PipemanRadio Interviews Stowaway Sophie Lloyd on Shiprocked 2025

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1:02 This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with Sophielloyd Nice here on ship Rock. Oh my god, And I just have to say, right off the bat, you absolutely freaking killed it last night. Thank you so much. It was so much fun. Honestly, Like, it's funny because you only get such like a short amount of rehearsal time, so you're never too short if it's gonna go good or if it's gonna be an absolute clusterfuck. But actually it was so much fun, honestly, if you just got there and have fun, it was. It was amazing. It was so fun to play with these people. I was watching the rehearsal the other day, I'm like, man, how are these people ever gonna perform these songs on like one rehearsal deck.

1:44 Honestly, God knows, right, just luck you just pray to God and then it just proves. You guys are pros because it's not even like the genre that you're in. But that's even harder. Yeah, they got me playing material girl, which is all like super feel like one note like, which is I'm like heavy cords riffs all day, and I was like, god, I have the feel of like the whitest girl ever, like I do don't have any feel So it was that was definitely a challenge, but it's good. It pushes you outside your comfort zone and like to play with people you've never played with before as well. It's I don't know, it's a challenge, but it's so much fun. It must be fun too to play like different music than you're used to because you have even though you love what you're doing, sometimes you have the monotony when you're doing the same genre all the time. Definitely, it's almost like not from a professional or musical stamp by point, but mindset for you guys, I think it's almost like doing karaoke. We're just going have fun.

2:36 That's so true. It really is, especially like eighties stuff because everyone knows the songs. They're such bops and you can't not just have so much fun with it, so it was Yeah, it was so much fun on stage, and then you feel so good once it's done. You feel like you've all like accomplished something really big as well, so you're like united forever. No doubt. And that's what I noticed too, because I look at everything and it's like you guys were like just totally bonding up there. Yeah, okay, Whereas when you're doing festivals or you know, you don't have that same chance, even if you're bonded and friendly, like everybody's like in such a rush to do everything that you don't have that chance exactly. And I think there's something about especially this scenario where we're all playing songs we're not.

3:19 Necessarily like used to. It's quite vulnerable, do you know what I mean? Because everyone is like a little bit nervous, everyone's a little unsure, And I feel like it's that kind of vulnerability and the messing up in rehearsals and all of this stuff that kind of bonds you together even more because you're all kind of in it together. There's this big, like community feel, which is really cool. Totally, And you guys had from talking to some of my friends a lot of technical issues. Let's call it like five bass pedals. Yeah, the drum pedals were crazy. They were just during the first song as well. I was doing We Built This City, and poor Haley, her drum pedal just like fell apart. But she like it shows a professionalism people because she kept it going. I didn't even really I was doing so low. I didn't I in the text.

4:01 Like, I just thought maybe a drumstick dropped or the tech was like tune in the drum. Yeah, I didn't know that there was a broken pedal. It happened five times. She even told me there was a hole in the bass drum at the end. Oh my god, imagine you hit the bass drum and I just go straight through right, like, I don't think that's meant to happen. But see that is the eighties because I remember. I remember being at the US festival. Yeah, and I was sitting there during Van Halen and they started talking about love and that's one of my favorite songs is that's like the first song I ever learned guitar on and Edie's playing but Dave's not singing, and they're all looking over to him, and Dave just goes typical Dave. He goes, three hundred thousand people, I fucking forgot the words, and the whole crowd like it was the best thing that ever happened.

5:03 And then one person in the whole crowd heckled yeah, and he playing on me. He was like, I will fuck your girlfriend. And he probably did. But that's the thing is that I feel like that's what makes live performances is these like mistakes and these unique things that happened that someone can say it makes it memorable. Someone could say, oh, I was there when this happened. I was there when that happened. And that's sort of the joy and the beauty of music, especially like rock musick. I think as well, it's like. A specific kind of community about it that I think everyone likes to feel like it's human, do you know what I mean? And it's human to do that stuff. And that's the thing I've had to learn because I had really bad imposter syndrome. For quite a while. Well I felt like I couldn't because I did a lot online, so I grew up where everything can be like edited, filmed a million times and stuff. So it's only when I had the transition to live and obviously you can't play something a million times and you hit a wrong No.

5:53 I was like, oh, well that's not good enough, right, do you know what I mean? So that's the thing I've learned in my years now, and now I've been performing for quite a few years now. Now I've you know, finally kind of got to the part where I accept that and I can enjoy those moments as well. Who do you think is your biggest influence as a guitarist. That's a good question. I think it changes like every day, depending on what I'm doing. I that's a rock thing too. I've had different favorite bands, Like it's like chronological, like going up a Hill, It's like, okay, they were my favorite. That Navy Game, you know, it builds on. It exactly like I think my original. The person that kind of got me into guitar was Joe Satriani. He's surfing with the Alien album was nice one that I absolutely loved. And someone else I think that had a big influence was David Gilmour. When I started listening to the comfortably Numb stuff and like, you know, kind of his feel I feel like for a long time I kind of just shredded for the sake of shredding without much feel into it. And when I started getting into him, that was when I noticed that I started to put more feel and more emotion and try and like tell these stories and it wasn't just about all the silly nonsense and look how us I can play stuff.

6:58 See. I love hearing that, because I've talked about that before, Like there's shredders I like, and there's shredders that bore me, you know, yeah, and I like that maybe the first time, and then after that, well it's just the same exactly. That's the thing. It's only and it's if you're just treading for the whole thing and there's no kind of story or emotion to it, it does get pretty unlistenable. Because you're like, oh. At first it's like oh cool, and then it's like, okay, now, now what can I hang on to? What's like the melody behind this or something that I can because as humans, we want to hear like a repetitive lick or something that we can like hang on to, like you do with the vocals, you know, like they have a chorus, and that's what people say. You want to achieve a similar thing when you're soloing, or when if you're just doing an instrumental song, you know, something that people can hang on to and listen and it sticks in their brain, you know, creates.

7:45 That ear one. It makes so much sense because I think of it almost like when they're shredding, they're just doing scales, like practicing. Yeah, well, yeah exactly, And honestly, that's the biggest trick of all is the same with the legato stuff, is really just running up and down the scales and making it make it sound fancy, which has its place. I do that way too much, probably as well, but. I think it's important to do that and then ends up with like a cool blues lick that. Makes it interesting something in exactly yeah, exactly. Like it might be an unpopular opinion, but I love Dave and Hilm, but I didn't think it was as great as everybody thought, because that is opinion, right, But I thought it was great. But like some of the things, it was what we're talking about. Sometimes it was just the.

8:29 Yeah, I think the thing is with him he was kind of the first to do it. Yeah, well I doubt he was like the first. He probably had influences it before but he was the first that did it on like such a mainstream scale that everyone saw, and he did it live, and he had these like a cappella moments where there was no band. It was just him that kind of showed it off a lot, more like they were a band that kind of really showed it off. Whereas I think before that kind of hadn't have been done. But yeah, I guess like things that wouldn't necessarily work now because it has been done before, Like so many people can play like that, you know, there needs to be something else, Like. To me rarely, Roads was a whole another level. Oh, he was phenomenal. He's another like massive influence for me as well. And I think his creativity with music as well, I think is really like kind of inspiring.

9:10 Like I think it was him that kind of did the two hands slides stuff, And that's the thing I've incorporated into my playing a lot. Like I love like just his uniqueness and things that I was playing. I just think it's really cool. Nice And so you teach guitar. In fact, you did clinic here on ship Rock correct. Yeah, it was more of it. I feel I can't play as much as I shared it was more of a Q and A and me talking about my dog way too much. You know essentials right, Well, tell us about your dog. My dog is just incredible. He's a rescue, he's a half burny his mountain dog, half beagle, and he's just the best. I miss him so much. I've been away from her for so long, and as he pissed at you because you're gone all the time. Oh yes, oh, I well think is we have two cats, and whenever I get an animal, I'll go on tour and then the animal will start liking my other half better because I'm away, and I'll come home and suddenly they won't want to cuddle me, they want to cuddle him.

9:57 So then I have to buy another animal, you know. So now I went on our third and maybe when we get back, I'll have to buy another one because they were like me as much. You know, so nice. I'm planning to build a farm. I love it. I normally cover like download and bloodstock on your side. Yeah yeah. How do you, as an artist feel the difference of plane in the UK compared to plane in the US. I think UK. Well, I'm kind of biased towards the UK obviously, like you say that's where I'm from, so. I think I am too. By the way, I even married a British girl before. Oh very wise, I'm. Not married to her now. But I'm sorry on behalf of Britain. But i think UK crowds just go crazy, like they just.

10:40 Want to more. Shouldn't be crazy and stupid and you know, love doing like the Walls of Death and everything. Love to get involved. America, it depends what state you're in. LA is quite a tough state to play. We recently did a show at the Whiskey and actually it went down amazingly. But when I play a lot. I'm in a band with Machine Gun Kelly, and when we play a lot of LA, everyone is just kind of standing there with their phones like and wants to get like good people like aren't facing They're like facing away filming their face and you behind them. And I'm like, that's so weird, right, I'm like, just watch it and enjoy it, you know. And even me when these people are in front of me and I'm looking at their screen for a second, I'm gone, how are they sitting watching the whole set through their screen? That does not look good?

11:21 Exactly. That's forget everything else. It doesn't even look good. I know, And there's like a million people filming the exact same thing. Like you can literally go on YouTube and watch it the next day and it's going to be a better quality than yours. And that's my point, Like just stay home. Then, yeah exactly, that's watch YouTube. If that's what you're gonna do, because these people are never going to look at that video again probably, and then they missed the experience. And like music is such like you want to be in it. It's a community feel. You want to be feeling it with the people around you, and you miss that if you're just watching it through a screen and then everyone behind you is probably watching it through your screen as well. Just no doubt. Yeah, it's kind of annoying at times when you're like all the after phone times, like yeah, Corey Tailor did the best thing one. I thought somebody was on their phone texting very front row.

12:05 Now. Yeah, first of all, even if I was somebody that which I'm not, would text during the performance unless I have to because I'm working, you know, I would never do it in the front row. My god, Like, what are you doing in the front row? Do that? That's a prestigious spot. The artist is like, the artists can see you, they are watching what you're Oh yeah. He went up to that person and slapped the phone at her and then said something. Dude, I rate that. Like, Honestly, if you're in the front row, you need to be in it one hundred percent. You need to be eye contact with the band members. You need to be singing all the lyrics exactly exactly. That's and I'm such like, I'm still such a fan girl. Like even yesterday when we were doing Stairway set when I wasn't playing, I was right at the front in front of the barriers, dancing my ass off, singing all the songs. I'm such a fangirl. So I was that girl in like the front road, do you know what I mean, like growing.

12:55 Up and I saw you doing that last night. So it's I'm telling everybody that's a true, true story. Okay, But I love that because it's like, if you're going to be a musician, you're. A fan first, yeah exactly. And if you're not, how can you appeal to the fans? Actually you have to be inside their feelings in their head, and you know you're playing for you, but you're playing for. Them too, exactly. And that's kind of the great thing that getting off the internet like into live live playing, getting to meet everyone and have that kind of personal experience where you're getting the feedback from the crowd has just been so incredible because, like I said, I feel like I kind of do everything I do in my career for my fourteen year old self, if you know what I mean, for that girl that was just like wanted to meet all the Baton members and was so excited when like a new album came out, was like first in line at like hving at the meet and great, Like I do it all kind of for that girl. So whenever I see people like that at the shows in the front where I singing all the songs like wanting to look at you and have a moment with you, like, it's so impactful, and that's like one of the things that really kind of inspires me the most to keep doing what I'm doing. It's just those moments and connecting with people like that.

14:03 And there's a go blow your mind too, because I'm sure it happens whether you knows it or not, that like you're you're fan girling out. But then there's other artists that are like probably your heroes are like huge that are fanboying or fangirling on you. I know, that's the weirdest part. I had a moment with Lizzie Hale as she sings a song on my album Accord Imposter Syndrome, and I met her for the first time at one of her shows and she was incredible and she was just and then she told me she was taking my online guitar of. Course, like my True five course to learn how to play guitar. And I was like, oh my god, and like that was such a cool moment for me because it's like, you know, one of my heroes. I've had, you know, her on my wall. I used to sing on the way to school.

14:43 I would sing, you know, all of her songs, like in the car with my mum. And just to have that moment where she was like, oh, yeah, I'm learning from you, like you're a good I want to play like you like it was just such a cool moment. That's the best compliment you can get, exactly. Yeah. So that's definitely even thing that stuck with me. And it's just like you never know who's watching stuff. That's true. So now let's tell everybody how they can connect you on socials, check out your website, check out your online lessons, everything you do. Yes, well, my name is Sophie Lloyd. Again if you type that in on YouTube my I think my YouTube channel is just Sophie Lloyd. I should know the handle, but I don't. Instagram is at Sophie Guitar underscore Sophie Guitar was taken very annoying, so you have to add the underscore. And then obviously my album is out on Spotify. My website is Sophie Guitar dot com where we're selling you know, physical copies, signed vinyls, a bunch of March and all of that.

15:31 Lessons are on True Fire. Got two lessons on there which I think are pretty cool, so maybe check them out. And then I have a patron as well for anyone that wants more BTS content. We do like a weekly podcast on there and stuff, and that's kind of where we get to know and we get a really good community going on there, which is really nice. We have little pizza parties and zoom pats. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a nice way to connect with people, and like, you know, it's beautiful, and they've all made such good friends as well, Like there's a proper little like they're all mates. They all meet up outside like they just had like a true to New York, which is so cooled. Like, yeah, we've got some really good people over there. I love hearing that. And we are a community, so it should be that way one hundred percent. Yea, and I wanted to be a part of it. Nice. Any final things you want to say to listeners that we haven't covered yet that they need to know, I don't.

16:16 Think so, just keep rocking, check me out, and yeah, thank you so much for listening. Ah well, thank you for being here on ship Rock and thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thank you man, Thank you so much. You've got it. Hello everyone, I am Sophie Lloyd and you are listening to pipe Man on W four CUY Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man. I'm W for CUI Radio.