InScape at Bloodstock: Building Community, New Beginnings, and South Wales Metal Pride

0:04 Hi, you have done too here cens true. For Wow, pray Young. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio and I'm here with Ethan. Shields Liam Hawk's. People call me Motley from Swansea. Here at Bloodstock has a feel to be here at Bloodstock. Pretty surreal, we'll lie. Uh Yeah, so a bit of a bit of a shocking system of a bit that we like. But yeah excited. Yeah, Well, an honor to twenty fifth anniversary and you're chosen to play at Bloodstock, man that you must be pretty fucking good. Yeah.

0:48 Wow, I hope so all the judges were deaf. We're not sure yet, but yeah. Yeah, tell me a little bit about the journey because like man that Meld the Masses thing, there's all a lot of fucking great talent. Like every band that I ever talked to are like shocked they made it through because they have so much respect for the other bands. And that's what I love about it too. It's not really competitive, even though it is like everybody has respect for each other's kind of a community do it. Yeah, everybody was you know, everybody's competing with each other, but they were also you know, supporting each other as well. That really great bank called grind Horse. That we you know, literally we made like a lot of friends as well.

1:29 Like there's loads of bands that we've gone through the heat Sweed that we never played with before I ever heard of, but like we made some really good friends along the way, and like when we get out to South Wales, when I try and organized gigs with them, So get out into the country a little bit, maybe further into England up to Scotland as well, we're talking about earlier today. So yeah, just something like that would be amazing. Gues it bring South Wales to me music on the community up up a bit, if you know what I mean. Yeah, definitely I. Love hearing that because I was down a couple of months ago and you know, interviewed another band from Wales and it's like so cool to have bands like all over this area just having the opportunity to play these amazing festivals. Yeah. No, absolutely, if we can do anything to represent South Wales and represent our a sort of local scene, then that's like means a massive deal to us. To be fair, absolutely, I do.

2:12 Have to say that everybody that talks to me as an American is lying because I can understand you, guys. I can understand the other Welsh bands, like whoever said you can't under now Birmingham that's another story. I can't understand a fucking word they're saying. If we were from Mirth, that would be different. We've got our press voices on right now. Actually, so tell us how that's all started. Oh, I'm the worst person for this the band. Yes, yeah, me and my well the other boy is out there and me and my mate started this band about fourteen years ago. Nine music for yeah for a long time. Yeah, I mean me and me and me and my mate Luke, and you still like each other. You still like each other. That I was the best man at his wedding and everything, so you know you must have liked me a little bit.

2:56 Yeah, I know right. Liam joined six months ago, the drummer, and since then it's been skyrocketing, really in it. It's been, it's been flying. So I got a completely different experience now. So you're the reason, man, He's absolutely all of our success is down to me. No, not at all. No pressure, no pressure, No, the. Recipe was there. I was the icing on the top of the boys have been brilliant with having me in and it's quite nice actually because I've watched him escape from other bands for years, so being able to actually play with them. Now is kind of like meeting your heroes. They're gonna think that's really cheesy, but yeah, there were no genuinely it's again. To play these songs with them is quite surreal. And obviously we're working on a lot of new material at the moment as well, where I'm getting my influences in on it now and it's uh yeah, it's coming out really well, So excited to get that out.

3:40 I love it. So what do you guys think? You know? Him joining has kind of evolved the band and enhanced the band that wasn't there before. Absolutely, I don't think we'd be where we were without Liam at the moment. I don't think he takes a huge part in the social media, which I hate doing. I can't. I don't blame it. I hate sucking terrible. I would want to be an artist back when I was into it in the eighties when you have to do that ship. Yeah, I think it was cooler doing it in the eighties, like good word of mouth and like you didn't have to be poor in training. Yeah, man, do you know, fuck that social media. Ship and I can't stand it and I'm rubbish at it as well. But Liam is a fucking you know oop sorry, He's an absolute natural at it. Yeah, genius at it. And uh, you know, we're really lucky to have you on board man.

4:24 So yeah, and what about the music itself where you think he's done to it inhance the music to make it better grooves? Man, it's way more solid now than they were. Like I'm not great at writing drum parts, do I mean? I kind of throw a basic Madie pattern in and and Liam mix it into something, you know, such some gold like so yeah, so it's. Uh you know yeah yeah, And like I'm the bass player, so we have to, like the guys work, We gotta we gotta work together. Like so, like since Liam's coming, it's been amazing to like sit down and like work with you and sort of jam my stuff through. We're trying to get as tight as we possibly can, like so yeah, and I'm massive, massive influence. Like so he's like Rob Drohio where you're no longer taking the bass out of the music. Yeah. Yeah, does that mean I also get a million pounds signing bonus.

5:06 And you'll have to ask him, I think. Please. Well, at the very least he won't get his bass parts taken and the album. Yeah no, he's he's very audible at least, I really hope. So right, there's always time. So now for each one of you, what was that moment in time that you knew music was what you had to do for your life? Oh boy, what a great question. Anyone else got one? Go ahead? So when I was like thirteen, I started listening to Lincoln Park like heavily, and from the moment then I picked up a strat caster, like what were they squire strat casters? And I just jammed and I like literally every day to try and like do something and try to learn guitar. And then when I met Ethan, like when was it in college something like that? Just before college?

5:58 Like yeah, So we were in another band originally and then I joined the Spend Now I'm like yeah, And as soon as we started sort of working together stuff, that was an moder I go, this is this is what I want to do, like and I want to be with these boys like the rest of my life, you know what I mean? I love that, you know, because that's how you have the long last seed band. You guys got to be mates first and musicians second. Otherwise, how do you sit on a van or anything else together twenty four to seven without killing each other? I think my answer to that question is being in the vanroom my dad at nine years old and listening to I had made an Holy diver by Doo all the old stuff, and at that point it was like, you know what, that's pretty cool. And then I got a drum kit for Christmas, and yeah, God bless my parents.

6:45 They made a lot of efforts to accommodate loud drums in a three bedroom house. So from that point being nine years old having a drum kit, they're just growing from there, getting to my first band of seventeen and so supporting the local music scene in Swansea has gone through a lot of tough times, venues shutting down, venue struggling to be open. So to be able to keep the keep the flame going in a place like Swansea, where I was seeing his struggling, that's that's that's quite nice to have people come out, enjoy themselves and support the scene. That's what it's all about. As well, well, see, thank god for your dad too, because I played drums for nine years, probably eight of them were with a practice pad, so but because he wouldn't get me a drum set, and then finally he got me this drum set and I'm like, this is baby shit, and it like turned me off to it because I was like, fuck, I want at the real thing.

7:34 The practice bad really fucking drove me nuts. Yeah, both my parents are very deaf now, so good. Then they did your job. Yeah, absolutely, I did my job properly so but a lot of thanks to my parents were supporting that obviously, And yeah, it's been a long journey getting here, but I'm glad to we finally making something of it. Oh when I start when I wanted to do music, yeah yeah, yeah, oh god, nine years old, first played, first played the piano, and I just yeah, it was in my granddad's office. He had a little electric piano up there. I just sat down out a tinkle on it, and I just fell in love straight away from that, and I just I think I've always wanted to do music since it was about night, I think. Nice. Yeah, I've just been determined to do that since I was about night.

8:15 No, so yeah, and that too. It's stuff like that that creates longevity because it's not like a hobby. It's something you've lived your whole life and it's part of you, you know. And I have mad respect for musicians because I played drums, I played guitar, I sang thresh meo. I sucked at all three. But the reason was I was I didn't have the same dedication dedication to music. I didn't have dedication and the work that it took, you know, And like Randy Rhodes was one of my heroes, and then I found out he practiced for eight hours every single day. I'm like, I'm not doing that sometimes.

8:56 Unfortunately, I come on from work, long day work. I'm in the studio for two hours. Yeah, exactly right. Then just making sure of them, you know, stay on top of stuff musically for the band and it's so important. Then I can relax doing After that I got doing. I feel like if I haven't done that to day, I feel like I haven't done anything doing doing. I worked twelve hours. I'm still like call apples. A couple of hours in the studio. Yeah, yeah, that's what it takes, you know, And you have to stay keep doing it, because if you're not practicing all the time, you kind of lose it, you know, like anything in life, don't use it, you lose it exactly. That's why you know you have to have relations with other humans. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials on the web. And yeah, I knew you were going to pass some mica social media acting and how they buy your merch because they can't listen to my show. And let's say buy your merch because that's the only way you get to the next gig. Absolutely, and I make sure people know that for sure.

9:53 There's there's a long list. So we have a website inescapeofficial dot com, which is where you could get pretty much everything from. The next gigs. We're playing two shots of us playing gigs. To the photos to our merch, so if you want our merch Inescapeofficial dot Com. We've also got Facebook. We're on Facebook as in scate band. Instagram is Inescape band. We've got a TikTok now as well, joining all the cool kids and trying to get a TikTok going. That's that's been an adventure. TikTok's quite different to all the other form of content to say the least. And yeah, we also have a Big cartel as well where we host our merch so escape dot bigcartail dot com. We've just released some brand new merch now which we're debuting here at Bloodstock, so if there's any left after we play, they'll be available on the Big Cartail website.

10:43 Love it well, Welcome to Bloodstock and thanks for being on the Avengers A pipe man. Thank you very much for having us amazing, Thank you very much, Thank you very much. Thank you for listening to the adventures of Pipeline. I'm w for c u I Radio.