PipemanRadio Interviews Two Year Break at Download Festival Festival 2025

0:04 Hey, you have learned too, Yes, that's true. For see wow, crazy young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventure of pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with right from to your break. And look from to your Break. Nice and you're here at Download Festival. How epic is that? Yeah? We uh, we won a competition to an extent and it come out of nowhere. We didn't know we were entered, got a text I was in America and then yeah, I was told big guys are playing downloads. Wow, I've done it. He kicked that off a bucket list.

0:47 Want to come again hopefully? And what was it like out there? Did you blow your mind at this early in the day after a night that was probably a heavy party. So we actually played a little later in the day. Well to me, it's still early. Oh yeah, well yeah, okay, I had two hours sleep. We're still early in the day. Well okay, well yeah, I think I arrived and I saw the stage when it was empty, and I was we were a bit like I thought we were playing on a smaller stage. I didn't realize what the size of it. I've not been download for ten years, Both of us haven't been there for ten years when we were younger. We come as like punters, which are in English beans just the riff raff. So yeah, in America that means you play on a American football team and you catch the ball.

1:31 Oh yeah, No, it just means regular pub goers that come to a festival also known as riff raff. We're just letting the photographers go by. Yeah sor right, I'm a photographer too. See there you go where it's fine. Yeah. No, we turned up, saw the stage, was like, oh my god, fuck, we're playing. Yeah, we're playing Download and two. This is a pretty big stage for us. It's probably the biggest we've played. And a lot of people turned up, people that don't know who we are, but they stuck around through some of our tech issues and as soon as we were playing and we were in the flow, they were singing back, joining in, participating. To blow your mind. Yeah, it's like wow. It's always scary doing like a show where you don't like when you support a band or you play a festival.

2:14 When you do your own show, you know that the people are coming for you. When you play a festival and you play shows like support as a support act, you never truly know that the people that are coming are going to actually enjoy it, or if they're going to if they know who you are. But I think that even if they don't remember our name because they were probably pissed, I think they'll remember the you know, the show, And for. My American lessons, that means they weren't pissed at you. Yeah, yeah, sorry, they were drunk, yeah, pissed drunk. Yeah. So I do have a question in reference to that, why is it when you guys get pissed, you just take a piss wherever you want. Well, actually, i'd like to defend myself on this and that I actually don't. I respectfully find somewhere safe, and if I have to, it will be in the most discrete location can go in. You won't see that I've even been there, but I have seen.

3:03 Are you sure you're not American? Maybe I am, but I have seen some horrible I mean, there's some of the toilets here. Well you know, well I was. In shock my first download because I was like in the middle, up front in the crowd, sardined up and some dude just whips it down and pisses right there. But yeah, and that wasn't even What shocked me more is then a chick dropped her pants and pissed right there. That's the thing I have sped out. Why I'll show you since guys are fun. Here we go, okay, we're fun. Yeah yeah, tell me if this describes a UK festival okay.

3:46 By someone pissing in it? Yeah, yeah, folks, that's a picture of somebody that was foolishly passed out in the middle of the big crowd. The lines to write on him were longer than the lines for food. I want. People queued up and wrote on him. Yeah, yeah, poor gee, there is a whole cue of people. Man, he's famous now yeah, British is British? You know we get that in America? Yeah, oh you would we that's the worldwide, worldwide everyone, that's the worldwide moment. Cut the only commonality between all people in the world. Right on someone if they're on the floor, if. They're passed out, Like listen, the lesson is, don't pass out of at the festival.

4:27 No, you're gonna get You're going to get drawn on exactly. If you do see someone, you check they're all right. Like okay, all right, So what we talk about about your music. Yeah, sorry, music wise, go and ask me what do you want to know? What do you want to know? What would you ask you if you were me, when. Are you coming back to download? And I'd say hopefully tomorrow, hopefully hopefully tomorrow. Yeah, hopefully twenty twenty six and if not, definitely no later than twenty twenty seven. I say, you're headline in twenty twenties. So that's too quick, that's too soon. Too soon, there's a there's a stepping stone. Sleep token. They they they've grown very quickly. But here's the thing a lot of people ask. They'll say, oh, you know, tell us about new music. What kind of music do you do?

5:13 How do we. Answer that, Brad? What do you mean? Like? What kind of music would you say? We are? Yeah? We play like, oh why have you asked me that question? There you go. That's why we're a bit of a mix refuse. We've got electronics, metal, pop, rock. It's it's a it's a it's quite. It's bouncy. If you if you haven't listened to your break and you want to bounce, Oh you want to get your housework done? Just put us on now? Wait are you bouncing like said, vicious bounce or like. Tigger bounce in the middle. It's not jolly, but it's not metal. It's more like a like yeah, like you're pumped, you're excited for like a you're pre drinking, You're let's have it. So, since you're a film match, since.

5:55 Bridge people love their darts, Oh yeah, yeah, since you're. A band, and since he has gauges. He does have gauges. Have you considered for your live show? Pin them up against the wall and play darts and bulls eye is right through. The tell you now, I've never considered it, and now I will right now. I think it right now, like if I could get it in that hole I know, happily don't. The next headline is going to be two year break guitarist dies from darts to the head. Yeah, yeah, you've ruined my careers over Sorry, let's just check it. We haven't run over, that's all. Have we run over? You don't care?

6:35 It's yeah, We've got a few. Everyone's running over. It's so good. Listen, people are gonna list hear your music just because of this interview, because how funny you are. It doesn't matter how good of a musician you are. Okay, it's a lot of fun, Thank you, But I do want to tell everybody these guys are fucking badass musicians and I really do wish Okay, everybody's gonna hate me now, I really wish they were headlining tonight and instead of sleep Dog. No, I'm never gonna I never slay any band I think. I think what they're doing regardless of whether you like their music or not, they've proven that anyone like, with a lot of hard work and effort, you can you can progress.

7:16 In one more thing to that because I agree with you, and I love that you did say that uniqueness. Yeah, yeah, they are very unique because. Too many bands are like so much to think you need to. Be unique if you want to make an impact. See we we don't have much uniqueness about to break other than we're just a bunch of Essex lads that are a bit stupid in a comical way. I did take Charlie Simpson. You know Charlie Simpson from Busted and Fight Star. Uh huh, okay, well Charlie Simpson. He's a he's a big artist in England. We have a cardboard cut out of him because he featured in one of ours songs, but he doesn't always come and perform it. And there was a wrestling ring on our stage, so I took him in there. I rkoed him on the drop, threw him into the crowd. And that's how we are unique.

8:00 We're just a bunch of idiots. That's what we do. I love it, so yeah, there you go. That's sper English. Yeah, serious, not serious, exactly. I love it and I love that you're here a download. Thank you the final things you want to say, and plus tell everybody your socials, your website, everything so that they can buy your merge because countless we. Do send to America. We are called two year Break spelt two two year break and yeah you type that in anywhere you'll find us. If we're from England. We played download twenty twenty five. It's been amazing, Luke. Yeah, if you like rock music, check it out. You might like it, you might not. That's absolutely fine. We don't care. We do. We do. Please like our music.

8:42 Thank you for having us. They have to like your music or they can't listen to my show. Exactly. There you go. Okay, yeah, and. I just want to say catch them now because they're playing download, and then they're taking a two year break and then they're coming the headline. I can you imagine. That's it prophecy fulfilled, it's happening. They're going to do it lining tour and their opening band is gonna be sleep Tooken. That's like some alternative see there we go. He's manifesting. It's coming. Sweet, you're gonna say see pipe Man was right, was right? All right? Thanks for being on it on Man, Thank you so much. Cheers, Thank you For listening to the Adventures of pipe Man on w for c u I Radio.