PipemanRadio Interviews Headcount at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey, you have done too here. That's true for see why crazy your. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, And I'm here with Alfred from headcom nice here at Bloodstock Man. Yeah, I might not a story of the road to Bloodstock, the. Road to Bloodstock for you. Well this we're actually very fortunate. This is actually our tenth gig as a band. We're still fairly fresh. Yeah yeah. So we did our debut last November tween twenty four and so far it's just been an ever evolving process of like, okay, cool. We always look back at our last show's right, how do we improve on that? How do we improve on that?

0:46 We're all of this weekend, we've been watching all the big bands. We've been going, right, cool, what are they doing the we're not? That looks cool? Like, how could we bring that to us and make that our own? So it's been an interesting journey. There's been mistakes along the way to fit one hundred percent, but it's been a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, I love it. Tenth gig and you're at Bloodstock? Does that blow your mind or what I think? We all like a challenge, you know, and I think we were all kind of like, right, this is where we want to be. So it just eyes on the price when you ride motorbikes, so you always look where you want to go, not where you're going, do you know what I mean? Otherwise you come off. So that's this is it? So yeah, it's amazing. Well I've seen so many friends here as well. Everyone's overally really lovely, So it's like a big family here massively.

1:28 That's what's cool. A lot of times a big festival it may not be like that, but here it's just a community and family. Yeah. Yeah, I mean everyone's your friends. You don't even have to have met them before, and it's like, hey, Frian, how you doing nice? Nice? Yeah? And as a band that only has this is your tenth gig ever, yeah, how do you treat it as an artist at Bloodstock? Like you know, because some places it's like depending on the hierarchy is how you're treated. But yeah, I think it's a little different than Bloodstock, isn't it. Yeah, the new blood bands get looked still quite well. Especially Yeah, we've got access to all the VIP areas. It's been cool that we can go in and network. It's basically not to put it like this, it's like a huge breeding ground for networking. We've been really, really fortunate with being able to even just be here. We've had help from all of the Bloodstock crew. We've had tours everywhere, we've been shown, do you know what I mean.

2:17 We've been loved. We've not just been looked at as like, oh, you're like bottom of a barrel, so like, go away, I love it. See, I love hearinget. That's the beauty of Bloodstock goes. It doesn't matter if you're a band on your first gig or you're an icon like Gojira. Yeah, yeah, you're treated the same. Yeah. Yeah, it's been great. It's been lots of fun, lots and lots of fun. And so what do you think about the headcount of the people in the crowd here? Wow? You like that pun? Yeah? I did like that pun. That was actually really good. It's massive, like it's huge. I don't know if anyone caught us. We were all in the pit for Kob LIKEKHM the crowd surfing. We were thrown down with all our friends and it's just been insane, like there were so many people there that you couldn't get a circle pit going because there was so one in your way, you know, it just wouldn't move.

3:01 It was like a tin of sardines. It was packed. This year's definitely, to be fair, I've never been to a Bloodstog before, but really it's the first impression as well. Yeah, but it's from what I've seen, everyone's like, this is huge. So we've taken that on and just gone right right, I guess this is as big as it gets so far anyway. So what is it that one moment in life that made you think this is what I need to do. Music is where I need to be. Definitely it was when my dad showed us all of the old Iron Maiden out of that albums and stuff like that in ac DC and then all of those sort of bands you just you see these rock god icons. I think we're beyond that whole guitar god era, but that's what inspired us. And it's like the Randy Rhodes with Ozzy Osborne and May You Rest in Peace, you know.

3:42 So it's it's seeing all of that there and it's that right cool, that's where I want to be. That I want to be the entertainer. I got to see Randy live, did you actually, oh my god, what year nineteen eighty one? I think really like right before he died. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, because that's honestly, I've studied those like you, just because there's no tab for like the live performances of like mister Crowley where if he does the extended solos and you sat there like zooming in on YouTube like all right, cool, I'm pretty sure that's the fifteenth frat right, I'll do that. You know, you're watching him, you know, for hours and hours and hours. There's a lot of dedication. And you know what I love is that you said about your parents because in my day, we had to discover it on our own. We didn't have parents like bringing us to shows. My dad were never showed up to this like you know, like it's like they wind us to let's say, have Frank Sinatra.

4:36 Well this is it. We got a little bit of Frank Sinatra as well. You know, we've got some of those old classics especially, you know, and something that I realized very soon on into my kind of metal career, if you will, I was watching an interview with Dave Mustainable people and he was saying, if you want to learn to play like your heroes, listen to their heroes. Listen to who they were listening to. So if you want to play like Ozzy Osbourne, you listen to the Beatles. Yes, even to be fav and Dave Mustain was the same, but that sort of thing, you know, And he was listening to a CDC and it's all those like again, it's those rock god guitars, and you said, right, cool, that's what inspired the new wave of fresh. Right, you know. So yeah, well we didn't have the megod est, the metallic and and players without that, and we don't have the head counts without that. You know.

5:22 It all started back there, and not just Sabbath, but bands that weren't metal, that weren't even hard rock. Yeah. Yeah, it was like an evolution, it really was. And the thing is also absolutely adore audio production, so research and how people got the sounds, how they achieved that slicing into the speaker cone just to get some distorted and then they throw it in the bin afterwards because they ruined the speaker. Obviously, it's just learning how to do this sort of thing. Even from a young age, we were like blowing up amplifiers, trying to be like, all right, cool, this is how we get distortion. I haven't got eatstortion pedals, but I'll just crank this, this, this and that. All right, cool, We're good to go. It last five minutes and then you see smoke coming out of it.

6:03 It's like I used to take music while I was a teenager and play it through my guitar ample of Vien put on the distortion. Yeah, yeah, well this is it. Yeah, and then you just get that beautiful saturation, isn't it right? Right? Yeah, And you're right like we used to. You had to be creative back then. But also in the same token, like as somebody that stays sound like yourself. It's like the analog and the digital. The digital's missing the mids. It's like the chop of the digital posted a wave of the a little bit. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think there's always going to be the tone chasing of the old analog days. But I think there's definitely benefits of the digital era when we talk, when we go out and place shows of headcoumt with like Camper's stuff like that, just to make our lives easier on the road, but if we got the opportunity to, like in the studio, we'd use the real thing. So it's just having that that's a blessing. We'll accept the blessing and not like take it for granted. Right, it's the convenience of it as well.

7:00 It's both. Yeah, yeah, you just take the best of both worlds. And that's what we kind of like. All right, this works. We like the sauce absolutely. Now, how would you describe your music as an artist, not with a genre, not with label, but for listeners, I've never heard you. Cutthroat? Definitely cut throat. We like our sets to be like hot intense. It's gotta be fiery, no breaks allowed. In our recent show that got us here to Bloodstock thirty minute pitch straight, there was no stopping. It was straight balls to the wall like some saucy crossover fresh. So we had breakdowns. We've got two steps stuff, we've got the frashy stuff, We've got a little bit of everything for everyone. I love it and that's what we want able to just get down with us, down with headcount. Will you think of my battle vest me?

7:43 Oh cool? Look at that hold on some old school venom on there as well. Look at that Stormtroopers have death nice sod misfits. Oh mate, Oh you've got the exploited. On here as well. Yeah, GBH is on here. Oh dude, you've got our suicide tendency is nice. Ye, I'll see the GBH one Megadeth nice one Slayer. Slayer didn't even have a patch yet. Oh no, look at that? Is that Exodus at the Is that the original logo? Your original excess logo? Nice dark Angel? Oh yeah, yeah, I see that. I see that. Oh dude. Yeah, you've got some proper names on here for sure, Broken Bones honestly, yeah, look at that. I think I have hell Hammer on here somewhere, Battalion Saints boy vot dudes, fear.

8:27 I've just seen the Metallica pin there as well. That's only Pinn that survived. Dude, honestly. Yeah, some killer names on here as well, dirty rting imbeco is nice. Love it, love it? And look at at what you're looking at. No posers, Yeah you wouldn't have that. That's how it was, wasn't it. No posers? No posing loud rip your battle check it off of when you Oh yeah, no Motley Crue around here. Oh, let me tell you what you sap that Slayer show. So the first show I ever went to in a club in my life was Motley Crew at the on the Sunset Strip before they had an album. They were like horror punk, and they they were light and trying to light the roxy on fire to bring Satan in.

9:10 And I was like, oh my god, I'm never going to a real concert ever again. This is awesome. And then once I started getting the Slayer, my friends are like, you gotta burn that Motley Cruise shit. You would go to a show and somebody was wearing a Motley Cruise shirt. At a Slayer show, somebody would rip it off and throw it up to Tom on stage and he would burn it on stage. Yeah, I think it's kind of fucked up now. Like I was a stupid teenager and I got older, I'm like that that was kind I like it today where there's no gatekeep in. I liked punk, but I couldn't go to punk shows because I had long hair, so I'd get my ass beat if I went to a shop. It was a part of the era, wasn't it now.

9:51 It was the time that was living in the moment. You know that was what it was about, exactly like I say. But I love like you guys now have brought it to where we're one big family, one community. Any kind of alternative music, no matter what it is, no matter what you like. There's still gatekeepers out there, but they're the minority now definitely, which I love. Definitely. You've just got to enjoy what you enjoy. I mean, say it out loud. I'm a big fan of like old school hip hop, tupop, Biggie small As, Sweet Tang Clan and all that. You know, Nah, it's all those sort of guys. But then I'll go into a whole different world of metal, and it's right. I can appreciate both worlds. There's talent between it all, you know. It's just so great to be able to be like, oh you like those guys too? Can you make more friends by liking different music? You know, you're not pitcheonhole in yourself, and I find that inspires the music as well. Our intro tapes hip hop, and then we go straight into some proper literally our song is called power Trip and it's like a power trip style song, just wha whammy whammy straight in Chugar Chugger rifts and proper like head bangy stuff.

10:48 Man, I love it. I love it. Well, you guys fucking rock. I'm glad you got made it on the road to blood Stuff. And thanks for being on the adventures of Pate Man. I appreciate the churn man. Thank you so much, it's been great. Michelle Kerr 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.

11:29 Most of the balls that you know and love you probably heard of because of that woman right there. Slive, Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium kills which engage, hey breed, 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, and she helped make it. So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.

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