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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey you unto Yes, that's true, cray you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Rich and Kevin from Lowdown, Lowdown.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
All right, nice here at Bloodstock. There you go, get
it up as close as you get. And I like
how you match with your cool vess of your.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Band right there uniform. Yeah, there you go. I love
it so Bloodstock.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
How badass is that that you're playing here at Bloodstock?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We played just the actually eleven fifteen and we absolutely
packed the stage out was great. We played the new
Blood stage. Yeah, we didn't win any Metal Masses were
invited to play by Simon, which is great.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
See I love that story.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So you didn't win, but you were so good that
they invited a player.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We were right to us.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
It was like the ultimate acceptance, the ultimate recognition that
what we're doing is worthy of being here, and that
is just it blows our mind to think right that, Yeah,
we didn't win, but for people to actually got these guys,
we need to take note of an invite us here.
It was just phenomenal. So thank you to to Simon,
to Vicki, to everyone from the Bloodstock setup. Right, I'm
(01:24):
have missed load of names up, but thank you to everyone.
Thank you, it's been great.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We did play the Male Masters and we got into
the final twice. We seemed to hit the right the
right chord with the moments and they thought, right, okay, yeah,
we could do this nice and we had a great turnout.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And does that blow your mind to like Friday one
fifteen and you had that kind of crowd that it's huge.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, I mean you could move in the team. It
was spilling out on both sides of the town.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
It was spilling out, and it's amazing, just amazing to
look out and see what was lovely was it was
a mixture of we could see guys wearing a T shirts.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well you think that's.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That T shirt?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
So a again, it's a T shirt for our album.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
But to seek outs wearing our T shirts you've obviously
seen us before.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I want to come back. That is an.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Absolute real That is just wonderful. There's a load of
new friends too, and it's all about new friends. It's like, yeah,
who maybe haven't seen this before.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It will come back.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
And they were all in their heads and they all
got involved and they got involved in the wall and
they got involved in the pit and thank you to
everyone who came to see us.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's the amazing thing about playing a festival, absolutely is
that some of my favorite bands I would have never
known about them.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Unless I was at a festival.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
But you get exposed to it and you see it.
It's funny as he just passed. But I remember in
nineteen ninety nine I was at oz Fest and on
the third stage, which was a little teeny stage, I
discovered that year slipknot mud Vein And in this moment, yeah,
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and look at yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Bands I've seen today actually blowing my mind. Actually pale
face yesterday phenomenal. Yeah yeah, and then just says Harriet's
young ladies singing hell amazing, amazing stuff when.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I was actually just chatting to them outside. Great group
of guys, the spirit. They were really body good earlier
they were so good.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
See I love that too about Bloodstock.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
In general. I do a lot of festivals. This is
the festival most of all that every interview, bands are
promoting the other bands, talking about them about how great
they are, even melted the masses. Every band I interview
didn't look at the other bands as competition.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Great buddies.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
We're just seen pumpt Into Dead Flesh. You won the
heat last year. We're in final with him as well,
and then Scenting with the band before that they played
a couple of years ago. They all thought we were
good enough to get up to Bloodstock.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The big keeps trying to get involved, to be the
be the bee was at your show and wants to
tell everybody how great you were.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I mean, I love the other band.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
The other band we've really bonded with, a band called Headcount,
who won this year's Metal to the Muscles Hitchen and
they're playing the new Blood Station tomorrow evening. They're gonna
be great, great, But she goes, they're all early early
twenty guys.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
They're all really young guys. What a band. They are
really bloody good good friends of ours.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, it's such a family here it is.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
And like I said, this old friends who we've seen before.
There's new friends who we've made this weekend. And the
other bands are the same. We've made friends with new bands.
It's all about who we're going to.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Listen to you next.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Actually, by the main stage last couple of days, have
good bodies with famine and then obviously Nick from h
Point with Great Bodies with him as well. So yeah,
it's been one big, happy family and it's called we
could not ask from all.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
It's a great community as well. So this is what
it's all about.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I love it beers as well.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, all how that rif?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah there you go.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Look look yours says you came metal corrupting your kids.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Absolutely, you know. I'm here with my kids.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Actually, my younger two are fifteen and thirteen, and yesterday,
in spite of playing yesterday morning, which was the biggest
buzz ever for me, watching my two kids go down,
I want to crouch, surf, lift me up, and they
went off during Pearl Face Swiss.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Thank you pearl Face Swiss. It was amazing. They're off.
They went, both of them, and then they came run back,
don't do it again, and off they went again. That
was for me. I'm like, yeah, I've done some writes
with that kids.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
My kids are great bloodstock.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
See that's the beauty of metal today. Yeah, because like
in the eighties, we wouldn't even go see a band
our age, much less your parents wouldn't be going to a.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Show with you like they were.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
My parents were busy listening to like Frank Sinatra and
they're like, what is that shit? You're listening to?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Noise boy? Right?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, Barry Madolow, Yeah yeah, it was like wow, ever
okay but.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You And meanwhile, I've taken my son into his first
bash bit and a couple of my grandsons.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, we got to keep it in the family and
that's why.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We can have this fight forward.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Definitely.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And what they find out it's it's not noise, it's
not mean angry people. It's a family of no outsiders.
Everybody loves each other and we're just one big family.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
So you Yeah, my eldest son, he's twenty four, Oh,
he's He looked around. He said, this is probably the
scariest place in the UK right now if you look
at it, but it's also probably the safest. It's also
the safest place.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
In the UK.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
He looks after everyone.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, that's it, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's been a phenomenal, phenomenal experience.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So yeah, I'm really cool.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What was that moment for both of you in life
where you knew this is what you wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh, I've been kid being in bands before, I've always
been working, been working towards that point. They're having fun
getting there as well. And obviously if we joined with
Dave and Android Lowdown a couple of years ago and
we just hit the right chord with the metal community.
We you know, two Metal Message, Massive Finals, playing Bloodstock
this year, an album released and we've got signs were
label last year as well, so that was kind of cool.
(07:27):
So it's kind of all uphill, no all down downhill.
It's all good from.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Here on in.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So there it is.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So now what are you doing next for the rest
of the year that people need to know about so
they can check out different things.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
The plans are We've sort of been talking to going
outside the UK to Europe and touring either later this
year early next year. We've got a few more gigs
this year. We've got a Club eighty five, which is
the place that actually hosts the Hitching Melton the Masses.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
It's at home. It's almost like our home venue. It's
kind of like our home stadium where we played great venue.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
We actually had our alum launch a couple say and
we donated all the money that we made on the
door to the club to save it because it's going
through a bit of a change of directors and direction
of its life. So we donated all the money that
we actually made in the door for that. So we're
playing there on the sixth September, and then we're headlining
a local festival called full Stock, which is thirteen venues,
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thirteen stages, and it's basically a whole town over that
weekend shuts down for live music. I love the headline
the metal stage on the Saturday night, so we could
not be any proud. Everytown coming.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Every pub in the town has a stage obviously cater
for different different music types. We're very much in the
metal stage, so we've been invited back a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's a great venue. They do loads for the local
music community, not just the whole music community. Everyone. Do
you like music, full accommodate you, whether it's I mean
a few years ago we played that, didn't we We followed
the Spanish.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Murri Marry Archie band.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Ye honestly, eighteen piece of Mourry Archie band. They had
so many tom times and little flutes and stuff.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It was amazing, and we followed them a metal band.
We followed them and it was that is amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So yeah, it's been a journey. It's been a great journey,
great journey.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Is there anything else we haven't covered that you want
them to know about you guys and anything.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Just going by the album if you can, supports by
the album. So with signs were label. If it does well,
we'll do another album with them, hopefully this sign next year.
So we've got new stuff in the works. We played
one of our new tracks app Bloodstock and it went
down really well.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well it's been a mosh pit going on.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Then that's always good. That means your music's good.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The crowd. We can't do this without the crowd.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
So when when we're working, the crowd and the crowd
participate and they sing, and yesterday I singer Dave was
trying to move the crowded part to get a wall going,
and they did it, and then the breakdown and they
all went for it.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
It was just phenomenal and you're there going yes right beautiful.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So thank you to everyone again. Thank you for everyone
who participated in the wall, thank you for everyone who
participating in the mosh pit, and thank you for not
killing my kids who were in there.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
With you right, thanks to the staff and the Prescott's.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Brilliant well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We can't do this as well, so you're getting us
out there. It's more people and we can't thank you enough.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So thank you well, thank you, and thank you for
being here at Bloodstock and giving us like great music,
great therapy. And tell everybody how they can reach out
to you guys on the web, socials and they can't
listen to my show anymore. And let's say, buy your
new album exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
We've got a website. Going to the website which is
lowdown dot rocks r O c k S. And then
you can find somewhere We've got a link tree there.
There's links to Spotify there everything links, the links to
our gigs and.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
YouTube Spotify stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I think you're not on its TikTok and the Bettlechan
said we yet all the socials just look at Blowdown.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
With I love your guys passion because that's what it's
all about. And thanks for being on the Adventures of
Pete Man.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Thank you very much, Thank you so much. Jeus so Riff, well,
hello Riff, that's it all the motto.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Nice Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
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.
(11:15):
She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family.
Most of the bass that you know and love you
probably heard of because of that woman right there. Slive Knots, Slayer, Machinehead,
Trivium Kills which engage, Hey breed, you name it. She
(11:39):
helped lift everybody up. Man. 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.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Man, she helped make it.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kurt.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
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