PipemanRadio Interviews Repulsive Vision at Bloodstock 2023

0:04 Hey, you live too, is sus sure? I'm coming on for see why for you wake up of America. It's time for the Adventures. So Pipeman on W four CWY dot com west pom Beats his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the white Man. Yeah, this is the pipe Man here on the Adventure the Pipeman W fourcy By Radio. And I'm here web about Davidson from a whole division your yard, bloodstock Man. That's amazing. How has it been? Always fucking amazing? Every time we come here is incredible. It's the first time playing, but I've been to this festival about a and nine times and I love it every time. It's one of the greatest festivals in the UK. It's the closest you can get to the European side the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And I love how they treat artists here, saying tell us about that, because most festivals are not very good at that. I've got to admit the UK really is kind of behind, particularly with the mainland, Europe and America.

1:33 But here they've given us VIP treatment all weekends. It's been great and we're only on the smallest stage, so you know, it's been surreal how well they've treated us and everything. It's just cool. Yeah, totally, And I don't really think they're behind as far as America goes. I'm from there, and they treat the artists way better here. It's kind of like they realize that without your artist, there is no festival. Opposed to they're doing you a favor. Yeah, they're not doing you a favor. They are in some sense, but you're doing a favor. It's reciprocal. Yeah, So tell our listeners who have never heard you, how you would describe your music to them and not some label genre shit that they box you into.

2:23 How do you express yourself as an artist? Well, I'm a punk a heart for me, and although I played playing a death metal kind of vibe, I'm very much into the energy of it, the fast kind of nature. So I've always taken inspiration from bands like Napalm Death and No Effects and Bad Religion, as well as Caucus and m Tuned and all the kind of old school death bands. You know. I'm into the technical side as well, but I think what really resonates with our music is the energy. It's fast, it's riffy, you know, even down to like the ACDC and Black Sabbath in there. You know, it's just our music is all about the riff, and once you've got the riff, everything else is the bonus, you know. Yeah, it's the energy, it's the hooks we try and throw in there as well. I would say that the best way I put it is if you had Caucus and Discharge mixed together. Oh my god, that's awesome. I love. What a great description right there. It's funny you should mentioned Discharge because back in the day in the eighties, for me, I was a long hair couldn't go to a punk show. Punks could go long hair shows. It was stupid like and we were such a small community, not like now. So high school the jocks would kick both our asses, but then we were kicking each other's asset was stupid band together.

3:40 And then you have a band like Slayer combined punk and metal, and that started that whole scenario. And it's funny you mentioned Discharge because last year I interviewed Discharge, I was in their pit and was the first time ever I could see Discharge gets Back in the day, I can go Discharge show and I love Discharge. Oh yeah, so I love somebody like you and artist that isn't being that gatekeeper of this is our music and this is the only way it should sound. Take all your influences, put it into something and make something new and unique so you don't sound like everybody else exactly exactly.

4:26 I mean Discharge, I think are probably one of the most influential bands in extreme mel If you didn't have Discharge, you wouldn't have Metallica, you wouldn't have may Anetho Slayer, and by by design, you wouldn't have any of death Mel, any of grind call, no repulsion, There'll be no napalm death, there'd be no death. Yeah, that's such an integral pot obviously with motehead as well being around that. Without Discharge or they exploited or GBH, you wouldn't have any of that stuff. And you know, I mean, I book a small town festival Discharge headline this year and it was a It was full of deathmel and black mail and all that kind of stuff as well as Discharge headlining, and everyone was loving it. It's they they resonate even after like forty years, they still resonate with everyone, right and the way to see him his life oh, no doubt about it. And then you know what's interesting is a lot of those bands are still pretty old school and how they do shows. So like at health Fast that's where I was in the Discharge pit GBH and exploited three of my favorite bands that once again none of them could I see as a teenager, and exploited Wady invited everybody up on stage just like old school punk look, and it was so wild because the stage was about as high as that tent. Security was actually helping us up. You know, they weren't saying no, you get they were pulling us up and helping us down, and like everybody was on the

5:56 stage for exploit. I'm like, I was so pump because that was like eighties the way that was. You got up on the stage and shit, don't go on anymore. They don't let you do it. No. So I was like, this is fucking awesome. Oh that's cool man, especially at health Fest. What's that major festival, I know, right yeah? So yeah, And then I remember I was talking to the singer of Discharge here last year and just his whole attitude about punk and metal is the way we should all think. Lack Yeah, and there's no gate keeping judgmental bullshit, and it still kind of exists today. Funny I was I was dating for a while, a singer of a hardcore punk band, and the reason she we broke up, in my eyes, is she kept saying shit that I was a metal head. Like we're in fucking the two thousands. That ship shouldn't exist anymore. She kept giving me shit about metal metal. Dude, Come on, you know, let's all band together against especially where situation went Like Sophie, Okay, we all need to band together to stop that fucking shit. It's alternative music in general. I might not like certain alternative genres, but we're all the same. Yeah, we're all basically we're all ten thousand bullets of the bully children, Yeah, who struggled through it, you know, and and still resonant and kept going for it, you know

7:29 it. I think everyone here has had that kind of negative situation growing up, and somehow they've kept to it and they've they've become themselves through all those experiences. They are the bullies, right well. The stereotype in every single bit of media is metal heads as being the negative part, the satanic panic and all this kind of pmouse. It's destroying our kids and all this kind of stuff. It's it's ridiculous. I think all those fuckers that do that to come to a festival like Bloodstock so they can see, ay that we're a family, that we're not that fucking image that you try to portray, you know, and there's a realness and how nice we are. Yeah.

8:18 You know, if I go to in the States a country show, it's a bunch of red nut dicks are drunk fighting each other. You come to something like this, everybody's like nice. Doesn't matter how you look, what you wear, what you do. Nobody is an outcast here because we're all just outcast together. I would say that the whole metal kind of aesthetic as well is almost the ultimate icebreaker for people who have got anxiety. For example, you can look over and someone said, you're wearing a bio hesitation, So am I We're already friends exactly. Yeah, it's an automatic, it's like a given exactly. All of a sudden, those people struggle to to people because they've got nothing to say, have that reason to talk to someone.

9:03 It's funny too. I had a brother, I have a brother of mine that we were having a discussion once and he kind of what's telling me, it's ridiculous. I'm looking for a girl that's into punk and metal, and at my age, I'm not gonna find that. And it's blah blah blah. I'm like, you just don't get it. Yeah, it's like there's something automatic, and then there's so much to talk about that no one else can understand. I couldn't imagine being with a woman that's not in it. It's like one of the first questions I ask if I meet a woman, what type of music is your favorite? And they all will say, what like all music? You know? I'm like, well, I like a lie of music too, but how about metal and punk? Oh no, not that? Oh well, then I guess it's not right exactly exactly.

10:00 Well, I mean, I'm quite lucky I've got mine right here. And again, you were kind of more into the the glam metal scene, weren't you, rather than being the more into the kind of mean grunge and Hamel was just quite ironic considering, yeah, exactly. Especially I come from the gatekeeping days like the eighties. I was in LA when Mattalkin Slayer first started went to their first shows in the first club show I ever went to was Motley Crew, but before they were glam, when they were horror punk, before any album, and I love them until they turned glam and all my friends were like, you gotta burn all that fucking Montley Crew ship, you know, because and again stupid shit because again, so what you know?

10:48 And now like it's funny, I've hung out back stage. I wanted the festivals with Brett Michaels, and back in the day I knew him too, but it was like you fucking or hair metal piece of shit. And then I'm talking just the nicest down the earth dude. Oh yeah, no ego whatsoever. That's so cool. He came backstage. We were all sitting back there, me production grew up. He went up to every single person who were like thirty of us and shook everybody's hand. It didn't matter if they were carrying the garbage. Thank you for what you're doing at this festival. That's awesome. You kind of assumed all of that scene is very excellent. Rose kind of right, but that that's so cool because he's larger than life when you see him from the outside. I mean, it's this thing that on the stage. He's a different person to who he is. That's so cool. I've never thought of him that way. So that gave me a whole new respect because back in the day I did think the way, you're these pompous fucking asses that are looking down on me because I'm a thrash metal head. Yeah, you know. So we're just all one big family.

11:56 It's the bottom and your band is part of that. And I love that you're here at Bloodstock. Tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials, on the web, everything else, and most importantly by your merch. So we're between merch at the moment. We're about to do our new album, so kind of holding back because we've got some new artwork with this fucking killer, you know, so we're holding back. We sold out of all the last stuff on the last tour. We're on the usual socials, Facebook, Instagram, all the usual stuff, you know. But beyond that, best thing is to get in touch with us via Facebook, where content to talk to anyone. We're very down to worth. There's no way you go to us. We love music, We love everyone that has the time to actually come and listen to us or say anything to us. The fact that we had the response that we had yesterday was just unreal for a small band like us. You know, you you never get used to it.

12:54 You never get used to the support and the love and the appreciation in this scene. And we've done gigs all of the We actually played in America a few years though. Yeah, we played Las Vegas Death Fest with Martician Invader, and we played in Ventura, California, and in Oakland. Nice. So we'd love to go back again at some point. You know, you have to play Psycho Las Vegas at festivals perfect for you. Hell yeah, hell yeah, we'd love to. I mean, all my favorite bands have played, like at the Gates and My Friends and Municipal Waste and so they were fucking brilliant. But you know, anytime that someone can take the time to listen to us through the millions of great bands that are out there, I mean the amount of albums there that no one's listening to and they listen to ours instead, I love it. It's amazing, you know.

13:41 And as much as the Internet has made it harder to listen to bands, I think it's made it easier to discover new bands or old bands. You know, like I discovered Nasty Savage only about five years ago through isn't it nice? And what a great band, you know, and watch Tower the Thrash Frog. I love discovering old new music to me, you know, yeah, there we go. That's what it's all about, right, exactly. Well, I gotta say, one of the best festival I do all kinds of festivals. It's Bloodstock is one of the best. I'm glad you're here. Hope to see you again. Definitely, my friend. Thank you, thanks for being on the Adventures of piate Man. Thank you so much. Munchis. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pate Man on W four CUI Radio.