The A-Oks Join Ska Revival Tour

Tim Wenger | May 1, 2014 | 0 Comments

by Tim Wenger

Local ska-punkers The A-Oks will be featured on the western leg of the Ska Revival Tour this summer, alongside Be Like Max, Survay Says! and The Last Slice. The band has been out that way previously, but look forward to bringing some new tunes and fresh stage antics to the eager audiences they meet. Here are the details on what’s going down, as delivered by trumpet player Nicole Orts.

CMB: So what’s the deal with this tour? When, where, who?

NO: This Summer, Survay Says from New Jersey and The Last Slice from Oklahoma are hosting a nation-wide Ska Revival Tour. There will be an East Coast and West Coast leg of the tour. We will be joining the West Coast portion of the tour in July with our friends Be Like Max from Las Vegas. This tour was set up to shut down the rumors that “ska is dead” and to showcase ska bands that have been making their mark across the country. So, if you like SKA, this is the tour for you.

CMB: How did The A-Oks come to be included?

NO: We were lucky enough to tour with The Last Slice in 2012. Coincidentally we also met and made friends with Be Like Max and Survay Says on that tour. We had way too much fun playing with all of those guys and we have remained chums ever since. When this year’s tour was being coordinated, The Last Slice threw our name into the hat. We’re pretty humbled to join these guys on what may be a very big event.

CMB: Are you prepping anything special for the trip? New songs, merch, anything like that?

NO: We always have big plans when we tour. We like to make our Denver show as insane as possible for when friends from other states come through. Last Year, we hosted The Last Slice and Be Like Max at the Gothic with fellow Colorado Ska and Punk bands, The Potato Pirates and The Repercussions. It was one of our craziest shows and, hey, we even made an album out of it! We’ll be bringing a couple new songs on the road and new merch to ensure our influence spreads far and wide. And when every little ska kid in the Western United States is wearing an A-OKs(TM COPYRIGHT 2014) t-shirt, we will activate the mind control chips woven in the threads of every shirt’s cotton poly-blend fabric and we will take our place as kings behind our new zombie army!

CMB: Where is your music online?

NO: We recently set up our bandcamp at theaoks.bandcamp.com and we put up all three of our albums in their entirety for your listening pleasure! You can also find us on iTunes, CDBaby, ReverbNation, Facebook, etc, etc…. Also, someone put our stuff up on The Pirate Bay. That’s when we knew we hit the big leagues.

CMB: Any plans following the tour?

NO: We’re playing a couple East Coast cities in August and hope to start recording a new album by the end of the year. Also, we plan on headlining Coachella and the Family Values Tour and Woodstock.