PipemanRadio Interviews Eva Under Fire at Welcome to Rockville 2024

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure see wow, crazy young ro Why Coup America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four C why dot Com West Pompeas is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. Come on your This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with Eva from Eva under Fire. I like how you sang it. That. That's why I always have the artists do their name, because they always do something cool, whereas I might just butcher the name like yours is hard to butcher.

1:26 But yeah, I bet you people do, don't they. Well, there was the epic conversation of is it Eva or is it Eva for like I don't know the last million years, and it's like whatever, you know, call me, hey you over there. Usually it was me with the rainbow hair, and now I died my hair, so no one knows who I am, right, but we still have fun. And it is Eva from Eva Underfire, So yeah, thank you for having me. Well, you know, it's funny because you talk about the hair. Yeah, And I had gotten rid of blue for a while and everybody kept talking to me. You need to bring the blue back. Even my hair stylist, he's like, dude, you're a fucking rock star. You need the blue hair.

2:08 I was going to say, you're the peacock this time, right, normal people here going on? Right? And did I have blue hair when we talked? I don't even. I don't think so, because I had blue hair for years and then I was like, I need a change. And I've had every color there is, but blue became like my trademark every time I tried to change to a different car. Now you got to do blue. And it's like an artist do it all the time, and that it's great for this because I just tell the publicist that I don't know, or the tour manager I don't know, just look for the dude with the blue hair, blue and black hair, and you got it. That's what it is, Yes, exactly identifiable when you're supposed to stick out exactly. And I think, going back to what you were saying about your name, maybe you should write a song now is it eva or is it eva? And write a song about it? Right? That would be fun. That would be cool as hell, and like it could be like, you know, a slight against all those people that screwed up your name, but then nobody will know that's what you're really doing. See. I can't go that hard at people, though, man, and people from Detroit are way harder than You've already done it, right em And I've already got slim shady and m and then you know what I mean, he's already got the personality thing down, so I can't throw shade like that. But I'm just excited that anybody knows our name anyway. See you know what that makes you so cool that you wouldn't throw shade because I think to myself, I could never date Taylor Swift in a million years because I will end up in a song. Yeah

3:39 yeah, I mean I think it's important what you say and how you say it, and then sometimes it's really important when you just don't even acknowledge it and say nothing. I think sometimes that's the most important because it bugs people out, it does it does? People are like, oh, do you hear so? And so I was like, no, what about it? They're like, oh, well, they said this or that and about this or that person. I'm like, who right, totally unbothered. Just keep walking, you know, and I might know who it is. I'm not gonna take you know, I'm not giving energy to that, no, no doubt, Like, and I love that you're like that because I can't stand the negative energy nowadays that everybody has to throw at everybody else, Like, no, do you think you feel better being that way? Like why can't we just all love each other? Accept each other? You do you, I'll do me. So many people spend so much time talking to shit about other people that doesn't affect their life in any way, shape or form.

4:33 No, totally. I mean, the internet is so divisive. I feel like that's all people have their time to do it. And I'm like, you know what, if you put half of that energy into doing anything for yourself that was like good, right, nice, right, maybe you wouldn't be such a jerk, and then the rest of us wouldn't have to you know, we could actually like hang out instead. I have to like deal with you, you know. Yeah, but that's that's what I've seen, just you know, because I'm I'm the person in the band that does a lot of the social media stuff, and you know, so I see the trolls and whatever. You know, Chris would say that he is one of them occasionally he's the one that'll get in there with them, you know, because he's but he's just he only does so when he feels like it's like worth his time to do so. Like one of the only Internet anythings we got involved with was there was somebody who was throwing shade at a venue owner that we know personally, and it just so happened to be International Women's Day and I got online and was like, wow, at the International Women's Day, I'm about to rip you a new one. And it was our friend who owns it as women owned venue. Lots of people that work there are also like women are huge presence at this venue. So it was it was just kind of like also the perfect moment to not screw with us totally.

5:46 And so that was really the only but like you said, you know, if it's few and far between, then it's more powerful and in defense of somebody that's really helped us out in our career. So that was the only time where we've ever had any issues. That's a good reason though, because you know what, but fuck all these people, because women are like such badasses in the music industry in general. I say it before, way more than men. Okay, like can. I mean, because you guys have emotion and passion and that goes hand in hand with music. Yeah, simple, I really I think it's women are not maybe afraid like to be as flashy, right, so we'll just embody it and like I love the presence that Lady Gaga has and that Pink has. And then I see a lot of other women on stage, even here at Rockville, like one of my you know, the homies and Plush, I was like, hey, what's up. You know, I haven't seen those girls since, but we keep showing up on these festivals together, and it's like it's just a wonderful environment for everybody to come. And you know, one of the other guys in the bands told my bass player, he's like, hey, you know, it's great to meet you guys. I'm sure we'll see you around campus because it does feel very much like a campus thing. Yeah, you know, every every time we we link up at one of these these events. So I think that, you know, if there's anything that I could say to other people would be, you know, pay less attention to what's on the internet and actually get out there because people are a lot kind in their life in real life and like there's moments that are built here in person that you

7:21 just you don't you don't see on the internet. The Internet is such a different like, yeah, you can get a lot of information, but sometimes you have to watch where that comes from, you know. And then if you're there and you see it and you witness it and you're part of it, you don't need somebody else online to tell you what happened. It's just like, Okay, So the people that come to these festivals and they spend the whole time filming it on their phone, Yeah, why don't you experience it? Like I don't care if somebody wants to take a little clip or whatever share, but why are you sitting watching it through your phone? Yeah you're there, Yeah, and you're never gonna look at that video ever again more than like lets people don't yeah, right, A lot of people are just yeah. I mean, it's like, okay, delete dely because you can only have so many of them, right, And if you're like in two hours, you're three hours are days of content? You know, Like, I don't know, I agree, I think you know. I hope I hope people will take that into account the next time they go to a show. You know, at least take a few minutes and just watch right now and feel and be part of it. Like we're in mental health Awareness month. Music is the best therapy. There is not going to get that therapy if you're just watching through a phone, like, be in it, get emotional, feel it. It's not just filming it, watching it.

8:39 It's being there and being present and experiencing it. I think it's so foreign to people though now you know, it's like people don't that's that's their method of plugging in. And you're like, no, no, no, there's a different, cooler, better way here. Let me show you what I'm talking about, and you take your phone right now, look at the band I know, right, but oh I didn't know they look like that. Yeah yeah right, like and just look around and you know, but I can't fault people for you know, I exist in a weird generation where like, half of my life we didn't have any of this, and half of my life we had everything right, And so I can't imagine those people who have just never been without it, right, that's how they learn to relate and see the world literally through that sactly. But it's it's amazing when you just look at it through your ice, you know, just look at it from your own perspective, and I think it'll be, you know, a really cool experience. Yeah. So I was telling my youngest daughter one day, I'm like, some days I just want to drive down the road and take my laptop, my phone, and my iPod and throw it out the window. And she's like, Dad, who you kidding? You're just as addicted as everywhere else. I'm like, you're right, Yeah, but I also lived in time when I didn't have it and it was better. Yeah.

9:58 You know, I talk about at all the time. We have more ways to communicate than ever in history, and our communication is the absolute worst in history. And then you know things like that, it's like experiences that you miss and like some of my greatest experience there's no record of it, but it is the record in my brain. Yeah, memories, and because I experienced it. And then there's the other things that you film and let like maybe you'll look at it like a year later, like I don't even rememory. Yeah, where was that? What was that? You know? And it's like it just proves you weren't present for it, you were just documenting it. Yeah, you know, and I really do appreciate big festivals like this because I feel like more than any other single rock show, at festivals like this, people are more present. Yeah, I see it.

10:50 They're screaming with me. They are literally just like I mean, I see it in tears. I see it in you know, like people just singing along. I see people's they got both hands in there, and nobody's got a phone. You know. It is pretty fascinating a festival's experience. It's not a concert to me, okay, Like even coming to the venue and you see the sign that says concert parking, I'm like, it's not a concert, it's a festival. Yep. Different, exactly one different. So how does it feel to be here at Welcome to Rockville? I just think this is this is literally one of our favorite things to do as a band is play live. So if you can put us in front of a crazy Rockville crowd, I mean, you've just created heaven on Earth. Friend, and then you even get to drive on the daytime speedway to get to your game. Oh dude, check this out. So our drummer, Dave, he is a massive racing fan and he's never been here. So this is his first welcome Rockville with us, and so our bass player was the guy that drove us in. But like as soon as we went through the gate, he was like, hey, Dave, why don't you come up here and drive He was like the way he drove the van onto the thing, and they made sure they were like listen here, there's people that pop out of whatever, like the stands randomly to like throw you off of the track if you are beyond those yellow lines. So you cannot do that, but you can drive it on the track. And he was like, I promise I won't do anything bad. Just let me drive it on the track.

12:22 Yes, it's funny because I have my skateboard with me. And last year I was telling Christine. I was like, if I ride on the speedway and on the wall with my skateboard, well I lose my credentials. She's like, yeah, I wouldn't do that. Yeah, and so great idea. I was talking to the golf car driver when I was going to cover one of the sets and I was telling them about, oh, I want to ride the skateboard and he told me about somebody last year drove on the speedway in the places you were just talking about that. You can't permanent band for life event, folks, never can step on the venue for life.

13:03 Yeah, well I told you not to keep skate. You're showing up here with your blue hair. I've got weird people with me and they're probably like, we can't afford to give these people any extra chances. All right, just one and done. You're done. You're done. So if I wasn't here for the interview, you might have known what happened. Yeah, well you know, uh so see you see you at a different show. You know at that point we'll have to we won't see it next year, but we'll see at a different show. So let's tell everybody your socials how they can check out all your new music, yes, wor dates, your merch all that stuff. So if you just go to eva underfire dot com, we have all of the things listed. We are kicking off of the summer tour with Welcome to Rockville, so we're going to be playing shows from now until September. So just randomly though, because we're writing you album too.

14:09 Wow, So make sure that you go on to Spotify and listen to all of Evonderfire's music and in the moment once you're all caught up, I'll give you new things. I like how you put that. Yes, I think you have to do it. I think it's like movies. You can't watch the sequel until you've watched the previous. Oh totally yeah, And this new stuff is gonna be I just I literally I can't wait. Like it's it's some of our best stuff. I know everybody says that, but like I'm so I am so serious. We have some of our heaviest music. It's really really cool, Like you know, just just you see check out Spotify, check out Instagram. We'll see you guys real soon. Love it.

14:52 Thank you for being on the Adventures pipe Man and for being here at working the Rockville Thank you cheers Man. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patement on w for c u I Radio.