Pipeman Radio Interviews Alien Weaponry at Graspop Metal Meeting 2024

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure? Wow crazy you whycoume of America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man on W four c Y dot com. Wis pomp Beats is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. This is the pipe Man, here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. Here at grass pop Metal meeting and I'm here with alien fucking weaponry. Nice. Nice, and shit it's the first day and I lost my voice because I had to go to your set.

0:55 Well, we are honored, were honored, mate, Thank you. You guys did kill it too. Man. That was a really cool, like where you guys played. It was so cool with everything they had up there, even how it had your name up there, and I wanted to sit there all day. That's like the coolest place. Yeah. I mean that stage blew our minds when we saw it as well. I mean we we were like expecting just the same old, same old visible thing and then out to him and I just said, wait until you see this fucking stage, man, And we were like, oh, it can't be that good. We get up there and it's like, what that is crazy? I was watching like clips after the show and I was like, wait, was their pirate but it was actually just on the video. Yeah, and did you see the ceiling, Like the ceiling had ship up there too that was lighting up it. It was so cool and there was stuff moving that I thought it was like really moving, but I think it was just a picture.

1:55 Yeah, great lighting. Oh yeah, totally. You know what the first thing I thought of before you guys started, I'm like, I sure hope they got their equipment here this time, because remember last time we talked at health Fest, you guys didn't have your equipment. And which band was it that loaned euter instruments? That was cool as shit. I don't even remember who it was, but I I don't actually remember the band that loaned us, but I remember it was a solo guitar that I was playing on that one, and it was oh wait, maybe not this. Yeah, it was a solo ivertune and guitar. But this time, we're very very fortunate. We've been touring now for three weeks. So when I played health Fish last time, it was the second show of the tour. Oh man, So it was we played one festival and then we lost the gear and then the next day was health fist. So this time we've managed to like no Flying because that was a fly date that show No Flying. Everything's just came with us in the bus the whole way. And now this shows are at the end. We're coming up to our last week now, so we're very fortunate, nice and so this is a bucket list festival. Huh. Oh absolutely. I mean Lewis used to watch like old sod Seats and they were playing here, and you know it was like bands like fucking Lamb of God and Sewed and just you know, these behemoths of middle and guys that we look up to and they're all playing these absolutely wicked sets at grasp Pop and

3:30 you can see why, Like it's a fucking well thought out festival. It is a cool ass festival. It's great. You know what else was good about where you played is I didn't even realize until I walked out. It started raining like a bitch, and I'm walking out and it's like, oh, I'm glad I was under this tent for that. Yeah, stay in the tent, right, they could have definitely helped own numbers. Yeah, in the tent. But then I also saw like at the back of the tent. There was a whole like like two hundred people that were like trying to push into the team, but they just couldn't because it was like sotting pack. Yeah. I would normally agree with you about it helped your numbers, but I walked up and it was already like that and it wasn't raining yet, so it was you guys. Hell yeah, I mean you can't argue with that, man, Like right from the horse's mouth. You.

4:24 So, last time we talked, we were talking about surfing. Funny thing on my way to your set, going down this ramp at a press, I ate shit because I slid down and then I kind of like I used my surfing fall so I didn't get hurt. And they're like the security came around me. I'm like, no, I'm cool, man, I surf. I know how a fall. Hell yeah, man, So what else is going to be going on after you leave Grasspop? Well, I mean we've got a few more fascial to play Healthfest named one week, and then we've got like one or two headline shows and then that's it, man, Like we're hitting Actually, I mean possibly going to go and do some recordings and yeah, big possibly on that one. Yeah, could be looking at some new music relatively soon. So people got to keep an eye on the socials. Nice, nice, and how do they connect to you guys on socials and find out that info? So Alien Weaponry that's us on every social media platform, look for the blue tech. There's a lot of fake accounts and stuff. And then all our personal social medias are linked on the band page or the easier way is actually to go on our website, Alienweaponry dot com. You can find too of dates, you can find links to all

5:54 our socials and everything else you could possibly want to see about the band. Can you tell me what this video is? That's the end when you had everybody formed the Wall of Death? Oh hell yeah, yeah yeah. I mean it's kind of become a staple in our set, the Wall of Death, you know, like, I don't think there's been a set where we haven't done a Wall of Death in years. Even when we don't tell them to do it, they just know. There's enough people that have you know, seen a clip or been to a show that are like everyone, everyone listen, this is the time in the set, sort of like Lamb of God have black label and that's always there's something that they do it right, so it's like it's become what it is and it's fucking epic every time.

6:46 How's that feel, too, though, Because to get to that point where people know when to do the Wall of Death, what song, when to do it without even saying it. Oh yeah, just kind of mind blowing, honestly, Like you never thought we'd even be over here playing, let alone having people know the song and sit so well that they just act as a unit and basically read our minds, you know. Nice And going back to his surfing, like I just got back. Well, I've been on festival since April. Before that, I was in Costa Rica for three months. I was also in Mexico. I went to San Poncho and Uh, what's the fucking other one? Sayulita or something like that. But check out what happened to me in Costa Rica. Three months there, surfing every day.

7:41 I was there for less than a week and the riptides were so bad that three surfers had to get saved by LA lifeguards and I was still out there and then I wiped out and the board hit me right in the bottom rib and I bad fucking bruised ribs for like four weeks, and I kept surfing through it. What was a trip is when it hurt the most was going out, not coming in as the wave is like breaking on my rib and I'm going goes up and like squishes your ribs up when you go over the odd na totally and then you're ready for this. Three times, apparently it was pretty bad there. Three times I got taken out by jellyfish larva, well sort of, no box jellyfish, jellyfish larva. The babies like what what people call sea lice, but there is no such thing as sea lice. They're that. Those fuckers are worse than jellyfish because they get under your rash guard, they get under all your clothes and they just jellyfish in the Yeah. Yeah, god, it was bad. It was bad there, it is. I had to keep going. I'm like, I'm only here for three months, man, I can't waste it. I'll give a ship. I'll just get it again. Yeah that's hot, cool man, that's right, big gups. And now we're here at Grasspop man, and

9:13 you guys killed it, killed it. What band are you guys looking forward to seeing today? Oh? Boy, I mean there's a few Carrie King, Yes, he's an absolute dude. We're on the same booking agent and yeah he's just fucking cool, makes great music, super nice guy two two. But like, to be honest, sometimes the best bands you find is when you just don't have a plan and you walk out and you're like, oh shit, that band sounds like some of my favorite bands. Yeah, that's what I love about festivals. That's what bugs me when people are like, oh, my favorite band canceled the festival. I don't even want to go anymore. It's not about it band when you go to the festival, it's about everybody, like go to their concert. If it's only about one band. But some of my favorite bands one playing at this festival. The first time I ever heard them was that festival Bring Me the Horizon, And then I was like, holy fuck, how did I miss this shit?

10:16 You know? Oh good fucking live shot. I've seen them a few times and it's like not necessarily like I'm not necessarily drawn to that genre, but you can't not enjoy their fucking life. That's the point, fucking good man. That's the point. That's the thing about live music is there's bands that if I heard their music like studio, I might not like them, and then I see them live, I'm like, holy shit. You know, well, I've had a few bands that were like that. I didn't really like the band, and I saw them live, I'm like, they're my favorite band. Now. Yeah. Well, I mean not to make myself very unpopular, but like limb Biscuit, I don't really enjoy listening to you know, they've got some good energy in their albums, but live as a band, right, Oh my god. Yeah, he disgusted last couple of festivals. I thought he was gonna start Woodstock ninety nine again. He did.

11:13 He was like, let's party like it's nineteen ninety nine, and I'm like, uh oh yeah, but that's what it's about there, tune. I think there were more layers to that whole thing. Everyone want likes to brain Fred, but I think it was more than just fucking Fred. He's fucking bullshit. To blame him, like blame one person, you know, come on, well, yeah, unnamed festival, but you know last year there was some reminding of that sort of last year organization from it. So yeah, I won't name him because well that'll probably get me in big trouble, but yeah, well let's do it some some complaints. I was there, yeah, and I'm telling you right now. I was helping some band protect their equipment and there were four of us holding the tent down and it picked us all up, like fuck it. And then we're holding another tent and we're getting belted by hal and then I'm watching like they had golf carts that were like the golf taxis and people were trying to fucking flip them over.

12:22 There were fires. I'm gone, like, this is gonna be a documentary. And yeah, but you know that's metal, that's you know, you survive it. So the day there's not much they can really fuck things up other than someone dying or exactly, you know, shit hitting the fan in such a way that it's not okay. Yeah exactly. So now that you've done Hellfest, you've done Graspop, you've done many other festivals, is there another festival on your bucket list that you haven't done yet? Boy, I can't think of anything at the moment, Like you've done like but I mean the Beast not You're at Grasstow. We've done the big ones. It's getting our name on the poster, but in our font is the goal now, you know, Like it's like playing one of the I mean today we played one of the indoor stag and it was like really cool, Like I had this realization that like doesn't matter when you play, you still have like a fucking sick light show. Right. But then, like, I guess our next goal is one of the main stages, but late enough to where we can have that sick light show and not necessarily have to be in a tent and maybe real fire because that fire matched you guys. I gotta say that. I was like, that is totally them. They should do that every show IROs or like I've wanted to do that for ages, but fucking

13:52 logistically you need to fucking find people with the license, and it's hard to get the license, and they're being seen in Europe's great for not caring about that as well. Like we love Europe for their just like absolutely wing it attitude. And that's why I come over here from the States. I love doing the festivals here. It's a whole different world. All in all, you get a better result ninety nine point nine percent of the time exactly. So any other things you want to share with the listeners before I let you guys go chill out. Well, if you're listening, we love you. We love you from the bottom of our hearts. Big up from Alty to New Zealand. Keep listening to us, keep listening to the radio station, and we'll see you next time we are in your area. Nice things are cooking. Keep your eyes in. His peel can't tell you waddle in, but things are cooking. Even though he tried to hint before, you haven't said much. Say something. He's chilling now, But go ahead, what's your what Lewis did? Stay tuned because what's coming is gonna be pretty sweet.

15:05 It's gotta be. It's gotta be because I don't know one song that you guys do that is bad. You know, like even my favorite bands, there will be like a song like yeah, no, I want I want to listen to that next and that you know, it's it's good to have a band in twenty twenty four that you can listen to a whole album and like every song, because that's rare nowadays. It's the way it used to be. So kudos to you guys for fucking kicking ass and fucking being here at Grass pop and fulfilling that dream. Man. I felt so good when you said that up on stage. I'm like, now, that's fucking cool and never even attended. Is the first time you're here. You're playing hell badass. Well, you guys rock. Thanks for being here and thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Hey Ida, Hi, my man means much love. By the way, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Tapement on wfur CUI Radio.