By the time he was 14 years old, Bent Blue vocalist Tony Bertolino was pretty good at eating lunch alone. His dad had been in the military and they moved around a lot, so every so often he’d show up at a new school and start over. This one lunchtime, after moving from Colorado to Southern California, he decided to roll the dice and sit down next to some classmates who looked his kind of weird. He’d been skating and listening to pop-punk just long enough to recognise that town’s skaters and BMX kids. Once their initial awkward exchanges had faded, Tony recalls one dude leaning over with an earbud in hand: “He was like, ‘Hey, have you heard of hardcore?’” Tony decided that he’d see what this noise was all about and followed his new friends to a show in someone’s ga...