PipemanRadio Interviews Ofnus at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey, you have lunt. Yes, that's true for Wow, crazy Young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of Pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with. William fromovnas Alan Fravis Ethan also from Nice. Now during the day, I don't get much of a chance to get out of this tent, okay, which bums me out sometimes because it's like, oh I didn't get to see that set. I didn't get to see that set. But one thing I could say is are you gonna make this interview miserable? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, it's gonna be very miserable. Oh man, you guys were badass. But I loved when they said that because it was like, that's a pretty good fucking line.

0:50 Oh yeah, yeah. We we always go for that one. It just sums up nicely, like what we do, what we sound like. Yeah, that whole kind of miseries like one of our main themes, I guess. Yeah, And there is a lot of it in the world nowadays, Oh for sure, for sure. Fucking a man, that's why we need bands like you so we can escape all the bullshit. In the world. Oh yeah, absolutely so. How it feel to be out there at ten thirty and have that kind of crowd at your set. Oh, oh fantastic. I mean it's so good to like get a good crowd out that early. Yeah, it just felt awesome to be up there. Yeah yeah, absolutely, yeah, I mean we. Put the work in me. We really spammed the socials and we're really sorry to everyone's had to endure us constantly spamming them. But it's worked, it's paid off, and for them to be out that early again, Yeah, we can't thank them enough.

1:37 There you go, And I'm glad you brought up that point because bands nowadays have it really way harder than ever before, because you got way more work to do. Like with bands in the eighties or nineties, they didn't have to put anything on socials. They didn't have to and that's a lot of work. Like social media is like a full time job in and of itself. Oh, tell me about it, it'd be fair. I could see why a lot of bands run with social media managers. We're entirely contained unit. We managed to read social media everything. We do our own graphics, we do videos, we do we even mix our own records. Yeah, I did the mixing. Yeah. Yeah, it's one of those things where you do need to pay special attention to it as much as the appming part does kind of great you down over time, just deal with it.

2:22 You're going to make it work if you want it to be successful. Exactly exactly. How do you feel to be here at Bloodstock? Yeah, as an honor to come back on my second time. Nice. Yeah, and I think the reception we had was just amazing. I think we came in not actually knowing what sort of turnout we'd get. Like follow up with Alan said, we put loads of time into our social media and advertising and all our shows across the country. We really made a point to hit home about us playing Bloodstock. So when we got on stage and we saw how full the ten was, it was pretty mesamrizing. It was crazy, I know, right, and credit to Bloodstock that, Like, who thinks you're going to have a crowd at ten thirty in the morning. It's hard to predict, really, I guess there's a lot of factors. I guess it was nice that we didn't clash with any bands that are too similar that might split things.

3:08 But yeah, I think we're just very fortunate. Really. I think people obviously walking past they like what they heard and they decided to stick around and were so grateful for that. More to the point, thanks to Bloodstock for having us back. I know it's a tender again. I know we did two years ago attend THEE but they've given us a leap the show of faith and they've brought us back. We can't thank them enough. They are They're one. I do festivals all over the world and they're one of my favorite festivals and a lot because we got bands like you that come and give us just fucking a brutal show. Like ye, here's one thing people don't notice either. It's like when you see bands up on stage or you see them stand in front of you like this, like it's two different worlds. Like you go into a zone when you get up on stage and you're like in this other realm.

3:57 Oh for sure, Like you you sort of kind of slip into like a sort of performing kind of feel. Yeah, it's a very different persona up on stage. Really. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a whole other world, as you say, yeah for sure. And I think that's the way it should be, because if I want to watch the album, I'll listen to the album when I go to a live show, I want to hold different experience and I think that's what you guys bring to it. And there's some bands that don't. It's like they get up there and they're just playing the album to me, they're dialing it in. You guys, I could tell your passion and like just fucking having a great time up there. Again, we embrace the misery and we want people to engage with our music. We want them to feel as miserable as we did when we wrote the bloody thing in the first place. So we've already had a comment from a guy who's a said he shed a tear.

4:48 I know You're last job done as far as we're concerned. Right know that. You know, it's kind of like when you say that, it made me instantly think of Ozzie performing Mama, I'm coming home for the last time. Like people are some people that weren't paying attention. They're like, oh, his voice was well, no, he was fucking losing his emotions, that's what was happening. Oh, yeah, for sure, it was a very emotional show. I was there at the back to the beginning. It was nice, it was fantastic, But at the same time as yeah, very moving, But it was so lovely to see Ousie like up there for giving his final performance. He was giving it it's all, and it was just so moving to see him. I feel like he got that final opportunity to do what he really loved and what he always loved is performing.

5:30 And he never dialed it in in all the years, never dialed it in every I saw him every year since nineteen eighty and man, every show you could tell he's just having the best time ever and giving you everything. As I said years ago, like if he had to retire like Sharon wyed them too, he probably would have passed away sooner. That's true. Yeah, I think doing what he loved kept him going, and I think it's gonna be the same for us. I think keeping doing what we enjoy that's what keeps us going. You know, absolutely, see. That's key, because how can I, the person in the audience enjoy what you're doing if you're not. One hundred percent. Yeah, the moment that you stop and doing what we're doing on stage, it's obvious to them, it's obvious. It'll show on our faces and showing our actions. So you're gonna keep things moving, You're gonna keep writing, you can keep grafting. You're gonna keep working.

6:22 And if you don't enjoy what you're doing, this is the wrong fucking industry because there's a lot of negatives. There's a lot of negatives. People don't realize that. They look at you like, oh, you're living the dream life, but they don't see what you're doing the rest of the twenty four hours a day. Yeah, one hundred percent. They don't see again, the social media, they don't see the writing. The recording. Recording can be quite fun. You enjoy the record, yeah, Yeah, a great great phone. It's been a for album one and an album too. Alan says, mission to try break me and push push me every album and at the moment album I can't say too much about album three, but it's largely written and it's gonna be pretty brutal and I'll probably cry a little bit, but I love it.

7:02 Yeah, And what do you love most about the recording part of it? So it's quite yeah, and again again being told yeah, not good enough doing it? More so how they put into words what I really enjoyed about. I think hearing the fight like you spent months and months practicing all these parts and having other people like critique them, And when you finally get that final product and you sat in the control room hearing the real drums whatever that's we recorded, it's I don't know, it's quite a bit cathartic in some respect. You're spending all that time practice and practice and practice, and you think you'd have it down and somebody critiques you. Yeah, and you're like, that happens a lot. I spent like time practicing these drum fills for hours. I went in, I didn't even get to finish it, and I get yeah, no, that's not working down the microphone from our guy called Timothy Vincent from Woodcroft Audio.

7:47 He'd just been like, yeah, no that doesn't work. Just play a simple role. I'm like, oh, okay, Like you just gotta be open minded when you record. You can't just like if you go in with a fixed mindset, it's just. And you don't really get it till that final thenk You hear the file Brocket and you're like, okay, I get it now, Yeah it works like I said. You hear it and you go, oh yeah, you guys, you guys are right, I guess yeah, yeah, you know right. Yeah, ultimately, I think that's why both albums have come out really well. Just I think we're all open and flexible, you know, so I know it's fake producer. You trust the producer. Producer, you pay them money for reasons, no doubt exactly experts in their craft, so it's good to listen to them. Look at Metallica. Without the producer, we would never add a black album, and we might not have Metallica today.

8:32 I think you're right, Yeah, absolutely, I think that you know, the these days, they do their own thing. But yeah, that all the great albums. Yeah, legendary producers. I think that can be a large part of how you can really dial in the sound. But it's a band. You've got an idea of what you want, but ultimately that produces that extra set of ears and goes actually that bit we could there's a different way we could do that, and it's gonna sound way better. And you got that outside voice, which is what you're gonna have when you play a live show or somebody by your album. So it's not just what you think about. That producer is thinking about what we're all going to think about it. Yeah, for sure, for sure, they really are. Yeah, people reach out to you on socials on the web by your merch all that shit.

9:15 So we're on most socials as you might imagine, so Facebook, Insta, Threads, Blue Sky, Bank, Camp, Bank Camp's may our merch lives. That's easy way to go and buy stuff there. We'll have some stuff on site which will be online later on. We'll have more stuff coming soon as well, because we sold out of a lot of our stuff, which is a good. Problem to have. Yes, but yeah, if everyone reach out to us, hit us up. Any of those more than happy to have a chat, engage in conversation, get book for shows to talk to us. We're open and that I. Tell my listeners that they can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch, because that's the only way you get to the next days. Yes, please do that, and they're quite reasonable. I'll say that our prices, we know exactly where we stand as fans as much as we stand as a band, So we're not going to overcharge you for your merch.

10:02 If you want it, then trust me a wake it available tea. I love it. I love it, and I love that your air bloodstock you kicked ass. I'm glad I got to catch your set before I got NonStop busy, So I'm glad you played at ten thirty. Thank you much, so much, appreciated man. Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you so much. Jason cheers. 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 is because she was family.

10:46 She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family. Most of the bass that you. Know and love you probably heard of because of that woman right there. Slip 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 gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.

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