Atarka at Bloodstock: Metal to the Masses Winners Share Festival Debut and Musical Journey

0:04 Hy you love then too, censure for wow, for you your This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with a taka nice here at Bloodstock. Hell yeah. First of all, I want to talk about merch for a second because I love that right there. It's like kind of like a dog tag necklace. Yeah, and it's cool. Yeah, yeah, And we just kind of experimented with some ideas at the moment, like these aren't for sale, but we just got some kind of prototypes of agency had the turnout, and the turn out really well, so.

0:51 I think they're cool. They definitely should go into your merch store for sure. Yeah, that's the planet thing. And they can't listen listen to my show and let's say buy your merch. So have you played Bloodstock before? No, Adam has been to Bloodstock many times, but this is my very very first time here in general. So you've been here many times. How does it feel to be an artist now? I mean it's crazy. I first came here in twenty ten and just to look at the stages and just to think that now I'm going to be playing on one of them. It's just like I don't know, twenty ten meters would not believe that this is happening right now. So it's really cool, right And how about you your first experience, like we're a big family here. This is like no other festival in my opinion, How you feel in your first experience and you're playing.

1:38 It, it's amazing, honestly, to be honest, I feel like I should have gone to Bloodstock years ago. I just never really had the finances or the opportunity to. But now is the perfect time. I mean, we won't metal to the masses in Birmingham. That's how we're here. At no how can I understand you? Then? To be fair, where we're from, I don't feel like I have the accent, But you know, it feels like the right time, you know, twenty fifth anniversary. It's very sentimental and I've really enjoyed it. Adam's always said to me, you know, we need to go to Bloodstock. One of the days. I'll take you there. I'll show you everything. But the fact that we're playing kids just a lot more wholesome. It feels like the community's taking us in with open arms. It's been really welcoming, and honestly, I just can't wait to get on stage, the five of us and just show what we've got.

2:24 To offer, and you'll be amazed at how many fucking people be out there for you. Well, we've already I got up early while these guys were resting. They're on the pop. But I was walking around early and I'm seeing people wearing an merch who I don't personally know, and I'm not used to that. I'm going over and asking them, I, so, where did you see us? And they're telling us what gigs and whatnot. I'm not used all. Usually when I've played places like the festivals or big gigs, you usually expect family members, friends, random people. Though that's an accomplishment in my opinion. And even from like last year, they had a whole dedication wall that people were signing for AZZI. Yeah, like, it's just such a community atmosphere here it is. And so now how you tap this what you're doing for the rest of the year.

3:16 Well, drummer is expecting a child at the end of the year. Oh cool, right to him. Yeah, Yeah, We're going to do a bit of beyond the scenes stuff, go back to some writing really, like get some new new tracks ready, for the studio probably next year. We've just released a new single called Human Again, and we have another one ready to go. We just need to finalize when it'll be released. I'm waiting for all the people in the world, especially in my country, to become human again. That's what the song's all about, right. I figured that because it's like fucking crazy out there, like it's fucking mental. Well. I originally wrote the song because.

3:57 I had a very important person in my life pass away under mysterious circumstances. I'm that's okay, but like we're not spoken in years. I went to check on how she was doing all of a sudden, No, she's passed away, and nobody told me, and there was nothing on. About it online. I had to deep dive to people who knew and say, like, what's happened? And then when I found out that, it. Just annoyed me a little bit, as like, why doesn't anybody care that this person's passed on? When are we going to start acting human again? And that's what it was originally about. And our vocalist Jay took the concept and kind of a tarkified it, so to speak, and. Therefied, Yeah, that's how we write. That's how we usually write. If I come up with a concept or had comes up with a concept, we'll hand it over to our vocalist Neil kind of again tarkify it.

4:42 So now you brought that up to find a tarcify. A tarkify. So sometimes we'll have riffs and well, thing that doesn't sound quite a Tara. It might sound a bit too thrash, she might sound a bit too metalk or so tarkifying is just kind of like putting our fingerprints on it to kind of make you sound like it is an atarka song and something that we can all enjoy playing. And so how would you not use a genre because I hate when ardits are bugs in genre? How would you describe the atarica sound? Fast, heavy, melodic, catchy, meaningful, nice with a touch of mythology here and.

5:24 There and that makes it fun too, right, absolutely? So who would be your well, what is your favorite story or favorite character in mythology? Both? I've always I'm a huge resident evil fan. Nemesis still scares the hell out of me from resid Eval Free. When I found out it. Was the Goddess of vengeance. I feel like that's always been my personal favorites. I also love Egyptian mythology, getting into stuff like Tom Read when I was a kid, The Mummy. I used to love that film and Greek mythology. I had to pick one, though, if somebody said, right, name one person, I'd have to say Nemesis. How about you? I mean, can I use somebody that is technically an old school guy, but he was kind of.

6:06 You could use whatever the fuck you want. There's a guy who tred with Beben Burgh, who is like the main character in that show The Last Kingdom, and I looked into like he's past and he's like totally different from. The actual story. But I think the story makes a good. Job of making him a cool hero, but it's just interesting to his life who's actually quite normal in comparison. So I don't know, I like history. I just even the most boring of things can be really interesting. Well. It's kind of like my radio personality as parent after Dark Knight, you know. And one of the things I think about Batman Dark Knight that is super cool because I like all superheroes. Not an alien, no superpowers, no metahuman powers, no multi universe powers, just some dude that went through some bad shit and it turned him into this superhero. Yeah.

6:59 I think think a lot of people can relate to that, to be. Fair, exactly exactly because there's a lot of us out there. But that is the case for sure. What else do you want the listeners to know about you guys and tell them how they can reach out to you on socials, buy your merge, all that good stuff. So we have got all of our socials. Are at Tarko Official, at a Tarkar Official. We're on Spotify, We're on Apple Music, all the good. Place you can get music. Check out check out our discography because I think people are quite I wouldn't say shocked, surprised, the surprise to see how our sound has evolved into what it is today. I think it's a big jump and I think it's interesting to do that with bands anyway.

7:40 I think it's important. Yeah, yeah, I would say just go back, listen to our discography and if you. Like it, give us a follow. And if you see us doing any gigs or in the UK, sh will always und the UK doing gigs, come to show, come say hi, we won't buy it. I think they should come and get a tour. Yeah, come' Getta tarkified. It is the only way. Right right, and you know it's true what you said. I think all musicians should evolve. Yeah, Like I think fans sometimes, especially the original fans, they don't get it. Like you don't want to stay where you were in the beginning where you didn't even really know what you were doing or know what you wanted to be. You know, you get that from doing it and evolving, And I think that's the only where you really have the longevity because if you just stay what you were in the beginning, there's nowhere to go one hundred percent.

8:39 Like I joined the band three years ago and I didn't mean for this to happen, but I feel like naturally the sound changed with some new blood being injected into the bands, and I feel like natural evolution is the also the way forward for a band who progress. Like I'm a huge Rush fan, my dad's a huge Rush fan, and this every single album is just different and well, I. Was just talking about another interview, because it's like, if you take the original album twenty one twelve, Moving Pictures Signals, you could go on and on. They're like they could all be considered basically different genres. Yes, that's what was so great about them. They did They always knew what they were doing from the get go, whether it was blues, slash, heavy metal, loaws, synth orientated music.

9:23 Take all the greatest bands, Zeppelin, the Beatles, all those bands. They didn't just do one thing. They experimented. To me, that's what being a musician is, experimenting and finding, you know, things you want to do and not being bored because you're doing the same shit all the time. I think it's much like life, gentlemen. You experiment with things in life, whether it's just like your daily routine or something, and you grow as a person. We grow as musicians, we grow as a band. Yeah, and with that, the sound of bolves with us, and I think it's natural and I feel like that's the only way that you can let everything to learning curve as you're doing. It absolutely a million percent. Well, I'm so glad you guys are here at Bloodstock. You fucking rock and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

10:06 No problem, Thank you for having us. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man. I'm wf CUI Radio