PipemanRadio Interviews Mantis Defeats Jaguar at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey you learn too. Yes, that's true. I w for see wow crazy you. This is the pipeman here on the Adventurance Pipe Man W four c Y radio and I'm here. With Pete and Jimmy from Mantis to Beach Jaguar. Yes n Bloodstock Live Open Air twenty twenty. Five, Man, you should be doing mine. Thank you. That was a face for the radio. Yes, yeah you do. I can't lie, no, but that's why you're a drummer, right. Yes, one hundred percent. I'll get to hide. Yeah, no doubt. So is this your first time at Bloodstock?

0:45 So I was here twenty sixteen volunteering for teenage kinds of Trust and happening that with the Truant. So we're cycling here next year as well. Like list your Bloodstock. It's the most wonderful, best of all, Like everybody just looks after each Everyone wants to go see the new blood bands, the most important stage of the whole festival. New blood everyone's there. Well as you got your headliners, everyone does it. Yeah. The fact that everyone supports those bands. That are smaller like it's it's incredible, just fork. Like a road to success for unsigned man's Yeah, well what an opportunity, What a chance to get your name out there, to get people listening to here, and. We're blessed and as well as seenior heroes as well, like machine Head last night. Oh my god, were you in the pit?

1:25 I was in the pit fair play. We were far away from the pit, but we were. We were admiring the pit. It's incredible. Here's what's funny. As I was with some other people way in the back, and as soon as the first note came on Imperium, I was like, and they were right there after I caught up when they're like, yeah, we saw you just dodge and disappear into the crowd. All want it on my phone. I'm gone. Yeah, they knew where I was going for sure. Get my keys. But it did get quite hairy, like we saw the man. If you didn't want to be in the pit at a certain point, there would be no getting out. You were you were there? You Yeah, once you're in there, that's it. You in there?

2:09 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll leave it. You as it's sorry Friday And I'm like, oh, here we go, here we go. Bloodstock has me now right right and. I've gone, I've gone. But worth it? Oh hell yeah, and I'm here to do this interview. So I made it. Yeah, exactly right, glad so looking skype anyway, Okay, I. Know I made it. It's okay. Yeah, I can't say that all the time, but there's been a couple of machine had pits that maybe not. Have you really been to a metal festival if you haven't been in a pit and got sucked up? Yeah, I think remember the first Old Week Crouch Surf was Terrvision jb' st anniversary I.

2:51 Think, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah. We were like fifteen then and we're like forty on now, so it's a long time ago. Well, I'm not out my teeth. When I was seventeen getting up on a stage climbing up the Marshall stack that went full swan and while midair I watched the crowd do this, I'm like, fuck, there's a floor, yeah, teeth first, the floor you need. We don't talk about it, we don't talk. The blood's on my battle vest front. Oh wow, dude, incredible, mom, Yes, awesome, awesome, dude.

3:32 Yes, fuck buying a pre made battle mind that that that's posers. Perfect little space there for the Mahager one. When we get one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well listen, just go get a sharpie and you can fill it in. I think I'll go one the new addition to the vests. There you pictures. You're gonna do this all right, but this is a. Don't cover a and the other ship. You gotta pick open spot like the Aussie wall outside. There you go, I'll go up in the corner. So we're BEMA Base, so we're representingse all the way. We did a little bit of one of our songs in I said, we dropped a little bit of Waro Pigs nice, just to bring the crowd back and just to let them know, just a little tip hats and Nazy.

4:13 I gotta tell you you speak better than he does, because uh my friends told me the first time I went to Birmingham. Yeah, They're like, you got not gonna understand word or fucking say. I'm like, what said? I was married to a Brett. Yeah, and I'm speak English. What the fuck are you talking away from a place called Dudley. Okay, we are deepest, darkest black country. We could speak in the language that you wouldn't have a fucking clue. I and do. But we want to keep it real, so people got to stand upwards. No people there going what the fuck. Did you say? Also, this is the first time that someone I said, they can understand here. Right, genuinely, the first time. And we've been friend since you was six. So nice, and I did. I get off.

4:54 I got off the plane in Birmingham and I'm like, what are these people saying? Like, can you please ever know? Yeah, you speak Spanish to me, I might understand you better. Spike proper cool right there you go, there. You go, you know what you said? And I was married to a Jordie and I'll have an idea. Oh why why wait? You want to hear the story about it? Tell us she didn't have a Jordy accident. I think she took a class the proper Queen's English, okay, and so I never heard that ship. Oh I heard her speak like the Queen of England. She came over to the US and love English girls that come to us. They act like they're the queen like they act do Yeah, they act like they're.

5:48 Right. She was like those downs Americans, Americans are classless and blah blah blah blah blah. And I didn't find out the years after a divorce of where she was actually from. Okay, and now I use it all the time and interviews over here, because not one person have I told that story to have They not laughed when I. See it Castle, Yeah, it's not the fucking crazy English. Dude, I swear to God. No, Yeah, I know right, it's like wow, but she was bat shit crazy. I could tell you that. Oh yeah, well the best ones are most of them are. Yeah, yeah, so here, here was, here was every day.

6:32 It was the prim and proper English girl during. The day and then time, fifteen margaritas later, Yeah, fucking crazy, bat shake crazy. They all are due and then pass out. That was my day. Everybody want I want a fuck her before she passes out? What a guy? No one says, not no, you realize that. I'm good, she said before she passes out. Good man, good man yourself. Yeah, before she passes out, like the drug nice, the fun party girl. That's the one I want. I didn't want to fuck the wondering that yeah. For about twenty five minutes maybe, and then exactly out to her.

7:14 Girl if she listens to this, A girl called rue, if you eat her expressed what she's a party girl? She has tried it. On with all of us and we've just been like, oh no. She was good. She was stuck jail for a little one, and then she came back. Out on the first night, came back out. Hey, let's go boys. Oh bless her ble. Yeah, God loves a tryer. I'll tell you what. One of the things she used to do. And she used to get me into fights, especially if there's got if there were English dudes around, yeah, she'd go up to them and like start hitting them and like and I, you. Gotta let them do that to me? Why just the English dudents? That's confusing?

7:57 Why just the English dudents? Afterwards she would say, yeah, it's I thought, I fucking ate the English students. Blah blah blah. See that's why I don't like the English students. So where you're from America? By the way, Well, I live in South Florida. I remember playing being from there. I was born in New York, grew up in Jersey. Yeah, my dad movements at LA in nineteen eighty. That's why I have a vest like that. I was in that whole metal scene of nineteen eighties, the whole eighties scene, you know, what they say, if you're on the Sunset Strip in the eighties. And you remember it, you weren't there, right, Yeah, I remember it, pieces I do.

8:45 He was there. He was there. I do remember picking my friends up that were passed out in the bushes outside Metallica's house that I remember. I do remember waking up in the morning and seeing the news about Vincent Rasell and going shit. I wondered why they didn't come back from. The beer run. No way, dude. I do remember going to the Rainbow and hanging out with Lemmy and Ron Jeremy and taking their overflow of women at at like fifteen, sixteen years old, or the Motley Crew parties.

9:26 I would love to have met let me mom. Yeah, oh, our friends spank called the Whiskey Syndicate that went to they did a tour and never in Vegas and the singer was sat in the chair and they were like, dude, you. Can't sit there. Is that why? He's like, that's Lemmey's chair, that's let me share, Like, you have to move, yeah, and he was like no, I'm fucking to fucking move. Like two minutes later, maybe it comes walking and he's like, sorry, sir, sorry, sorry, sorry. And they have like an actual room now that's Lemmy's room because he was there all the time. Yeah, he was like and I also look and him like, how did I ever get into the rainbow at thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen, Oh I was walking in with Motley Crue or oh I was walking in with this one.

10:11 Yeah. And then I was at Metallica's first show ever. What and then we would do dude, we would go back to her place and party all night long afterwards, and they were called Alcoholica, so they were fun parties and the player's first show ever. And we sang out outside the club hang on, laughed, and everybody thought they were devil worshippers because like Tom's a Christian, like a very devout Christian singing I am the anti Christ, oh speaking any Christ. One of my favorite moments yesterday my wife all of a sudden, not saying rady, she's absolutely crying. There was a guy dresses Jesus, yeah, full on Jesus gear, and then there was a guy next to her with a batpash bad religion, and like the two of them together, she was just like, this is the most perfect bloodstock moment ever.

11:04 Oh, the Jesus guy was just sat on the floor, sitting there. Right just going. I got a good story like that. I went to a show, if you could believe it, where Striper opened for Slayer. No Way and dude, so the guitarist. I'm right up at the stage. The guitarist leans down as crossed and dangling my face and I turned it upside down and he just laughed at me. But they got booed off stage because there was a Slayer crowd. Speaking of Slayer, were you here for the Back to the Beginning gig? I'm fortunately and unfortunately now I was over here for download and then I did hell Fests Resurrection Fest was I had another festival in the US like a week later.

11:49 I'm like, I gotta get back home. But like it didn't matter who you are, publicist, media, record label, you had to buy a ticket. There were no plus faster. I was so lucky. Lizzie, my team that I work with for my fortieth birthday all chipped in and got me a ticket for Wow Magical Liza. I love them all so much. I was there for such a wonderful moment. But you know, I did feel better because I didn't buy a ticket because, like, listen, I've been seeing Aussie since nineteen eighty. I saw him at Brandy Roads every year. I don't think I would be happy sitting in the Nosebleedes to watch that. Yeah, we were on the floor. We were on the floor, That's. What I'm saying.

12:30 It's incredible. And so I did the live stream and I was talking to my friends who were on the floor but the way back, and one of them she was like, yeah, I couldn't see Alsie at all, and I couldn't even see the screen. But I love the emotion it like just being there. Yes, the live stream was so good. I think what it meant to people, like the local area like surrounding Millings and Birmingham was just it was, oh. Yeah, we have to give a shout out to Birmingham and literally like all right, the gig and like the procession for I was there as. Well when he came from here. It was incredible, literally massive shout out to Birmingham.

13:10 We love you, we love you so much. Hometown hometown. Hey, listen, if I lived here, I would definitely gone. But between the flight and like hotels were like ten grand. The night shit ship ship dude, you could have come to fucking stopped. With me for nine grand. Right, I take my number next time I go, Hey, somebody to bury me. With Arsie from ten ground fucking right right, you know. But on the way here, I flew into the London. I was driving up here. Yeah, man, and the person I'm driving with, I'm like, we're taking a detour. And I did go to the Black Sabbath Bridge on the.

13:52 Yeah, cool man. That was my road to suck, dude, and that was cool ship. I go past it every day on the way to work. Oh my god, Oh call see, I have to move there just for that, really right. We literally lived like a fifteen minutes well fifteen twenty minute drive away from Birmingham City center. So yeah, And I think they're trying to get the Crown, the pop famous pub in Birmingham, the Crome suba play by. They're trying to get it back open again's been empty for years. They're trying to get it back open again. So it has to happen. It has to happen, definitely. Conglomerate listening sauty. Wait wait, share it open the crowd share.

14:34 So I've shipped on the carpet, you fucking dogs. I was so into Azzie that I had a history class in high school that we only had one project, and that was to do an oral presentation on any subject you want. I got an a in the class. It was Ozzie Osbourne Satanism and it's mute. Nice, no fucking mamas. Yeah it was. That's the coolest. Fuck. I got another one ready. So I saw Randy Rhoades because they played New Year's Eve right before he died. There's one of those things. I told my dad I was sleeping over my friend's house. He told his parents he was sleeping over my house.

15:16 And we went to see Azzie. And I live my house in my backyard at a hill that went straight down to a lake. So we just hung out at the. Lake in the wee hours until we could go back in my house, like oh waking up, you know. Type of thing. My next door neighbor she comes out, she's like, oh, were you boys at the Aussie concert last night? And we're like, oh fuck, we're busted, and she goes, wait. Right there, I'm getting my husband. I'm like, oh fuck, you are toasted. Rite right. He invites us up to his house and now I'm think, oh fuck, he had a studio in there, wall the wall, cassette tapes. He was fucking Aussie's promoter. No way what Yeah, so he had a bunch of swag and then he hands me this cassette day he goes, this band isn't in the United States yet, but in six months are going to be huge here.

16:16 It was accept dude, like I got. I was like the first person in the US to hear Fast as a Shark. So exet Yeah a boy Anthony has been looking after accepts. Yeah yeah, so yeah. Ozzie definitely has hold a lot of memories. I went to every odds fester was I. Was too young to make well I should have been too young, but I did. Like the first time what was the old last best which became download? I went to six. But I wish I could have been. Back in guitars.

16:56 Randy Yeah, Pat Travers played one game. I was at it. Yeah, Brad Gillis, Jakie Lee, Zach Wilde. He was there, back to the beginning. He was Lee was there back to the beginning. Man. When he came out, the crowd was just like, that's incredible. What a moment. What a moment, and he wasn't even sure he'd be able to play. He's got was it ar praise or something like really bad? Same with Stephen Tyler, though Stephen Titan is not meant to be singing at the moment, and he came out with. Running road that Stephen Tyler and starts to give in my. Mind because he's not supposed to sing like but what really blew my mind more than anything, And I lost it and I didn't expect it.

17:41 Young buddy, I messaged my wife, immediately, have to be finished, and I said, right, young Blood has just had his George Michael Queen, Elton John moment like that, that's him made. Now oh he's done. He's done, like that's all he had to do, and now he's gonna just be forever. Apparently someone told me that Apparently once he met the young Blood. Apparently he turned around and said, oh, I've just met myself. Yes, it's his younger self, working class lade. He loves it. He puts on his own festival, makes his tickets as cheap as possible so people can go. And this is some good music. Honestly, the boy, he's a strip of rocket to him.

18:24 He's a badass for sure. Yeah, and I've seen him and hung around him in real life. The nicest kid in the world. I watching when even on the bus, He's on there quite a few times, and it just seems like he's just chills. It's just a. Real dude, like everyone else tell he's like running for the president, like like just like acting like Raine circles, like just for fun. That's why Ozzie related to he. Can't beat the British working class family night. That's the best people, true story, true story, not like the fake Jordan. He's trying to be royal.

19:05 Nay and the George name No. Joydles, No Joydles, that's the one. That's well, call her Joydel. So no everybody how they can look up with you on social media, on the web, buy your merch, they can't listen to my show. And let's say buy your merch by the way. Basically literally just typing Mansis defeats Jaguar on any search changing or go dot co dot UK. We were on. Instagram, we're on Facebook, we're on Apple Music, we're on Spotify, we're on Amazon, we're on Title. It's all out there. And now for the American listeners. Can you say it in English? Now? Okay?

19:45 Guys like our Yeah we're mancis Beech Jaguar and yeah you can catch out ship on MANSI to. Beech Jaguar dot co dot UK. Does that work? Does that work? That works for? Is that okay, Boston? I think it is. I tried. That was fucking great though, it. Was fucking great, Okay, I just gotta say it was great. What else do you want to tell the listeners real quick that we haven't covered about your band that they need to know. I think the main thing about the band is we just want to bring happiness. We want to be enjoyed, want to have a party, we want to have a laugh. We want to people to listen to our music and bounce along and just enjoy it. There's no negative vibe, there's no nastiness, there's no aggression, there's nothing.

20:30 It's just, you know what, We're all here for a good time. You get to live once. It's a lot of practice front just to enjoy it while you can. And that's what we're about. I love it. That's my mottol Man fair play man. So you're now my favorite band of the last fire. Thank you, sir, Thank you so fucking much. It's been a pleasure to me. There are literally no bands around us. His favorite band. The last five minutes. We've done good. We done good. Yeah, five minutes is a long time. He cared me. Yeah, thank you so much for the second time to. Make us monet pleasure to meet you all mine and if. Ever the US wants us, just holler welcome with him. And I'm really I'm going to write a note to Sharon and say I'm really pissed off you didn't bring.

21:10 These guys back to the beginning. They're more working classic young blood to get these guys. They're Birmingham's best. Now that Ousi is not here with us anymore, you're Birmingham's best that Ozsie's not with us, as kind. Of what we thought of what we felt and we got told you from Birmingham, you're the only guys there. Bring it, bring Ausie and we did so. And you did and here you are. Thanks for here, thanks for being on the adventure due. Thank you very much, mine, all the best. Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking career here in the UK. My entire career with Machina. She recently passed away and it was a very, very sad day. And I can tell you the reason that I'm going to tell this story because she was family.

22:00 She was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family. Most of the bears 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, 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.

22:40 Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio.