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PipemanRadio Interviews Breed 77 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):
Hi, you have lunt.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's true. W for see why crazy young.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four cy Radio. And I'm here with.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm Paul and I'm sure we're breached seven seven at Bloodstock.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh my god, tell us how you got the Bloodstock?
What was the road to Bloodstock?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
A really fortuitous one because we've been away for a while.
He played Bloodstock some thirteen years ago for the second time.
We played the first Bloodstock open air way back when,
and they've been kind enough to invite us back. It
was a complete surprise. We have got an amazing slough
at eight o'clock on the Sophie Lancas. The stage nice

(00:55):
and the road to Bloodstock is furnished with bones and
blood and the rose petals. But it's great to be here, great,
great to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Been over history.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, well, didn't we do the first open air?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I just said that.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I wasn't tearing there.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
The music's too loud.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, you know what these ages?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know? And I understand this is like your biggest
gig on your comeback yet, right, true, true, So it
is a testament when a festival like this invites you
back and especially after that amount of time, like that's
a big gap and as you said, it was kind

(01:41):
of a shocker. So what happened? Did you just get
a call or an email one day and they just
not real.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
We got the offer, like shortly after we did our
first comeback tour. You suddenly back in the pond. You're
able to talk to a lot of people. We've been
around for a long time, so we know people and
people know us. We've grown together with this festival, with
loads of other festivals, loads of entities in the rock
and metal scene in the UK, and we don't take

(02:11):
this for granted for one second. We are so appreciative
of every chance that we have to put our music
out there and to be able to share in this experience.
We consider ourselves, you know, so so lucky. Well, well
fuck that lucky, you know man, it's like it's thirty
years of work got us here, you know, but we
are so appreciative to be able to be around this
far in the game.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, we're appreciated that have you here at Bloodstock, because
you guys are badass.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you the fact, what was it.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
That made you wanna make this comeback at this point
in time.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I think it was time. You know, it was like
we had the atus, but we had to do it. Yeah,
we need to show everybody, and you know, like, well, yeah,
you know, we had to stay.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, it's what it is. I thought we rock.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I think the final kick in the ass was COVID.
Oh really, I think we'd put the band on park
for so long and Covid like made you appreciate everything
much more. And you're thinking, if you've had the chance
once to do something you love and you have the
slightest minute chance whatever of doing it again, you gotta

(03:16):
grab that with both hands, you know, and run. And
that's what we did and bring us a lot of
joy to do it. And in a world so bereft
of joy and good things, the more good things you
can do better.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, we need you, guys, because music is the ultimate
therapy and the ultimate escape from the fucking nutcase shit
going on in this world? Place? Now, is it?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
No? And I live in the States, So I'm sorry, Well,
was sorry for you.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I know. Sorry.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I keep escape at the Costa Rica like for months
at times. I be alone way now be there. And
I love the shirt, okay, the Zeppelin shirt and well
I love most of all is you could go to
Zeppelin in nineteen seventy six for a donation of three

(04:05):
dollars and fifty cents?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Is that amazing?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Like you, I can't even buy a water out there
right now for three hours of fifty cents.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'd to tell you something like pretty topical, like around
the time of resting Powosi back to the beginning concert,
like a fan of ours sent us a ticket stop
from when we played with Sabbath in nineteen ninety nine. Wow,
And it was like two thousand people Black Sabbath, the
first reunion of the original lineup in a small venue,

(04:35):
and I think the ticket price was like nine pounds
fifty and it's like whoa, But I think it's a
it's a dambing indictment because we need to have ticket
prices need to be down, because like live music needs
to be accessible to the kids, to the people tomorrow,
who's going to be around in thirty years. We're not
going to be around in thirty years going to concerts,
but the kids will, and we need to do everything
we can to make it much more accessible, you know,

(04:57):
like corporations have taken over, like in my country, yeah,
like every every every festivals is Coca Cola this, Percy
that or whatever you know, and the branded festivals. And
I think this is where Bloodstock stands head and shoulders
above everybody else in the way, in the style and
in the class that they do a metal festival.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
And still being diy so much like come on. That
means the people running as festival truly care.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, you can notice it. You tell when you go around,
you look at people's faces, you look you, you talk
to anybody and the shared experience and Bloodstock is like
not the festival.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
No doubt about it. What do you find the change
of when you played back then to playing now?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
For me personally, I think when we did the first
shows that obviously the fans that came out to see us,
which are kind of friends. Do we have people bringing
their newbornes with them, Hey I met my wife or
one of your shows. That personal thing the main thing
for us, you know, just to see how fin base
on whether we're at and what's happened in those times

(06:05):
years with life. That's another thing that we at least
we felt personally. For me, I think everybody would agree
in the band what was that that fact?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
I love that, And I was talking about just before
in the eighties, when I was going to gigs, I
didn't see people my age, and he didn't go to
a band that was my age. Like the fact that
you go see Metallica like I was at their first
show ever. Yeah, And there's no way when I was
at age, I would go see a band of sixty

(06:34):
year olds.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, three four generations now right, the same show.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Meanwhile, now I brought my son into his first marsh bit.
I brought to of my grandsons into their first marsh pit,
and that would never appen. My dad would have never
brought me to a marsh pit or a show like
And then pricing, talk about pricing. We were talking about that.
How do kids today afford to go to these shows?

(06:59):
I couldn't afford it when I was paying two dollars
for a ticket to see Metallic or Slayer and a
T shirt for five. Are these kids scraping it together
hundreds of dollars? It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
It becomes restrictive.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, we the youth need to be exposed to music.
Music is the best therapy. I have this viewpoint. By
the way, if we took the whole world and forced
them to go to one big music festival, specifically our
type of music, we could solve all the world problems

(07:35):
and everybody wouldn't be polarized and we'd all be united
for a change.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
And it is, Yeah, it is a unifier. I think,
like it's a no brainer. It's a communion of people
like that realize that, like they've never been around so
many people that have, don't judge them, are so open,
so accepting. It's like once you get it, like a
nation of misfits. Everyone who's been chucked out of everywhere.
Now with them are you And it's a beautiful ton

(08:02):
of the tables.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
And thank god nowadays we are a family opposed to
against each other. Like in my day, I was a
long hair I couldn't go to punk shows. Punks couldn't
go to my shows. And it was stupid reading your
T shirt. And that's for Sophie Lancaster too, you know.
And how about this my original battle vest Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wow,

(08:29):
look at.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
That right, that's that's a life well lived exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Not only that, but if I was a kid at
that time, I couldn't afford some few hundred dollars pre
made battle vest I made my fucking owns.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, and that I think that's the thing now,
isn't it right.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
We gotta bring stuff like that back, lower prices, get
the youth involved, and I think that'll be better for
the world in society. So tell people how they can
reach out to you now or splitzers that probably never
add a chance to its be exposed to you. Don't

(09:13):
check out your music tour dates, merge everything first protocol.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
You can find us at Facebook dot com forwards, Fastbree
seven seven, There'll be links to everything else. We're not
that well versed in all this social stuff. Well guys
from way back handing out posters and flyers after gigs,
but everything's on there. We've got a new album coming out,
it's called seven, and we'll go anywhere and we'll do
anything to be able to further this message and get

(09:38):
this comeback to stick.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Nice. Can I write you a letter to get one
of your tapes for the new album?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I miss it, Yeah, I miss those days, the tape
trading mate.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I think not when there was a
physicality to it. You take more ownership of an object
like that then you're just streaming another thing onto your phone,
well have you. But we live in a brave new
world and you adapt to die, and we're trying our best,
you know, to keep up with the times. But the
endgame is to get physical people to come to the
physical realm at places like Bloodstock and be able to

(10:12):
see us life.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Absolutely because whoever wasn't here and missed your show, they
missed a lot. So they need to go check you
guys out, and find now where else you're playing and
support bands like you that are keeping this great family alive.
And thanks for being here, and thanks for being on
the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Thank you pipe Man.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking
career here in the UK, my entire career with Machinat.
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

(10:58):
was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family. Most
of the bars that you know and love you probably
heard of because of that woman right there. Slive Knots, Slayer, Machinehead,
Trivium Kills, which engage hey reed, you name it. She

(11:22):
helped lift everybody up.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Man.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways,
she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful
community that lives here at bloodstock Man. She helped make
it so. Ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from
Michelle Kerr.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man
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