Riot Fest 2019 Countdown 10 – Masked Intruder

This week are all bands I’ve seen fairly recently.  One at Riot Fest 2017, one with The Interrupters, and one with Rancid.

Masked Intruder.  They feel like a band your friends were in in college.  If they weren’t already in the Barking Sharks.  And if they wear masks.  I saw them open for The Interrupters (sidenote…Rat Boy was on the bill also…check him out).  They’re pure pop punk with a sense of humor.  Not necessarily a good sense of humor but I like they don’t take themselves seriously.  All wear masks and go by the name associated with the color of the mask…”Intruder Blue”…a poor man’s “Nameless Ghoul?”.  And we’ve been impressed by mysterious bands in masks before.  Someone told me there was a rumor that Jack Black was their anonymous guitarist (Intruder Green).  While untrue (likely) he does fit the physical bill.  Not a fan of the cop part of their act, but they have fun so let it be.  When I saw them they said Yellow was in jail so they had a fill in, a female appropriately named “Intruder Black”.