PipemanRadio Interviews Apathy UK at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey, you have learned too. Yes, that's true. Wow, cray you. This it's the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with up. At the UK. Nice here at Bloodstock. How do you get the Bloodstock? I don't mean driving or. How did the road lead to Bloodstock? Well, firstly we got it. We came on the coach. Well there you go. We played the Blood we played the new Blood stage two years ago. We did the Metal to the Masses. We went through that, so that was really fun. We came from Devon and Cornwall and we did that. Simon Hall watched our set when we get to guest line the next year's one, and he liked us was cool and we were like, please let's play again and nice he's brought us back, so thank you Simon.

1:02 Look at that. That's so cool. Right, you win a contest, you come play and then you're so good that you're back. Maybe that's right. Yeah. It feels very weird for me because I joined the band at the beginning of this year, so I didn't go through that. I was sort of a fan of the band before I joined, and now I'm here and I'm i don't know. It's just such a sick atmosphere and like a huge shout out to the Metal to the Masses scheme as well, because like it's just so good bringing like you know, up and coming bands to a massive festival, so it gives them such a great opportunity. It's such a cool thing too because it gives bands like you the opportunity to play Bloodstock. But even if you don't win, it gives you opportunity to gay exposure and play with all your friends. Because when I found out is the Melted Masses is you guys aren't like in competition. You're just friends hanging out, yeah, and rooting each other on. So I think that's totally cool.

2:01 Yeah. I think if you're in a band or want to be in a band, I urge you to get into Metals of the Masses wherever you're because there's everywhere. I think every county is. One, even outside the country Ibody yesterday I think it was. Now there's one in Poland as well. Right, that's been mile. That's badass. It's pretty cool. I just support local scenes. I want to shout to the Southwest scene. We've got a band playing that we're mates with called Monochrome on the new Blood stage two pm today. You'll probably be hearing this after it's happened, but support them. We've had our friends fight the chump that are playing. No, they've already played. They played yesterday, they closed the Sophie stage. So it's pretty awesome to have a couple of mates from our scene come up and do it with us.

2:43 Very cool. And so if you want to send over your mates that are still here that haven't interviewed with me yet, we'll do an interview with them too. I'll let them know. So how does it feel to be a fan and now be in the band? It feels surreal. Like I said, I've just been a fan, like I've been in pit since like one of my favorite shows, the fucking grave Walker release show that was fantastic, and then now being here and standing on a stage that massive in front of so many sick people, were playing stuff that I've been involved in writing and like recording. It's been a true honor. I'm so grateful to all the boys. Love to have so much love for the rest of the rest of the lads.

3:26 And you tell me, how did that happen? Well? I did you jump out into pensa, come play with. Us, Like you said, He's been like just an awesome mate pretty much the entire time, ever since we started playing gigs. We're about the same age. We went to bollage in the same area. That's how our bands formed, and he was in a different band, and he invited us to play in one of our shows supporting his band, and we did that. And then time past Erls has been in quite a few bands. He's been killing it. Man, he's such an He's a multi instrumentalist, fucking sit vocalistic guitar, sick bassist. Yeah, if you need fucking session musicians, hit him up, He'll probably do it. Yeah. So then our last bassist, a good friend, left at the end of last year. I think mainly just commitment wise, I think just want to Yeah, he find he found it. I don't know. I feel like I just kind of realized you wanted to do something different, which we like. We love him man, and this I respect him. So that happened, and this guy mother fucking apperiod.

4:24 Right, So his luck of going on his own journey created your luck for being in the band, and created your luck for having him in the band, so indeed, the universe just all worked out absolutely well. And now you're here playing Bloodstock. An absolute honor, absolute honor. Shout out to Simon. What do you love most about Bloodstock? Probably the music, isn't it really loud fucking heavy music. Yeah, heavy music. The atmosphere. Everyone's got so much love for each other. Everyone looks out for each other. It's such a family here, you know what I mean. The first time here and I feel so welcome or yeah it is. Too And I do lots of festivals, but because this one's like family operated diy. It really is by the fans for the fans.

5:13 I feel like you can really tell it, like you can experience that from every perspective of being a part of the festival. Having gone, I've been since twenty twenty one, so four years, being just a camper in abandoned one stage and aboud another stage and the campo again, having all of them. Everyone's so nice. All the people working in the stores are good, the people working behind the stages are good. All the security are really nice. I love here and all that being in here. This is the first last time we played. We didn't we were too scared to come in here, and now being in here, we realize it's not a scary all. See see that, Like now you know, for future reference, anything that you're scared of, just take the shot. It might not be so scary, right, very true? So what was that one moment in life that you knew music is what you had to do? And that's for both of you because you have different stories there?

6:05 Do you want to go first? Sure? I think it's a continuous thing. Sind of you got to ride it. Sometimes i'd kind of be I'm like, ah, can't be asked. But the thing is that I do I get rid of that and I do keep doing it, you know what I mean? Keep going, You gotta keep going. Like, yeah, I've been trying to This has been what I've been focusing on since I was probably sixteen, fifteen, even younger. Maybe it's all I wanted to do. And even when it does kind of get you down, keep doing it. And then there's those times like today that you realize why you're doing it and it makes up for all the times that maybe aren't so fun. Yes, how about you?

6:50 So yeah, I've been like just trying out music ever since I was quite young, maybe eight or nine, I'd got my first piano, started out on like piano and keyboards, and then just fell in love with it from then. One day I was like, must have been twelve. I picked up my old guitar I had from Primary score. Oh it's pretty cool, started playing guitar. And then I've been through like so many different like stages of like I remember, I've been in cover bands, which was awesome and taught me a lot of things, and then been through as a Oscar said before, been a lot of bands, and like I said, you just got to keep sticking with it because music is a journey. At the end of the day, it's not always going to be great, but it's not always going to be not great either, Like as moments like today where we've played to the biggest audience I've ever played and it's a nice word.

7:30 Yeah, man, does that. Blow your mind that you're playing that early and you had that kind of crowd out there? It was insane, so much love from everyone. Huge thank you to everyone who was there and showed up, even if you don't know us. Yeah, it was awesome and hopefully see you in the pit again soon. You know what. Credit to you guys though, on a Sunday after Saturday night of probably heavy partying, that people woke up to come to your set like that blows my mind. Thank you to everyone that was there on that fine morning. Right for the morning anymore, is it? I don't think so, not anymore? But actually it is for the people that partied last night. Yes, it'll be morning till like probably four. So tell everybody how they reach out to you on socials, on the web, how they check out on your music tour days, the most importantly your merch because they can't listen to my show and let's say buy merch.

8:25 Okay, wow. We are a band called app A the UK. All our socials are under that title up to the UK, possibly with a dot in the middle. We have shows up coming up. We'll Playing it Down, Yeah, Burn It Down Festival in Talkie that is at the end of August, twenty ninth of August on a Sunday. I believe we're opening a stage that's gonna be fucking. Awesome Saturday Saturday, and then we have a show with Buddy Web the day before. We play that in Bristol with monoc Room Shout at Monochrome. Nice and Bodyweb. After that, we're playing in Cornwall as well. We're playing in Houston. It's a day festival organized by our mates and Coba Mouth. They put it together. It's a big like Southwest gathering. Monocome also playing that. So if you live in the Southwest, come along, man, it's awesome down there. You meet so many cool people. Yes, much wise, come to a match, come to a show man.

9:16 We'll give you. We'll give you T shirts. We will set up websites when we could do it. We are an independent band and we do it all ourselves. So that is a mission that we will sort out. Well, if you have any you should bring me one and then I'll go back to States and show everybody. Yeah, I'll wear it that all the festivals they do there so people can see your name because you guys are badass. Thank you, bro, my pleasure. I will bring one. It does do it medium if you have medium apathy in the States, there it is, and then you could come play those festivals hopefully, hopefully, God damn well. Thanks lov for kicking out here at Bloodstock and thanks for being on the adventure as a pet man.

9:57 Thank you so much. Thank you. Michelle was my press officer for my entire fucking career here in the UK, my entire career with machine. She recently passed away and it was a very, very sad day. And I can tell you the reason that I'm gonna tell this story is because she was family. She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family. Most of the. Bass that you know and love, you probably heard of because of that woman right there. Slive Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium kills which engage, hey bread, you name it. She helped lift everybody up.

10:47 Man. She helped lift everybody up and in so many ways, she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock. Man she helped make. So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Curve. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Tatement. I'm w for c u I Radio.