PipemanRadio Interviews LOWDOWN at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey you unto Yes, that's true, cray you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with. Rich and Kevin from Lowdown, Lowdown. All right, nice here at Bloodstock. There you go, get it up as close as you get. And I like how you match with your cool vess of your. Band right there uniform. Yeah, there you go. I love it so Bloodstock. How badass is that that you're playing here at Bloodstock?

0:44 We played just the actually eleven fifteen and we absolutely packed the stage out was great. We played the new Blood stage. Yeah, we didn't win any Metal Masses were invited to play by Simon, which is great. See I love that story. So you didn't win, but you were so good that they invited a player. We were right to us. It was like the ultimate acceptance, the ultimate recognition that what we're doing is worthy of being here, and that is just it blows our mind to think right that, Yeah, we didn't win, but for people to actually got these guys, we need to take note of an invite us here. It was just phenomenal. So thank you to to Simon, to Vicki, to everyone from the Bloodstock setup. Right, I'm have missed load of names up, but thank you to everyone.

1:26 Thank you, it's been great. We did play the Male Masters and we got into the final twice. We seemed to hit the right the right chord with the moments and they thought, right, okay, yeah, we could do this nice and we had a great turnout. And does that blow your mind to like Friday one fifteen and you had that kind of crowd that it's huge. Yeah, I mean you could move in the team. It was spilling out on both sides of the town. It was spilling out, and it's amazing, just amazing to look out and see what was lovely was it was a mixture of we could see guys wearing a T shirts. Well you think that's. That T shirt? So a again, it's a T shirt for our album.

2:07 But to seek outs wearing our T shirts you've obviously seen us before. I want to come back. That is an. Absolute real That is just wonderful. There's a load of new friends too, and it's all about new friends. It's like, yeah, who maybe haven't seen this before. It will come back. And they were all in their heads and they all got involved and they got involved in the wall and they got involved in the pit and thank you to everyone who came to see us. Thank you. Right. That's the amazing thing about playing a festival, absolutely is that some of my favorite bands I would have never known about them. Unless I was at a festival. But you get exposed to it and you see it. It's funny as he just passed. But I remember in nineteen ninety nine I was at oz Fest and on the third stage, which was a little teeny stage, I discovered that year slipknot mud Vein And in this moment, yeah, and look at yeah.

3:04 Bands I've seen today actually blowing my mind. Actually pale face yesterday phenomenal. Yeah yeah, and then just says Harriet's young ladies singing hell amazing, amazing stuff when. I was actually just chatting to them outside. Great group of guys, the spirit. They were really body good earlier they were so good. See I love that too about Bloodstock. In general. I do a lot of festivals. This is the festival most of all that every interview, bands are promoting the other bands, talking about them about how great they are, even melted the masses. Every band I interview didn't look at the other bands as competition. Great buddies.

3:44 We're just seen pumpt Into Dead Flesh. You won the heat last year. We're in final with him as well, and then Scenting with the band before that they played a couple of years ago. They all thought we were good enough to get up to Bloodstock. The big keeps trying to get involved, to be the be the bee was at your show and wants to tell everybody how great you were. I mean, I love the other band. The other band we've really bonded with, a band called Headcount, who won this year's Metal to the Muscles Hitchen and they're playing the new Blood Station tomorrow evening. They're gonna be great, great, But she goes, they're all early early twenty guys. They're all really young guys. What a band. They are really bloody good good friends of ours. Yeah, it's such a family here it is.

4:27 And like I said, this old friends who we've seen before. There's new friends who we've made this weekend. And the other bands are the same. We've made friends with new bands. It's all about who we're going to. Listen to you next. Actually, by the main stage last couple of days, have good bodies with famine and then obviously Nick from h Point with Great Bodies with him as well. So yeah, it's been one big, happy family and it's called we could not ask from all. It's a great community as well. So this is what it's all about. I love it beers as well. Yeah, all how that rif? Yeah there you go. Look look yours says you came metal corrupting your kids. Oh? Absolutely, you know. I'm here with my kids. Actually, my younger two are fifteen and thirteen, and yesterday, in spite of playing yesterday morning, which was the biggest buzz ever for me, watching my two kids go down, I want to crouch, surf, lift me up, and they went off during Pearl Face Swiss.

5:20 Thank you pearl Face Swiss. It was amazing. They're off. They went, both of them, and then they came run back, don't do it again, and off they went again. That was for me. I'm like, yeah, I've done some writes with that kids. My kids are great bloodstock. See that's the beauty of metal today. Yeah, because like in the eighties, we wouldn't even go see a band our age, much less your parents wouldn't be going to a. Show with you like they were. My parents were busy listening to like Frank Sinatra and they're like, what is that shit? You're listening to? Noise boy? Right? Yeah?

6:02 Yeah, Barry Madolow, Yeah yeah, it was like wow, ever okay but. You And meanwhile, I've taken my son into his first bash bit and a couple of my grandsons. Wow. No, we got to keep it in the family and that's why. We can have this fight forward. Definitely. Yeah. And what they find out it's it's not noise, it's not mean angry people. It's a family of no outsiders. Everybody loves each other and we're just one big family. So you Yeah, my eldest son, he's twenty four, Oh, he's He looked around. He said, this is probably the scariest place in the UK right now if you look at it, but it's also probably the safest. It's also the safest place.

6:50 In the UK. He looks after everyone. Yeah, that's it, that's what it's all about. It's been a phenomenal, phenomenal experience. So yeah, I'm really cool. What was that moment for both of you in life where you knew this is what you wanted to do. Oh, I've been kid being in bands before, I've always been working, been working towards that point. They're having fun getting there as well. And obviously if we joined with Dave and Android Lowdown a couple of years ago and we just hit the right chord with the metal community. We you know, two Metal Message, Massive Finals, playing Bloodstock this year, an album released and we've got signs were label last year as well, so that was kind of cool. So it's kind of all uphill, no all down downhill. It's all good from. Here on in.

7:31 So there it is. So now what are you doing next for the rest of the year that people need to know about so they can check out different things. The plans are We've sort of been talking to going outside the UK to Europe and touring either later this year early next year. We've got a few more gigs this year. We've got a Club eighty five, which is the place that actually hosts the Hitching Melton the Masses. It's at home. It's almost like our home venue. It's kind of like our home stadium where we played great venue. We actually had our alum launch a couple say and we donated all the money that we made on the door to the club to save it because it's going through a bit of a change of directors and direction of its life. So we donated all the money that we actually made in the door for that. So we're playing there on the sixth September, and then we're headlining a local festival called full Stock, which is thirteen venues, thirteen stages, and it's basically a whole town over that weekend shuts down for live music. I love the headline the metal stage on the Saturday night, so we could not be any proud. Everytown coming.

8:30 Every pub in the town has a stage obviously cater for different different music types. We're very much in the metal stage, so we've been invited back a couple of times. It's a great venue. They do loads for the local music community, not just the whole music community. Everyone. Do you like music, full accommodate you, whether it's I mean a few years ago we played that, didn't we We followed the Spanish. Murri Marry Archie band. Ye honestly, eighteen piece of Mourry Archie band. They had so many tom times and little flutes and stuff. It was amazing, and we followed them a metal band. We followed them and it was that is amazing. I love that. So yeah, it's been a journey. It's been a great journey, great journey. Cool. Is there anything else we haven't covered that you want them to know about you guys and anything.

9:10 Just going by the album if you can, supports by the album. So with signs were label. If it does well, we'll do another album with them, hopefully this sign next year. So we've got new stuff in the works. We played one of our new tracks app Bloodstock and it went down really well. Yeah. Well it's been a mosh pit going on. Then that's always good. That means your music's good. The crowd. We can't do this without the crowd. So when when we're working, the crowd and the crowd participate and they sing, and yesterday I singer Dave was trying to move the crowded part to get a wall going, and they did it, and then the breakdown and they all went for it. It was just phenomenal and you're there going yes right beautiful. So thank you to everyone again. Thank you for everyone who participated in the wall, thank you for everyone who participating in the mosh pit, and thank you for not killing my kids who were in there.

9:54 With you right, thanks to the staff and the Prescott's. Brilliant well, thank you very much. We can't do this as well, so you're getting us out there. It's more people and we can't thank you enough. So thank you well, thank you, and thank you for being here at Bloodstock and giving us like great music, great therapy. And tell everybody how they can reach out to you guys on the web, socials and they can't listen to my show anymore. And let's say, buy your new album exactly. We've got a website. Going to the website which is lowdown dot rocks r O c k S. And then you can find somewhere We've got a link tree there. There's links to Spotify there everything links, the links to our gigs and. YouTube Spotify stuff. I think you're not on its TikTok and the Bettlechan said we yet all the socials just look at Blowdown.

10:37 With I love your guys passion because that's what it's all about. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pete Man. Thank you very much, Thank you so much. Jeus so Riff, well, hello Riff, that's it all the motto. Nice Thank you. 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.

11:21 Most of the bass 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. Man, she helped make it. So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kurt.

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