Acid Throne Returns to Bloodstock for the 25th Anniversary

0:04 Hi, you have done too here cure for see Wow, crazy young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. When I'm here with Acid Thrown. How's it going man, I'm that I'm Jack and Chris. Nice here at Bloodstock. So we did this like what four years ago? Yeah, man, twenty twenty two. Wow, feels like it was yesterday. Illo time flies right, Jesus Christ? Yeah? Wow? And the twenty fifth anniversary.

0:44 Yeah, man, it's a big one, isn't it. It's an honor to be a part of the festival this year. Yeah. So how has the journey been since twenty twenty two to get back here for the twenty fifth anniversary? Man, there's been yes, so many shows, there's there was a debut album, you know, we went for a couple of couple of other members and stuff. So Jack is a new member of the band. Edition Yeah nice. So it's got a good shirt on there. Yeah. Yeah, it's been incredible man, Like we played the Yager Mister stage back in twenty twenty two. Never expected to be asked back on the Safety stage this year. You know, we got our debut album out in twenty twenty three, so the year after we played and we kind of didn't think we would come back this year until our second album was out and we had something new to say.

1:31 But you know, we started talking about that and and Simon all invited us back and we yeah, we couldn't couldn't have been happier, man. So that's amazing, Yeah, phenomenal. And I see you got a little bit of sunlight today, man, I've. Been I've been catching sun like this entire weekend. I'm looking much redder than I ever have done before. But that way, you know, I'm going to come home later on Monday and I'm going to not hear the end of it off. My partner's going to be, yeah, absolutely, just scolding me for just like not wearing any sung cream at all. Too many bees and not enough suncream, you know, it's the whole deal. Well, I don't know about you, but he's got a bikini line.

2:15 Yeah, we're working on it man. And and Chris over here was hoping to get some dragon scale suntan. But I think you've done it right so far. Right, Yeah, the Factor fifty's been doing its job. It is. It's pretty good because I'm wondering if you didn't put on if the sun would turn your blackout into a redout. Yeah, well, I've never put it to the test, but yeah, I think I'm tattooed enough that maybe it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference. So yeah, there you go. So what was the difference between playing the Jaeger stage and the Sophie Stay. Oh, man, that's a that's a good question. Like the Jaeger stage. At the time, we were a very new band, Like I think we played Bloodstuff was like our eighth ever show. We just did like metal to the masses and then came straight here. So we were extremely green at that.

3:07 Point, fresh at that point. Yeah. Yeah, but man, even even now we've been a band like four years, watching our friends like Celestial Sanctuary play the Sophie stage yesterday and frog Lord, we were looking at that stage thinking, holy crap, that's a big stage, man, and yeah, like not afraid to yeah, not afraid to say we were nervous. But as soon as you like, it looks incredible, it looks massive. As soon as you get up there, you just go into water pilot. Man, It's like it's like any other show. You just kick an ass right, Like. Isn't that really how it is for every gig because it's like you're nervous before you get up on stage and then there's this like switch in your brain.

3:49 It's definitely like that. It's like especially with sort of like a lot of like when you're playing like streaking the shows or anything like that, there's always like a little bit of nerves that kind of come into play and then you sort of like you know, you switch off at you know, when when the you know, when the first board displays, there's like, right here we go, this is going to be it for forty five minutes or so. Yeah, the Sophie that there was like like as much as the kind of I suppose the that process was still kind of the same, they were just felt like so much more nerves, like you kind of like walk it. You walk out on the stage, and it's like we were really like it. We had a you know, a really big tent like just full of people like back to front, and. I was gonna say it sounds it's going to sound corny as hell, but I'm gonna I've been saying corny shit all day, so I'm going to carry on saying corny shit, but we had so many friends there and and in that, I mean, we've got so I've become like a like a bloodstock DVOT. When we first played it, I'd never been to this festival before. That was the first time I've been. Every year since, I've come back every single year without fail. I've come back to this festival.

4:54 I've never done that with any other music festival. So there are there were people in the tent watching us, shouting out to me, waving. Who are people that I met the first time we played, who have said, oh man, thank god you guys have played again. Now I get to see your band because these are friends that we made at the festival. And these are people I see every year in the same spot in the campsite and we hang out and we drink a couple of beers at the bar, and we only see each other at this vest. So, like I say, it's. Gonna sound corny, but there is a bloodstock family of people that I only in this field at this weekend every year, and they turned out for us, and I just couldn't be more.

5:34 Thankful for we are a big family. I mean, like listen, I got here and I posted on my social media I'm back home with my family at Bloodstock. You know that is really what it is. I'll tell you what to like. I have yet defined an asshole. No, we were saying that, man, yes, yeah, just so many fucking great people here, man, Like, everyone so nice. It's such a great scene, isn't it like a tight enit scene? Metal heads look out for each other, man. It's way it should be. Yeah, you know each other's backs. It's like, it's really really nice communities. It's great, you. Know, because the fact is is I do a lot of festivals and there's assholes sometimes. Yeah, yeah, for sure, I'm looking for them and I can't find them. And then okay, like I had like one of the most fun times I ever had in a circle pit with dinosaurs.

6:34 Yeah. Where else do you have that kind of fun too? You know? There's been some wild stuff like the bananas for Party Kennon. Yeah, the crabs and the spiders for Evil Scarecrow. And of course all of the all of the frogs for our friends in frog Lord. They had a load of people in frog costumes. So yeah, in flight with frogs, the whole lot. Yeah, yeah, it's it's just so amazing. It's it kind of like blows my mind, you know. And then you have you know, the mighty Saxon play. Yeah, and that was pretty killer. And what was even more killer about is Brian from Diamondheads now in Saxon, So you got like a Saxon diamond Head thing going on.

7:20 We've We've been saying this all weekends. Man, there are so many people moving around bands these days that like, you know, you're watching Sepultur and you've got other guys in there from other bands, and just everyone's playing in every other and that again. Like just the community. Yeah, just just shame that. Like everyone in metal bands are mates, right, and you can go and play in other people's bands. That's exactly how we got Jack in the bands. Man. He was, you know, a guy and a fellow band in our scene, Like, hey, do you want to come? You know, we need a third guy, so come and come and join us. Man. Yeah. Nice, right, And you know what's interesting too, like speaking of Sepultura, I inrviewed Andreas and I'm thinking myself afterwards, like like today it was a couple of days ago.

8:03 I'm thinking, wait a minute, I don't know if any bands on their last tour and this was their last UK performance doing. Press, Like what would you need to do press for? And he was the nicest guy in the world and it was like a great convo and it didn't even occur to me. Then it just occurred to me like today, like wait a minute, they don't even need to do pressy man. And that says something, as we say, right exactly. But it says something the dedication, you know, because there's a lot of bands now that are on their way up they're not going to do press, but somebody like him doing press, that just says to me, you're a true musician.

8:50 Man. I don't want to like blow smoke up anyone's us, but I will say, like I'm so thankful to the to the press and even like speaking to you four years ago now like we have people literally last week messaging us from La saying like, man, I fucking love your band, When are you going to come play the States? Nice? Like we'd fucking love to man that. You know, obviously it takes a bit of time to get to that level and get over but. We might have to meet waked one nor president, but to know. That, like people are out there and that you know, people are finding us through through stuff like this, right, and it's incredible man. So there's so much value in that. And see it's great bands like you that recognize that, yeah, you know, because not all bands think that way. Yeah, and really it is a way like how would some place that they aren't you've never been to, right, how are they going to find out about your band? We?

9:47 Yeah, we are. You're so beholden to like social media now, right, that's you're just you're totally dependent on an algorithm like pushing you to people. But if you can do anything at all to help is yourself and your band out there, Like why would you not do that? Exactly? And you know you guys supporting us, We're supporting you. So it's it's it's a great, great thing to do. And I always say that it's my job. Like there's different types of pressed people, especially in the States. There's some people in the States that are trying to get clicks at your expense. Okay, My viewpoint is it's my job to make you look good, to promote you, and not talk about anything that won't accomplish both of those goals. Yeah, man, you know, yeah, and that's the way it should be.

10:37 We should all be in a synergistic relationship altogether helping each other. As you say about people relying on an algorithm to feed them are music, whatever it might be, ma'am, we're in a scene I think you'll agree where word of mouth still counts for a lot more. Yeah. And you know what, Like I still listen to bands all the time because someone says, hey, man, check this band out, check this shout, And it doesn't matter who is So I'm still I still find value in that. I'll still check out the line of notes in a record sleeve, just like I used to do through Like I'm going to show my ages through the late nineties and two thousands, but just to find out, well, if these I like this band, who do they who are they rapping? Who are they?

11:26 Who's whose corner are they in? Yeah? And that's I find that Bloodstock's great for that, not just through the press, but just the new blood stage is packed. It doesn't matter who's playing. Everyone wants to hear new stuff. They always want to be the person that is the first to recommend a band to a friend. That's one other thing that I love about Bloodstock because like I know a lot of people in the States, they go to the music festival and their their favorite band, usually bigger one with draws from the festival. Then they're like, oh, that's your who you know is going. That's not the reason to go to old Festus. Look, it's such a waste at that point, isn't it is that it's like shure, It's like I'd love to go see like all my favorite bands. But the amount of bands that have become my favorite bands just through discoveries.

12:12 Exactly at least the both bands that you had no idea who they were, I tell you, and you go there and you love it. Right, that's how you find your newest favorite bands. And the here day is stupid. But it is those big bands or playing a festival set. If that's all you want to see is that band go to their concert. It's gonna be a much better set. Yeah, right, you know. And the fact is, I'll talk about this before nineteen ninety nine, I just I discovered three of my new favorite bands on third stage Odds Fest Mad, a stage probably the size of EMP, if not smaller. Yeah, And that those three bands were slipknot Mud vein and in this moment, whoa.

12:57 Like slipping at the time when they like on it like nine am or something like. That, some shit like that series. Right, I don't even know how they fit everybody on the stage like that. There wasn't even room for nine people, you know. Yeah, but that's the point, Like, that's how you find out these bands and when you rather discover them when it's that intimate like that, like oh that Slayers first show ever, Montalca's first show ever. They're still my favorite band. And maybe that's also just nostalgia that there was that intimacy that you don't get when they're playing on the main stage. Yeah, that is incredible, man. There is so much to be said about getting onto the conversation of like venues as well. I don't know if this is an issue you have in the States as much, but like supporting small grassroots venues because that's where those shows happen and that's where you see those bands, because you can't expect you know, smaller bands or bands starting out to be able to play massive venues doesn't happen exactly to start somewhere, and if you don't have those small grassroots venues music dies.

13:59 That's a whole basis of the Sunset strip. Yeah, I mean bottom line. But yeah, like you guys, after COVID, some of these venues that were iconic venues for god knows how long couldn't support it anymore. Man. Yeah, So we played with a band from Oakland, was it last summer and from the from the Bay Area, and they're saying, man, they're just having like backyard chowse because there's nowhere. Else to play exactly. And I grew up at a time where the Bay Area was thriving, like yeah, when Slayer Metallica left La, me and my bro would hitchhike up to the Bay Area and like, oh my god, and iconic places like Ruthie's in you know. And you wouldn't have bands that were playing today if it weren't for that.

14:50 Scene, absolutely, man, Yeah, yeah, so true. So what else do you want to tell the listeners? What else you got coming up that they should know about? And most important, we need to follow you on socials and buy your mercher they can't fucking listen to my show. Yeah yeah, yes, that's the big thing. Man. Like, as I said, we really love having fans over in the States and Canada and stuff. So yeah, acid thrown on all social media, on Facebook, on Instagram. Yeah, please follow us. We ship to the US man and we are literally just about to go on Wednesday and record our second album, so nice. Yeah, yeah follow us, keep an eye our socials and the news will start coming I think maybe towards the end of this year or or early next. And yeah, to use the awful phrase big things coming.

15:38 Well I can't wait for those big things. And if they don't follow those big things, they can take a big pick out the door of my show. Thanks a lot of guys for being here, and thanks once again for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thanks so much. Man really appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Platement on w fur CUI Radio m