In Defense of Ska Ep 200: Drew Skibitsky (Kill Lincoln, Urban Crater)

What is ska known for? To some people, it’s having a guy in the band that only dances. The truth is that only a couple ska bands have a dancing guy. The most famous is Ben Carr from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. But let’s not forget the infamous ska-punk hype man Drew Skibitsky from the band Kill Lincoln. We talk to him this week. 

What does it mean to be a hype man. Drew has his own thoughts, and it might not line up with how Ben Carr or other people treat their roles in the band. Drew sees his job as hyping up the band on and off stage, in whatever way is going to make as many people as possible as happy as possible. 

We talk about Drew’s history with Kill Lincoln (He and Mike Sosinski share a birthday!), his history in booking shows, and we learn about his other band, Urban Crater. We learn about why flyering is so important. And Drew enlightens us about the greatest film franchise of all time: The Doghouse movies. 

There’s lot of bonus content with Drew this week. If you’d like to listen to the entire interview, and get early access, ad-free episodes with bonus content every week, sign up to our Patreon! 

Listen to the conversation, and make sure to like, review, and follow the series wherever you get your podcast. Don't forget to check out all the Consequence Podcast Network series here.

If you like our theme song, go download the EP Lives by Slow Gherkin. They wrote the opening and closing songs for our podcast. You can get both tunes from their Lives EP. Also, check out Dan P and the Bricks two LPs. They provided the mid-roll ad transition music. 

Support the In Defense host Aaron Carnes by purchasing a copy of his book, In Defense of Ska. The 2nd, expanded edition of In Defense of Ska will release in Oct 2024. 

Co-host Adam Davis has a band called Omnigone. Their latest record, Against The Rest released on March 31, 2023. 

The In Defense of Ska editor Chris Reeves runs a record label called Ska Punk International. They have new releases coming out all the time.

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