PipemanRadio Interviews Pinkshift at Riotfest 2023

0:04 Hey, you love them too, that's sure. I'm from four see why for you Wake Up of America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man on W four cy dot com westpon Beats, his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. Oh Fi, this is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w for c Y Radio. And I'm here with Myron from Pink Shifts, a Shrita from Pink Shift, Paul from Pink Shifts. Nice here at riot Fest. How does it feel.

1:10 It's good. It's like really fun. This is our first time here, so really or was awesome? Yeah, yeah, it was. It's really fun. It's we're kind of just like starting out like playing out, playing festivals and stuff, and this is like one of the most fun I feel like we've been at. It is a great festival. This This was I think our biggest festival audience ever. So it was really great to see the turnout for people that came up to see us. You know, we yeah, we played. We thought we were playing pretty early too, so yeah, how cool is that? You know you're playing early first day it's Friday, and you're thinking, oh, there's gonna be like two people there, you know, and then you look at that and you're like, oh shit, Well, Chicago is always showing us a lot of love. We played here a few times already. Yesterday we actually played at bric a Brac recres you like a small acoustic performance and that we didn't even promote it that much, but we still had a lot of people come out and just just to say hi and hang out and if we felt beloved, like for your nice and look we all match with the arms and they'll be more on my wrist by the end of the day, I can assure you, because every festival somebody keeps putting one on. Yeah, you know, So tell us a little bit about you guys. For the listeners have never heard your music, how would you describe your music on Well, we're paying shift. We're like a rock bands. We all have like really different influences, so we kind of just come together to make something that we want a party too, but

2:43 like also like cry sometimes too and rage and scream. Yeah, just trying to bring people together. That's everything a band should be. Right there, You described everything a band should be, because that's what music's about, right It's like the best therapy there is you know, for you guys, the artists and us, it's the listeners because you know, you have your own ship you're getting out in your music and then we're listening to it and we're relating again our ship out in the pit. Yeah fuck yeah, you know yeah. I think like the biggest thing that we loved about playing shows is that, like the people who like come out for us and listen to our music, they're just like us. You know, a lot of the times, it's like you see your reflection in the crowd, So it's just a lot of new friends like all the time. Kind of Yeah, it's really fun. That's what's so cool about environment like this because they're there are no outsiders, Like all the outsiders are here, so we're all insiders. We're all in on the outside, I know, right, So what are you gonna do to top this? Now? What comes after riot Fest? Well, we're actually starting our headline Sore in Milwaukee on Sunday. Nice, So that's gonna be really fun. That's with a couple of our friends. It's called Eat your Friends, So like our friend's Dry and Paullyanna. We're really excited about that. We're all we're all like we've been wanting to tour together for like a minute, so it's really fun to just be able to do

4:14 it. We're really excited to do it. We all got together in the Airbnb last night and it was already a vibe, like before the show has even started. We're like, Oh, this is gonna be It's gonna be awesome. That's the way it's gotta be, right because well, if you're stuck on tour with people you don't like, you know, like you gotta be with people that you can totally vibe with. Yeah, it's happened, I'm sure. Is there any time that you're like fuck this, I'm done with this store, I'm leaving, but you can't leave, but you want to leave? Oh, all the time? That was sometime, not all the time, but I think that was me in the van driving to Riot fust really well because we've been on tour like for a while, so you know, like I had I don't I didn't know I had asthma, but like I had like an asthma attack like two days ago, and I was just like fuck this, I'm done. I want to go home. But after the set, like I feel good, like it's crazy, say there you go, Yeah, you know it is. It is difficult I find because I go on tour and do all the different festivals, and I always think of bands and especially the singers, how they do it because I get, you know, the festival flu all the time, you know what I'm talking about. The right now, I'm stuffed from the festival dust of last week and the week before. The dust is crazy. So I'm like, how does somebody get up there and sing with that dust? Like I have a hard enough time just talking with the dust. And then I woke up this morning, I'm like, please let me breathe today to do my interviews,

5:45 you know, Like and it's it's really people don't understand how fun but grooling being on the road is, oh totally yeah, we're I mean, we had an idea of it, but now we're experiencing it and we're like, oh yeah, Like it's it's a lot. It's a lot on your body and like mentally, and you have to like take extra steps to like really take care of yourself on the road, you know, no matter like whether you're just like in a minivan or like on a bus, like you still gotta do the things that you gotta do to like make sure you're okay and like make sure everyone around he's okay. And it's a lot of extra work and the show must go on unless you're dying. You gotta do the show. Yeah, definitely, We've definitely had our fair share of those shows.

6:33 Right we're like okay, like we're like dying, but like nobody can tell because we just do the thirty minutes and then we're done. Well, that's the point, you know, when you get up on stage, even with me turning on the mic, it's like I forget if I'm feeling like shit tired or anything else. And then when I'm done at the end of the day, I'm like, thank god, Yeah, but I allow myself. Then you don't allow yourself while you're doing it, because you just gotta go all balls out and you get in live zone totally and forget about it. You know. Yeah, that's the best part, right, like just like getting in the zone like together, like you know, because like there's one thing about like playing an instrument or like you know, having a hobby where you can get into the zone, like in your own zone in your head. But it's it's really special to be able to share that like with the same people every night, like with with my friends, and they understand.

7:27 Most people. My youngest store, she'll sometimes come in the festival with me and halfway through day one she's like, Dad, I don't know how you do this every week. I don't know how festival goers do it. I will say that I don't. I've never actually been to a festival, like on the other side, because that's a sport. Yeah, I really respect that. It's totally like especially if you're somebody like me, because I want to hit every band and I don't want to just hang out at the camp site or whatever. I want to go see the bands. But it is growing, yeah, but I mean it's it's so much fun. That's why we keep doing it, and like we feel so lucky to be able to do it. So it's like it's our family. Yeah, Like you can't not write you know what I mean exactly? How do people connect to you guys on socials, on the web, and most important by your merch Yeah, I mean yeah, like we we really like try hard with like you know, merch and stuff. Try to get some cool looking Shit's the aquadols over there I know it's the Aquadols. Hey, it's the aquadots.

8:31 Oh my god, it's the aquadols. Hey. You know it's funny because last year when I interviewed them here, the whole test present was looking because they were laughing so hard and having so much fun, and people's like, what's going on over there? Oh, it's just in their review. They're really sweet. They are cool, and they're badass, like you guys are so anything else we want people to know about you guys that we haven't discussed already. We're released sing an EP in October. Nice, that's cool on limited pre order available if y'all. If anyone wants to pick up a copy of the vinyls and where did they go to do that? Hopeless dot Com, Hopeless Records. There you go is where you can preorder it. Nice.

9:18 We're really excited about it. It's like very different from our album. I feel like it's like a step towards what we're gonna do for the second album. But it's always a daunting task to do a second album, you know, so we're taking our steps there. It is because like that first album is stuff you've been working on forever, like and touring with and playing with and then everybody loves it, and so now it's like, oh, I have to top that and people. I hope people like that new stuff. Yeah, yeah, we're feeling like that, but I don't know. We've been playing it at shows and stuff and we're just excited for people to know the songs before they get there. I love it. I love when that happens too, because I look at artists, I'm like, man, that must be so cool people sing him back to them. That's a crazy experience. It's like, Wow, it never gets not crazy, I know, right. I mean, we're just starting out, so it's still crazy, and I'm sure that it's justifiably just like crazy, but like I'm sure that I will think that it's crazy for the rest of my life. There it is. Well, I love that you're here at rid Fest. Man.

10:30 That tour is going to be cool as shit. Everybody's got to check it out and catch one of the dates. And thank you for being on the Adventures plate Man. Of course, thanks so much for having us. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man. I'm W four CUI Radio.