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PipemanRadio Interviews Ghosts of Atlantis at Bloodstock Open Air 2025. 

The Pipeman Radio tour landed at The UK’s biggest independent metal festival featuring not only some of the biggest bands in Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, but also some of the best emerging metal music out of the UK and Europe competing in Metal 2 The Masses for a spot to play on New Blood Stage.  The festival also features The Sophie Lancaster Stage dedicated to the memory of Sophie being brutally beaten and murdered just for being Goth and different.  Sophie’s story particularly resonating with anyone who has been bullied, abused, or attacked for simply being who they are.  The mission of The Sophie Lancaster Foundation is to stamp out prejudice, hatred and intolerance everywhere.  This festival is more than just great music, fun, awareness, and togetherness.  It's a family driven DIY Festival that cares where there ar eno outsiders. We join together for a common cause.

Next year is the 25th Anniversary.  Get your tickets now at https://www.bloodstock.uk.com/  #BOA26 6th - 9th August 2026, Catton Park, Derbyshire

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey you Lanti, Yes, that's true. For see wow cue you.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the Pateman here Andia BRIT's Patemn W four
cy Radio and I'm here.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
With Phil from Ghost of Atlantis.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Nice here a Bloodstock.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
Yeah, man, there's been an absolutely incredible weekend. We're here
bright in early ten forty five this morning on the
main stage. Yeah, it's been fantastic.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
So what brought you here to Bloodstock?

Speaker 5 (00:36):
Well, many many meetings years ago we went through in
a previous band, Free Metal to the Masses that had disbanded,
but like.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Three of us stuck together.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Another guy who'd been through Metal and Nassas joined in
and in twenty twenty one we had our very first show.
We're on Sophie Stage. So it's kind of always been
in our blood. We've built it up and gone through
and done the tours, we've done the followings.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
And yeah, and here you are. Yeah, today we're here.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
How is it absolutely incredible? Like the fans have been
amazing by the feedback, brilliant, Like I wasn't expecting a
queue all the way to the main stage from the
signing tent and it was just like yeah, and they
were like going, you got to keep it going, keep
it going, keep it going, cause I was like, how
many more people is there?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I was expecting like five? So yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Brilliantly, especially early.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, because listen, Saturday night partying at the festival, partying
in the campground. For them to get up early on
a Sunday and be there, that says a lot about
your band.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, an awful lot about the band, but also a
lot about the fans here at Bloodstock. They're just hungry
for music and they want music constantly. And that's what
I love about this festival. I always discover new bands
or bands I've sinned around but never been able to
see or check out. I see him this weekend and
it's been absolutely incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It is a beautiful thing about Bloodstock because what sucks
more of a community than festival in my opinion, we're
all one big family and everybody's supporting everybody.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, exactly that. And like, for instance, I see like
you got the Arms who Oblivion shirt on right now
and like their local guys to us that they were
here last year, and that's how it should be. Like
you sit there and like you support these bands that
are coming through, like part of like metal to the
masses is kind of like the heart I think of
that where you see the local areas and all those

(02:30):
independent scenes around the country. You'll get together and celebrate
that here and it's just built and built and built
year after year.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah. And the other thing too, since you mentioned the shirt.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is the cause of Sophie Lancaster. I mean, like this shirt,
that's why it is. They made it towards that, and
it's such an important message because we've all had to
deal with.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
What Sophie had to deal with the differences. We're still here.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, and the whole Famia was that stamp out priguded
hatred and intolerance everywhere. I mean that just everywhere. Yeah,
where we are in the world where we do like
I accept everyone around the world, like and there's no
hatred or whatever ex or anyone. Like there's good people
in this world wherever they are in the world.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
They're right here of bloodstuff.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, yeah, the best people to hear of blood.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
So how would you describe your music to the listeners
who have never heard you? Not from a genre standpoint
or label, because I think that boxes are us in.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
What do you think of when you think of your music.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
So there's the symphonic elements obviously, so that's amazing and
it gives a real cinematic approach to what we do.
There's a lot of influence from like Inflames, and SOI
work kind of that Swedish kind of sound into it.
There was a little bit more of a black metal
influence on the first album and second album. It's moving
a little bit calmo as we've gone through Onto, we're

(03:58):
moving into the third album. The new single Milking Style
that came out is a lot more of that inflamesy
vibe and the more aggressive.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Because I'm always a big believer in artists evolving. As
you become better at your craft and doing it that
you tend to evolve, experiment, do different things.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
What was it that made you feel that it.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Was time to start evolving and kind of not sticking
to the same thing.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
You've got two sorts of artists as well.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
We've got artists that will sit there and do the
same thing over and over again and that fans love it.
And you've got artists will sit there and change your
sound through the time, and they evolve and they go
through it and every album's slightly different and it moves
in a different way, and that's fantastic as well, because
there's something there for everyone and what everyone wants to
see that. So yeah, and for us, it was a
lot kind of just a natural thing.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Really.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
I see.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
That's cool because as an artist, it is a natural
thing that you would do.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
The more you get better at.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Your craft, the more you want you want to explore
what you can do.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah, exactly that, and like we've not really planned for
that to happen. It's like I want to say, it's natural.
I no, it's a cliche, but yeah, we've not really
planned that. That's the route we were going in. We've
just written songs and that's how we've turned out.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's the vibe, it's what you're feeling at the time.
And to me, that's a true artist.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, exactly that, one hundred percent. And we get to
sit there write music, have fun. And like we've kept
this line up since like the first album. Everyone seems
happy and in a good place. We're all friends with
be friends for more than a decade before we even
started this project.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I love that because that's important right there. If you
can't if you're not friends, it could be really horrible
to be in this industry.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
I mean we've done seven weeks tour last or not
last year year before were now we're fear Factory and
we were in a camp of van.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
We went on a tour.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Bus, seven or five guys the seven weeks in one van,
but we did it.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
They're friends or you kill each other.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, yeah, we all stay friends out of that. So
that's a massive thing.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Really Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
I think if you can do that, then you can
stand the test of time as a band.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
I think that's what happens a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
You come up with this idea of a band and
everything's cool until you guys spend that much time together
and that closely. Time fines and there's egos involved or
things that happen, and nothing's better than band that says,
like you did, you're all just friends and you have
that chemistry connection because it's a family.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
A band is a family exactly.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
And yeah, there are times when each one of us
have got our own individual challenges, like or we could
be up and down in different ways and have different
mental states, but we can sit there and support each other.
And that's the thing to always remember. We have friends first,
and we support each other.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
What a great way to put it, because that's what
makes it great for us the listener, because we can
tell when you're up on stage whether you support each
other and.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Their friends or not.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
And it doesn't need to be as extreme as Perry if.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know anything, Yeah, it could just be.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
You know, I noticed I look at bands upstage on
stage and I'm just like, they don't look like they
want to beat together.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
I mean, I don't really tend to have a lot
of interaction with the guys whilst I'm on stage, but
that's because I'm as a front man. I'm looking at
the audience, right, But a bit in I'll wink to
Colin and he'll just laugh. But it's very, very minimal.
But we know each other where we are, and we
know the bits that we can sit there and we
can make each other smile without having to sit there

(07:45):
and look really cringey to everyone else.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I just saw an interview with Tony Iaomi and he
was talking about how the audience would never see it,
but Ozzie used to just go up to him, back backs,
turn and make faces at him.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, you can imagine that to be honest, you know,
and Ozzie was actually an incredible character, wasn't he So right,
that's how you would imagine him to be.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
And you know what, that's pretty cool because on stage
it can be stressful there, it could be a lot
of things. So it's something as simple as that light
and to load and makes it a lot more fun
for you guys.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, exactly that, And that's the thing is keeping it fun,
enjoying what you're doing, and then.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
It's fun for us. How do people reach out to
you on socials.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
The webs, and more importantly, how they buy your merch
because they can't listen to my show unless they buy merch.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, so if you head over to our website, goes
to Atlantisofficial dot com. We've got our own web store
through there, so that's the best way to get our merch.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Nice, is there anything you want to tell the listeners
they have coming up that we haven't covered already.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Yeah, we're out on tour in October and November into
Germany and into Switzerland as well. Nice doing two weeks
out with Examorphy.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Guys. They've been friends with Colin for a long time, so.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yeah, we're looking forward to that we've got a few
festival bits that on announced yet for next year that
we're booking in. Sorry, we're keeping ourselves busy, keeping the
ball rolling and just moving forward at all times.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well keep moving forward because you are badass, and it's
great that you're here at Bloodstock and thanks for being
on the Adventures of Pete Man.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Thank you, Dean Chiz.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
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 going to tell this story is because she was family.

(09:45):
She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Most of the.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Bass that you know and love you probably heard of
because of that woman right there, if not Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium,
kill Switch, Engage, Hey, Reed, you name it. She helped
lift everybody up, man, She helped lift everybody up, and

(10:13):
in so many ways she helped make this entire music scene,
this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Man, she helped make it.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr,
thank you

Speaker 1 (10:34):
For listening to the adventures of plate Man on W
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