Interview with The Ataris on Punktastic

f Summer.’ And so it was a battle for a long time to get out from under that shadow, but I now don’t care for those people. I just appreciate them knowing us, right? Like a lot of times through touring and going to the radio stations, everything that’s going to get us back to the regular punk rock scene, is that people appreciate those songs. I appreciate ‘Boys of Summer’ as a hit and popular culture, you know what I mean? And the cover of it, so like, we play that at the end and it’s the big singalong when we did these shows. Every night, thousands of people sing. A thousand people are singing our songs and 2,500 people, and we get to go out and have a midnight singalong. And it’s really fun. But… we know… but we have to play it. Or we’d be the biggest assholes on earth if we didn’t put that song in our set.”