PipemanRadio Interviews Polaris at Download20

0:04 Hey, you love them too? Sure? From four C Why Wake Up America, It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W for cyd com whist Pong Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the Pipe Man. That since the Pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipeman W forc Y Radio at Download Festival and I'm here with Jake from Polaris Nice. So twineth anniversary and you're fucking playing here, Like I think to myself, I've been saying, that's still a lot of bands. They hand picked an artist to play on twentieth anniversary, It's not like any other download. How does that feel when you got that email, that call or whatever like that you're going to be unwind those and picked. Well, I mean, we're just extremely lucky to finally be playing download full stop. You know, we've been watching you know, footage of shows bands playing these stages since we were young guys just putting together a band when we're you know, first starting out until now, and it's just yeah, absolutely wanted to be here, let alone for the twentieth anniversary. So I mean to have opened main stage this morning for the twentieth anniversary show, is. Yeah, it's a massive honor where we

1:37 hope, we hope we did up apart well, I should say, and we had a lot of fun and yeah, we were just trying to have fun with it. So did it blow your mind how many people were there? For being the first band on the main stage that like usually at festival that's not the case. Yeah, I know, the turnout was really good. They clearly let a lot of people in really quickly, which is obviously super helpful. Yeah, we were we were stoked, and obviously we were sitting up there for a few hours back when there was no one there and we're just looking out of this empty space trying to imagine what it might look like. But once it filled up, it just looked incredible. And the stage itself had that crazy catwalk thing coming off of it, so you know, we just go through a bit of a stroll down that every now and then between songs, during songs, I should say. And yet it was cool because you know, we're so far back from the crowd and then you get really close and starts to really hit you how many people have come out to see it. So, yeah, we're really special. So you're from one of my favorite places I haven't been to yet. I was just in Bali for a couple of months and I was gonna hop over to Australia, but then I found out how hard it is to get a visa last minute to go to Australia. So that'll be next year. But I'm a surfer, so of course that's one of the places I need to go. Yeah, do you, sir, I don't surf? No, yeah, in a Australian that doesn't. Oh yeah, yeah, no. I I did a lot, you know, at the beach in the water growing up.

3:00 You know, we all owned to swim, and you do like different kind of athletics that to do with kind of like almost like lifeguard sports, where you do essentially do surfing. I don't do any recreational in my own time. I've dabbled in skating for a bit, but I don't know, I know, surfing myself. But yeah, man, you got to get out there. I'm telling you. So. Where I live in Florida, it's called Singer Island, and our reef there is second in the world only to yours. Really yeah, and it's right in my backyard. Like I literally walked to the reef. I thought Hawaii was the place. It's another place, but this one's what teaches have you heard about in Australia that you want to go to? You know, I don't remember all the names, but obviously when you're American, it's the one in Point Break is one of them.

3:46 But then I talked to all scenes that you know, I'm friendly with and are like, yeah, that's not the real one. Yeah, exactly. What does fascinate me though, is I watched the show one time about the houses called digouts. You know, when I'm talking about it's it's one of the places in Australia where it's like really really hot, So where they build these houses underground. Yeah yeah, it sounds like yeah, okay, yeah. So the further inland you go, like away from all the coasts, it gets real hot. Yeah. And we've got some towns that are known for mining. So obviously we had the gold Rush, but there was also opal mining towns and one of them that I've been to is called kuber Pete, and yeah, they build houses and caves underground just to get away from the heat. It's I just don't think a few places, but oh it's crazy. Yeah, yeah, it is very cool. You know, if you go out there, you can stay in a hotel somewhere that's kind of underground. And yeah, it's it's it's you gotta do what you can do to get away from the heat. Man, it's crazy. Yeah, we got terms in America living underground, which means basically off the radar of Big Brother. Yeah. Yeah, and so that's why I saw that.

4:56 I'm like, let's see ultimate in going underground, get away from all of the radio signals, no doubt. So we got to do another comparison. Florida to Australia. Okay, poisonous, dangerous everything. Have you had any experiences nothing to life threatening? Luckily? I you know, once you get to the major cities, everything gets pretty safe and show. I've done a few trips here and there, and I've seen a few things up close, just randomly, but nothing crazier than like a red belly black snake. Nothing too life threatening. But we've definitely got them. Yeah, I know that we have that they are around. I'm just lucky that they're far from wherever I happen to be. Well, do you guys have the attitude that we do, which is basically people all over to us are like, oh, I wouldn't want to live in Florida to alligator or so, I'm like, they're not really a big deal. They're not a big deal, right, You just got to be a bit aware exactly if you're if you're somewhere where you know they're in the water, you don't go on the water, and in fact, you don't even get too close to the water or like for us, like I go canoeing through the Everglades, Okay, don't do it during mating season. Oh shit, that's when they get aggressive. One time I did, though I was I didn't know it was mating season. I was being an amateur and I was canoeing in the area of these cute baby alligators and I stopped. I'm looking at them, and then I hear and yeah I heard that. Oh yeah, I heard. I turned around and

6:27 I saw a fifteen foot mama go under. I'm like, I'm out of here, off with the paddle. Yeah, no doubt. So how does it feel to win on award? How does it feel to win and award? Which what are we talking about? Didn't you guys win an award for a massachuss We we've we've won. We were on the Hard Rock Music Award for our Oh my God second record. I was, yeah, I can't believe. I kind of fog about that yet. How about that say, I'm not sure which one it was for massacres though, what was that in particular? You know, I have to remember, I know that's that's that's more a spot in my memory. Yeah, let's see, I might have it here somewhere. So two thousand and twenty one Song of the Year, is that you? I think? Yeah, that sounds like us. Yeah, that's good. You had me confused words two thousand and one. Oh yeah, shit. One thing about twenty twenty and twenty twenty one is a lot of cool and bad things happen. I think I've forget a few too many of them, just to due to the state of the world and the way I was coping. But yeah, no, I'm yeah it was.

7:44 It was a thrill. But that's okay. We'll edit most of that out so it doesn't sound like you don't know. That's my cueue to the engineer. You want it or you want it will make for a really good bit. Whatever you want me to do. But you what's your show? You may sound how you like, but I do want to talk about that COVID thing because listen, it was it was kind of screwed for everybody. Yeah, but I also kind of think that some of the best music will ever have came out of that because of game like jump off the hamster wheel and be creative again and regenerate. So that album that you did during COVID times, do you feel that's kind of it seemed to be the case. Hey, Yeah, like so many artists really stellar records during and just after that time, we're in this interesting spot where we finished up our second record and put it out just before COVID really hit. Yeah, you got one Australian touring and it was tough for us because you know, you write a record, it takes a lot out of you. You want to get on the road and you want to like put that stuff out there and rip the reward.

8:52 And not being out of tour of that album, it was really hard for us and it caused us a need to take a bit of time and step back and take some time for ourselves just to kind of process everything that was going on. And it's funny, we did do a lot of writing during that time, a lot of writing, but not all of that was the most inspired. Not all of it was the most productive, of the most lucrative, just because of where we were at. Yeah, and so towards the end of it, I think things kicked into gear harder, and since everything wrapped up, we were continuing to write. I think the album that we've just written and that's gonna come out in September is very influenced by that time. Nice, but initially in the writing stages, it was tough for us. It didn't come easy. It wasn't It wasn't as it seems to have been for a lot of other bands, where they were just stuck at home and all they have was the ability to write, and they just got into it and some of their best stuff came out. For us, it was really hard. It was a really they're sent and been some hours.

9:50 I've talked too that they did no rating yeah, because your head is like, for lack of better way of pointment, all fucked up you are, yeah, yeah, and you know you're stuck there with nothing else to do, no outlets, and while writing helps that, you know, you get stuck into that and that's the only thing you're doing, you start to feel like you're even more in a loop. Yeah, but you know, we did write a lot of cool songs during that period of time that we're really happy with. You wrote a few more that added on at the end, but I think most of all, the theme and the way we all feeling has seeped into the tone of what was written. Yeah, it's a bit more frustrated, it's a bit darker. The content of what we wanted to talk about was reflecting in what was going on and the way the world was just losing the fucking minds with each other at the time. And Yeah, I guess our last two records are very introspective and personal, and I think this most recent record is kind of It's a similar kind of thing.

10:46 It's the effects on a person, but due to the external as opposed to what you do to yourself, what the world does to you, and how you cope with and deal with that totally. And I think it's pretty cool. Like I read that you guys cided to finished touring the album before instead of going right into that new album after COVID, which I think is really cool because a lot of fans didn't get a chance to really see that because of COVID, it was really important for us to do that. Yeah, that record number two, The Death of Me was written if you can imagine, like we just put out our first full length album and we just our lives changed. We were touring all the time, and so that record was written on the road. It was written in our off time at homes when we really wanted to be spending as much time as we could with our partners and our family and our friends. And so that was a tough record, and a bunch of friends who had never had any issues with one another was suddenly having to face certain certain disagreements and problems and overcome that for the strength of the band, and it's all brought us together. But there were these pressures on us that made it really hard to write that record. And so when we finally finished it and we were really happy with it and we were really proud of it, we really just wanted to play those songs and even still, I'm I'm so stoked with just every single song on that record.

12:03 And yeah, we were just like, there's no way we're just going to skip over this era of our band just because the world stopped we knew that people were listening to it, we were getting support from messages online. It was really important to us that we got to enjoy those songs live with our fans before we moved on to the next chapter. And so priority number one once the world started working again was just to get out there and play those songs as many places as we could. Well, kudos to you because I think that was the rate thing to did you. And then the other rate thing to do that you do is like your songs mean something. Music summ of the best therapy there is, and I think that's exactly what you provide the people with your lyrics. That all comes down to our our drummer, Dan, Would you believe it? Yeah? Wow, he's quite the word smith and he's got a lot of He's got a lot of things going on in that head of his that he loves to get out. He's a lot of the songs are based on his personal experiences, and he also tries to draw inspiration from what we're going through as a band. If any of us is going through a particular time with some extraneous circumstances, he usually tries to, you know, sit down with us, talk us through it as a friend. And also, you know, if we're comfortable and it feels right to use that in a song, and yeah, it's it's it's cathartic for all of us. I think I think a lot of artists. A lot of artists do that. They use their music to work out the way they're feeling, to try and process all the crazy shit they go through, and it's it's nice to be able to do that. And I think it's the most effortless way to have your songs connect with people, because if it's something

13:33 that you felt, you can guarantee there's hundreds of thousands of people out there that have gone through the same thing. That might be a very niche and particular thing, but you know that that's just you know, that's the human experience. There's someone else out there it's had a very similar experience, and you're talking about it can sometimes help, you know, absolutely, And you know that's why I say music's best therapy. I don't mean just me listening. Yeah, you're writing, Yeah, you're playing, you know, and I look get something like last night bring Me to Rising. Most of Ali's lyrics are shit he went through, like Roade in rehab and stuff like that. But you look at the crowd and every single person relates to those lyrics.

14:15 Every single person he's got he's got such a way to make those things too, sound like. He's just got such a catchy way with his writing. He's very clever with his words. He's club with his phrases. He's good at using little idioms and common turns of phrases that you're familiar with and twisting them into his lyrics, something that we definitely try to emulate in a spy too. And yeah, it's as you say, like that sort of stuff like if it's honest, you know, it does connects, I think with a lot of people. Absolutely to have people connect you on socials, on the web, and most importantly check out your new music and buy your merch. How do they do that? Yes, I guess the easiest and simplest way if you're looking to buy some merch would just be to hop onto our band website, which is a polarisos dot com. And you know we're active on Facebook, we're active on Instagram, we're active on Twitter. We are yet to kick off TikTok. That one's that one's a little new age for us, we're again and the tooth is guys, yeah where none of us really used TikTok but we're I think we're going to start recording some content to put up on that because I think the cool thing about TikTok is is it's it seems to be really raw content, and I think that's a really cool place for us to start showing some of that less polished sort of stuff that you come up with, just videos on tour, behind the scenes stuff like that from externally without having used the much myself. That seems to be the content that goes around, So I think that's a cool avenue for us to start posting a bunch of things like that. Oh yeah, you're so right. Is there anything you want to tell the listeners that we haven't covered yet? We are really excited to be dropping our third album on September the

15:48 first. We've got our new song in Humane out right now, which you can check out. It's on Spotify and all other listening platforms. We have a music video for that out on YouTube. It's probably the craziest video we've ever done. Tonight, Sorry you all enjoy that, and yeah, I just hope you guys are listening out for the next stuff, because we'll have a few more songs coming out between now and September. I love it. And you know, when I saw your new song, all I thought about is American people, because we're a bit in humane right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The world went crazy for a while though. Oh I'm telling you, well, we're here at download. We're all big family here and love that you're here. And thanks for being on the Adventures pate Man.

16:33 Thanks so much for having me. You got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pate Man on W four CUI Radio.