Pipeman Interviews Chaos Reigns at Hellfest 2025

0:00 Hi, you have done to Yes, that's true for Why Crazy Young. This is the pipemin here on the Adventures Pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here. With Jason from Chaos Reins and let me introduce you to the band. So yeah, we've got Joe Griffin on guitar, Daryl Butcher on guitar, Billy Padmore a writer and bassist, and Dave Morris on the drums.

0:48 And I can't believe I had to leave the UK and leave download to come to Hell first to see you guys kick ass here. I mean that. Yeah, to be honest with you, we were hoping that our first major fest we might be closer to home, but start the top right exactly. Man, oh, but you guys killed it. Like how'd it feel being this early in the day before like anything's really going on and having that kind of crowd out there. Billy, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, yeah, weird, just because we used to playing gigs where no one knows us anyway, and that's in our home country, whereas now we're in another country and be people there enjoying it.

1:29 I even saw a woman on the front road singing along and not just like wow, not just like a little phrase like she knew the song and I was like, that's that's crazy. So I don't know how that happened. Does that blow your fucking mind or what? Yeah, Like there are other bands to listen to and learn the words for, like. Like just on that one. Like I've not been a front man. For very long or a lyricist, so like whenever people actually sing my lyrics, like that's something I just never get over, like ever, I. Know it probably never will. No, I don't think so, I don't. I haven'tant that magic to FA to be. Fair, And you're a great friend, man, because I saw you go out there in the crowd and they were I got a video of them throwing you up and down in the pit. They almost chopped me on my head.

2:09 Yeah, like you're brave. I like the pick because I'm in control. Yeah. I don't do the crowd surfing because they will drop your ass. Yeah. I mean if I die, I die, right, Yeah. Hey, if you got die, it might as well be in hell. Right, how fucking Yeah? Sorry, can I swim? You can say whatever the fuck you want, so tell you know, they say in the program they give your genre I hate fucking genres because it boxes URIs in. How do you describe to listeners who have never heard you before? Skiffle? I fucking love that. Okay.

2:49 Maybe comparisons is like we get a lot of like every time I die, dylaner Gallows type references. Usually we want to be yeah, yeah, we also idolize these people, so it's who we want to be. Eventually, I told us listening, yeah, take us out with you please. I totally see the Dylan jerk too. Oh thank you. Okay, I just saw them recently too, and like, oh my god, it was so. Fucking GOODA that's not fair. It was so fucking good. But you guys were better. We're so British, I know, right, what part are you from?

3:30 So we're all from London actually okay, I recently moved to Cardiff, which is in Wales. Yeah, but we are a London man. Yeah, okay, so you want to laugh. I was married to a British girl. Oh okay. She came over his estates. She had this hoity toity queens. I'm the Queen's royal English shit nose down to Americans. We're better than you. I found out after we got divorced. She's from Newcastle. Why that was pretty. Good because her accent wasn't like that. I think she really practiced the Queen's English because I never heard Jordy accent ever.

4:12 We actually have a Northerner with us. All right, let's hear it, choke, I'll do, I'll yeah, she said nothing like that. We have to translate him. Listen, I'm understanding these French people easier than him. But I think, Okay, So a lot of my friends, first time I ever went to Birmingham, They're like, you're gonna not gonna understand a word they fucking say. I'm like, come on, you can. That's so perfect because I can't understand where any of them fucking say.

4:53 But man, so what's next? How are your top hellfest headlines? Headline split up? Yeah? I mean, well, we hope that we make it enough of a dent here and maybe this I was hoping that this would be the start of some really cool things for us. I think it is. Yeah, like why that started up this hike? I want to tour mainland Europe. Really, that's the next goals on the UKFA A few times. I want to spread out? Really, is there one country that in particular you really want to play. Inside Germany for the scene. Yeah, good article metal scene there and everything. Good venues and festivals as well. They care about the music totally.

5:35 We've played with a few German hardcore bands as well, and so like, yeah, just the scene, the energy, like the community there, it's fantastic. It is. Well, like I lived in Berlin for a year as well, Like it was a very cool, cool place as American. The first time I went to Berlin, my mind was blown because we have this image of Berlin that's still in the fucking Holocaust time, okay, and I went there like, oh my god, this is the best music scene ever. It was so yeah, it's wild, isn't it. And just like it's a melting pot of different genres as well. You can go from a techno dungeon into like some SCRAMs grindcore concert like next door to each other, and it's right, the energy is still right up.

6:18 There, totally cool. So what is it that brought you Labs together? So I formed the band like I just wanted to be in a hardcore band because I didn't really know anyone that liked it. So I just wrote some demos, posted them on Facebook, and then I got some responses from that. Went through a few lineups. I think basically that's how pretty much everyone in the band has joined, like I responding to post on social media. So that's cool, Well done, mister Zuckerberg. Yeah right, at least you did something right. Yeah, yeah, that's basically it. Yeah. Well, Dave and I went to the same UNI, but on separate courses, so we didn't meet until he joined the band. I don't even know were we at the were there at the same time.

7:03 So there's a place over there somewhere that's doing tattoos. Yeah, I think you need to go and get your tattoo there. Changed to heal Fest oh yeah, yeah, or you could just add hell Fest on the other side. It's changed. Yeah, tea hell fist. Hell fist because he's got a tattoo, says hell Fish. Yeah, so it be hell fished. Controversially, I probably like the Simpsons more than I like Metal, so I think I'm going to have to keep it. Well. It is the longest running the cartoon or TV series ever in history. Yeah, ever in history. I remember like watching it before I even had kids, like when I was young, and that, and then my kids, I'm like, we used to have Thursday Night with the Simpsons, like that was family Night. Was I think it might have been fucked up on my part because it was my idea, but it's like we had to have family Night with the Simpsons.

7:58 Yeah, for us, it was in a so it used to be when we were kids. It was on like BBC at six or six thirty. I remember the first time I went on holiday when I was like six or seven. I don't have any siblings, so I was the only kid on holiday and I was like, I hated just being on my own. I was at least at six o'clock we can watch the Simpsons. Not in Spain. I cried. I cried so much. Take me back to England where it's Simpsons and civilization. Yeah, and you got archives of pop culture on your hat. Okay, have a trivia question? Yeah, what is Jaws? The origination of that movie Jaws? Because you have Emily Island, which is Jaws.

8:42 What do you know? Yes, see, do you know where that movie came from? Because it's based on a true story. There's a book and it has some relation to UK. But it's a weird relationship. This is going a bit too deep. Yeah, what is it? So I'm New Jersey. Yeah, okay, it's not a great way. It's a bull shark that attacked a family in New Jersey in the Masquan River. Oh so rivero. Yeah, so I get I gave the UK connection because of Jersey and we're New Jersey. I just had to throw you off track. But I was just battle bored in a few weeks ago in my backyard and some bull sharks went under me.

9:24 I'm like, oh fuck, I'm gonna go the UK. I'm gonna raise you one. Jorge Trivia. Okay, that's the woman who so you know that, there's the little boy Alex Kinner who gets eaten, the woman that plays his mum, the one that slaps Brody for not closing the beach. Like thirty years after the film, she went back to Amity Island just to be there. There was a seafood restaurant. She went in and there was a burger called the Alex Kinner Burger, and she spoke to someone behind the council was like, oh, I played his mum in the film. That person when I got the manager, it was Alex Kinner all grown up, so he ran the and that was the first time they saw each other since the film. That's pretty cool. Chaos Rainsburger. Yeah, there you go right here at hell first.

10:07 Yeah, you can. You have it right here at hell first. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials, on the web. Check out your music, buy your merch because they can listen to my show and let's say, buy your merch. I spot all the usual places, but I suppose the place where most active is probably Instagram, yeah TikTok. So yeah, like our social handles across everything is basically chaos rains UK at chaos rains UK. Our website is chaos rainstock code dot uk. Yeah, so Spotify chaos frains UK. Also Spotify is just chaos rains yeah. Yeah, yeah, just punching chaos rains angry small front man that climbs on things and it will probably come up with what you need. There you go. Yeah, and then so what's your most what's your TikTok that you're most ashamed of?

10:54 My TikTok that I'm most ashamed of, probably all of them. Yeah, admittedly, like I really had to to like have a serious word myself before joining that platform. Yeah so yeah, really yeah, probably all of them. I would say, there you go. Well, chaos definitely reigned here at healfest in a good way because the rest of the world it's a really bad way raining Okay, oh yeah, so thank god you were here because you guys fucking killed it. Thanks set this place on fire. So we're now in hell because of you. Yeah, yes, absolutely. I got a quick question, So are we the shortest band by average high as a group? Are we the shortest band that you've interviewed?

11:38 Well, I'm gonna answer that two ways. One is, I'm very thankful because I'm short and I feel tall with you guys. That's the good thing. But I've also interviewed. Right, but yeah, there's been shorter but they're usually the Asian bands that I need a translator. Okay, yeah, you may be. The first one that speaks English. Oh yeah, well, we try our best, but we usually describe ourselves as the shortest hardcore band in the UK. I love that no one's taken our title. Yeah, so if there's anyone out there who wants it, let's have it. Yeah, what is amazing about that? If step up? If you look at a lot of rock bands, especially the well known, they look big up there. Like one of my best friends is Damn Spits from Anthrax.

12:24 He makes me look like I'm the size of Doyle. They're far away in it. They're just far away in the distance. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Up close, it's like. Light light heightened people. Yes, exactly, you have to. Yeah. I remember when I joined the band. The first thing that they were scared of that I was six foot. You are a towering over the tallest, but not six ft. Yes, I'm like five ten if you round up. Okay, So, since we're on that kind of thing. Since you guys are from the UK, specifically London, who's the one that drinks the most?

13:05 Dave? Of course he's got the Drake in him. Right, born and bred East London is part of the culture man. That's right. I think we did one gig where before going on stage, I think you'd had eight Guinnesses and four double Jack Daniels and cokes. Elliward's probably better, right, and. He plays better than any drum right now. See that's what it takes. One of his worst shows was when he went on stage totally sober, and it was awful. He was sloppy as anything, well because. He probably didn't know what was going on. Well, you guys fucking rocks. Thank you so much, thanks for being. Here, Thanks for being on the Adventures Man. Thank you, thank you, Thank You for listening to the Adventures of plate Man and w for CUI Radio