Day
June 7th – Rock Im Park – Nürnberg, Germany
June 8th – Rock Am Ring – Nürburgring, Germany
June 9th – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium
June 10th – Grosse Freiheit – Hamburg, Germany
June 12th – Lucerna Music Bar – Prague, Czech Republic
June 13th – Nova Rock – Nickelsdorf, Austria
June 15th – Greenfield – Interlaken, Switzerland
June 16th – Den Atelier – Luxembourg, Luxembourg
June 18th – Accor Arena – Paris, France
*supporting Green Day
June 19th – GelreDome – Arnhem, Netherlands
*supporting Green Day
June 21st – Natz Alpen Flair – South Tyrol, Italy
June 22nd – Slam Dunk – Lyon, France
June 23rd – Pinkpop – Landgraaf, The Netherlands
June 25th – Sequoie Music Park – Bologna, Italy
*supporting The Hives
June 27th – Huxleys Neue Welt – Berlin, Germany
June 29th – Hellfest – Clisson, France