PipemanRadio Interviews Breed 77 at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hi, you have lunt. Yes, that's true. W for see why crazy young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four cy Radio. And I'm here with. I'm Paul and I'm sure we're breached seven seven at Bloodstock. Oh my god, tell us how you got the Bloodstock? What was the road to Bloodstock? A really fortuitous one because we've been away for a while. He played Bloodstock some thirteen years ago for the second time. We played the first Bloodstock open air way back when, and they've been kind enough to invite us back. It was a complete surprise. We have got an amazing slough at eight o'clock on the Sophie Lancas. The stage nice and the road to Bloodstock is furnished with bones and blood and the rose petals. But it's great to be here, great, great to be here.

1:05 Been over history. Yes, well, didn't we do the first open air? I just said that. I wasn't tearing there. The music's too loud. Yeah, you know what these ages? You know? And I understand this is like your biggest gig on your comeback yet, right, true, true, So it is a testament when a festival like this invites you back and especially after that amount of time, like that's a big gap and as you said, it was kind of a shocker. So what happened? Did you just get a call or an email one day and they just not real.

1:49 We got the offer, like shortly after we did our first comeback tour. You suddenly back in the pond. You're able to talk to a lot of people. We've been around for a long time, so we know people and people know us. We've grown together with this festival, with loads of other festivals, loads of entities in the rock and metal scene in the UK, and we don't take this for granted for one second. We are so appreciative of every chance that we have to put our music out there and to be able to share in this experience. We consider ourselves, you know, so so lucky. Well, well fuck that lucky, you know man, it's like it's thirty years of work got us here, you know, but we are so appreciative to be able to be around this far in the game.

2:32 Well, we're appreciated that have you here at Bloodstock, because you guys are badass. Thank you the fact, what was it. That made you wanna make this comeback at this point in time. I think it was time. You know, it was like we had the atus, but we had to do it. Yeah, we need to show everybody, and you know, like, well, yeah, you know, we had to stay. You know, it's what it is. I thought we rock. I think the final kick in the ass was COVID. Oh really, I think we'd put the band on park for so long and Covid like made you appreciate everything much more. And you're thinking, if you've had the chance once to do something you love and you have the slightest minute chance whatever of doing it again, you gotta grab that with both hands, you know, and run. And that's what we did and bring us a lot of joy to do it. And in a world so bereft of joy and good things, the more good things you can do better.

3:28 Yeah, we need you, guys, because music is the ultimate therapy and the ultimate escape from the fucking nutcase shit going on in this world? Place? Now, is it? Yeah? No? And I live in the States, So I'm sorry, Well, was sorry for you. I know. Sorry. I keep escape at the Costa Rica like for months at times. I be alone way now be there. And I love the shirt, okay, the Zeppelin shirt and well I love most of all is you could go to Zeppelin in nineteen seventy six for a donation of three dollars and fifty cents? Is that amazing?

4:08 Like you, I can't even buy a water out there right now for three hours of fifty cents. I'd to tell you something like pretty topical, like around the time of resting Powosi back to the beginning concert, like a fan of ours sent us a ticket stop from when we played with Sabbath in nineteen ninety nine. Wow, And it was like two thousand people Black Sabbath, the first reunion of the original lineup in a small venue, and I think the ticket price was like nine pounds fifty and it's like whoa, But I think it's a it's a dambing indictment because we need to have ticket prices need to be down, because like live music needs to be accessible to the kids, to the people tomorrow, who's going to be around in thirty years. We're not going to be around in thirty years going to concerts, but the kids will, and we need to do everything we can to make it much more accessible, you know, like corporations have taken over, like in my country, yeah, like every every every festivals is Coca Cola this, Percy that or whatever you know, and the branded festivals. And I think this is where Bloodstock stands head and shoulders above everybody else in the way, in the style and in the class that they do a metal festival.

5:16 And still being diy so much like come on. That means the people running as festival truly care. Yeah, you can notice it. You tell when you go around, you look at people's faces, you look you, you talk to anybody and the shared experience and Bloodstock is like not the festival. No doubt about it. What do you find the change of when you played back then to playing now? I don't know. For me personally, I think when we did the first shows that obviously the fans that came out to see us, which are kind of friends. Do we have people bringing their newbornes with them, Hey I met my wife or one of your shows. That personal thing the main thing for us, you know, just to see how fin base on whether we're at and what's happened in those times years with life. That's another thing that we at least we felt personally. For me, I think everybody would agree in the band what was that that fact?

6:13 I love that, And I was talking about just before in the eighties, when I was going to gigs, I didn't see people my age, and he didn't go to a band that was my age. Like the fact that you go see Metallica like I was at their first show ever. Yeah, And there's no way when I was at age, I would go see a band of sixty year olds. Yeah, three four generations now right, the same show. Yeah. Now. Meanwhile, now I brought my son into his first marsh bit. I brought to of my grandsons into their first marsh pit, and that would never appen. My dad would have never brought me to a marsh pit or a show like And then pricing, talk about pricing. We were talking about that.

6:56 How do kids today afford to go to these shows? I couldn't afford it when I was paying two dollars for a ticket to see Metallic or Slayer and a T shirt for five. Are these kids scraping it together hundreds of dollars? It's ridiculous. It becomes restrictive. Yeah, we the youth need to be exposed to music. Music is the best therapy. I have this viewpoint. By the way, if we took the whole world and forced them to go to one big music festival, specifically our type of music, we could solve all the world problems and everybody wouldn't be polarized and we'd all be united for a change.

7:40 And it is, Yeah, it is a unifier. I think, like it's a no brainer. It's a communion of people like that realize that, like they've never been around so many people that have, don't judge them, are so open, so accepting. It's like once you get it, like a nation of misfits. Everyone who's been chucked out of everywhere. Now with them are you And it's a beautiful ton of the tables. And thank god nowadays we are a family opposed to against each other. Like in my day, I was a long hair I couldn't go to punk shows. Punks couldn't go to my shows. And it was stupid reading your T shirt. And that's for Sophie Lancaster too, you know.

8:20 And how about this my original battle vest Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, look at. That right, that's that's a life well lived exactly. Not only that, but if I was a kid at that time, I couldn't afford some few hundred dollars pre made battle vest I made my fucking owns. You know, and that I think that's the thing now, isn't it right. We gotta bring stuff like that back, lower prices, get the youth involved, and I think that'll be better for the world in society. So tell people how they can reach out to you now or splitzers that probably never add a chance to its be exposed to you. Don't check out your music tour dates, merge everything first protocol.

9:17 You can find us at Facebook dot com forwards, Fastbree seven seven, There'll be links to everything else. We're not that well versed in all this social stuff. Well guys from way back handing out posters and flyers after gigs, but everything's on there. We've got a new album coming out, it's called seven, and we'll go anywhere and we'll do anything to be able to further this message and get this comeback to stick. Nice. Can I write you a letter to get one of your tapes for the new album? Yeah? I miss it, Yeah, I miss those days, the tape trading mate. Yeah yeah, yeah, I think not when there was a physicality to it. You take more ownership of an object like that then you're just streaming another thing onto your phone, well have you. But we live in a brave new world and you adapt to die, and we're trying our best, you know, to keep up with the times. But the endgame is to get physical people to come to the physical realm at places like Bloodstock and be able to see us life.

10:14 Absolutely because whoever wasn't here and missed your show, they missed a lot. So they need to go check you guys out, and find now where else you're playing and support bands like you that are keeping this great family alive. And thanks for being here, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you pipe Man. Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking career here in the UK, my entire career with Machinat. 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 because she was family. 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. Slive Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium Kills, which engage hey reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up.

11:24 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. Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio.