PipemanRadio Interviews LANDMVRKS at Aftershock 2025

0:04 Hy you lunt, Yes, that's true. Why crazy young. Pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio And I'm here with Flu. I'm Flu the singer from Lendmarks, and I'm Nico the guitar. Player Nice here at after Shock. Have you guys played after Shock before? Is it's your first first time ever? What do you think of it so far? That was insane? We loved it. Actually, we didn't expect that much people to come see us. That was fucked.

0:46 That was a crazy thing about the Danny Webber festivals, Like it doesn't matter what time of day, Yeah, who the band is, people are gonna show up. And I'm sure you made a lot of new fans today for sure. Oh definitely, definitely. We know is that most of the people here weren't into our band, like they were just discovering us today's And that's crazy because they stayed the whole set. Nice seems like they enjoyed it. How does that make you, guys feel when you're seeing that and like people that have never seen you before and they're just there for the whole thing, Because not even when you like bands, sometimes you're going from set to set. I mean it's the best, like does and that's the main point of the festival, forming like us, just.

1:30 Seeing us making us proud, like playing in front of new people, and like, if you can reach more people with your music, that's the goal. So absolutely. And so where did this journey start for both of you when you knew music was what you needed to do m music in general? Yeah, oh well it starts when I was I don't know, like seven eight, with discovering bands like Oasis, Iron Maiden, So yeah, like it started really yeah, I was young. I think it's the same for you, Flow, Yeah.

2:11 I mean at some point, I think the click was when we started playing guitar, both of us, Like when we started really getting into guitar and playing playing guitar, learn reefs, learning the riffs, and just figuring out how to play the songs we were in love with. I remember playing like eight hours a day. So that's that's what. It takes too, man. Yeah, Like I played guitar, but I sucked because I didn't I didn't practice for eight hours a day and I got bored with doing scales and shit like that. Like I just want to get up there fucking rock, But you gotta. Put the work in man, true, true, And I remember it wasn't like I never get bored of it. I was like, it's just it. It held fun every time playing guitar. So that's probably I'm talking about myself, but I know Nico is the same. For Nico, that's probably when we realized that music wasn't really important in a life and I was on main focus. Yeah.

3:14 I remember like playing playing the guitar alone in my room and like pretending I was like in a huge festival and like shout out to the crowd, like it was like nobody, so. I you did it for real. I did it for real. So yeah, life's complete, I know. Man, So what prompted you to pick the guitar. It's the same for both of us. Like our father was playing the guitar, so it was easier. Like I had the guitar like in the house so at home, so that was like the easiest I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think like seeing the videos with people playing the guitar, like the electric guitar. Because my father is playing like the like ecoc guitar, it was easy like to tell him like hey, I want to do the guitar. But I want to electric guitar. It was like soped like, yeah, okay, I'm gonna bring you to the cash store like I don't know like the name of the shop, and it was like, I'm going to buy you one, like a really cheap one.

4:08 So it was like proud. So our fathers definitely. See that's so important because how many people like their parents are like that's just a dream, get a real job. So that's great to hear, especially if you do something different because maybe your father would why do you play acoustic instaying like, oh, you don't want exactly. Like it helps definitely, like having like parents being like I mean my father being like a musician. Yeah, and like. You have a kid who's having interest in like doing music, because I have a sister. She's not into music at all. She's older than me. So he was like, okay, it's not bad. But when I was like really into it, it was like okay, let's go.

4:50 I'm down. And it did it well, I. Guess obviously because you guys killed it here. That's thank you, thank you. So what's next for you guys? Like, now, how do you top this. Next? We need to come back and do it a bigger stage. Right there you go. Maybe we are currently on tour. We're doing our first headline tour in the US. It's been two weeks already, we have like two weeks left. So this is like already a huge step for us, like headlining in the US, it's our first time in here. Then we have a headline tour in Europe in December. We are supporting architects in January, and like we have like tours coming and yeah, this and then we have to write music again.

5:35 So yeah, it's classic, classic, classic rucin in frontier. And so how would you compare the Danny Wimmer festivals to like the European festivals like hell fest or because the US has never really been known for festivals and sure we. Are true exactly exact. It actually feels a lot. Would you say comparable, No, I don't know where the comparable to the to the European festival looks the same, like the the the the I don't know. I don't know. It's our first festival run. Like we did two festival this year in the US and it's the first time we play US festival, so we don't know how it was before. But this year for a first time. It looks very familiar. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for.

6:30 So if we have to compare what I would love to have in the US, it's like a tour of festivals like we used to have that in Europe, Like we have like a full months tour of only festivals. If it could be the same in the US, Like, yeah, there's so many festivals that we can do a whole tour the whole summer just doing festivals in Europe and that will be actually pretty sick to do the exact same thing in the US. It's like a summer camp. Everybody you're Chile and you're seeing like bandmates and stuff. So I mean it used to be one the Warp tour. Yeah yeah, and they'll bring it back. They bring It's only a few this year, but we'll see what happens. Yeah. But I think that's what Danny Wimmer is doing too, because he's got multiple festivals and he really like, well, you tell me, how do you feel he treats you as an artist.

7:17 Today? For example, Oh yeah, oh very great, very great, good food, very good backstage area. We're currently in the VIP media press area, which and it looks and it looks very good and it's chill. You got pizzas Margarita's Yeah, oh good. I know. This is see what I heard. Somebody told me they Wimmer went to hell Fest like attended to look at why everybody thinks European festivals. All right, all right, yeah, I mean health Fest is a real example of how to do a festival in a good way. Oh, no doubt. Go with hell Fest like they honed the land. Yeah, so they all building stuff.

8:03 I try to. So it's really impressive when you are on the side and that's you're like Disneyland. Oh yeah, it's really right. And also everything is everything is perfectly like the the I don't know the words, but like between two stages, between the buckstage area, everything is smooth. Everything as well, how'd you say, think thing organized? Things organized? Well? You know what I like about hell Faster is you got okay, you got the two main stages, but then you have like the black metal stage, the death metal stage. I love the hard Yeah stage exactly. If you're into this, you don't have to be going back and forth. I agree. I agree, it's insane. Yeah, and it's great. For the band because you have a constant crowd in Eric.

8:46 Oh yeah, it's your people so exactly. It's seek to have stages dedicated to a general music. That's a fucking great idea, right. And the first time I covered hell feste my mind when it got dark and then everything's up fire everything, like I'm like, oh I am in hell Yeah. They're walking like on the visuals and stuff. It's very impressively by night definitely. I've also heard, like talking to interviewing bands over there, everyone said that like their sound check. Was like perfect in five minutes. Yeah, like everything runs so smoothly, and that's why here over here too.

9:28 With that, and there was like so many people working on the festival, like I don't know how to say benivol, but like the people who are working for free, working for free, yeah yeah, yeah, there's maybe a thousand, and every year is getting more and more, so everybody's getting really involved in that festival. Yeah. We're so proud to have such a huge festival in France because Friends is not really known for the rock and the metal music in general, so it feels insane that we have one of the best festival metal festival in the world and it's not in Paris and it's not. Yeah, well that's what cracks me up that you're saying, you know, about not really having metal presence, And I go there and cliffs on and like I'm like, I've never seen this main metal heads in one place type of thing.

10:17 I think it's bigger than Vaking. Now it might be fucking might be bigger in terms of people actually come in, but I mean it competes. So it's just it's just insane to have this in France. That's crazy as French I can tell you. That's fucking not to have to have this opportunity to have this festival. Yeah, so it's great. It feels it and like not compering like the festivals in Europe, but it's great like to see something different, right. Yeah, we love it and the lineup is actually crazy, right yeah yeah. So so so tell everybody how they reach out to you on socials on the web by your merch because it's you get to do more festivals because you need to gas money to get true and just anything.

11:06 You got coming up you want them to know about. All right. So yeah, like we are currently on tour in the US, so like if you have the chance to grab a chicken, go on no website, lendmarks dot com, grub a shirt grab like, listen to us on like Spotify, Apple Music. These are whatever you want, YouTube whatever, like go to everybody's concert like go see like Bends in general, not only us. Go to your closest venue and support the Bends. I love that attitude because that is these festivals, in my opinions, how you find your new favorite bands exactly exactly. Like I do them all the time, and I still like whoa.

11:49 I mean, it's great to see like the well known bands, but it's great also like to discover bands, and festivals are here for that. Yeah yeah, the right place to discover bands, no doubt. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you were here it after shot, thank you and killed it here. Thank you and. Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Absolutely, thank you so much. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipement on w for CUI Radio.