PipemanRadio Interviews SeeYouSpaceCowboy at Aftershock 2023

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0:49 It's the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Connie Scarbosa from Space Cowboy. Nice. You're an aftershow, Yes we are. How does it feel? Is this cool or what? Oh? Yeah, it's it's interesting. We've never played after Shock before, so like it's it's pretty. It's been a fun time and we played really really really early. But like it's festivals are always uh hit or mis experience. But like so far, I've had fun. I love it. That's the key right there, right If you're not having fun, this is business. I mean even if you play like a Soso set whatever, bah blah. If you're having fun, like wandering around it just like people watching, like whatever you're gonna do, like talking to your homies and other bands, like you'll have a good time. Still at the very least, there you go. Have you done any other Danny Wimmer festivals or is this the first one? I'm not sure. Actually we played Loud than Life.

1:38 That's fun. Yeah, so we did that and that was awesome. We were like second to last on our stage and it was a really fun time, really big crowd, and got to go to a hardcore show right after. So it was like an awesome day for me. A loud in life for sure. Today we had to drive to Portland right after this, so that really much fun. Yeah overnight. Oh yeah, that's not fun. But that's the life, right, Yeah, that's that's the West Coast life. I'm from Cali, so I know all about these long long as drives. Well I was from Cali and I live in Florida now, and that's same thing. Like artists don't want to come down to where I am in Florida because you gotta drive all the way down to drive all the way back up. See, I am a defender. I love playing Florida. So every every headliner that we do, I'm like, I want to go to Florida. I don't care that we had to drive however long from Atlanta wherever.

2:27 Like, I want to go to Florida. That's your favorite for Florida to play. I like, honestly every part that it plays when ausome, Like we just played Tampa and it rocks has like some of the best venues, Like they're not near me, that's like four hours away, but I as a media person, prefer going to see. What was cool is we went to Daytona Beach for our day off, got to do a swim in the ocean, like Golden hour sunsetting is amazing. And then we played South Florida which was cool too. And then we went to Tampa and there's no barricade, so it's just a lot of kids like singing a law right on the up to the stage, stage, diving off. It was just a great time. See. I love hearing artists thinking that's a great time.

3:07 Yeah, that's the way it always went. Yeah. No, I'm a big proponent of like I want no barricades. I want people driving on stage. I want you getting on stage. And I don't like these big venues where it's like a mile from you to the crowd. Like I like these intimate, small shows where everyone's involved and everyone's having fun. Yeah, and you know what's weird to me, Like, uh, we have this in the West Palm Beach venue that you have to pay more to be in the pit, like the pits for the people that want to be in the pit. Most of those people paying to be in the pit don't want to be any part of a marsh pit. No. See, I came from DIY hardcore shows. That's what I grew up on as like a thirteen fourteen fifty year old kid. Like that's always like where my heart's at. Like, I like, it's cool that we had the opportunity to play these bigger stages with like on these bigger tours, but like for me, like I'll always have my heart in like two hundred and three hundred cat venues, no barricades, stage is waist high only and you can have a great time. Everyone's just having fun totally, and that is what it is. I think that's people have a misconception of what goes on because they look at it and they like have this assumption. But we're just having a blast and we're getting all our shit out. I mean yeah, that's like part of like hardcores, Like it's always like yeah, people from the outside looking at it be like, oh, it looks so violent, look so angry, but I'm like, that's like the Catharsis that we crave as like people growing up and currently like you want to just go to a show and front flip off the stage for your favorite band, Like this is what we grew up on. And I know it's a lot of TikTok kids, you're like not used to it and like, oh it hurts people fall, But I'm like, this is

4:39 what it's been. This is what it was in the eighties, the nineties is what it was for me in like the like early twenty ten's, like when I was going to a bunch of hardcore shows, Like, this is what it has always been, like what it's meant to be. It's Catharsis, even if it's a little violent, even if you get hurt, Like I got my nose shut out when I was sixteen, and I wore like a badger honor I love. I loved every second of it. I went to a show the next day. It's funny you should say that about the Badge of Honor because my teeth the top front four two of them I knocked out, one all the way up and one loose way back in the eighties, climbed up on a Marshall stack did a full swan crowd move. I mean, I've been there. I've been there doing my own set. I've jumped, I front flipped too far and landed in the pit and cracked my head open bleeding, But I just got back on stage and finished or something like yeah. Yeah, I'm like, oh, touch my head, blood on my hand like whatever, Like I'm not gonna say, oh, set's overdone. We're gonna keep going right exactly, and that you know, you talk about badge of honor. So I still have my vest from teenage days and it has the blood on it, it has all my patches are like ripped from being in the pit and like they're all ripped up, and you know, that to me is the badge of honor right there. That's the proof too. It's like we didn't have pictures and stuff, so I'm like, here went my kids when I tell them stories and they didn't believe I'd just show them the best. Yeah, I mean, I think I think that that's an important part of hardcore and it always will be. I mean, it doesn't have to be every show, right, every show has to

6:11 be like that, But like the shows I like to go to are like that, and so like I that's what I love. I love it because I don't know that it just makes you feel alive. Yeah, like I said, it's cathartic. It's yeah, we like this music because it's cathartic to listen to it, and we like to go to shows because it's cathartic to experience that pain, that adrenaline, like everything about it. To feel seen and feel heard. Yeah, I can't imagine somebody going to a show and just sitting now. No, I don't get it. I've never been like that. Even when I was like a twelve year old kid and I was just push pitting. I didn't know what anything was about. Like I still was doing that, and everything I've done since then has just been so important to me. And what is outside of music? Speaking of that, Yeah, what's the most important thing to you outside of music? I think I mean art, honestly, And I know that that's cheap answer because it encompasses that. But like, outside of music, like visual art has been something that like I've always done, Like I don't have any musical talent.

7:08 I scream and I sass in a band and like yeah, and I pants around, but like visual art has always been that thing that's like offered me, like the career that I have now because I work as a creative director and a graphic designer for bands Nice and it's all it's it was that thing that was with me even before music was, you know, so like that's definitely the main thing for me is to be able to like put a piece of paper down, get my guagh and my ink quill and ink, I just like draw and do do these paintings or whatever I'm feeling at the time, because it's all art, you know, And I think I think anybody that is an artist isn't just in one area. And that's why I like to talk about it because people think, oh, you're just into music.

7:48 Yeah, well, I mean there's a lot of memories of my band who are way more talented musically than I will ever be. And that's fine by me because it's just not something I ever focused on. This is something I stumbled in too, But visual art is something that I dedicated my life to, you know, growing up and throughout like trying to get that down just as much as like C Space Cowboys to me, now, Nice because I look at like to me in the eighties, you know, how we bought music, went to a record store and the cool album cover, like you couldn't hear what it sound like. You would look at this album cover, yeah, and be like, oh, I mean my dad has the same stories, like the first time I bought a black flag, as said, I went to a record store in Calgary and I saw that cover and I was like, that looks cool, and like that's why you bought records, you know, you couldn't hear them. Yeah, even for me, like going on iTunes back in the day when people still bought albums, like I would look at the covers and be like, oh, that's cool. I want to listen to that fifteen second clip and then spend the money that ninety nine cents on that track, right, you know. Yeah, And I'm glad it's like coming back nowadays because it was going away. I think war artists like yourself or getting into the whole experience. I think it's like for me, since I don't have I can't tell you notes and chords and shit, like I have always said, like y'all, I will like be the conceptual person for this for like this music in this album, and then when

9:20 it comes to visuals, I will take over. And that's like where I got like being a creative director from like, hey, I'll get you everything uniform in the same universe, every single artistic element that we need, so everything looks cohesive and nice and great, and it will be y'all supply the music based on like the idea that we have, and then I will orchestrate the visual side of it. Complete story. Yeah, it's basically what it comes down to. So how do people connect you on socials on the web by your merch? Oh? I mean so like you do it on instagram s, y C band or like my personal exca m us love child X because no, not a lot of people know how it's spelled CAMU And like, yeah, we have our website on there and you can connect to all that and look at future touring dates and and merch and all that stuff and updates on albums. Cool. Is there anything else the listeners should know that we haven't covered already? I mean not really. I mean we're we're currently still working on our new album. We've been you know, putting out some new music, but we're not ready to release the album yet, but we're getting everything done and we have we have tours already lined up for next year.

10:28 We're we're constantly working. It never stops. You're killing it. Yeah, But that that's because I can tell on your face you love it. Yeah, I love it. That that's listen. That's why we do it. It's like my door always says, because I go on tour and I do all these festivals, and she she'll come sometimes half a day and she's like that, I don't know how you do this every weekend. Yeah, I'm like, I don't know how. I don't. Yeah, I mean literally for me. I mean anytime we have a big break at home. Anytime I'm home for more than three weeks, I lose my mind. Oh yeah, I liked. We're on tour usually for like seven out of twelve months or whatever, like gover three and a half months straight, and that's where I'm happy. If I'm home for longer than that, and I'm like, I don't know what to do myself anymore. I know the feeling lot not many people do. It's like from Louder than Life than Now. I had one in between that was a small one, but it was like, oh, I gotta get the after shock. Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm done being home. I gotta get the after shock. How it is there?

11:22 It is, well, I love it. Glad you're here after shock and thanks for being on the Adventures. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.