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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you have done too, Yes, that's true for why
pray you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But it's the pipe Man here on the Adventures of
pipe Man W four c Y Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And I'm here with.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Pie from Lord of the Loss. It's funny Pie and
pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, I'm glad we got matched up. It was like
one of you two. Yeah, you were the perfect match.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah. Nice to be here, Thank you, Nice to meet.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You, and fucking welcome the Bloodstock.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah. First time, I said, was such a good time?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Then really yeah time?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, tell us about your first time experience at this
amazing festival.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
To a certain degree, it was like revisiting something because
whenever we go to the UK, the people are so
super nice and always, whether it be our shows of
festivals or whatever, it's such a huge mixture of people.
This is a full on metal festival, but you get
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people from all walks of life. And I love seeing
different people in a crowd. It's not just one mass.
It's you see people peeking out there and it's I
love that, and yeah I agree.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Like I'm from the States and I think it's cool
to come over here to a true metal festival. Yeah,
but see all different types of people here. Yeah, like
we're all united, we're all one big family, and it's
just the nicest people too.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's it really, there's a very little negative energy, even
though the lineup is so different. I mean, before US
plays Foyer Schwans and then like Dalia Murder and then
Us and then Macedon and then Gujira. It's a weird mixture,
but everyone is just like, yeah, let's go. It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's why I found and like so a lot of
festivals in the States at the early hours, everybody's like
sleeping or not showing up yet.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And Bare that played at ten thirty in the.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Morning, it was already full crowd. People love the music.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That's what it's all about, right, Yeah, absolutely, and it's
I love that DIY and I think that's what creates I.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Just heard that, like two or three interviews ago. Someone
told me that it's more or less a family business. Yeah,
it's run by a family, and I was like, holy
shit putting that together obviously with a lot of crew
and help us, but still keeping it family that it's
you feel it, you see it, and it's so welcoming
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as opposed to just being another huge company behind a festival,
which I don't want to knock because we love playing
huge festivals and I don't know twice or three times
the size, but that doesn't make this any less important.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it's just huge for being family Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's a huge rest.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, family run festivals are usually very small, and yes
you have something like hell Fest it's way huge, sure,
but for being family run, this is huge.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And also not just for being family run, this is
a huge festival. And yeah, everybody knows Bloodstock. I mean
I know Bloodsuck since years and years. So since I
started playing music.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well there you go, yeah, and speaker, I started playing music.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Why is that one moment in life way back that
you knew music is what you wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I knew that guitar is what I wanted to do.
I saw the November Rane music video and saw Slash
playing the guitar the solo in the desert, and that
kind of was the intro of like electric guitar. I
was in a youth group where we had like a
theater and a band workshop and everything, and I always
loved that. I wasn't able to play, but I liked
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seeing people play in a band. Yeah, and that helped
obviously with like wanting to do it. But I was
just like then seeing the November Rane video and say
I want to play guitar too. It was never about
I want to do that as a career. That was
too much of a youthe for me, right actually, But
I was lucky to meet a lot of people that
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were had the same ideas and just I met on
the way I was. It was just coincidence. I worked
a lot, and we as a band worked a lot.
But before that, I played in shitty bands that I loved.
I loved playing in these bands, but we didn't do anything.
It was just about the fun. And it's still about
the fun. There is the business side to it, which
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is very very serious and we have to take seriously.
But I think and I'm really happy about that, we
never neglected the fun side of it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You care because listen, yes you have to do the
business side, but without the fun, it's not a fun business.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh No, it's a very tough business.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I always like to talk about like people don't realize
how hard you as a musician works. Yeah, because they
look at you and they're like, oh look it. They're
living the dream life, traveling everywhere, gaining on stage, blah blah.
That's only the part that they see, that's the very
minimal part.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's the reward. That's the way I put it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's true, and there's the problematics which I find problematic,
and problematics saying which is like, do what you love
and you never work a day in your life. I
think that's complete bullshit. Ask a person that does what
they love when they have to get up at two
am to go to the airport and then travel on
three connecting flights to somewhere and then don't get their luggage.
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That does feel like work. And that is all part
of the process, and all the contracts here and there
and issues, and I don't know competition in the music industry,
which is it's tough to make art competition, but then
again everybody does it and it's part of it, but
it is work and there's a lot of work behind it.
You know the meme on social media from the iceberg.
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You see the tip of the iceberg and there's written
on it what people think the music industry is, and
then below the surface of the water what the music
industry actually is.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Right, Yeah, And I'm also my avacual speaker so I
agree a million percent that stupid line makes no sense
because every person that does what they love works way
harder than the people that don't do what they love.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, and it's pretty tough to find a balance, and
I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh,
I can't find a balance. I can, but it maybe
takes a bit more experience to find that. When you
have a day job, which is very very honorable, and
I also had a day job, you go home and
you can leave these things to the side. I know
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that from experience. When you're in a band at eleven pm,
your WhatsApp group goes off and you have to do
something for social media or upload something or whatever, that's
a different thing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, you were hitting home for me
for today, specifically when you were saying about the traveling
is and that because I have to be at London
Airport at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, you go and off
to another one over in the US.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And it's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
My youngest daughter, she'll call me up before every festival
and she'll be like, so are you excited about this festival?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm like, well, I love doing it. It's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't know if excited it's the word when you
do it every weekend, was what I say to her.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But yeah, Parv, it's excited. Parva is like, got both
of it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'll leave here after tonight and I'll be working on
the computer for hours. Yeah, because you got the timing
thing and people don't see that part because I get
it too. People come at my social media, Oh, man,
I wish I had your life.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You're living a.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Dream life, traveling everywhere, going to these festivals.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, and it's true.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's that part's true, but it's what goes along or
what you did to get those things.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, like you were just given that.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We were just talking about early about our first proper
UK headline tour, and so I think it was Manchester
Ruby Lounge, where the stage is like it's just carpet,
it's just it's not it's weird fabric on stage. And
we have played all these very small rooms for years
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and years to be able to play a download like
last year, or play Bloodstock this year and do our
UK run in November in like Electric Ballroom and whatnot.
So we've done a lot of work to be here
and we will continue to do a lot of work
to be somewhere else at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And I always say people look at bands and they're like, oh,
they became an overnight success, and I'm like, it takes
twenty years to be coming over Long Night.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I mean, Kajira are playing tonight, and for me, they're
the perfect example for that because they've been twenty years
into it. When their album in twenty sixteen, Magma came
out and was like their break through things for everywhere,
Like LaFond Savage was something, but Macma was the thing,
and that was twenty years down the line. So Long Night.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And I come from the eighties metal scene where like
I went to Slayers first gig ever Metallica, wowwever. But
people think about Metallica. Shit, Metallica slept on the floor
with ten other people from other bands or more three
other bands for like ten years eating bologney sandwiches with
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no bread before even became a little bit relevant.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And people don't think about that yet and we know
that part right, yeah, And so.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They deserve everything they have now. Sure absolutely worked they're
asked for.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Let last Ulric fuck up all his trump filths. He
deserved it. He deserved it, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh I love that? Oh man? So now what else
this is going on after Bloodstock for you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So we have a month off obviously, the first single
of Volume two of our new album will come out.
We're going on tour in Germany in October with Foyashwans
who already who also played today. Then in November we
come to the UK and Ireland. In December, we have
our own festival in Hamburg. You have your own Yeah,
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it's called lord Fest and it's the fourth time already.
Nice Yeah, January February, US and Canada.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We're also the US since that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You don't even remember, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't blame.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Where are you in.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The lands South Florida? But I do all the US festivals.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, we're not doing Florida, I.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Know that nobody does.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Okay, good. Yeah, that's week after Australia. Then it's a
lot of time, so we might fit a European tour
in there, who knows for the next festival season, and
then we're doing a live break after that for a
year or so. So if you want to come Sealus
Life Act now Act on it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Do it now?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I want to check out your festival. I don't
even know about it, and I do like a bunch
of European UK that's fucking cool. I like when bands
do their own festival because I think it's kind of
like Bloodstock words for the fans, opposed to like in
America for the corporation.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Circle back to the topic. It's a lot of work, yeah,
because we are also to a certain degree the money
behind it, right as a band. That's exciting in a
lot of ways. Yeah, it's a lot of work, but
it's a lot of fun as well, because you to
a certain degree get to do whatever the fuck you
want to do and invite the bands you want to
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and that you can afford. Obviously do it for the fans,
and do it for the fans. Yeah. Every year there's
a hometown show that.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Is so cool and you guys are like, badass.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm so glad you were here at Bloodstock.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I hope you come here again, and I hope you
do some US festivals too.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Not this year, not next year, but after that year off.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, if our visa comes through and allows it, we
can be in the USA for the next three to
five years so.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, and let's hope that resident Rump is removed, so
you could.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You said that I can't say anything about that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Right just so you could come over there. I'm worried
about it if I'll get back into my own country. But anyway,
it's been a pleasure. And thanks for being on the
Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Thank you man, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking
career here in the UK, my entire career with Machina.
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 because she was family. She
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was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Most of the bars that you.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Know and love you probably heard of because of that
woman right there. Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium, Killswitch, Engage,
Hey Reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up, man,
She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways,
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she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful
community that lives here at Bloodstock.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Man. She helped make it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So ladies and.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
on w for CUI Radio.