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PipemanRadio Interviews Backseat Juliet at Bloodstock Open Air 2025.
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Next year is the 25th Anniversary. Get your tickets now at https://www.bloodstock.uk.com/ #BOA26 6th - 9th August 2026, Catton Park, Derbyshire
Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes.”
Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you learn too, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
For cray you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with
with Backseat Juliet.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm Ben and this is Robin Nice.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's like Batman and Robin. Right.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm actually named after Batman's psychic So yeah, are you
really that's so cool?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My dad is a big fan of the Adam West films,
and like I grew.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Up, so you know, I know the heritage and everything.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So yeah, that's so funny because my like my radio
name is because of my last name. But I model
a lot of things have Batman, but more dark Knight Batman,
you know, like I have pipe Man, I have the
pipe Cave, pipe phone.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Everything sounds ideal for back Seat Juliat. Not gonna lie
the pipe Man just like it's just bos in my
head like this I know.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Right, And then you gave me a CD here and listen,
I'm from the eighties. That is such an eighties CD
with the hot Chick with what's her tattoo on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
There singles cool give me that poison? So it's a
poison bottle as a tattoo. If you look at the
new single online, you'll be able to say.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, let's leave a little mystery. Now. My question is
does the girl that was the model for this really
have that too tattoo? And if she doesn't, I think
she needs to.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I think we're going to get that tattoo if I'm honest.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh that would be bad. How about you get that
tattoo and then up on their live show when you're
doing the song, you just show everybody the tattoo.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Absolutely get out.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I know, right, So, and I take how you're addressing
like you're bringing me back to the eighties here, Like
it's totally cool, and I love that because that's where
it all stars. You wouldn't have a Bloodstock without the
eighties exactly. How's it feel to be a Bloodstock? How
you love this festival?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Ah? Man, it's surreal. We still don't believe we're here now?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Is how did it happen?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We went through Melting the Masses competition Northampton Sheer. Honestly,
we didn't expect to win, but we just kept going
through and through because if you look at us, we're
not your typical bloodstock band.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Right and everybody I always interview as gotten here from
melting masses. They say a similar thing like, we didn't
really expect to get through, and the other band they
were really we think they were better than us, and
then here we are, here.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We are, and no, right, we were definitely heavier band.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So the first band that played in our finals, I
got in a circle pit in the third song and
I literally got thrown into the drummer of the fifth
band that were playing Who's Nose throughout the whole gig.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I was like, oh see, I love that you got.
That is mad and the song was fast. You got
to run in a circle.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's fun, no doubt. And I saw you guys are
gonna be touring Australia. That's fucking or not? No, not you.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Sorry, Oh well we're welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But maybe I'm putting that out in the universe.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah, sounds good because you look.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Like you would definitely play in Australia and you could
do like a gig at the ocean while people are surfing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh yeah, yeah see I love that day to me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I know right, I think we might have to sort
someone out with the drummer because he's got a bit
of a favorite spiders, but we'll keep him in a
box at the back.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You'll be all right, Okay, so you can tell him
about coming to play in Florida where I live, because
when you walk through the park, up in the trees
or spiders called banana spiders. Oh yeah, they're like this big.
They're like, I don't know, like five inches wide. You
guys got gates out there as well, though, Oh yeah,
we got lots of There's times like I'm not originally
(03:54):
from there, so when I first moved there, the gators
freaked me out. Okay, yeah, now I just I walk
right buy them and like, hey, what's up, dude, and
keep going like their chill. Just don't fuck with their babies.
Because I had that happen. I was canoeing through the
Everglades and it was mating season, them meeting, realize, don't
(04:15):
do that during mating season, and there were these nice
cute babies. So we're just saying there, oh, how cute,
taking pictures, and then I hear a slam on the
water and I look back. A fifteen foot mama whacked
her tail on the water and went under. I'm like,
we're out of here. So yeah, there's kind of a
(04:38):
competition whether Florida or Australia has the most poisonous, dangerous
shit in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So there sounds fun regardless.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, so like you gotta play both places.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I've seen what do you get in the Amazon rainforest
as well? But your record, we can get a gig
just like going down to where the little part where
the water is boiling, so it'd be nice and hot.
There you go do a music video there.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, a minute and.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
A half song with Anana Kanda snake coming after you
and then the video ends by the snake eating mule.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
If I'm honest, that don't sound like fun to me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But yeah, that might that might not be so much fun.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We'll do it with Cgio.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, so tell me what that one moment in life
was that you decide this is what you had to do?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
What music?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah? General, I definitely not interviews. And once I fucking doing.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Interview I was three years old.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I had spon Jovi Live in London VHS tape that
shows how long ago it was, And there was a
certain bend he did during the guitar solo in Always
and then you see the crowd going nuts, and I
was like, I want to do that nice that that's
the goal. So at some point Wembley Stadium, nice.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
To go home?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
How about you?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
For me, it was Jimi Hendrix when I was about
eight years old. I was like, Yep, that's me. That's me.
That's my personality for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I love it. That's badass. Now how did you guys
get together?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well? I met the bass player about ten years ago
in a pub, as you do, and we've only formed
this band about two years ago. I knew Robin from
a bape shop.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, he'sed to work in a vape shop near where
we're from, in Karim. And then we had a friend
of ours called Lee who kept saying, oh, you got
to meet Ben, You've got to be in a band
with Ben, and that I was like, the only Bend
that I know.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Of is like one of my customers. Oh yeah, that's him.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And then I think within six months you had messaged
me you'd seen one of my guitar videos and he went,
I really want who my band was like, okay, my
brother's a drummer, so you know he sort of comes
with me. Yeah okay, and then that's cool. Put him
behind the kit and he was like, oh okay, it's
very loud. Okay, we just turn up a bit and
then have have as much fun as you can from there.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's very cool and I love it and my ass
has because you guys look like you have chemistry, like
you've been friends since you're three years old.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, it's like some musicians, when you get the right musician,
you just click in and it's you can't fake that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, no, no, And it's so important for I talk
about it all the time me as the listener. I
want to see that you guys vibe on stage and
you're having fun. Otherwise that's boring to me.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like thing we've seen multiple bands before, like when they're playing,
they just stood in front of the microphone or they
just stood there in front of their pedal board.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
There's a band who's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
The guitarist throughout the whole of the show will have
is just his foot on the monitor throughout the whole thing,
and he's like, Okay, you need to engage a little
bit more. But it's like all the bands that we
watch growing up that's been so incredible. So the likes
of Queen bon Jovi and stuff like that is like
you've got showbuns and you anyone can listen to an album,
but you go to a live show like you want
(07:42):
to be entertained. So we always have a rule of
if we come off stage and we're not sweating, we
didn't do it right.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
No doubt, no doubt. It is funny because one of
my most memorable moments, Where's nineteen eighty three to US
festival heavy Metal Day Van Hell and it's headlining. They
start ain't talking about love, and Eddie is looking over
at Dave because he's not singing, and then Dave just says,
(08:12):
this crowd of three hundred thousand people, I fucking forgot
the words, and the whole place fucking roared like it
was the best thing that ever happened. Except one guy.
One guy heckled him and he's like, I'm gonna fuck
your girlfriend. That's rock and roll. That's rocking him, no doubt.
(08:37):
But see, those are the things to me, that's a
true artist. It's getting up there having fun. Doesn't have
to be right on point, Like if I want to
watch the album, I'll just stay at home and listen
to the album. It's gotta be a show, And like
you said, engaging, it's funny what you said because a
bunch of my media friends and I we talk about
(09:00):
the US festivals. There's this one band that plays that
like bores us to death because they don't move. And
I like the band, but I like listening to their music.
I don't. I have ain't desire to go to their
live show where it should be the other way around.
I have bands that I didn't like till I saw
their live show. I was like, yeah, oh my god,
(09:22):
you know, like or bands that maybe I would never
listened to, Like a couple of years ago, download my
photographer friends. He goes, come on, come with me. I
didn't ask any questions, Okay, get on golf cart. We
go over a stage and brings me a set and
I'm like, oh my fucking god, this is like the
best live show ever there and it was electric. Call boy,
(09:45):
I didna I share with us?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well way playing with them?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I think they're playing with you. Yeah, there you go.
So what would you say would be your most memorable
moment in this whole musical journey? So far? There's been
some memorable moments. See that's a hard question because there's
so many.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I've got a good one and you'll hate it when
he hears it. So my brother is twenty four. He's
our drummer, Harry. He's probably one of the greatest drummers
that I've ever played with. He's stone faced the vast
majority of the time. But when we won Metal to
the Masses and you hear Baxy Juliet, just to see
him filled with emotion, that made me happy and then that, Yeah,
(10:32):
that's when I knew that we were doing something good.
If we can make him like emotional because of music,
then yeah, then I reckon that's probably the one that's.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Where for me and all they're fun.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, that's fine, that's fun too, and you have to
have that chemistry up on stage. Like we were talking
before about just fucking round and stuff, and like I
just saw an interview with Tonyaami he said, yeah, we
would perform and nobody in the crowd would see, and
Arsie would just come over and me and start making
feet at me and like weird faces and shit, and
I'd laugh my ass off. That's the way it should
(11:06):
be like because the rest of us industry, if you're
not having fun, you shouldn't be in this industry if
you're not having fun, because the rest of it sucks.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
If you want every performance to be unique, yeah, something
different music.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Industry, you should just stop at the music and then
as long as you're enjoying the music that you're playing,
it should be fine.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If everyone just sit there. I don't like playing this song,
so don't play that song. Then play a better song,
playing a better song.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, that's why we're happy with all the songs that
we're writing at the moment. So when because we're writing
a new album, we want to make sure that every
one of these songs, Like if if all four of
us go yeah, that's it, then we get it. Whereas
if it's one person likes it and the other one
doesn't and stuff, we'll stick that on the back burner
and try and make that better at another time.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But yeah, at the.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Moment, I think it's going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nice. Tell everybody how they can reach out to you.
Buy your merge, get your music, check your to our dates.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Out everything is on all streaming services. If you want
to buy our stuff physically, you have to get some
touch of us through to face, Paide or Instagram one
of our socials.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And we'll waxy.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Julia Baccy, Julia love it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Thanks for being here at Bloodstock and thanks for being
on the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking
career here in the UK, my entire career with machine.
She recently passed away and it was a very, very
sad day. And I can tell you the reason that
I'm gonna tell this story is because she was family.
(12:38):
She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family.
Most of the bars.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
That you know and love you probably heard of because
of that woman right there. Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium Kills,
which engage, Hey Reed, you name it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
She helped lift everybody up.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Man. She helped lift everybody up, and in so many
ways she helped make this entire music scene.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
This incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Man. She helped make it.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
on w for CUI Radio.
Hi, you learn too, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
For cray you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with
with Backseat Juliet.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm Ben and this is Robin Nice.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's like Batman and Robin. Right.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm actually named after Batman's psychic So yeah, are you
really that's so cool?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My dad is a big fan of the Adam West films,
and like I grew.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Up, so you know, I know the heritage and everything.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So yeah, that's so funny because my like my radio
name is because of my last name. But I model
a lot of things have Batman, but more dark Knight Batman,
you know, like I have pipe Man, I have the
pipe Cave, pipe phone.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Everything sounds ideal for back Seat Juliat. Not gonna lie
the pipe Man just like it's just bos in my
head like this I know.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Right, And then you gave me a CD here and listen,
I'm from the eighties. That is such an eighties CD
with the hot Chick with what's her tattoo on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
There singles cool give me that poison? So it's a
poison bottle as a tattoo. If you look at the
new single online, you'll be able to say.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, let's leave a little mystery. Now. My question is
does the girl that was the model for this really
have that too tattoo? And if she doesn't, I think
she needs to.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I think we're going to get that tattoo if I'm honest.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh that would be bad. How about you get that
tattoo and then up on their live show when you're
doing the song, you just show everybody the tattoo.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Absolutely get out.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I know, right, So, and I take how you're addressing
like you're bringing me back to the eighties here, Like
it's totally cool, and I love that because that's where
it all stars. You wouldn't have a Bloodstock without the
eighties exactly. How's it feel to be a Bloodstock? How
you love this festival?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Ah? Man, it's surreal. We still don't believe we're here now?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Is how did it happen?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We went through Melting the Masses competition Northampton Sheer. Honestly,
we didn't expect to win, but we just kept going
through and through because if you look at us, we're
not your typical bloodstock band.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Right and everybody I always interview as gotten here from
melting masses. They say a similar thing like, we didn't
really expect to get through, and the other band they
were really we think they were better than us, and
then here we are, here.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We are, and no, right, we were definitely heavier band.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So the first band that played in our finals, I
got in a circle pit in the third song and
I literally got thrown into the drummer of the fifth
band that were playing Who's Nose throughout the whole gig.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I was like, oh see, I love that you got.
That is mad and the song was fast. You got
to run in a circle.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's fun, no doubt. And I saw you guys are
gonna be touring Australia. That's fucking or not? No, not you.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Sorry, Oh well we're welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But maybe I'm putting that out in the universe.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah, sounds good because you look.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Like you would definitely play in Australia and you could
do like a gig at the ocean while people are surfing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh yeah, yeah see I love that day to me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I know right, I think we might have to sort
someone out with the drummer because he's got a bit
of a favorite spiders, but we'll keep him in a
box at the back.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You'll be all right, Okay, so you can tell him
about coming to play in Florida where I live, because
when you walk through the park, up in the trees
or spiders called banana spiders. Oh yeah, they're like this big.
They're like, I don't know, like five inches wide. You
guys got gates out there as well, though, Oh yeah,
we got lots of There's times like I'm not originally
(03:54):
from there, so when I first moved there, the gators
freaked me out. Okay, yeah, now I just I walk
right buy them and like, hey, what's up, dude, and
keep going like their chill. Just don't fuck with their babies.
Because I had that happen. I was canoeing through the
Everglades and it was mating season, them meeting, realize, don't
(04:15):
do that during mating season, and there were these nice
cute babies. So we're just saying there, oh, how cute,
taking pictures, and then I hear a slam on the
water and I look back. A fifteen foot mama whacked
her tail on the water and went under. I'm like,
we're out of here. So yeah, there's kind of a
(04:38):
competition whether Florida or Australia has the most poisonous, dangerous
shit in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So there sounds fun regardless.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, so like you gotta play both places.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I've seen what do you get in the Amazon rainforest
as well? But your record, we can get a gig
just like going down to where the little part where
the water is boiling, so it'd be nice and hot.
There you go do a music video there.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, a minute and.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
A half song with Anana Kanda snake coming after you
and then the video ends by the snake eating mule.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
If I'm honest, that don't sound like fun to me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But yeah, that might that might not be so much fun.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We'll do it with Cgio.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, so tell me what that one moment in life
was that you decide this is what you had to do?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
What music?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah? General, I definitely not interviews. And once I fucking doing.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Interview I was three years old.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I had spon Jovi Live in London VHS tape that
shows how long ago it was, And there was a
certain bend he did during the guitar solo in Always
and then you see the crowd going nuts, and I
was like, I want to do that nice that that's
the goal. So at some point Wembley Stadium, nice.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
To go home?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
How about you?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
For me, it was Jimi Hendrix when I was about
eight years old. I was like, Yep, that's me. That's me.
That's my personality for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I love it. That's badass. Now how did you guys
get together?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well? I met the bass player about ten years ago
in a pub, as you do, and we've only formed
this band about two years ago. I knew Robin from
a bape shop.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, he'sed to work in a vape shop near where
we're from, in Karim. And then we had a friend
of ours called Lee who kept saying, oh, you got
to meet Ben, You've got to be in a band
with Ben, and that I was like, the only Bend
that I know.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Of is like one of my customers. Oh yeah, that's him.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And then I think within six months you had messaged
me you'd seen one of my guitar videos and he went,
I really want who my band was like, okay, my
brother's a drummer, so you know he sort of comes
with me. Yeah okay, and then that's cool. Put him
behind the kit and he was like, oh okay, it's
very loud. Okay, we just turn up a bit and
then have have as much fun as you can from there.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's very cool and I love it and my ass
has because you guys look like you have chemistry, like
you've been friends since you're three years old.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, it's like some musicians, when you get the right musician,
you just click in and it's you can't fake that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, no, no, And it's so important for I talk
about it all the time me as the listener. I
want to see that you guys vibe on stage and
you're having fun. Otherwise that's boring to me.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like thing we've seen multiple bands before, like when they're playing,
they just stood in front of the microphone or they
just stood there in front of their pedal board.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
There's a band who's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
The guitarist throughout the whole of the show will have
is just his foot on the monitor throughout the whole thing,
and he's like, Okay, you need to engage a little
bit more. But it's like all the bands that we
watch growing up that's been so incredible. So the likes
of Queen bon Jovi and stuff like that is like
you've got showbuns and you anyone can listen to an album,
but you go to a live show like you want
(07:42):
to be entertained. So we always have a rule of
if we come off stage and we're not sweating, we
didn't do it right.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
No doubt, no doubt. It is funny because one of
my most memorable moments, Where's nineteen eighty three to US
festival heavy Metal Day Van Hell and it's headlining. They
start ain't talking about love, and Eddie is looking over
at Dave because he's not singing, and then Dave just says,
(08:12):
this crowd of three hundred thousand people, I fucking forgot
the words, and the whole place fucking roared like it
was the best thing that ever happened. Except one guy.
One guy heckled him and he's like, I'm gonna fuck
your girlfriend. That's rock and roll. That's rocking him, no doubt.
(08:37):
But see, those are the things to me, that's a
true artist. It's getting up there having fun. Doesn't have
to be right on point, Like if I want to
watch the album, I'll just stay at home and listen
to the album. It's gotta be a show, And like
you said, engaging, it's funny what you said because a
bunch of my media friends and I we talk about
(09:00):
the US festivals. There's this one band that plays that
like bores us to death because they don't move. And
I like the band, but I like listening to their music.
I don't. I have ain't desire to go to their
live show where it should be the other way around.
I have bands that I didn't like till I saw
their live show. I was like, yeah, oh my god,
(09:22):
you know, like or bands that maybe I would never
listened to, Like a couple of years ago, download my
photographer friends. He goes, come on, come with me. I
didn't ask any questions, Okay, get on golf cart. We
go over a stage and brings me a set and
I'm like, oh my fucking god, this is like the
best live show ever there and it was electric. Call boy,
(09:45):
I didna I share with us?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well way playing with them?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I think they're playing with you. Yeah, there you go.
So what would you say would be your most memorable
moment in this whole musical journey? So far? There's been
some memorable moments. See that's a hard question because there's
so many.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I've got a good one and you'll hate it when
he hears it. So my brother is twenty four. He's
our drummer, Harry. He's probably one of the greatest drummers
that I've ever played with. He's stone faced the vast
majority of the time. But when we won Metal to
the Masses and you hear Baxy Juliet, just to see
him filled with emotion, that made me happy and then that, Yeah,
(10:32):
that's when I knew that we were doing something good.
If we can make him like emotional because of music,
then yeah, then I reckon that's probably the one that's.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Where for me and all they're fun.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, that's fine, that's fun too, and you have to
have that chemistry up on stage. Like we were talking
before about just fucking round and stuff, and like I
just saw an interview with Tonyaami he said, yeah, we
would perform and nobody in the crowd would see, and
Arsie would just come over and me and start making
feet at me and like weird faces and shit, and
I'd laugh my ass off. That's the way it should
(11:06):
be like because the rest of us industry, if you're
not having fun, you shouldn't be in this industry if
you're not having fun, because the rest of it sucks.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
If you want every performance to be unique, yeah, something
different music.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Industry, you should just stop at the music and then
as long as you're enjoying the music that you're playing,
it should be fine.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If everyone just sit there. I don't like playing this song,
so don't play that song. Then play a better song,
playing a better song.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, that's why we're happy with all the songs that
we're writing at the moment. So when because we're writing
a new album, we want to make sure that every
one of these songs, Like if if all four of
us go yeah, that's it, then we get it. Whereas
if it's one person likes it and the other one
doesn't and stuff, we'll stick that on the back burner
and try and make that better at another time.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But yeah, at the.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Moment, I think it's going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nice. Tell everybody how they can reach out to you.
Buy your merge, get your music, check your to our dates.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Out everything is on all streaming services. If you want
to buy our stuff physically, you have to get some
touch of us through to face, Paide or Instagram one
of our socials.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And we'll waxy.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Julia Baccy, Julia love it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Thanks for being here at Bloodstock and thanks for being
on the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking
career here in the UK, my entire career with machine.
She recently passed away and it was a very, very
sad day. And I can tell you the reason that
I'm gonna tell this story is because she was family.
(12:38):
She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family.
Most of the bars.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
That you know and love you probably heard of because
of that woman right there. Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium Kills,
which engage, Hey Reed, you name it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
She helped lift everybody up.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Man. She helped lift everybody up, and in so many
ways she helped make this entire music scene.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
This incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Man. She helped make it.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
on w for CUI Radio.
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