PipemanRadio Interviews Spyder Byte

0:04 Hey, you love them too, Censure Wow, crazy you. Why up America, It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man on W four C. Why I'm com wiz pom Beats is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the vipe Man. Just troll, mohone, love Doc, just just sing, which is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And we're going again across the pond for some great music. So let's welcome to the show. Connor from Spider Bite, how are you. I'm good? Thanks pipe Man? How are you? I'm doing good. I'm in South Florida. That band name wouldn't work so well here because we have some of the most dangerous, deadly spiders in the world all here waiting for us. Yeah. We've not got too many big ones around here. Thankfully it's all safe in the UK. Yeah. So we have the black widows, which everybody knows. We have a brown and we have the brown recluse, which will eat your flesh. But then we have

1:36 these things called banana spiders, and they are up in the trees and when you're like walking through a park and they're about the size of let's see, they're probably about like I would say, the size of a a little bigger than a softball. That sounds horrifying, right, biggest one I've seen is probably about the size of my thumb over here, right, Yeah. Can you imagine like you're walking and you know above you, like some big spider like that could just jump down onn't you? Yes, Yeah, I don't fancy that. No, that's just spider bit. You don't want. You want spider baits from the UK, not from Florida. That's it. But yeah, so tell our listeners a little bit about spider bait. What you guys are all about, how you would describe yourself as an artist, all that good stuff. Yes, So we've actually been going for twelve years this year. We started when we were all kids in high school. We were I think I was fifteen. I was one of the older members of the band at the time. Nice. But we classify ourselves as Slee's Metal, glam metal, So we take a lot of influence from the Sunset Strip of the old La bands. We love Motley Crue, we love Rat Warren,

3:07 twisted cysts. That's that's all our stuff. But we like to we like to put a bit of a UK Motorhead sort of feel to it as well. So I love that we're trying to appeal to as many people on the dirty side of rock and roll as we can. There you go, Well, see, because everything you just said I love and hate you. Let me explain why I am from those eighties Sunset Strip days. Okay, So anybody that's from those days, it's a love hate relationship with it anyway. But yeah, I mean when I go back. Okay. So the first club show I ever went to, all right, I moved out from New Jersey to LA in nineteen eighty, Like that was the perfect timing to move out there. I was, It's like thirteen years old, so I was there for the whole start at a scene, beginning, middle and all of it. And the first club show I ever went to was at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip. It was Motley Cruze before they even had an album, and they were more like horror punk then. They weren't really glam yet, but it was the I remember walking out of there and I'm like, I'm never going to a real concert ever again, because it was just the whole experience, and that was the whole experience for the next four years for me on the Sunset Strip, it was like going to all these shows with

4:42 you know, you had all the la glam bands. But then I also got into bands like Slayer, Metallica went to their like first shows every So that's where the hate comes in because Okay, I can see your point of view that right, because like then it wasn't like now, okay, you had the gatekeepers, okay, And I always thought it was stupid that none of us got along. You know, you could go along with the GLAMs. If you were a thrash metal head, you couldn't go along with the punks. If you liked metal, the punks couldn't go along with metal heads. And I just saw it was all stupid. I'm glad we're all together now because you know, it's just all great music and it's all we're all kind of outsiders, so we all should have been on the inside instead of creating more outside. And it wasn't interesting. Like my friends after, you know, it's getting into Slayer and stuff like that. We're like my one friend who was like, uh, yeah, you need to burn all that Montley Cruise shit. Like I'm not burning it either. You're doing it or I'm doing it, but you know, we can't have that around here.

5:55 And it was it was funny back in the days. He went to a Slayer show and you know, if somebody was wearing Motley Cruse shirt in the audience, they would you would rip it off their back, throw it up to Tom on stage and he would burn it on stage, right. So that's where that all comes from. But it was also some of the listen some of the best times ever. So I'm glad a band like you is keeping that alive because and even when you said the Motorhead thing, because you know, you had the combination hanging out with all these glam bands on the Sunset Strip when I was like fifteen years old, and then going over to Rainbow, like you would walk over with the band to the Rainbow because I wondered how I got in there, or being fifteen, that's how. And then you'd be hanging out next thing, you know, you're hanging out with Lemmy because he was always at the Rainbow, so yeah, I mean he wasn't yeah, and it was he was like one of the most incredible human beings too, you know, and the epitome of a rock star. And really that's what that whole was about, just the whole rock star lifestyle, which that part I love because that's a lost thing nowadays, except for guys like you keeping alive. Well, well, we try our best, and it's you know, just going back to Motorhead, you say about, you know, all these different genres of heavy metal coming through in the eighties and nineties, the one band. I mean, we're exactly the same. We

7:27 play the glam stuff, but we all listen to different different sorts of music. Our singer is massively into Slayer, funnily enough, and I'm more into the kind of European speed metal stuff I like, except and Halloween things like that. But everybody too meets in the middle at Motorhead. I don't know anybody who dislikes Motorhead, right, That's what brought the punts, That's what brought the punks together too, you know, like it with the metal. You know, he united all of us, and that was one I think that's his legacy more than the music. Yeah, so what twelve years ago, what was it that kind of gave you this idea to go to this type of music? Because listen, we know a lot of it kind of died out after the eighties and you know, in the nineties. But you know, the interesting thing is it's like you got Steel Panther nowadays, that there is not one metal head, no matter what metal they listen to, that doesn't love Steel Panther. Like I've sat there and watched Corey Taylor watching from Slipknot watching Steel Panther and having the best time. I mean, you've got a lot of Steel Panther, haven't you. Yeah, tongue in cheek, but it's it's good fun. And their quality musicians as well, they're all so good. Yeah. Really, I mean we all we all met

9:03 as mates at school. Really, we all played. We used to play in like a covers band. We used to do you know, ac DC, Metallica, bits in Nirvana, you know, the easy my first rock and roll band kind of songs. Right. How it got to the kind of sleazy glammy stuff and at such a young age is it's really just through raiding our parents' record collections. Really nice. I think Nathan who's you know, he's the main songwriter of the band. He is always for as long as I've known him, has always loved Motley Crue and we kind of got on from there just looking through you know, the old Vinyl records in blowing the dust off and one of the ones that really turned me on was the Tiger Tows album Berserk from Wales, which was you know, and I went onto YouTube, as you can of our generation watch these this video of all this glitter of big hair and pink, and for some reason, it's it just appealed to us. And I mean take from that what you will.

10:11 Well, I mean, listen, it is a lot of fun and music should be fun, and I think that's where it's better nowadays and back in the day, because that that gatekeeper attitude and taking things way too seriously is come on, it's music. It's just supposed to be fun. There's not supposed to be a rules, right. You just do what you feel. You like what you like, don't you exactly, And it's okay to like more than one thing, you know. And that's the thing too that I think is cool nowadays. Bands like you and you even said it, you know, you blend your kind of influences to come up with your unique sound and it doesn't have to sound like this specific genre. It just has to be good. Music and good fun. That's my opinion. Yeah, yeah, and I totally agree with that. So you basically, you guys just dropped Hooked back in July, which is definitely a banger, and you just dropped your your new EP, The Taste of Filth, and I've listened to the whole thing and every one of them's a banger there. So what do you think your difference is in your writing style now and your ability to write great music compared to twelve years ago? I think, to be totally honest, it's just getting older, a bit more experience, a bit more, a bit more understanding of the music. Really. You know, twelve years

11:46 ago we were writing very basic songs about things that we didn't really understand. You know, we were fourteen fifteen between us, so you know, kids writing songs about sex, drugs and rock and roll. It doesn't really doesn't really show through. So well, right, yeah, I think it's just to be we've just got a bit older, bit more matured. We've understood that we could write in lots of different styles now, you know, we've all listened to all sorts of different kinds of music, and hey, you know, not even just rock and metal music all sorts of things that you know, you can throw everything in and what works works. So yeah, those four tracks, they I think that's kind of I won't ever say the peak because there's only up to go, but I think it's the best we've released so far, and I'm personally looking really forward to getting all the new stuff out as well. Yeah, and you know what, you made some great points there, because I think that is wind of benefit to getting older, is that you're not as much in even yourself a gatekeeper like. You have a lot more influencers that you allow in, and I think you expand your creativity and experimenting in your music because you feel like, hey, I can just do whatever I feel instead of whatever somebody says I should do.

13:15 Yeah, that's exactly it, you know, coloring outside the lines as it were. It's yeah, you're right, there are no rules. We can write whatever we want, and I mean, we want other people to think it sounds good, but the first judges yourself, isn't it so right? Yeah? Exactly, because listen, if you don't like it, how's anybody else going to like it? Absolutely? Absolutely your own worst critic. But I think that's a good thing. It definitely is because listen, at the end of the day, you have to write music for you and if other people connect to it, that's a bonus absolutely. So what else you have going on for the rest of the year and maybe in twenty twenty for that you want to talk about and let the listeners know. So twenty twenty four you can absolutely expect some new music. We've we've got straight back into writing because for the back end of this year we're actually quite quiet. We've got we've got a couple of gigs hearing about in the UK coming up, but the main focus right now is back into the studio, back into writing for the next record. You know, we're hoping to actually get a full album out next year and hopefully actually break into Europe as well. You know, it's only on our doorstep and in twelve years we've never played a gig outside of the UK, so that we'll try and go into national and tradits if you'll have us. Yeah, I mean that trips me out because you know

14:46 what else I find as well, Like you guys would feel in great in Europe because the first time I started going to Europe to cover music festivals and stuff, because I go and I go on tour and cover music festivals all over the US Europe. And when I first started doing Europe, I'm like, man, I thought all these bands were gone, Like all the bands that I knew from back in the eighties, I thought they were all gone. But they've just been playing in Europe all these years because the Europeans. Oh yeah, the Europeans love the eighties stuff, like it's still like huge, and so yeah, you definitely need to get over to Europe for sure. Yeah, that's the plan, definitely. And we need to get you on some festivals over here too. Oh do you know what? We would love to come over that that's the dream really is a breaking into the US.

15:41 It's so wild to me too, because like, okay, so back in the day, back in the eighties, it was our dream to go to London, you know, because that's where the scene was, you know, and it's it's so funny and like we had the British invasion originally and then you had the punk thing, and I love it. It's so great. When I talked to all my UK mates and that are in bands and their dream is to come play in the US, it just goes to show no matter where you are, you look somewhere else and go I want to go there. That's it, isn't it. You just want to travel the world in US, Japan, anywhere, in Europe. I'd go anywhere, to be honest, anywhere. We'll give me a pair of drumsticks and a kit. I'll be there. There you go. So when did you first pick up your first pair of drumsticks? Good question? A long time ago, right, I would have been I'm twenty seven now, I would have been about eleven, I think, so, yeah, about sixteen years ago.

16:52 Nice. Well, hats off to you because I started playing drums when I was in first grade and I sucked. So instead I interview cool, good drummers like you instead of sucky drummers like me, I'll bless you what everyone sucks for a bit? Right? Right? Yeah? You know what it is? You really to me? And you guys have this. You have to have a passion for it, beyond a passion for it. Like it's like, you know, you look at guy and you're probably like this too. You look at guys like Tommy Lee and he's drumming like twenty four to seven, Like seeing at table he's drumming, you know, and that's kind of it's either in you where it's not. And I dug it, but I don't think I put enough into it because I didn't maybe didn't have passion to that level, you know, had passion for the music and the concept of it. But to be a true drummer like you, it's like you live and breathe it. Well, I am to be honest, and I know every drummer I know is the same. My other half, my soon to be wife, gets the real lump with me because it is I'll be sitting on the sofa on the couch, just tapping away on my knees.

18:14 She's just like, oh, well, you just shut up. I don't even realize I'm doing it right. Oh then I love hearing it. So how do people connect to you guys? On socials? On the web, check out your music and anything else you want to check out. So music, the best place, well, the best place for us is to go onto our website, which is www. Dot spider Bite band, dot co dot UK. No, that's a bit of a mouthful. That's the best one we could get. And you can buy our music on their download or buy it from our online store. But I do understand that CDs aren't as big as they used to be, so we're on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, ds are all the big online retailers. But yeah, otherwise, if you just want to connect to us, just have a chat.

19:04 We're on Instagram, Facebook. We got TikTok going. We are still learning how to use it, so that's a bit past us, but we are getting there, so be patient with us on that. But yeah, wherever you can find us, give us a chat online. We'd love to be in touch. And I don't blame you. I think the listeners should know that for anybody, it's not dinet. Tiktoks are not as easy as it looks. Okay, Like I have a TikTok, and my hat's off to people that do tiktoks because I'm like, I don't have eight hours to make a one minute video exactly. So I started the TikTok myself to start pushing the music video more than the EP itself, And it really was. I was sitting there for ages learning how to do everything right. Yeah, the video is thirty seconds long. I know it's it's hard. Look no, no, people don't even know. And it's like, but when I see great careers on TikTok, I'm like, man, more power to them.

20:10 Like that, that in itself is a talent. If you can use it, go for it right exactly. So what I've learned by talking to bands though, is that if you want to have a good TikTok has nothing to do with the music, just do stupid videos. That's what they keep telling me. All the artists, they're like, those are the ones that go viral, not are not the ones about our music, the ones where we just do stupid shit. Yeah, maybe off to try that. There you go, there you go. Yeah, TikTok's are a lot of work, and you know, I think you just need to instead of putting all that work in, just go out with your blokes, get drunk and do some stupid videos. Just see what happens. I guess, yeah right, it could be like the band going out the pubs and getting doing stupid shit.

21:07 It would so fit in with the type of bandyard too, Like it could be like whatever the equivalent to sunset strip is where you are in the UK, go there and just you know, do some crazy stuff in the different pubs and clubs and stuff. We'll have to take a trip into London. There you go. Love it well, you guys rock. Thanks for making us great music. I hope all the listeners check you out because you're badass. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipeman. Thank you for having us, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipelin on w for CUI Radio.