PipemanRadio Interviews Backseat Juliet at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hi, you learn too, Yes, that's true. For cray you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with with Backseat Juliet. I'm Ben and this is Robin Nice. It's like Batman and Robin. Right. I'm actually named after Batman's psychic So yeah, are you really that's so cool? Definitely. My dad is a big fan of the Adam West films, and like I grew. Up, so you know, I know the heritage and everything. So yeah, that's so funny because my like my radio name is because of my last name. But I model a lot of things have Batman, but more dark Knight Batman, you know, like I have pipe Man, I have the pipe Cave, pipe phone.

0:55 Everything sounds ideal for back Seat Juliat. Not gonna lie the pipe Man just like it's just bos in my head like this I know. Right, And then you gave me a CD here and listen, I'm from the eighties. That is such an eighties CD with the hot Chick with what's her tattoo on. There singles cool give me that poison? So it's a poison bottle as a tattoo. If you look at the new single online, you'll be able to say. Yeah, let's leave a little mystery. Now. My question is does the girl that was the model for this really have that too tattoo? And if she doesn't, I think she needs to.

1:35 I think we're going to get that tattoo if I'm honest. Oh that would be bad. How about you get that tattoo and then up on their live show when you're doing the song, you just show everybody the tattoo. Absolutely get out. I know, right, So, and I take how you're addressing like you're bringing me back to the eighties here, Like it's totally cool, and I love that because that's where it all stars. You wouldn't have a Bloodstock without the eighties exactly. How's it feel to be a Bloodstock? How you love this festival? Ah? Man, it's surreal. We still don't believe we're here now? Is how did it happen? We went through Melting the Masses competition Northampton Sheer. Honestly, we didn't expect to win, but we just kept going through and through because if you look at us, we're not your typical bloodstock band.

2:24 Right and everybody I always interview as gotten here from melting masses. They say a similar thing like, we didn't really expect to get through, and the other band they were really we think they were better than us, and then here we are, here. We are, and no, right, we were definitely heavier band. So the first band that played in our finals, I got in a circle pit in the third song and I literally got thrown into the drummer of the fifth band that were playing Who's Nose throughout the whole gig. I was like, oh see, I love that you got. That is mad and the song was fast. You got to run in a circle. It's fun, no doubt. And I saw you guys are gonna be touring Australia. That's fucking or not? No, not you.

3:06 Sorry, Oh well we're welcome. But maybe I'm putting that out in the universe. Yeah, yeah, sounds good because you look. Like you would definitely play in Australia and you could do like a gig at the ocean while people are surfing. Oh yeah, yeah see I love that day to me. Man. I know right, I think we might have to sort someone out with the drummer because he's got a bit of a favorite spiders, but we'll keep him in a box at the back. You'll be all right, Okay, so you can tell him about coming to play in Florida where I live, because when you walk through the park, up in the trees or spiders called banana spiders. Oh yeah, they're like this big. They're like, I don't know, like five inches wide. You guys got gates out there as well, though, Oh yeah, we got lots of There's times like I'm not originally from there, so when I first moved there, the gators freaked me out. Okay, yeah, now I just I walk right buy them and like, hey, what's up, dude, and keep going like their chill. Just don't fuck with their babies.

4:07 Because I had that happen. I was canoeing through the Everglades and it was mating season, them meeting, realize, don't do that during mating season, and there were these nice cute babies. So we're just saying there, oh, how cute, taking pictures, and then I hear a slam on the water and I look back. A fifteen foot mama whacked her tail on the water and went under. I'm like, we're out of here. So yeah, there's kind of a competition whether Florida or Australia has the most poisonous, dangerous shit in the world. So there sounds fun regardless.

4:47 Yeah, so like you gotta play both places. I've seen what do you get in the Amazon rainforest as well? But your record, we can get a gig just like going down to where the little part where the water is boiling, so it'd be nice and hot. There you go do a music video there. Yeah, a minute and. A half song with Anana Kanda snake coming after you and then the video ends by the snake eating mule. If I'm honest, that don't sound like fun to me. But yeah, that might that might not be so much fun. We'll do it with Cgio. Yeah, so tell me what that one moment in life was that you decide this is what you had to do? What music? Yeah? General, I definitely not interviews. And once I fucking doing.

5:29 Interview I was three years old. I had spon Jovi Live in London VHS tape that shows how long ago it was, And there was a certain bend he did during the guitar solo in Always and then you see the crowd going nuts, and I was like, I want to do that nice that that's the goal. So at some point Wembley Stadium, nice. To go home? How about you? For me, it was Jimi Hendrix when I was about eight years old. I was like, Yep, that's me. That's me. That's my personality for the rest of my life. I love it. That's badass. Now how did you guys get together? Well? I met the bass player about ten years ago in a pub, as you do, and we've only formed this band about two years ago. I knew Robin from a bape shop.

6:15 Yeah, he'sed to work in a vape shop near where we're from, in Karim. And then we had a friend of ours called Lee who kept saying, oh, you got to meet Ben, You've got to be in a band with Ben, and that I was like, the only Bend that I know. Of is like one of my customers. Oh yeah, that's him. And then I think within six months you had messaged me you'd seen one of my guitar videos and he went, I really want who my band was like, okay, my brother's a drummer, so you know he sort of comes with me. Yeah okay, and then that's cool. Put him behind the kit and he was like, oh okay, it's very loud. Okay, we just turn up a bit and then have have as much fun as you can from there. That's very cool and I love it and my ass has because you guys look like you have chemistry, like you've been friends since you're three years old.

6:56 Yeah, it's like some musicians, when you get the right musician, you just click in and it's you can't fake that. No, no, no, And it's so important for I talk about it all the time me as the listener. I want to see that you guys vibe on stage and you're having fun. Otherwise that's boring to me. Like thing we've seen multiple bands before, like when they're playing, they just stood in front of the microphone or they just stood there in front of their pedal board. There's a band who's. The guitarist throughout the whole of the show will have is just his foot on the monitor throughout the whole thing, and he's like, Okay, you need to engage a little bit more. But it's like all the bands that we watch growing up that's been so incredible. So the likes of Queen bon Jovi and stuff like that is like you've got showbuns and you anyone can listen to an album, but you go to a live show like you want to be entertained. So we always have a rule of if we come off stage and we're not sweating, we didn't do it right.

7:48 No doubt, no doubt. It is funny because one of my most memorable moments, Where's nineteen eighty three to US festival heavy Metal Day Van Hell and it's headlining. They start ain't talking about love, and Eddie is looking over at Dave because he's not singing, and then Dave just says, this crowd of three hundred thousand people, I fucking forgot the words, and the whole place fucking roared like it was the best thing that ever happened. Except one guy. One guy heckled him and he's like, I'm gonna fuck your girlfriend. That's rock and roll. That's rocking him, no doubt.

8:37 But see, those are the things to me, that's a true artist. It's getting up there having fun. Doesn't have to be right on point, Like if I want to watch the album, I'll just stay at home and listen to the album. It's gotta be a show, And like you said, engaging, it's funny what you said because a bunch of my media friends and I we talk about the US festivals. There's this one band that plays that like bores us to death because they don't move. And I like the band, but I like listening to their music. I don't. I have ain't desire to go to their live show where it should be the other way around.

9:17 I have bands that I didn't like till I saw their live show. I was like, yeah, oh my god, you know, like or bands that maybe I would never listened to, Like a couple of years ago, download my photographer friends. He goes, come on, come with me. I didn't ask any questions, Okay, get on golf cart. We go over a stage and brings me a set and I'm like, oh my fucking god, this is like the best live show ever there and it was electric. Call boy, I didna I share with us? Well way playing with them? I think they're playing with you. Yeah, there you go. So what would you say would be your most memorable moment in this whole musical journey? So far? There's been some memorable moments. See that's a hard question because there's so many.

10:09 I've got a good one and you'll hate it when he hears it. So my brother is twenty four. He's our drummer, Harry. He's probably one of the greatest drummers that I've ever played with. He's stone faced the vast majority of the time. But when we won Metal to the Masses and you hear Baxy Juliet, just to see him filled with emotion, that made me happy and then that, Yeah, that's when I knew that we were doing something good. If we can make him like emotional because of music, then yeah, then I reckon that's probably the one that's. Where for me and all they're fun. Yeah, that's fine, that's fun too, and you have to have that chemistry up on stage. Like we were talking before about just fucking round and stuff, and like I just saw an interview with Tonyaami he said, yeah, we would perform and nobody in the crowd would see, and Arsie would just come over and me and start making feet at me and like weird faces and shit, and I'd laugh my ass off. That's the way it should be like because the rest of us industry, if you're not having fun, you shouldn't be in this industry if you're not having fun, because the rest of it sucks.

11:13 If you want every performance to be unique, yeah, something different music. Industry, you should just stop at the music and then as long as you're enjoying the music that you're playing, it should be fine. If everyone just sit there. I don't like playing this song, so don't play that song. Then play a better song, playing a better song. Yeah, that's why we're happy with all the songs that we're writing at the moment. So when because we're writing a new album, we want to make sure that every one of these songs, Like if if all four of us go yeah, that's it, then we get it. Whereas if it's one person likes it and the other one doesn't and stuff, we'll stick that on the back burner and try and make that better at another time. But yeah, at the. Moment, I think it's going pretty good. Nice. Tell everybody how they can reach out to you. Buy your merge, get your music, check your to our dates.

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12:38 She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family. Most of the bars. That you know and love you probably heard of because of that woman right there. Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium Kills, which engage, Hey Reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up. 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 it. So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.

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