Alunah at Bloodstock: Band Chemistry, Tattoos, and Navigating Change

0:04 Hey you love done too here censure for see wow, pray you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with a Luna. Hey fit man, nice, Hey there. How hows it feel to be here at my family at Bloodstock? It has been I don't think it's even sunk in yet. That week it just played a really heavily busy tent a blood Stock. We've worked so hard the last couple of years, and yeah, to see it come to fruition and play to an amazingly responsive crowd. Yeah, it's been.

0:50 It's been amazing, hasn't it. Yeah, it's been a billing today as we do it will be really being on early and it's just come back then we could have voted for, isn't it. It's yeah, yeah, I think you have those worries, you know, like before you go on. It's certainly the biggest stage I've ever played. I know A Luna played the Soviet stage before when I wasn't in the band, but obviously it's a bigger stage now, right, So yeah it was. It's a dream come true. And like you say, family, right, everyone is so lovely here. It's just yeah, it's been phenomenal. We're talking about another interview. That's mor and wow, it's parking, you know today an artist and press parking same place.

1:31 The dude as you're going in and he's like, hey, how's it going gorgeous? Yeah, and he did what everybody. I was a bit upset about that though, because he said it to me and I was like okay, And then the next guy came in and he said it again. I was like, oh, right, okay, everyone is it. I'm obviously not that special but back but again, that's kind of I think that's a Midlands thing. And people around here are so lovely. Everyone you meet security apart from that one guy, know, all of the people that work here are just the loveliest people. Like that's why I love here, Like, yeah, I have. I have been doing this for several years now. I've never found an asshole. Yeah, Like that's rare because no, not at all. Even today while it's walking in, like I have my heavy backpack with all my equipment and golf cart just pulled over crew dude, Hey do you need a ride? Well, Like I was in shock because in the States that would never happen. You could like wave them down and they'll just look the other way.

2:32 But like I was like wow, and then we became like friends on the short golf cart ride, you know, and it's just amazing. Years you will sorry, Jake, I'm talking nice, but you'll find that in this particular part of the Midlands that it's kind of that weird gap between the Midlands and the North where everyone will do anything for you. Like if you went into random village, water or somewhere and stopped in a pub and you know, ask them for something, they would do it. They're just solid gold pie. And I'm usually really good at finding our wholes because they just present themselves to me. But like, I don't know what it is, but I'm a bit of a magneton for I won't say the word I'm thinking of, but yeah.

3:13 I'm a magnet for psychos. That's why my ex wife was from Newcastle. Newcastle, UK. Yeah, but wait, I didn't know until after we got divorced. I should have a lot of a lot of women that come over to us. They act like they're royals because we don't know any better, and you know, and they're all hoity toity. And it's wild for someone from Newcastle, they're most people. Oh yeah, she was like, oh you Americans, you have no class, and she'd acted right, but then she would have like fifteen Margarita's amazing. Then that shit fucking brains.

3:55 Oh yeah, be contrasted. And after I found out about Newcastle, because I even know about Newcastle, beautiful city, and I was like, oh that makes sense now that that. That's I don't know, like to me Newcastle is is that she might have just been one of the weird ones. Well, a lot of people tell me that they are about shit crazy like that. I mean they drink a lot like that. Yeah, well they've got they've got kind of Celtic routes. Jimmy and Ile though from Newcastle classics Anton Deck. This is going out in US radio, isn't it what we're talking about? Yeah, it's gone all over the world. Okay, Well to those that that know Newcastle, we're talking about Anton Deck and Jimmy Nile, the good football team.

4:41 We spend a lot of our time talking about football. Soccer. Nice, I understood, you know, audience. You know what I mean. Wait, I'm sorry you had that experience with the British woman. Oh yeah, like, but you know it's funny too. She's like, you married the wrong sister because she would never come to something like this ever. Really Okay, She's like, you'll have more fun without me, which is probably true, right, But her sister is a singer of a hardcore punk band in Newcastle. Now I never met her, so I wouldn't know what band or who or what. So wild though, that they're so different, right, you married the wrong one, clearly. That's that's typical in America though, Like, I'm not anything like my siblings, you.

5:23 Know, yeah, I think, well, we're both only children, aren't we. But like, I think siblings can be quite different to each other. Like say, I'm un married to a batshit British woman as well, I'm married to the most patient person you can ever wish to me. Nice. Second, that live is phenomenal. She basically if it wasn't believed, we wouldn't get anything done, Like she manages everything, all the logistics. She's phenomenal we have. Yeah, I know, right, but you do need somebody like that because you're an artist. So artists aren't always going to be that on the business. Side or some She's amazing and that. Fucking tattoo that is so authentic, like it looks like there's a real burden. It was sitting on your arm.

6:10 It was my first ever tattoo, your first. Now I've got this, like it has to be as good as that. She the artist that did it, is one of the most phenomenal artists I've ever seen. And she'll do like pet portraits and honestly, it's like you're looking at your pet. Wow. But yeah, obviously we're on audio, so it's it's basically a robin but it's so so real. It's like water cut. Is it water cut? I don't even know. But she she did it in about forty five minutes, and it was like it was no effort, for no effort at all. She just like bam mamma. And I always yeah, crap because it's so detailed. I noticed it right from the beginning, and it's like it's so real. Everyone knows it, And I think what's great about it is I mean I got it from my mom, but I think everyone knows that Robin's, you know, are for people that you've lost and whatever, and everyone that sees it relates to it because they've lost or whatever. So but yeah, she did a great job.

7:03 Nice, Yeah, I love it. How about you, do you have any tattoos. I'm totally the other end of the spectrum, and I have absolutely can I swear. You could say, we're very fuck you want. Absolutely fucking terrible ones? Yeah awful, Yeah, really awful. And then Adam covered up. But that's the art in itself, and that he still didn't work out too good. So yeah, let's just start talk. About I know, right, that's a new fact for me. I didn't know Jake had any tattoos at any point. Look at that. He hit it very well. Yeah they're not great, you know, I'll tell you what it was afterwards. You well, no, that's why I waited until I think I had my first one at like thirty eight or something. I was like, I know, I'm just never gonna w Yeah, I'm never going to grow out of that.

7:45 I don't have any tattoos. But the tattoos I thought about getting as a teenager, I'm like, oh, thank god I. Did, Like literally when I was sixteen. The stuff I would have had, like the weird tramp stamp on your oh now. So I'm I'm grateful that I didn't little. Chelsey gum down a whole thing. But I would have that because I am irish. That means something that's more relatable for you. But I think the typical the one that everyone had when I was grown up, well both of us, was like Chinese writing, but you don't know what it says. You know what I mean. It could be saying any people. That have those tattias and it says something like I'm a dick or something like that. Quite literally, I wouldn't risk it.

8:28 Like even you need to know the language before you put it on your body. Absolutely, I wouldn't even dream of it. And it like, why you would think it looks cool if you don't know what it says? Wild Like yeah, no so but I did think of that when I was like that sort of six. I was like, oh yeah, I'm gonna have some Chinese writing on my neck. Imagine Like no, Well. You think about like throughout your life. When you're a teenager, you think that's the way you're going to be the rest of your life. But there's so many transformations, name as being a band. Like so many of your original fans, they want you to stay that teenage garage band that doesn't know what the fuck they're doing, and you, as an artist, you want to experiment, you want to grow, you want to get better, and they want to resist that.

9:16 But why would you want to do the same stuff as you did when you first started the band. Well that's probably a good segue into talking about the sort of evolution because it's twenty years this year, right, and Jake's been there for the whole time. What I was about to say, we're going to go full air Samith and just do ballads for it for more now. Yeah, things do change, you know, It's I don't think you set out for them to change. It just actually goes with you. And I think it also happens when you start learning how to play and you start experimenting, or you you find more interest instead of that box. Yeah, you'd like to think you get better as things go on. You should get better things go on, not always. Yeah, I think the worst thing you could do is overthink things, though, like you try like, oh, I'm into least today, So therefore we're just going to go for a sharp left here and people can see through that.

10:13 It looks so totally, But. That doesn't mean things have to always be the same ivory, you know, if you just think. It's how you feel. Yeah, absolutely, just do whatever, just like I do these interviews, like let the interview take a life of its own, let the music take a life of its own. You just don't think about it, don't say I need to do this. Just whatever happens, especially as an artist, because you just sit there and you kin't feel it while you're trying to create the music and you feel what feels right to you. The great thing about this line up with Daisy is that we've especially got that attitude, you know, like I wouldn't say Daisy doesn't care. She cares a great deal, but she doesn't overthink things to the empty degree. She's happy to go, Okay, you guys are playing this, so I feel like this does it work?

11:01 Yes? He does, No, it doesn't. It's just such a natural process, you know. Rather and then to find a shoehorn something that we're doing this end of blah blah blah blah. You know exactly. Yeah, and I think you know on the third vocalist now, and obviously you have shoes to feel right, And I very much didn't want to try and step into someone else's shoes. I wanted to make it us not kind of a lunar with Daisy, and the fact that we all got on so well straight. Away that's important. Well, see football, babe, we all bonded over football. They all support really shit teams and I support a good team. But basically we just all got on so well straight away that the chemistry was there, and I think that is one of the most important things. Where we were just talking about earlier about you know, I want you to tell me if this doesn't work. You know, I'm not going to get all like angsty and being a diva if you don't think it works. And we're just really good at being honest with each other. We love each other, and I think that's that's where it comes from.

12:03 Absolutely, we can tell when you're not vibingh oh god. And you know you do see bands, I mean historically obviously we know of many where they just really actively don't like each other on stage and you cannot eat energy shifts. You know, you feel the energy shift and you get panicky, like, well, I can't enjoy this because I can say the drummer doesn't like the guitarists somewherever else. And it can all be as extreme as Perry either. Well. Yeah, like sometimes it's a little more subtle than that. I mean, that's the ultimate. I do wish I knew that that was acceptable though. That's so much more fern over the years, right. I mean that, Yeah, to be fair, if you if that is okay to do, like I mean that, Yeah, that's one of the wildest things I've ever seen.

12:48 Oh my god. I saw them about two three months before that in London, and I didn't think that was brewing. I know they've always you know, they were a little bit but it seemed fowing. They didn't look like we're building up to that. But I guess three months is a long time in the shape. Yeah, exactly. You got you really do have to love each other to be in a band together, and I think, you. Know, when I came in, that's that's one of the first things I said, wasn't it, like I want us to just be mates? And it helped that we went almost instantly on tour in Europe. So like, if you don't get on and you're sharing like bunk beds and stuff, then it's going to become really obvious really quickly. Oh yeah, and they'll portray on stage.

13:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. And I think you and I are quite highly strung, but we we can chill with it, and then the other two are quite chilled. So it just it just works. I think even with Outsie like all the time, apart that by time they he started playing with Sabbath later, Yeah, they could get along with each other, you know, like that we've never worked years ago, you know, but and sometimes that's what it takes. I also think too, like to your point of you coming into band, I'm popular opinion, but I think that's what was smart about bringing em into Lincoln Park because you're phenomenal. You're not going to replace Chester, No, don't even try. And I think Janoda purposely brought in a female so that there was no comparison.

14:21 I mean, obviously unfortunately, because she's a female, she's still got loads of shit exactly. And it's a shame because I know her personally, she's the nicest person. Yeah, and she's phenomenal, and people didn't look at certain things like I saw her at major festival and you could tell she had such stage right because you know, her band never was that big, So like, yeah, you're gonna be nervous and you're replacing somebody that's not replaceable. And that's the problem. But you kind of think, you know, the fans, if they're ice with themselves, want the band to carry on, and the Chess is gone, so we can't have Chester. So what do you actually want?

15:03 Do you want just gone completely? I think that's what And they're saying, oh, they should have named it a different band. No, but it's the entire band, like and. It was's band anyway. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. I you know, again, if if they if they think, I mean, she is good enough. But if they think she's good enough, the crowd can fuck off. I'm sorry, but like. I agree, I've argued with a lot of people over it because like, yeah, she and like if you don't compare, like they're comparing the Chester songs, the songs they wrote for her. Yeah, she's fucking awesome. The thing they wouldn't have. Do you think they would not have her? Like they're not just kind of pick the first person out of the tin long it. Yeah that's so. But I suppose again, you know, on on a different level with us, Like the singer before me was very, very different to me, and I think you guys had said, like, we don't want to search for her part two, we want to carry on the band in a new kind of version. What's intact, but then having a new singer on top, and if because if if you just come out and found her part two, it would have been like a tribute act.

16:10 Yeah exactly. That was very much not what we were doing. And you were going to say something before before I rudely interrupted. I think he probably said something better to be fair, but yeah, I don't know. I mean you could say, by sorry, also a linky part girl? What what's the single called? Like, Okay, she's getting loads of ship and that must be awful to me. You know you've got you know, a million decades online. That's when inshes Earliot. But man, he's selling out stadiums all over the bills. It was having the last left, you know what I mean? I mean it just don't get caught up in the disgest at noise. You know, he really just mean and kind of like understand what position she's in. Like that was me. I was very empathetic of yeah, totally what she was stepping into.

16:55 It wasn't gonna be easy, no matter what. Back sorry as much are you going to say something? No one. I went to an event on the same day in London as Linking part were playing. And the event I was going to add like one coach going to it from Birmingham the Linking Park. One add ten coaches going to it, you know, like that's people vote with people vote with their money and their feet and they're obviously very happy with us. So it gets a ship there you go, and I think that will be the overarching theme. But you know, again, like you know, but early days, it's very hard to ignore the online chatter. So you know, we've had comments, oh, you know, don't like her as much as the old singer or something, but then you have the other ones.

17:42 And if you can ignore all of that shite, like just ignore it because it's never going to serve you. And as you say, Jake, like, people will vote their feet. They come and see you, okay, come and see us, and then write us off. And clearly they have and I think more people support her than don't. But those voices are so loud, Yeah, so loud. You got a great point. You got a great point. Well, you guys aren't dickheads. Well there's moments, but I'm. So glad you're here at Bloodstock. Tell everybody how they can reach out to you and buy your merch or else they can't listen to my fucking show. Yeah, so joke.

18:24 Do you want to like everyone's watched or just Facebook, Instagram, Bankam there was a TikTok. Maybe not your first protocal Spotify. Yeah, you'll find a center of a luna, it's pretty sure. Yeah, make sure you put a luna with a H at the end though, because it's I l u n Ah nice. But yeah, thank you so much. It's been beautiful. Oh, thank you for being here and being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. It's been absolutely wonderful. It's been a pleasure, gorgeous. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patement on w for CUI Radio.