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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, you have done too, Yes, that's true for wow,
crazy you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventurers Pipe
Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
With George Nice Adam all right here at Bloodstock.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh yeah, oh man.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
You guys have come here a lot of times, right.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, fair few as fun as.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah, everybody must like it here too, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well you all love it.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
So how does it feel to be here this year playing?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And since you've been here so many times, tell us
how you like Bloodstock compared to other festivals.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Ah, man, it's pretty surreal to be here first start. Yeah, here,
I can tell you. I think I'm vouch for all
the boys. Is the best for all of us. I
was a whacken literary last week or fucking.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah it was pretty bunny, dude. Yeah, yeah, I fucking
talk you.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah. I consider myself lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Something in my head said, don't apply for voking this year,
and then I saw the videos.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I'm like, thank god, yeah man, you.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Good shout there right right yeah one, Bloodstock's the best festival.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I do festivals all over the US, UK, Europe, and
I love Bloodstock is to me, it's the true metal
festival and like such a community. Plus I don't have
to walk eighty miles in a weekend to go around
the festival.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah that helps. Everything's so close together, so like just convenient.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, I bet to have festivals, especially download like
direct comparisons, legs don't feel quite as bad.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah great, Yeah, you don't have to walk up and
down that hill.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How about like, so, how have you guys played here
before or only just since pun No.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It's always just been fun of us. Yeah, this is
the first time here and we got through the Melt
to the Masses competition. Yeah, we got to the final
three times.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's the third time. Third time was a charm.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, so tell us more about your experience of Metal
to Masses because all the bands have done that. I
just love hearing about that whole competition. It's such a
cool thing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, it's such a tight competition. It feels weird in
a way because really Melt was not about that. The
music is not about that, right, but yeah, when you're competing, Yeah,
it was great. Yeah, you get all the local scene
come out, get to see a load of friends and yeah,
it's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The venues we venue.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We played at Hod of Colchester, Real in them a
venue as well.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So it was wicked. It was wicked.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, the pressure was on, but yeah we had a
good song.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But to your point with the metal heads aren't competitors.
What I've found with a lot of bands, it's like
they all cheer on the other bands though you have
something that's thank you know. Yeah, they're always talking every
band I've talked to pretty much or like, man, I
can't believe we won who we beat?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, they're much better than us.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, that's why I felt so weird for us.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, a lot of friends there and so many great bands,
so yeah, real privilege to be here.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Like, I love how cool is that? Man like it?
It's my favorite.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So I imagine as an artist, they take real good
care of you here and load in load out can
be easy and all that stuff, which is what makes
it hard when you're an artis if you go to
a festival where that shit's just stressful.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, that's to be honest, It's been all very straightforward
so far. Obviously, after this we do our price and
then we go and then we load out, drive around
the corner basically load from they load you all in.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
They saw the crew really takes care of you.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So I love hearing that because nothing's worse than the
stress of loading when you got to play. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, we're kind of used to it anyway, because you know,
we're an extreme band, so we're going to underground the IY.
We always have to do that, So today's like probably
the first time we will have most of that taken
care of for us.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, that's fun, right, And it's a cool being DIY
band that Bloodstock is a DIY festival.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's the best.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, you know, everyone's in it for the love of it, yeah,
rather than just make money exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's why I love coming to this side the pond
because my side of the pond over there in the
States has become very corporate America when it comes to festivals. Yeah,
and that kind of bums me out because metal festivals
shouldn't be like that. You want to do Coachella like that, okay, yeah,
but a metal festival, no, it shouldn't be all that
(04:47):
corporate money bull crap and take care of the bands.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Everybody be together. We're a community.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, what you got coming up after this that you
want to tell the listeners about to check out for
and connect with you.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Well, we've got a lot of material to releases in
the plans. I can't give any dates right now. That's
what we're focusing on. We've got some shows yet to
be announced as well. There's not many announcements we can
actually make, but check out the socials and just yeah,
if you like what you hear, give us a follow.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And let's talk about your merch store because it's pretty
cool and you got some badass merch. And I always
tell people they can't listen to my show unless they
buy band merch.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I appreciate. Yeah, we just go all up on the
sum up.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
We've got stuff with us today, but we haven't got
on the store or anything.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So for the moment, exclusive to Bloodstock at this current time, I.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Love that I've been handing out a bunch of free stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
We've got kazoos, We've got sweet zazoos.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah that's bad.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, what sort you out one, dude?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh man, kazoos. That's fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'll think in like all these years that a band
had kazoos has merched that's the coolest shit.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They're free. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Maybe if we've got some leftover, we'll chuck him in
his gifts for online orders.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But yeah, we're just been giving them away.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
It was our friend's idea and we're like, yeah, that's ridiculous,
but yeah, why not.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It is a badass idea that these guys should play
the kazoo during your.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Set, right.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I wanted to do a rendition of Wizard by a
Black Sabur the harmonica part, but I don't think we're
gonna have time for that.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Unfortunately, you could do like a little like clip like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
You know, that would be pretty cool. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Imagine if you were at back to the beginning that
you got out stage and played that song with kazoo.
So what was it that moment in time in your life.
Both of you probably got a different answer that you
knew this is what you wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Growing up, getting into discovering like the music channels and
obviously like Krank mag and things like that, get into
the heaviest stuff. Yeah, like a lot of us come
from a musical family.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And we all love it and nice, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, it's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Early early days let's hear that.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I remember speaking of family as well, like my older sisters,
they're all into this sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
My mom's into this sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It took me a while to warm to it, like
I tried to be different, tried to listen to like
hip hop and stuff like that. And then one day
I remember watching Slayer the Bloodline video and being like,
what is that? That looks fucking crazy. This is crazy.
And then like a little while after, I found out
my older sister's partner, my brother in law now was
(07:36):
in a band called the Swarm. I'm going to shout
his current band, Zello Colt check them out, and just
saw that he supported Stone Sour. And then I got
given a bunch of guitar picks from like Jim Roote
and the guys from Slipknot, and I was like amazing.
I was like, you can connect with these people.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I want to do that.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
So yeah, I already started playing guitar and then yeah,
that's the moment I knew though.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Like I want to be in a band. I want
to I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's funny, you said Slayer, because I went to their
first show ever. Really, and I used to hang with them.
It's my battle vest from the eighties.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, look at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I went to one of their first shows ever, to
one whose point and that funny about Possessed is I
was at the first crossover show ever where I was
a long hair. I couldn't go to punk shows like
the grass Beat, you know, And they had the first
show ever. It was like at Elks Lodge. Well, I
don't know if they have them over here by in
the US. It's just basically like this place people hang outs,
(08:35):
not music venue, no security, yead.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
On the punk side.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Suicidal pre Crossover okay, yeah, coc pre Pepper.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And you had the Descendants.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And on the metal side the Span Savage Grays, who
was one of my favorites. They're not really relevant today,
but they were. They went and tore Motorhead and shit.
And then you had Dark angel Man, which is back here.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I just interviewed Jean.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Hoagland last month at Hellfest and I'm like, do you
recognize this logo? And Possessed was the headliner of the
metal show. It was fucking insane, no shafe place to
hide at all. That people were like flying through the
air like stage diving from the rafters.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
It was just mayhem.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Like when either when I interview both Mike and Wait
from CEOC, they both I brought it up and in
two seconds they were like, oh, that was the most
epic show ever. I thought they wouldn't even remember like
it was for me. It was like one of my
biggest memories. And they were like, oh my god, and
they even go it was like an Elk slash right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So yeah, that's history, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So I love that nowadays we can have a fe
like this with that kind of music.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Opposed it just the core, there'd be like.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Twenty five of us going to a Slayer show or
shit like that. So I thank you guys for being
here at Bloodstock and continuing that music and because it's
the best ever be ever.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
First of all, most definitely man like.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
If you out shit going on, go in the pit,
leave it in the pit out.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
People think we're all scary and bad and blah blah blah.
Metal people are the coolest, nicest, like most family oriented people.
We are like and I think it's because of the
pit because we're not kicking people's ass outside, because we
get all our ship out. You know well, thanks again
(10:49):
for being here and thanks for being on the Adventures
pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Thank you to check out the show.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking
career here in the UK, my entire career with Machine D.
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.
(11:17):
She was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Most of the bars that you.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Know and love you probably heard of because of that
woman right there. Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium, Killswitch, Engage,
Hey Breed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up. Man,
She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways,
(11:47):
she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful
community that lives here at Bloodstock Man.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
She helped make it. So, ladies and.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Tatement on
w for c u I Radio.