Seething Akira Discuss Bloodstock, Scene Building, and Connection at Live Shows

0:04 Hey, you love learnt to censure for se Wow for you you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pate Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here. With see the Nikira. How's it going, man, how's it going? You're at fucking bloodstuff, man, could be happy? It's perfes. It's like there's there's so many there were so many English festivals and they're great, but there's so few that actually create their own scene. It's copnationwide battle of the bands that actually provides a stage for new material for new artists to come up. Bruntsell, creater and runway then incredible and it must have really cheesy. But to be here, it's just not a we can be happy mate.

0:52 I can't agree more. Like you know, I do festivals all over the US UK. You're by do down mood. I do this one. But I got here. I was at Vakan last week. I got here and I did a post on social and like I'm home with my Bloodstock family, because that's what it feels like when you get here. It is a family here, It really is a family. Yeah, totally yeah, And you're right about everything they do to help new artists to get exposed what they do for Sophie Lancaster Foundation. And one thing I've been saying a lot is there's never any assholes at this festival. That's That's one thing we found is you can go anywhere and you can literally make new friends just from being here over the weekend. It's such a lovely environment to be in.

1:37 Yeah. I think its size really helps that because it's it's big, but it's not massive. Yeah. That means if you're at the bar at two o'clock in the fucking morning and you're have the best conversation with the complete stranger Chasa following night, you can see him again exactly, And I think that's what that's what that feeling of family is, you know. And also when you see like parents with like little mini moshesh there's nothing more beautiful. See the like the next generation. Oh yeah, rockings. I love it totally. It's like yesterday two things happened to your point. One is Heavy Sourus was playing and there were all these kids in the pit because it wasn't that kind of pit that they could get that experience, and that is so cool. Like I've brought my grandparents and my grandkids in the pit and like they have a blast. And then you know, metal heads are you know, they think we're all evil, mean people and they're just sitting there like taking care of the kids and blocking them and that's the way it should be.

2:35 One of my favorite quotes is that hippies, all right, douchebags cost playing as pleasant people and metal heads are like really nice people. Cost playing his douchebags. Yeah, exactly, I get do we look a certain way by guarantee, like if you want to create a good time for the nice people coaching? Hear his fucking rock ball. Well, you know what's funny about what you say about hippies because I say a lot the hippies became the yuppies came to boomers, Like how the fuck are you a hippie and a boomer like that makes zero sense to me. To me, the punks are the real hippies. The metal heads are the real hippies, if you're gonna use that term and what it's supposed to me. And then funny story, Okay, last night I'm in the pit for Saxon and I back out a pit as the wall that's forming and I bump into it. I turn around and it was this girl that I met and pressed at vakking last week, like where does that fucking happen?

3:35 Like, you know, unbelievable. We just looked at each hether like, holy shit. Right about me? Yeah? Yeah, yeah exactly. And you know, to your point of what you were saying before too, Like I saw Vicky did a posting where somebody asked her are you gonna start building up like Download? And she said absolutely, fucking without hesitation, you know, because yeah, you take you take other festivals like that, and you're gathering different groups of people, and that's where the problems end up occurring. I think. I think it's when it's kind of the point you yeah, great, The point you're making is when people who are unfamiliar with how this how there's like, for example, in the moshpit.

4:22 We all know the one central of the mosh pit. Someone goes down, you fucking pick. Them up, no doubt. But someone outside of that, they just see a big old fight, so they just coming with their elbows. It's that's not how this rolls, you know, right, Well, Like I was at Download this year, and I was at the Architects Show, and fucking I love that band too, but there were they were stopped, like I think five times. I saw that. Yeah, I just say that because people. Were just going into fucking punch people. That's not what the pit's about. The pins about going in there so you don't punch people in the real world. Yeah, it's a cathartic expression of anger. It's not actual fucking anger exactly. Like anybody that looks at videos of me in the pit, I have this big grin from ear to ear. There's zero anger in there, you know, And you might have had anger going in for whatever's going on in the outside world, and then you come out and none of that shit matters anymore.

5:16 It's the best therapy there is. And that's kind of like what we try and do. Like a lot. We get called a party band quite a lot, and I'm kind of make you my piece with it, because yeah, we won't have a good time. But I think we a little bit different from the party bands, you know, other party bands that are like I don't be rude, a bit vacuous, don't you say? Yeah, Yeah, I think we're a little bit different. We we acknowledge that actually there's a lot of shit in the world, and we acknowledge the bad things happen and will continue to happen. Yeah, but when you're one of our shows for four or five minutes to an hour, none of that shit's gonna touch you. You can have the best fucking time and you're gonna but switch it off. That's so key because like listen, if I wantn't just hear your music or listening album, I go to a show to be engaged, to have fun and not perfection.

6:01 And you know, I feel like on album like you're listening, but when you're at a show, you feel it, Yeah, sense of escapism that you don't get. Listening, and there's this connection exactly that Yeah, if you make the connection. Now there's bands out there that they just play like they're in the studio and then there's no connection exactly. You could be the best musician, but if you don't know lot you're having a good time, that's not. Going to translate exactly. That's what's even to care about. Yeah, we just love to bring the energy and that is reciprocated from the crowd. So and it's so common here at Bloodstock because I have the most fun at certain sets at Bloodstock because of that yesterday heavy Sores. I'm in a pit with a bunch of dinosaurs, okay I mean and then next Evil Scarecrow, like they were the funniest motherfuckers ever, and there's like crabs and spiders and it was just like a fucking blast. I sent video to my kids and my daughter's like, what the heck I'm like, and I explained, it's just that's what this festival is all about. We're just having fun and not taking ourselves so seriously. And that's when I interviewed them. That's what they said. They're like, we don't take ourselves so seriously. We're just here to have fun. There's too many gate keepers out there that take metal way too seriously. This is supposed to be fun and it is exactly best. However, Oh yeah, no doubt.

7:29 Like since the first year I came here, I'm like, I will come here every single year. Have been to Radar firsts that one haven't been to you again? To check that out. We're talking about like diversity of acts, not the sense of community and family. Radar is incredible. Like for me, like I love rock and heavy rock, but I like I need to like mixing up a little bit as well. And Radar is again that community theme. You don't know what you can listen to, and I love that and we're so good about those. I know we should do it bus and we are, and it's amazing. Now we can talk about that. The festival that needs like some recognition. They set up so this there's two stages, but one one one's on, one's off, says no clashing.

8:09 I love that, right. I hate when I go to the festival. I actually get to get out of here and go to sets, and then there's two bands that I want to see playing at the exact same time, and I have to make a choice. Usually I don't. I'll stand in the middle and listen to one in one ear and one in the other ear because I don't want to make the fucking choice. Yeah right right. It kind of sucks, you know. But exactly it's like, oh, I can't go to this one, you know, and it's like you have to. I don't want to make decisions. I just want to go have fun, you know. And so that is another thing that is cool about festivals like that. It's like, you know, just like here that they're about the fan experience and that's so important. Then all the bands are about it too, and that's what's killered too, you know. And it's good to hear from artists of how they feel playing at a festival like that, because one thing from my sale offense being in the audience, but you playing whole other world.

9:16 It's like, I mean, it's at the every every performance like sends pretensions, but every performance, every piece of art, is a dialogue between the creator and the people having that experience, and it doesn't work if one. Of those people are absent exactly. And it's a transfer of emotion. So if you have no emotion on stage, how am I supposed to have emotion? Exactly? And that that's goes back to what I was saying earlier. It's like when the band on stage, you're given the energy that translates to the crowd. Yeah, you know what I mean, and it just makes everyone feel like good. No doubt. Like example too, how does it feel when you're up there and people are like singing your words back to them and you're like blowing your mind that they actually are. It's honestly the most surreal thing because it's like, you know, a band they write material and then they write these lyrics and it's like you're going and you're playing in front of people, and to hear that back it's just so surreal.

10:05 I think that that's the word for it. It's like you never expect that when you write these songs, right, they translate that well, that people just learn the words word word. It's strange. Yeah, strange. It's always it's always a little bit scary, Like I mean, I don't do the writing, but you know, creating something putting into the world. It's like, I feel like this, do you do you. Feel like that? Right? And having a room for people going I know exactly where you're coming from and we're there as well. Or they put their own meaning to it and everybody can feel it, but you don't have to feel the exact scene. So I always like to use a term of like a dandy lion. So you write a song and then the dandelion it blows into distance and it's no longer your song anymore. People take that meaning to the lyrics and the songs and they make it their own, like music can translate a certain point in someone's life, or you know, or it has Yeah, yeah, people grow up and they associate your music with a certain point in their life.

10:59 And that's so amazing. That's a key to a good song. Like there's some AARs out there is like, oh, you should have the meaning that I have, But that's not gonna work out. Like let people they always have their own interpretation, their own perception. Let them have it because do they know what you mean by the song? Not necessarily and does it matter no, because music's the best therapy, therapy for you the artists, to get it out of you, and therapy for us to the audience to take it and apply it to our own life. And that's a good song. Yeah, So what else do you have going on for the rest of the year that you want the listeners to know about. We are heavy in writing in the moment. We're writing on a lot of new matter. We've got a bunch of new songs coming up. That's that's really a primary focus at the moment. However, we got like a bunch of bunch of other amazing shows, so we are let me see, so where please excuse my memories over us on that's all right.

11:59 It's tough too, And you're hero festival because you're like in a zone and you're there are some things I'm like, oh fuck, some male say. Something like that. I'm awful. I can start a sentence and then when I get an edit sentence, I forgot my original point. So we have Yeah, thank you man. So let me see. So we've got we're playing tuch Stock in Nottingham. That is the that's the summer back Hole in August. That's this month. Then in September we're back in Nightingham supporting mc devote that's at the Salt Box. And then later on September we're back out into Europe. So we were Leo's playing in Kent, and then we're going to Belgium to play a skate shop, which you can't wait for. And then we're Euroblast for our first time ever. That's gonna be incredible nice. And then oh and then we're playing the Autumnal Day that's in November, and that's a fundraiser to support a venue called the Lounge.

12:50 It's like okay twenty and then in. December we'll be like good Friends Confession to the Trader playing in London. So and then between all that we're just getting our heads down, just writing, watching, watching, very full on froust, isn't it. So we're looking to release a bunch of until next year. I love it. Yeah, we love what we do, and I love your energy. I just want the listeners to know that this is what it should be about. You should be pumped to play a show. Otherwise you're in the wrong business. It's the best feeding in the world, doing right, the best job in the If you're not having fun playing, everything else in this industry can kaya suck. If you have any fun fucking playing, move fucking over.

13:30 Yeah, it's over, sat right as it is. Put the fucking instrument down. Do what you love? Do you all? Exactly? Yeah? Exactly. Well, you guys are fucking brilliant. I'm glad you're here. A bloodstock and thanks for being on the Adventures paint Man. Thanks so much, man so much, fut time, Thank. You each other. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man. I'm w for c UI Radio M