PipemanRadio Interviews The Dead XIII at Bloodstock 2023

0:04 Hey you Loveland to such sure, I'm from four see why you wake up America? It's time for the Adventure. So pipe Man on W four cy dot com West pom Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. Sorry say so next love say I made duds out of the same save it. He's pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with the Death thirteen nice and he just got off the stage recently. How was it here at Bloodstock? Did blow your mind or what? Well, it's our first time here today, and my fucking god, it was right. It was hot, full, a lot going on. Yeah, man, did you expect that kind of crowd out there at this time of day? No, because we are a little bit lighter than the other ones here. But no, represent they come out with a little bit of help. So about two minutes after we started, it started raining really really really heavy. Everybody had to go, oh man, that just made it more Intimately, I think you guys planned that

1:34 on purpose. Come on, so, since you said you're a little bit lighter. I like artists to describe their music to the listeners, but not with some fucking label or genre shit like that that the record label likes to put on you. How do you view your music as the artists, it's fun, it's really really difficult when you're trying to make sound and how you make that come across. What we try and do is we do our live show. Our live show is like what we live and die by. We've always put that into the music. So the show's got as much energy as possible we have since space traps and everything like that, just so people really really get into it. So it's a little bit different than a lot of what's going on at blood Stock, but we're used to play in smaller club rooms and stuff like that. You can get a lot of energy in the room. Pointing that into a tent was really really good. It was.

2:25 It went insanely well because people start feeling at this time of the day. You're not really expecting massive mush bit in the middle, loads of people clapping. That's what would you say Our sound was, Kurt. We've got a bit of sense. There's a touch of like industrial stuff, but you can't put us into a genre. Yeah, come in and feeling something great. We want people to be involved. Every shows a little bit different because we want people to be involved. Yeah, and you read the audience right. You've got to feel what the room's doing. If the room wants that, you do it a bit harder. If the room doesn't want it, you've just got to smash it into the face until they do nice. I love that way of looking at it, and you know, as just being my second bloodstock. One thing I have noticed if I was a band, I would want playing the tents because of what you were saying. Man, a tent fills up easily and people are going nuts. I have way more fun going myself when I'm not working, going to the shows in the tent than I do out on the main stage. Yeah, it's just way more intimate.

3:27 And so when it comes from our music, it's a really extremely cliche answer, but it's what we enjoy doing. So we, like I said, we're not in a bracket or pigeon hole into anything. Really, it's just what we enjoy is so we feeling that warmth in a time. That's the difference as well, particularly when you're playing earlier in the day. If you're out there, people are spread out, people are having the food. You don't get that vibe. When you're in attend they starts getting hot. And as soon as people are getting hot, they start getting into it. Yeah, and another to your point earlier in the day, if you're playing on the main stage, there's too much room that everybody is spread out opposed to you know, everybody together, which to me creates more energy. People start feeling it closer to the art together. If one person next he starts moving, it all starts erupting. You get a bit of a Mexican way of going through the audience. It love it. So what is it that like led you to this point? Like, isar that one moment in time that you knew this is what I wanted to do forever? So we've been going a long time. We're getting a bit older now, we've been going.

4:32 So we start tenth year as a band. Does that blow your mind? By way? Ten years? Ten years is incredible? It just goes so fast. When we set this up, it never felt like it could go this far, and we've just kept putting our roll into it. Gone a little bit further, gone a little bit further. We had a few down years, so COVID kind of wiped everything out. In the UK, yeah, there's no real touring or anything, and we are a live band. We like to be out. So we used to be an eighties to one hundred shows a year just out constantly, and we couldn't do that and that was really really bad for a couple of years. So then we've just gone out and done more. And that's why getting here is like the pinnacle. It's something we've always wanted to do but struggled to get the opportunity to do it. Using the metal to the masses we got out, go back after COVID, rebuild up what we were doing, get back to where we were before, and now take it a lot further. And now we just want to keep going because it's a big stage there and we want to be on it at some point. But before I'd like to go to the other tent because it's got more pep pillar things nice well, because with music, the standard thing is just connection with people. So when you say about what led us to the point, it's the case of the people you meet, the experience that you have, and you can't you can't really find that in normal life. Apart from up festivals like gigs. You meet so many different types of people and it's just great. I'm really happy to get a chance.

5:57 So yeah, and so I don't know the masses. There's a lot of really good competition. So when you found out, you want to spot how much did it blow your mind? Well, I think for everyone in the bund we didn't really believe that it was real. For me, I didn't think it was real, thought it was some eluborate joke until about maybe four days before we were coming here support Oh on the night when we won. Just hearing all the chair going on the stage, getting the poet always extremely surreal and its you just a very great feeling, just a warm freeling. And I think that's what's great about Bloodstock because most festivals don't do this.

6:39 It gives an opportunity for bands like you to get seen, because every big band in the world, I think got noticed at a festival. I was at Odds Fest ninety nine and saw Slipknot and mud Vane on third stage, which this was third stage, was like this even know how slip Not fit on there. It was like the size of your dining room table about a few of those gigs, right, So, I mean, like that's why it's so great that bands like you get to go here because I know even for me when I do get out of his tent, if I go to those small stages, that I find my new favorite band because you know, I never heard of them. I don't know how to find them.

7:30 And then I'm like, holy shit. Yeah, because you got social media these days is in absolute will win. You can go on anything and find so many different people. But fest of all, you know why you stunned with it. You can just walk in a direction. You can hear something passing and just follow it. Yeah, you go, and then you could search for the band like I'll find my favorite band and then they're like, oh man, I gotta look them up so I can catch more otorship. But you'd never find it to your point in the sea of people in social media. So, speaking of which, how do the listeners connect with you on socials and the where by your merge, check out your tour nates, all that good stuff. So, yeah, we have our Facebook page, but we use predominantly Instagram all the usual kind of social media things that we have a big catch. How's our merch on it? But yeah, we are We're always around us, like at a festival, like in person or not. We are available. We speak to a lot of fans through that's like our biggest thing. We like talking to people. So the best way that we meet fans and the best way that we make new fans is come to a gig talk to us, because we want to be there for the atmosphere, So come out see us, talk to us. We do lots of if we're at a gig, we'll be there for the full thing.

8:48 We never sit backstage, we never do anything like that. We're about being there experiencing it with people. And we do do the social media thing. Well. I think it's really really different for our type of music because a lot of people can do really good things on social media, promote stuff, do great videos. What does it always translate right live? And we kind of caught her teeth doing the live things. So we're probably a little bit outdated in some ways. What we like gigs were like going to gigs. We like me and people. We go out and watch gigs, we play gigs. It's all about the atmosphere that you know what, I could agree with you more like during COVID when they start having these live streams, I thought, good way for the band, but it's not a live show.

9:31 It's not the same. It's not the same for the artist too. I feel I was looking at like, man, how hard was it for the artist with no audience to feed off of? You don't get that same energy like you get. Bands are incredible, it's so tight and they can play and play and play, but it's not the same as standing in a room and having someone playing in your face. No, just different. No. Now, So what else you got going on after Bloodstock? How you going to top this? So we've just recorded a new album, So we're shipping out a new album at the moment, a few labels, seeing how we're going to release that, got the album out towards the end of this year, and then just talk total talk at more festivals and we want to do as many shows as possible, So that's the plan. Nice. Is there any thing that we haven't covered or rain that the audience needs to know about?

10:20 You guys? We're not called the Dead eight, which is a big thing, not actually either, so a lot of people have done that. Right, happens all the time. I like it. It spicies up a bit. If we did a bad show, we could be the Dead eight. It just goes to show the where education is gone that people can't tell the difference in Roman numerals between eight and thirteen. It just makes it a bit spicy, and isn't it. I know, right, I bet you get a good laugh off of that. I would. I would be like, oh, we love it, We absolutely love it. Better that they say it wrong than not say it at all. Exactly if they're saying it, I've seeen it, and that means you've done summing right there you go, Well, I love what you guys are doing. I'm so happy you were here at Bloodstock And thanks for being on the Adventures of pike Man.

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