Building the Future of Metal: Soulride’s Band Changes and Bloodstock Culture with Pipeman

0:04 Hi, you have learnt to censure. Wow for you young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here. With Marching from Soul right nice here at Bloodstock. Yeah, how does it feel to be here? It feels amazing. That's the fourth farm. I'm here second time. Yeah yeah, yeah, And I love this place. It feels like home. You know, it's funny you should say that because you know I do vessels all over the US, UK, Europe. I came here from Valking and then I got here and I actually posted on my on my social and like it feels good to be home with my family and I don't even live in the UK.

0:56 The atmosphere here is amazing. Seriously, coming here, I think when I came here first time, I feel like I've been here before. Yeah yeah, and everybody I've been saying, everybody's so cool here. Like some festivals, you have all the cool people, but then there's some assholes. I never run into assholes at Bloodstock ever. Well, I never had any issues being here. It's amazing. People are so helpful. I have a child with you, I have a love. It's brilliant. So how do you feel they treat you as an artist too, because that's always important to me. Well, we've got to come side. We've been looked after.

1:37 I can't say no, it's brilliant. Like like I said in twenty eighteen, when we played, it was exactly the same, nothing changed, and I think standard only get better and better. Really. Yeah, they're all about the experience being a family for the fans, by the fans, and that's what's killer because since COVID a lot of the bigger festivals, you know, they investors and so it's no longer that same type of feel. And like I heard Vicki and interview say, like that shit won't happen here. We were a family festival and we're always going to be a family festival. Yeah. Well I think you know Blodstocks starting twenty five years ago, actually fine, no, right, No, it.

2:20 Was indoor, it was a small festival obviously grew up. I think they what they're doing. They they keeping the roots of that festival that happened twenty five years ago. Yes, yes, they haven't diverted from. That, even though they expanded went much bigger. It's still brilliant, it's amazing. Exactly so tell the listeners who are not familiar a little bit about your band. Okay, so the band was formed in two thousand and eight by all Polish guys in Coventry. Okay, we're still based in Coventry, although we're not all from Coventry, but that's where we were here, that's where we were playing, that's where we our hometown. We playing kind of old school heavy metal. Okay, if if someone likes I don't know, let's say Black Sabbat the or Rainbow, this is us. Yeah, a little bit a little bit of trash in there sometimes as well in a couple of the songs.

3:15 But very old school type of metal. Nice. And so what was that moment in time that triggered you to want to do this for a living? Well, basically, you know when you, well, when I was younger, you go out and look at different bands and like thinking, I want to do that. I want to be on that stage. And obviously guitarists look at the guitar and says, I want to do what this guitar is doing. The drummer looks at the drama. I want to do what this guy is doing with these sticks. And obviously the vocalist. You know, I want to do what this guy's doing. And I think in my in my case, was exactly the same. One day I went for some gig. I looked at the drummer and I thought, I want to do that. I want to be a dramma because I'm a dramma.

3:58 Yeah. Nice, nice. And So how's it feel now, all these years later, knowing that you're still doing what you love. To be honest, it feels like I've stopped in time. I never grow up, literally, So when I go to work, you get all that from every day, you know, feeling tied whatever. But when you go on the stage, when you go on your housal, you're feeling sixteen again, and it's like time machine. He's like going back in time. That is what's amazing about music. And then it is the best therapy ever them. It is true now for you the artists and for me the listener, because you get to get stuff out, you know, in your music and on your drums, like because drums are great therapy for beating the shit out of it, yeah, instead of somebody else. And we get it from being at your show, escaping the world, especially nowadays, like I don't even know what's going on in the world today right now, and I don't give a fuck because I'm here at blood Stuck and that's where it counts.

5:02 Yeah. Well, I think I think for every single band, it's the relation between the band and the public. Right there's no public without the band. There's no band without the public. So we try always to give our best old energy we got on the stage, and I mean we're expecting to get it back. Most of the time it's happened, and we appreciate that. We're really grateful for that, and I think that's what keep us going, really, the energy that comes back to you absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have one story, good or bad in your whole career of music that really sticks out in your mind? It's a bad one? Can I say the bad one?

5:42 So it's not with the current band. Okay. I used to play with the band and we have this song. I think it's like seven eight minutes long. Okay, it was, It was long, and obviously we have a couple of pints of water. Yeah, a couple of pints of water, and throughout in the middle of the song, I really need to go for the pass and literally you know if I if I have to be sick or something, I will do it there. Okay, but I need a piss, So basically in the middle of song, I basically run into the toilet. At the piece I'm coming back. I will just continue with the show and everyone's clapping. And that's what I love about it. You know, no one, no one who felt, oh I'm professional something everyone. Understood, but I was. That's kind of story I stick to my head, my memory that I'll be saying to everyone for a very long time.

6:28 Yeah, you know, I love it because it could be a lot worse. The number one answer to that question is that has been answered multiple times, is when they ship their pants on stage. You don't want to do it when your drummer, because then you're sitting on the shed. Man that was it becomes slippery. Man. You need the one of those yellow cones. Oh my god, that's great. You're the first person to ever look at it that way and it. Is true it has a Then we'll leave in UK, all right. UK is like health and safety is the priority right straight away. If trauma ship and cell you need to stick out that yellow cone. No one have to clean it. It can stay there for weeks, but you need the yellow cone.

7:13 They should have been doing that with the news lately, with the people doing that in the pit. Yeah, and apparently bands were smelling it, so they should put out that cone. Yeah. So where you got going on the rest of the year that the lizard should know about. Well, we had this album going on for a couple of years and I think two years, and currently there is a bit of a transition in the band because one of our members is going back to his homeland, Poland. Okay, so so right, literally from today when we finish our show, it's officially becoming a trio. We already start some works on the new material, new songs that we want to record and eventually make a full length album hopefully hopefully beginning of the next year. That's what's going on behind this Behind the scene, we're trying to stay as active as possible, playing gigs and you know, running our social media, But the main thing we're focusing is on writing new stuff.

8:09 Basically, I love it. And how do you think the new stuff will be either the same or different from previous. I think it's gonna be. I mean, it's gonna be in the same general, it's gonna be it's gonna be same kind of music, but it's gonna be different music because literally, basically now well in the band, it will be no a founding member of the band actually, and I think it will be different because the songs that we recorded on the previous album was written down long, long time ago, but different people. There's only a couple of tracks that being record, written and recorded by current members. So I think the new album will be I wouldn't say totally different, but it will be different.

8:52 It will not be the same. I think that's kind. Of cool too, because it's like, you know, if you don't have the founding member and you're writing the same music, then are you really being an original band or are you just kind of being a tribute band? Yeah? No, yeah, So to me, I think now is the time to create what your sound should be in twenty twenty six and not live in the past. Yeah. Well, we totally agree. We will be We will be creating our own music what plays in our hearts and souls. Totally agree. We got full blessing from founder members about continuing with the bond. Okay, but yeah, we cannot say it's gonna be the same because it's it's totally different bunch of people.

9:38 It's gonna be again heavy metal, trust metal, but I reckon it's going to be different. Yeah, well yeah, And you know what, I think people would be able to tell if you weren't doing that, because you know, music's emotion and passion. How can you have emotion and passion about something that isn't meaning something to you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're totally right. We don't know. Don't want to recreate stuff. We want to We want to progress, Yes, going in the same direction, but maybe using different roots. I love it, that's cool. So anything else we should tell the listeners that they should know about how they connect you on socials, all that good stuff. I think most of the bonds saying that. Yeah yeah, but I think the main thing, and like you mentioned after the COVID, go and support unsigned new bands because that's how Metallica Iron made and started. So if you're not going to go and support small bunds, your local bands, you eventually the festivals will end well on exactly, So go and support new bunds.

10:38 That's the best advice ever, because you know what those new bands, they are the future that's true. Well, thanks a lot for being here at Bloodstock and thanks for being on the Adventures a pipe Man. Thank you very much for having us then beautiful, Thank you for the interview. You got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Play on w for c u I Radio