PipemanRadio Interviews Venus Grrrls at Download Festival 2025

0:04 Hi, you love one too? Yes, that's true. I see why crare you you. Who it is the pipe man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Hannah. And Gress and we're both from Venus Girls. Nice and we're here at Download Festival. How does it feel to be here? Is it besides hot as hell? It's just crazy and it's like probably one of the best festivals I've been to. I've never been before. This is my first time really, so I play it on my first time as well.

0:45 Is just yeah, it don't don't feel real, to be honest. And we're both company as well for the weekend, so we're getting the full experience. Nice. Yeah, the plans overhead at night, the really dirty showers, everything, it's fantastic. Yeah. I like to find out what it's like for an artist to camp here, because so in the State's camping is very different than here. How so, Well, you get like a normal campsite like ten to twenty feet You can park your car in your campsite, so if there's like a drown load, yeah, you can hide in your vehicle. Not a festival. You have your car by your side in the festival. Yeah at campsite. Oh nice.

1:25 Yeah, So like is od. That's when I'll camp because you know, I got my equipment. I'm doing editing and so I need power. Yeah, so I just go into my vehicle, put in the power, crank up the radio at my campsite and do my work. You know. So that is a. Far better system because our tent side leaking last night and I was like, damn if only my car was nearby, right, but it's like twenty minutes away exactly. And then okay. I have the utmost respect for anybody that camps at UK or your Being festival. Especially England with the weather. Oh my god. The first time I saw it, I'm like, these people are nuts because they're like, you're like walking for miles with all your camp equipment, Like that doesn't happen in the state. But there is a difference here because of your laws. The campings included in the ticket. If you're somebody that's buying a ticket includes camping. In the States, you paid big money for the camping, like it's more expensive than a hotel. Really, yeah, well we're America, come up, Well yeah.

2:33 True, I would do it. Then in that case, like company is kind of like the cheap way to kind of get out in it. You buy attent once if you're an eco friendly person, that is, you buy attent once, you keep it, and yeah, you can kind of like travel the length and bread for the country with that just in your bootcut you. So I'll end as well, because I know that you'll end an attent all end. Yeah, it is my parents tent from the eighties, hence why it's got holes in it. But wait, it lasted that long. They save things for a rainy day. That quite a frugal northern family. Yeah, I love it. Oh then because my tent lasted for quite a while until a festival had a tornado and took my tent away.

3:15 Oh my gosh. That's another reason why not to come from America. I guess you've got really extreme weather over that. Yes, in England, at least we our tent to walk on it or however, we've had like tail ends of hurricanes. But obviously that doesn't have norsten. Yeah, you've got we get wind. Your weather is bipolar though. It's like I don't even know how to dress for today because yeah, now I'm not in about ten minutes I'll be cold. In about twenty minutes, I'll be wet and then i'll be hot again, and we just keep recycling. Yeah, I think we're in. Like hiking gear is the more suitable, like waterproof trousers, a thin waterproof court, especially in the summer when you're at a festival, it's worth layering, having those layers available at hands, like we were watching last night and Whenia was doing one September and yeah, it was perfect timing, right, good ran and the Heaven's opened and every yeah.

4:07 We got drenched. It's like he ordered that to happen. Yeah, yeah, you want to laugh what I did during Green Day. He had just finished an interview. I ran out there while they're playing an American idiot. I'm running through the crowd. I'm like, I'm not an American idiot, and I don't want to be, because we are kind of idiots today just saying what we'll adopt you. Thanks, because I got on the plan. I'm like, and I never felt like that when I was young. And I'm like, oh, thank god, I'm getting out of here. Whereabouts in America, which there are you from? Well, where I'm from and where I live or two different stories. I live in Florida, right, I'm from New York and New Jersey and I moved to LA for high school during the height of the whole Sunset Strip heavy metal punk scene.

4:58 Amazing, right, my god, what I'm to be there for as well. No doubt. And I saw a slip Not third stage of oz Fest in nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, I'm wearing a Slipknot T shirt for the listeners. Here's what I love though. Okay, this is my first time and I think like thirteen years and my hair's somewhat normal. My hair has been blue. Red, same thing you and me, Boo. Right. Two weeks ago, I was or not two weeks ago, like a month ago, I was at festival and I'm like, I'm a publicity horse. I'm bat. We're backstage, I'm doing an interview and the hairstylist for the band was there.

5:41 Okay, it was Chavo's band. And I said, you know, you should do my hair during the interview live and I've done it before and you could do whatever you want. I don't even care. I even know what it was till she was done. It was purple and pink. At the end. I would like to do something like that. You can't look right back there. Oh yeah, earlier, because there's another in like makeup backstage, which we've never had before. So she she set me out fastage. Yeah. I mean, my hairdresser is absolutely phenomenal and I love her so much. But equally, I'm a very skinned girl as well, being a musician and everything, and I could have just got a caught here and I never knew because we're not used to that luxury.

6:24 See that. And you know what, what I also love is I always matched my clothes and my sunglasses to the color of my hair, and you are doing exactly that, Like that color in the slip, not sure is exactly the color of your hair. I didn't even think about that. I'm just naturally mutching. I love Now you're gonna go look at the mirror. That's a good choice. What were like? I do it in my sleep? Nice. Let's tell the listeners got your music, like you know, I guess that's why we're here, So tell them a little bit about how you sers would describe your music, not some stupid genre that you're locked in as an artist.

7:09 I want to hear, not how the record label things or anybody else, but. You, Oh well, I always say that it's kind of like if Nirvana met fleetwood Mark with the Cure with an other top line. That's where I'd go. I love that. I think as well. Live it's a different experience as the recorded versions too, And I think what's I find interesting about us sets how immersive it is, because it's like a full sort of performance where we really work and figure out transitions and intervals as well, and so it's very like amospheric and sometimes whimsical, but then at times it gets heavier and then sometimes it brings it back up. And we were talking to some people earlier and the same like I Download, they weren't expecting to be swinging their hips a kick, And I like that because it's a bit of a you know, a hip flare at times.

7:59 Some of them can be, some of them can be, but yeah. No, definitely, Like I feel like we can cover a lot of bases with this band, Like we can suit a festival like Download and play a festival like Read and Leads or why Not Festival or somewhere like that, Like we can be quite malleable. I think with that, that's why I don't want people to use genre because you it's an artist. I mean, you want to express yourself and that's however you want to. Express And as there's five people as well, all with different musical influences, musical backgrounds, like you know, it needs to all right, Yeah, we need to be a cohesive, you know, unit visually and have somewhat of a of a genre identity, I guess. But like you know, we've all got our experiences, our tastes, and it's like it's it's really important for us to try squeeze as many of them in as we can, whilst you know, still stay in to the big general overlap, you know, type of music that we play.

8:53 And I prefer a more generic genre like nowadays it's everybody's like put into this such a small oh. Yeah, and it's got all the like hyphenated like like it's just it's just rock, you know, or something like that. People said to us, all, what what style of the music? It's like, I don't really know how to say it to you. But like old rock, there you go, that's all it is. Do without what you will? You know. So what's your most exciting moment here at down for on download that you've had so far or you're looking forward to. We caught Weeza yesterday, which was incredible, and I just caught a bit of Poppy as well.

9:33 Oh she's amazing, Right. I've been wanting to see Poppy for years because I've seen Poppy's evolution from when she started like on YouTube and was like a lot more pop poppier in seeing her evolved by each album getting progressively heavier and as well even just like music aside, Like I'm really interested in her, like a stage where and everything. It's really like put together super well. Yeah, she's like a super interesting character. I'm really interested. She's definitely a bro and I agree. I interviewed her when she was more poppy, and now I love her a lot more. I'm like, man, I wish she was like that when I interviewed her, you know, because she I think she's coming to her own now. I think her people were probably trying to put her in a box then that she was able to break out of.

10:18 Yeah, nor her story is really inspiring. It's a really interesting. Sorry, and like, yeah, I'm really glad that she's hopefully got all that power back. If there was one last thing you wanted to say to the listeners, what. Would it be, aside from thank you and comes his live because it'd be great to meet you all. Appreciate you lots, and and yeah, just really want to meet as many people as we can to be fair, like come down to a Vine's girl show and yeah, let us I don't know, cust some spells together, you know. And if you ever in the UK, come to download festival too. It's really like, violently, it's the best festival I've been to in the least five years, because that's when I went to Glastonbury for that, so Glossom Bree is just amazing, but it's a whole different thing.

11:02 This is just phenomenal. Well, I'm glad you're here and I love your energy and thanks for being on the Adventures Patee Man, thank you so much for having us. Thank you, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Platement. I'm w for CUI Radio.