PipemanRadio Interviews Woe, Is Me at Louder Than Life 2025

0:04 Hey you luntore censure. For se wow crazy you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here. With Michael and Hans from Woe Is Me? Woe Is Me? I love that name and so good, but I love that it has a comma mm hmm, so it's like whoa, it's. Me exactly, So it's kind of funny. We've gone back and forth with using it, and I guess it's not technically grammatically correct.

0:49 But unless you're Whoa, you're talking about Whoa exactly exactly. So we've always gone back and forth like do we use it? We keep it? And from the we're just like, you know what, just keep it. I think you should keep it because I think people it does make people wonder are you saying woe is Me? Or you say Whoa's me? At least it's a conversation piece, right. Yeah. I also have to say too that I'm not a huge gauge person, but yours are fucking badass. Thank you. I appreciate it. I actually got them from the girl in Ukraine. Really she made them. She made me three different pairs and they're called kraaking it's called creaking jewelry. I believe I help, I'm saying that right, But yeah, she does great work, really cool, so cool, Thank you.

1:30 I appreciate it. They're so different than most of them out there. Yeah, yeah, they do really cool stuff. They'll like she'll grab stuff from like nature and like put it in the acrylic and everything and mold it into it. So yeah, awesome work. That's cool. How long did it take you to get it to fit those to this size? And maybe what like a year and a half or so, I'd say like a year and a half. But I've had them done for years since I was like eighteen, so I'm thirty seven now. So so in a minute. My ex son in law he had gauges and he went into the army, so you know what he had to do, right, So he just I don't know why he did, but he did some painful, stupid shit to get them to go back together.

2:16 Like it was torture. I could tell you, yeah, I know, because I know that you can when when you get him sown, they have to cut the lobe and then reattach it and sew it. Oh he did it all diy. Oh even better. He was like just damaging it enough so it would heel back together. Wasn't as big as yours or yours, but like what you had to do, I'm like, fuck that. Yeah, somebody else could join the army exactly. I didn't even want to cut my hair to join the army, so I didn't join the army. But I could imagine doing that. Torture yourself just to get tortured. Yeah, that'd be rough.

2:56 So how was it here at Louder than Life? So far? Awesome? Been really great. Just the way it's been ran. Everything has been really really cool. We're really grateful to be able to play it, and everything is our first time playing it. We've done a couple other of the bigger festivals like Incarceration stuff like that, and it's really cool because I've seen so many videos over the last couple of years and I'm like, I want to play that and then we're here. We are better this year because it used to be on the other side of this building, uh huh. And it was like the festival dust here was serious, like I do all the festivals. I was like, I dreaded every year coming here because I wouldn't be able to breathe for like a month afterwards, cough up rocks and shit.

3:39 So I love that it's on this side with the asphalt and the fake grass. Yeah, it's so good. No festival does. Yeah no. And it's just like they even put two new stages one that you played on, right, and like I didn't. I did the festival that was here this week. I didn't even know your stage existed till like yesterday. Yeah, because I was used to the layout last week where that wasn't there. Oh wow, there were five stages last week. Now it's seven stages. Yeah. Yeah, there's even one in the musement park. There's like a barn, like a barn stage or something. Oh there's that too. That one doesn't count as one of the seventh stretch. Thing that's just an added fun.

4:23 Oh okay, that works. But the thing about I just found out today the one in Sunday Amusement Park and only has like a five hundred limit. Oh wow, I think five. Hundred people is like the people that show up before gates. It'eah more than five hundred people. Yeah, the whole staff and everything. Like does it blow your mind that you come to a festival like this on a Saturday after baby's been doing whatever they've been doing on Friday night and they're here that. Early for a set. Yeah, it's huge crowds. It's wild. Yeah, like because you always worried, like because we want to We went on at twelve thirty, and we're always like, I hope that we have a crowd. And then you walked out and you see your go wow, all right, cool because they got their breakfast early.

5:08 So I know what's awesome. Well, it's funny. When I found that stage what was it yesterday? I think I was like, holy shit, that's a lot of people I gotta walked through to get up front. Yeah, and I didn't expect it. It's awesome. Yeah, Like I said, you're always kind of worried. You're like, I hope people show up. I hope people get here early. And also it's another thing with like the gates, when they open up the gates and you hope that they get everybody in by the time you go on, and it looks like they did. Like it's just smooth. You don't know why I was gonna say. Sorry. The one thing too, is we didn't play against anybody like close to our stage right, it's great. So it was kind of like a bottleneck once. Once Kate's open, we're the only band playing, and so I think that helped a little.

5:50 Bit either way. Man Like, it was crazy to look out there and see like we're the first band on our stage and there's a lot of people and we're so grateful for that. It was nice. You know why they were smartness year they opened gates at ten. Yeah, so people have time to get in and not miss that first band because like a lot of times usually it's like you're still standing online when that first band is playing, trying to get in, right. So that was brilliant to day and Wimmer. I always ask all the urs been doing the his festivals for sixteen years, how does Danny Wimmer treat you as an artist? Oh, dude, unlike any other festival we've ever been a part of. You can tell that not only does he care about the fan experience, but like Danny Wimmer cares about the artists as well, very well taken care of.

6:38 Yeah, the guy's a legend in any time. I've never had the chance to meet him. I would love to meet him one day. But like anytime you bring up Danny Wimmer. It's always good things set right, It's always good things. And I've never heard of our say anything bad. And I do festivals all over to US, UK and Europe and that's not the case at other festivals. Yeah. And the best part about it is he makes your job so much easier because nothing sucks more than to be stressed out from loading and sound check before you have to perform, right, you know, so you get the nice stress free get up there and give it your all. Yeah. So I have a funny question for you. Okay, how many times have people thought that was real on your finger?

7:20 Oh? The spider? Yes, I don't know if I've ever gotten it. Be funny if somebody came up to you and like my finger, like wiped it. Ye. Hey man, hey man, you got a spider on you. That would be pretty funny if that's the first thing I thought of him, Like, I could totally see somebody doing that. Yeah, so I'm sure it's bound to happen. How would you describe your music to people without using the genre you as the artist? How you see your music feel good? Kind of like a rollercoaster in a way. So we have this thing, our guitarist Kevin. He loves the way he writes. He loves this. The core progressions that he does are like we call him like pretty pretty sad. They're pretty, but they're really pretty, so you're like, you feel that emotion, but it's also sad at the same time.

8:04 I don't know how to explain it, but like we want courses. We want our courses them to feel the chorus and get something out of it, but we want it to still be uplifting. So it's a cool way that we try to blend that. I don't know. The way Kevin writes his guitar parts. It just sets you up vocally to do that, and we just call it like pretty happier. I love it, or something like that, I love it, so to go. Yeah, so we've got the pretty sad straight back into like aggressive in your face and then right back to it. That's kind of our thing. Yeah, that's cool. I love it because I think too much music nowadays is shortened, so you don't get that full sensory experience exactly. People have such a short attention span that some of my favorite songs nowadays would.

8:47 Never become popular. Yeah, think of a song like Battery, which is one of the best metallical songs ever. But if you only listen to the first ten seconds, you're gonna click track to the next track. Right right, you know, or like accept fast as a shark. People be like what the fuck is this and they don't even hear what it is a few seconds later. Yeah, the whole tone like theme of like instant gratification. Everyone's attention spans are so short now. It's like we need more, we need more, we need more, quick, quick, quick, Like you put. An album out now and you're lucky. If you tour on it for a year before people are like, where's the next music? Right? What's next? Right? And it's like, damn, I think they're missing.

9:28 Also that full experience, like I remember being a kid and get an album and you put your headphones on, you listen to a whole album from end to end and read the lyrics, look at the art work. It was a full sensory experience. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like that's I loved getting an album diving into the artwork and the art work literally goes hand in hand. And tell us the story, tells the story, it sets. It up like it's great. So I always love doing that, and I always loved looking even like this might sound lame, but like I loved looking at like who their endorsements were, like what gear they used, because they'd always say like we were probably endorsed by like right. I was always look at their gear, what they used, what they wear, all these things, and I'll look at it and be like, oh, I want to I need to go check them out. And who is this, what's this brand? What's this guitar that they used? So that's another thing that it was cool.

10:20 Always in like CD booklets that you would flip and turn and see who their endorsements were, but also reading the lyrics, like diving into what they were thinking. Especially you know, like how many times do people sing the wrong lyrics that aren't the lyrics? Songs? So often? Right? Quite often? Right? So if you read that, my kids are always like, Dad, how do you know the lyrics to every song. That comes on the radio. That's how I sat there and listened over and over again, reading the lyrics, memorizing the lyrics. Like I was still one singing it. Yeah, and even with bands that there's bands that I didn't like to. I listened to your album like five times unpopular opinion, but one of my favorite albums of all time Back in Black. I hated it the first time I listened to it, But you know when in that generation, you bought your album, your CD, your cassette tape, whatever you bought, so you had to get your money's worth.

11:17 So I'm like, fuck this, I'm gonna keep listening to it, and then it grows on you. Why of my favorite music grew on me? It wasn't instantaneous. Yeah, I feel like there's so many bands like that, especially even nowadays, like bands that like you'll see bands that so many people are like like like you have to check this out, and they're doing crazy numbers and I'm like, I just don't get it. And then give it six months and I'm like get it now, Like okay, it's right. So but it's also like the mindset you have going into it. If you're just like, oh, well, this band's popular, if you have that negative mindset like this band's popular just they're just some pop thing. But like if you actually dive in and you go, okay, well, maybe there's a reason why they're this. Big, right, you know, And to your point, it's like, you have this preconceived notion, which is why I never listened to anybody.

12:02 If somebody comes up to me, oh yeah that bad. Blah blah blah, I want to decide for myself, right, Why have that preconceived. Notion going ahead of time? Exactly? You may it may be your favorite band where somebody else is not. You never know. So how do people reach out to their new favorite band? Woe is Me? And check out your website, your socials, by your merge, check out tour dates, music all that. So we just dropped a new album called Daybreak. It's available on all platforms, all streaming platforms. You can catch us sid Instagram. I think we're on TikTok now at what was what was me?

12:42 Sorry? Yeah? Yeah we got that updated. I was sick. Very good. Yeah, we just put out the new album. We're really excited. Have a show we're playing or actually playing Atlanta tomorrow with Bustfall and everything, so that'll be cool. And then we're hoping to be playing more shows for the play this album out for people. So nice. Yeah, and how's this album? Do you feel? How this album is compared to anything you've done. Before this one? So when we jumped into this album, we were nervous. We had a ten year hiatus. We came back and we go, okay, well, what do we want to do, Like how do we want to sound? Obviously like we got to appeal to the fans in a little bit, but like, we also want to make music that we love. We enjoy it where we're at, we're not the same people. We don't like it either.

13:23 You don't do it exactly. So, like we wanted to try to meet in the middle, so we tried to do that, and this one we have a little bit more of a We're from Georgia, so we grew up in like a like we grew up on country a little bit, so we incorporated that a little bit. But we also wanted to appeal to the old fans, so we try to meet in the middle. But I think we I think it was a little scary coming back. It's tough after a ten year hiatus because it's like, you know, why, I just do exactly what you were doing before, right, But in the same token, you have to be fearful of doing something too drastically different. So it's a fine line to walk, right. And it's cool.

14:03 We actually released three singles right when we came back to kind of like test the waters a little bit, get our feet wet again, and then we just doven ended up just diving into an album. We signed a new deal with SBG Records and they've been great, so we're excited. So I love it. I think just to touch on the album like a little bit more, I think it is kind of like the perfect walking that line between making sure we do cater to the people that have supported us for a long time, but also showed them like, hey, there's this whole other side to us. See you guys don't even know about because we've been gone for so long. And it wasn't like we were trying to create a certain sound. It just it was what came naturally to us in the studio and like when we.

14:44 Were writing and stuff. But I think the album. Balances pretty well what we know our fans expect from us, nice and kind of. Like what we wanted to do as well. And how are the old school fans? I excited are they that you're back. I think they're excited. They're really stoked. And it has like, you know, there have been the people that are like, hey, I wish you sounded like you did fifteen years ago, and I'm like, okay, I get it. That's fair, that's understandable. But we're in our mid thirties now and we're completely different people. When our first album came out, two of theirs were still in high school, right, So it's like, we're just not those people anymore. But we get it. But that's why we wanted to do songs on the album that are for you, and we did that and so they are.

15:27 It is cool to see. One thing is cool is when you do drop a new album is to see which songs people latch onto because you always go in, you go, I think they're gonna like this one the best, I think, right, and then they come out and it's never the one that you think. Usually the one you like the least exactly exactly. Yeah, it's like, but they do. Sometimes people were like, oh, that was the best serve you ever in my head, I'm like, I fucking sucked. We're our own worst critic anyway. But it's always good to get that outside point of view. Absolutely, you still. Want to be true yourself as yours, but that outside of a point of view gets you to stop and think, yeah, and you just never know what that could do for you. Because you want to somewhat take it with a grain of salt, but you still want to listen. You still sometimes people have made great points. Yeah, you can't just brush that off totally totally.

16:17 So last question is, well, it's my question, it's a request, Okay. So I was here at Bourbon Beyond last week, and since you mentioned Georgia and you mentioned country, and I think of bluegrass as Georgia, I would like to see you guys make a song and make it metal with banjo and fiddle in it. Well, we got a little bit of that on the album. So I actually saw a guy who was playing banjo the other day and he was playing it over some metal tracks and I almost I need to reach out to him. I should have reached out to him, because it would be cool to have him actually we come to the studio and like play and incorporate that with us, So that'd be cool.

17:02 Nobody thinks of that, but I think of banjo it's pretty metal because people have played a banjo. It's soul fast like, so you can pay a killer metal song with a banjo. Mm hmm. Absolutely I agree we should get a banjo player. There it is. You heard it, You heard it right here on the Adventures of pipe Man. It's official and thanks for being here on the Adventures and pipe Man. You guys rock, yes, sir, Thank you for having us. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.