PipemanRadio Interviews Nitzer Ebb About Sonic Temple and More

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0:54 This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And very happy to be talking to our. Next guest because, oh my god, besides being an amazing artist, but he's going to be at Sonic Temple next week and I'm going to get to see him. Live and I don't know if he's been there yet. We're going to talk about but let's welcome to his show. Nights are How are. You very well? Yeah? This has Ben here from Knights are It and very pleased to be on the show. And yeah, looking forward to to upcoming shows and especially Sonic Temple. Yeah.

1:34 So you're playing tomorrow night in Austin, Texas? Right? Correct? Do you know that that's considered Now I have my own opinion, but it's considered the live music capital of the United States. Did you know that? I know that it has you know, quite the reputation along those lines, you know, sort of a big arts and culture thing, and you know, you've had south By Southwest for many years and everything, so normally, you know, so it makes sense that it's that it's well established in that in that field. I couldn't verify that it's music capital, but it's certainly has to.

2:17 Be up there. I would think it is up there. I I I tend to think Nashville has that crown in my opinion. Yeah, it's you know, but you know. It does have a lot of live music there, so that's all that's important. And then Sonic Temple. Have you played Sonic Temple or Rock on the Range ever? No, I don't believe. So. So this is different than the other Danny Wimmer festivals in the respect of that it's at a stadium, all right, and so it's like, you know, one of the things I'm excited about is not getting festival lou you know from the dust.

3:02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. I don't even know how you guys perform, because me, after a weekend of doing interviews and breathing in that dust, I. Can't even breathe anymore. Like it takes me. It can be tough. It can be tough, you know the last you know, when we played the Daytona Speedway. You know, sometimes it's it's you know, obviously you can't control there's no climate control outside, so sometimes those shows, mostly because of the heat, they can be really taxing sometimes, you know, and sometimes you know, the sun's at an awkward angle and and you can feel your head starting to get some stroke, you know, and you start searching for areas of the stage that are in the shades. So yeah, they can be tricky, they really can.

3:53 So how do you feel about the difference you find playing in the US supposed to back home in Europe. Well, actually live in the US, so so you know, it's like, I don't know, there's there's a certain looseness and uh, maybe he's sort of slightly more lighthearted approach. I think sometimes in in the US. That's pretty cool. Yeah, not always, but but but sometimes I find that that it's a little bit more of a party atmosphere. Maybe that's interesting because I do both the US and the European festivals, and you know, a lot of us over here we think the European festivals are the party atmosphere.

4:41 It's so funny, like people's perspective, I think with the Danny Wimmer festivals though, he has done it to where it's more like European festivals. That gives you, you know, what you're thinking, because some of the festivals here in the US, they're they're not run like a Danny Wimmer or European festival. They run more like a carnival. So, but Sonic Temple used to be one called Rock on the Range, so it has been around for years and years. Yeah, it's been like one of the biggest festivals in the country.

5:22 And it's different, like I said, because it is a stadium, so it's kind of really cool. And you have, of course around the stadium places you can go and things you can do and you know, and other stages, but the main stage is in the stadium, so it's kind of cool. And of course it's cool that Metallica is playing two sets live there. You know, the last time Metallica play it at that festival, we right before like halfway before Volbeat, which was right before them. The we got a tornado. We gotta we got to evacuated. Yeah, but Danny Wimmer is so good that you know, he decided to go to the police in town and the mayor in town and extend the noise ordnance because we have noise ordnances like you have to stop at eleven periods not even a minute later. And Malka played till like one two in the morning. Yeah it's cool, Yeah, instead of missing him.

6:31 So that was great. So you're gonna have a lot of fun playing at this festival. No doubt about it. What what would you say is one of your favorite memories of playing a festival? God, there's been so many of them, I think, rather than being any one festival, it's just you know, when you get festivals where there's a lot of bands that you're a fan of and maybe not the same type of music as you and you didn't know that you were fans of each other's music. Just that communal backstage. You know, you get to meet a lot of people and make new friends, and you know, if it's if it's a nice day without a hurricane and all that stuff, then then it's just really chill, you know, like you know, the backstage areas and stuff, and yeah, I just I just really like the sense of community when you do festivals.

7:27 And that's an artist. How do you feel that you're treated by Danny Wimmer festivals compared to other festivals? You know, I think we're treated really well. You know, I've definitely got any no, no complaints or you know, I mean in general we get treated fairly well. I mean, festivals for the most part or so, so you know, well organized these days, most of them, and Danny's obviously amongst those. So so yeah. You know, I. We're you know, we've always got everything were needed. We're extremely well looked after. Nice. I just saw Zach come in, but then he left real quick, right, I was gonna I was gonna try a gamit and it was too fast. But anyway, Yeah, I mean that's what I hear from all the artists.

8:17 Like That's the one thing about the Danny Wimmer festivals is the way Danny Wimmer treats the artists. Because I've been to a lot of festivals where I mean, the artists do. A lot of complaining. I've never heard a complaint from an artist at Danny Wimmer festival ever. Yeah, who are you most excited to possibly see at Sonic Temple. Yeah, that's always a loaded question because you know, it depends on our day and you know what we've got to do that day, what we've had to do in the days before. So so I just take it as it comes. And you know, because there's been so many festivals, Oh I can't wait to see X, Y and Z, and you get there and maybe you got there late or there was a sound check issue. So you know, I've had I've had serial disappointments from getting myself to work about it. So I just get see what the schedule is, see you know who it might be possible to see, and then well exactly that.

9:22 Yeah, And you know that's why I use the word possibly as I go through the same thing too, Like I have a list of all the said I want to go to, and if I get to ten percent of them, I'm pretty happy. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah. So what else is going on for you guys moving forward in twenty twenty five. Well, we're currently on tour with Ministry, which is amazing, really good fun, really good vibe. You know that they've revamped the early material and I think that's making a lot of people really happy and and I think they're having a lot of fun. Well, so the atmosphere on the tour is really good, you know, really really easy going vibe. Everyone's having fun. Then we've got more shows coming up in Europe over the summer, just late late spring, early summer, a couple of festivals. Then we come back to the US in September and we have a tour lined up with Frontline Assembly, and then we're back to Europe for November and December for more dates in Europe before the close of the year. And in between times, you know, plans to hit the studio and you know, we've been messing around with working on ideas and stuff, so we're seeing where they're going. So yeah, between between

10:52 live shows and studio work, pretty full year already, and the beginning of twenty twenty six is beginning into shape up with shows as well. So so we got pretty busy time. I love that, and I I'm always an. Awe of artists like you. They've been doing this forever and can still come up with new material. Yeah, like it blows my mind. Yeah, yeah, I'm like thinking myself, Yeah, after doing it for like forty some odd years, how do you keep writing new songs? It's like you would think you would run out of ideas. But that's the test of a true artist. Yeah, I think that the key to all of that is to you know, is to treat your creativity. I don't want to say like a job, but to do it on a daily basis. I mean, I write every single day when I get up, and you know, sometimes it's garbage and you don't use it, but it's important to get up and do something, you know, and then you build up a backlog of things to pick from, and then you develop the most promising ones and even you know, into different projects. I've got a couple of solo projects as well, So if someone doesn't fit in one box, it might fit in another one. But the key to it is consistency, you know, to get up and be creative for a period of time every day.

12:13 And yeah, you'll have flat spots and times where you're not feeling particularly inspired. But as a sort of professional creator, if you like, then you learn that you have to not rely on inspiration and just keep developing material and eventually you will have, you know, a backlog to pick from, and yeah, it just work diligently at it daily, like you you know, like you would anything else. Sure, and you know, I love that you said some of it could be garbage, because I'm sure there's listeners that are listening they're thinking that, or less they just everything that comes out of their head onto the paper is going to be a song that they make into a song or they think is great. Really, yeah, it's the exact opposite, right, Like you got to rate a bunch of shit to get to the good stuff, right yeah.

13:09 I mean you have periods. Sometimes you have periods where you feel like, Wow, I can't do any wrong, you know, I finally cracked it. But then you'll have another period where you you feel like, wow, I've written for a couple of weeks and I don't think I'm going to use any of that, you know. So, but even the act of doing it and sometimes just you know, making the mistakes or finding out what you don't want or where you don't want to be, that can be as instructional in terms of weeding out the quality stuff later on, you know, and you have to do it. I mean, I think any creator has to go for a period of doing sketches, and not every one of your sketches is just going to fall from the sky fully formed. It's just not the way it works.

13:50 Yeah, and when we're creators, were our own worst critics, like. Yeah, yeah, I. Mean I'll do interview to where you'll get off the interview and I'm like, oh, I think that was great, and I'm thinking in my mind that's shit. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I think you know, a lot of the time, you know, it's it's just a case of kind of staying relaxed about it. I mean, sometimes as soon as you create something, you know, you like, there's something really special in this, and sometimes the pieces just they do just fall into place. But other times, you know, you can be like, Okay, there's something in there, but we're going to have to dig a little deeper to try and pull it out. And other times you just go, oh, well it was practice at least, and then move on to the next There you.

14:39 Go, there you go. Yeah, And that's no true of anything you do in life. Like a lot of your practice is what leads to you being good. You don't just wake up good. It doesn't matter what you do. It takes practice for sure. Yeah. Yes, So what festival? What other festivals are you going to be doing? And you have through Europe, we're going to. Be playing at the festival in Europe. I can't remember the exact date, so we're going to be over there and beyond that, you know, my my forward planning, it tends to be like is it happening next week? I'll be a bit hazy on the details, you know, so but yeah, we're we've got we've got fest coming up now and then in.

15:30 June or July. I think, yeah, I know how that works, because it like kind of just swirls around your head when you're doing so many of them. Yea. And it's like I'll talk to some artists and we'll sit there and try to figure out where we did the interview at what Fescovore, you know, like it's like, yeah, I don't know, I just know it was one of them. Yeah. Sometimes you know, people say to me, oh, do you remember when you played blah blah blah blah blah, and are you sure that was me? Know it was, but yeah, it does will become a bit of a blur. And I think, going back to the creativity thing, it's like I tend to try not to look too far ahead, you know. Obviously I'm aware that I've got things coming up in the overall outlook of the schedule, but it's important to try and keep your mind focused on the next priority rather than too far down the line. So unfortunately, I'm not always the best person to ask far in advance about exactly where we're.

16:27 Going right right, and that, and that makes so much sense because it's like people do that to me in my personal life. They're like, well, what are you doing in July. I'm like, well, I'm in May, and like I'm worried about May right now? Curious? Yeah, yeah, you know. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on the web, on the socials, on you know, basically everywhere, how they can reach out to you by murger, check out your tour, deads, check out music everything. Yeah, so you know, we've got socials, nights are EBB.

17:07 Generally at nights are EBB. Those are generally the best ways to reach out to us, and yeah, you know, available through those general channels. And you know, if you happen to see us loitering around at shows, we're generally fairly approachable chats anyway, So you know the kind of usual. Channels really all right, called, is there anything else you want to share with the listeners? That we haven't covered yet. Just you know, really thank everybody or everybody that comes to the shows for their continuing support and for making you know, it's the audience that makes the shows really special.

17:48 So you know, as you say, we've been doing it for a long time and to still be in this position where we have the support that we have and the audience that we have, it's a remarkable thing that we're really grateful for. So yeah, just to say thank you to everybody for continuing to show up. Ye I bet i'd imagine this in nineteen eight to nineteen eighty three that you would be here today still doing it. Absolutely not. No, I love it well. You guys are great. That's why you're still here. You're a true artist and I can't wait to see you at Zag Temple. And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

18:29 Thank you so much. It's a pleasure. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.