PipemanRadio Interviews Asking Alexandria at Rocklahoma 2023

0:04 Hey, you Loveland too? Is that sure? From four see Wow, Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man on w for cy dot com west pom Beats his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w for c Y Radio and I'm here with Sam and Cam from Askin Alexandrew Nice. So have you been to Rocklahoma before? I can't even remember.

1:00 I think we've played it twice. I think twenty nineteen and yeah then was it soon? No, I'm sure we've done it twice before. It's been a long time though. Yeah. So I gotta say, like, okay, we always talk over here how the UK and the European festivals are better, and like I just got back from Bloodstock and download. Okay, but this festival is really wanted to killer American festivals. Have you have you guys ever been out to the campgrounds. I've not been to the compgrounds. I'll they fucking grab a golf cart. I'll go right ah there I walk. I can't even walked to the katrie now here. It's so hot, I know, right, So there are golf carts out there, like that'll bring you over there. But it's a it's a sight to see, especially at night. There's a strip club campsite and at the end of the way night when everybody's walking out, they're stripper and they're all crowd there. It's like, I've given you the intel. I've given then we need to exchange numbers, sir, meetingmation. That's right, that's right. Bad things.

2:12 And now here's another great one. My neighbor out there. It's a school bus. They built a platform up top and everybody's partying on that platform and offering beads for any women that will show their breasts. It's Monty g yeah, and they're believing there's a lot of women out there willing to show a lot of beads, a lot of beads out there, and being being like you're drinking now, of course there's bars at campsites out there with free alcoholic thing like usually when he comes to festivals, you're out there in the middle of nowst you have to meet your own entertainment, now you Yeah, yeah, that's what makes this play so cool. You know. People take it upon themselves to build a campsite strip club. Yes, I mean Now that's the reason to stay after your set and come hang out with us. Oh I would love nothing more than to be able to stay and see Limbiscuit.

3:07 We're currently in the process of trying to change op's call so we can do that's otherwise we're gonna miss him and I'm not I'm not about We gotta make that happen for sure, make gotta make it up. Five hundred mile drives, it's a long drives. The next one, but where is the next one? What's the next one? Where we are absolutely no, I'm pulling out my phone right now. Now, do you guys drive yourself or you have a drive? We have a drive? Okay? Good? Because oh yeah, I go absolutely insane every time I do download and blood stuck because I'm like, what the fuck are these people doing driving on the wrong side of the row? WHOA, yeah, you're gonna say that. I thought you were talking about like getting in and the festival, Well that too, you know what. I'm media And I was stuck in the queue for download for four hours to get in is a huge festival. Oh my god, it's Hobbs. That was amazing and I love it. It's legendary and playing there is always such an honor. But the logistics in and out they're a bits they're they're a bit trickier. And you know that bridge that it's like this old bridge when you leave there, I'm actually a sleep when I'm yeah, entering and leaving. Yeah, that's a scary. I got pulled over by a cop going over that bridge because I was going so slow because I'm freaking out because I'm on the guy Yeah, pulled the big too slow.

4:33 Yeah, the way I'm on the rock side road. I'm like, the fuck, I can't judge. I can't judge it. And then cop pulls me over, okay, and they coach comes in the back of the car. Now in the United States, that means you're going to jail. So I'm like freaking out and like that their question They thought I was drunk because I was driving so slow over the bridge. Give me the check. Yeah, yeah, totally. But they were nice as shit in the end. Okay, But at first I was it's like, fuck, I'm going to a British jail because in your mind you're like, I'm way over the limit right exactly, Like can you imagine like just pulling over like ninety five percent of the people and everyone. It's just been clearly been a terrible I'll tell you what blows my mind at UK festivals is guys whipping it out and pissing right in the middle of the crowd. They don't even walk to the wall. Dude, I've seen something. I've check this out. You see guys doing it, but women are doing it too. There's a thing we have you seen the SHEWI tell me about that. You should google, she Wei. It's the it's the women that go to festivals or wherever else in the out in the wilderness or whatever. They need to do their business just like everyone else. You know. It's a funnel. So I was walking around. I don't know if we're in Germany and that all the dudes along the fence peeing against the fence, but there's all these women and doing it to him, right, Yeah, I saw. I should they have to line up because we're able to give him And I did see. I did

6:06 see women walk up to the troughs. I don't even I'm American, so I don't like pissing in that trap. I don't want to be sitting there with twenty other dicks. Okay, dude, pop up Pirate? Heard about that guy? No, tell me about that guy, Karen, You want to tell him about pop up Pirates? It download crawling? What year was the download? When you inst multiple years pop up Pirates? So obviously when everyone this is one of the most horrific festival story ever. I don't know where everyone goes. Let's take a ship, right, it's just in Ga Like it is just a trough of a hole that they've dug out for people to sit. There's a dude that when with a snorkel and a mask and dove in there and he would pop up while people were taking ships and like scare him and stuff. Holy shit, And I think anyone who went to download exactly I don't right, that will get all you never knew when he was. He's a real thing. It's like me, bring a sledgehammer so you can play whack them all with them? Oh my on came quite became quite a legend. So how do you top that? I don't think you can. I don't think so either. I don't know if you legally, I don't know, dude, legally, illegally doesn't matter. So what you guys got going on after Rock Oklahoma. What you got was googling it?

7:33 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Actually see I love this though, because I know that feeling. It's like I have beating because I go and do all the festivals and my daughters will ask me, so, which is the next one. I'm don't. I know where I'm obviously right then where I am I right now, I've gotta check. I know I've got just me. I'm useless. But besides where you're going, like, new stuff's going on that you want to talk about. We just dropped a new album. Yeah, you know, it's a really exciting time at the moment being able to play new some of the new stuff live and see how how are people receiving that, Because you know how people are, they might hear the old stuff, so new stuff, you're like kind of scared to play that. I'm not scared of all for playing it because we just we we've we've played a couple of singles from the record before it came out. We're in Europe.

8:22 And the response to the new stuff because it's a bit heavier. I like that better so our old stuff. People will say it's heavier with this new album. That we've just put out is a mixture of everything. We're not shying away from some of the earlier materials, some of the earlier influences that we had, and it goes off. It's really going off live. The new stuff is going down almost better than some of the older stuff. Like you see, that's so not moving, dude. I want to see people moving again. I like I like playing heavy music. Yeah, me too. Listen, Like, if I can get in your pit, then I like your music. That's the line. There you go. I was at download those in both my Metallica pits, the Slipknot and to bring Me to Horizon. I will tell you bring me the horizon. Blew them all away.

9:05 Really yeah, but it was a fucking amazing pit and it was so cool to see them, just like seeing you in your home country because it's kind of a little different due to headline. Download is honestly the pinnacle for us. As you know, we've lived in America for a long time, but we are British, our whole families, right. I think we've grew up there. I've moved here when I was seven, seen with asking and stuff. But to do download, headline download and I know, right. Most of respect to the Bring Me guys for doing what they've done and getting that and not just headlining download bringing it too. I actually put they put on. I've seen them so many times. It's the best show I've ever seen. I saw them a couple of weeks later in West Palm Beach, you know, they were on tour with Fallout Boy. I was telling the girl I brought, like, you gotta check out their show. But then because they weren't the headline or it wasn't their full show, they were still great. But there's rules that play in there that they've got a followed it exactly. It's nice to see about given that opportunity really actually step up and show you what the because they're so creative as well, like Ali, I think it was really involved in like even the production inside. Oh yeah, let's create something totally. They're only an hour away from where we live as well. So like, huge respect. I'm so glad to hear you say that. You know why, because there's so many people that give them shit for what they're doing now and and straying away from their origin of deathcore.

10:39 You know, but I think artists like you guys just keep pushing the boundaries. Well, people don't realize you grow as musicians and like I always said, I don't want to play the same song on every album. You know, we don't either. I get it, completely get it. But you can tell there's no lack of like there's a secret. Also in whatever they do that you can tell it's just quale. It's like quality, like it's just what they're doing. You know. The music is incredible, Like yeah, I know, but it's it marries with the visual everything. And I'm saying it's because you're a new album and talking about being heavier and stuff. To me, it's the same thing. It's like you're doing what you want to do and as musicians you've evolved gotten better at your craft so much.

11:22 It's such a well rounded album in sense in the sense of that we've not we've not shied away from the oldest stuff obviously, right, also the new sound that we've been you know, we've gone on a journey in the past sorry, the past like five years at least of these past few albums of making some really powerful emotional music that we're really proud of. But it's an amalgamation of that and some of the oldest. It's everyone because we've we've got fans that love us for some of that music, and they don't really know necessarily the earliest stuff, the heavy stuff, and it's it's nice to see everybody happy. I almost say, I almost say it's better that way at some way. Like there's bands like I went to Metallica's first show ever, Slayer's first show ever, so I'm like, any album after Kill Them All or Show No Mercy it's downhill, yeah, you know. But then like bring Me, I didn't. I didn't really know them till like either Sempatornal or even like that's the spirit, So I'm not one of the gatekeepers for bringing me, you know. And it's like I have a different view.

12:22 Good day exactly, it's exactly what it feels like the right. But also you've got you know, then you've got the realm with funds that have been there since day one through your growth and do you get it. Yeah, that's so that's the best right there, the people that can see that and you can get on that level with them, like that's what makes it all worth it. That's the best fucking album to fall that like Suicide season like hole a shit. It was like the album was like insane, right, it was like game changing for like the whole scene in England like where we yeah, yeah, where we were like grown up. Well you know it's well you should say that because like once I got to know them, like I saw them at a festival, I was like, holy shit, I'm in love with this band. And that's the cool thing about playing festivals because I would have never known otherwise. But then I went to their back catalog and so to your point, it's like get people interested in and then they can discover all your stuff. And you know, I just think it as well, like if the artist isn't excited about what they're doing, you're not gonna ever get what you want. No, you have to be it's gonna be honest, and it's gotta be done at a time where it's makes sense.

13:35 Otherwise you're just gonna get some manufactured bullshit that sounds like everything else. That's the problem I think nowadays as an old school gatekeeper, you know, like and I'm not anymore, But the fact is is that you know, you look at some of this stuff today and I see some of it as just they're just going through emotions, plugging in this formula. Let's not forget these jins and these pioneers. The pioneers, they don't just say keeps these bunds from like you know, the ogs. Yeah, they will once change. They would want seen as the guys that were changing it, exactly, the ones that were keeping it and exactly like the innovation was there from the get go, and people seem to sometimes forget that. Yeah, music and creativity is always that, and if it's not, it's just it's a form of expression. So if you're gonna do music, you gotta be real.

14:24 I can tell if you're up on stage and you're not into it, and like this is the wrong fucking business if you're not into it, because there ain't no rock stars anymore. Like, sure, you do it because you love it, you know, I couldn't imagine doing anything else. And everyone, dude, this is me. And every time I see you guys, that's what I see on stage, you know, And there's other bands I don't see that. Like it's like I on even want to go out of the man Like we've we've been doing this together the same guys for a long time. It's nice to look around and see the same and that's rare, rare. Well, this is some special because magic cannot oh yeah, one hundred percent because you have this bond and you know each other. It's just like that than anyone. Yeah, it's like my engineer, he knows when I'm doing my show what to do before I know, you know, because if you find that team or that connection, like yeah, so give everybody out, they should have it array. But give out your socials, your website and how they can buy your merch and check out everything. Yeah.

15:26 Wow, let me just get the one page out. The handles are asking Alexandria on Instagram. You can find us on Spotify, Apple Music, you can stream and pick up buy music anyway. You can buy music pretty much. But yeah, a new album, Where Do We Go From Here, came out August twenty fifth. Go and check it out, like I said, stream it, buy it, just check it out, and where do you go from here? Right, that's the question. Right, everybody's got to buy that new album because I'm sure it's badass as hell. And I like the fact that it's heavier, so that's cool, and you'll see it live today and I like that it brings in old too, Like that's a hard thing. You just tie everything together. Still all sweet spot, man, it feels great. Yeah, it's still you. It's just the oldest the foundation and these are the building blocks. But like asking Alexandre, like I would say, like, it's such a complex cake with so many ingredients and stuff, and you can't I don't know if we've been doing it so long, it's like you should. My opinion is you shouldn't shy away from some of the ingredients that make us who we are, and that's what makes you easy. Exactly exactly, even if it's music or influences from ten years ago, like we've got you know, we're such a melting pot as a band, and see, that's what makes you great. In my opinion, we all have different stuff and it comes out because otherwise you sound like everybody else nowadays. That's the way it is, like if you're not that melting pot, you just every band sounds insane because there's so many of them, so you have to stand that. Yeah, yeah, exactly, one hundred

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