Annisokay at Download XXIII Donington Park - PipemanRadio Interview

0:04 Hi, you have done to censure wow for you your. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio and I'm here. With Silas and the Rooty from K. I like the way you said it. Say it again because the mic came away. But I like the way you say it from. That's that's why I have bands say their band name, because they say it way cooler than me. Yeah. I think, especially with our name, it's kind of confusing because most people just find out that it's actually inspired from a Michael Jackson song.

0:50 Oh look at that. Yeah, but the way you actually say it is I think. N it's okay, actually right, but everyone says it kind of differently, which makes it so. Sometimes some people use a double eye and he is, okay, it's really interesting. Whoa see. I wouldn't have done that because I saw one eye, so I wouldn't say that. I think actually most of the German people do it because they just can't talk English really good, most some of them. But yeah, well, let me tell you something. I was dating a German girl for a while that I met at like Graspop and she's in like some small town and so I was trying to learn German to communikate like she spoke English well, but I still wanted to speak in her own language. Your language is freaking hard Man. Yeah, to learn it's pretty Oh my god, I was trying to learny. I'm like, oh my god, this is making my head hurt.

1:47 I can totally understand it. But do you think like that German actually sounds very aggressive because I feel like. A lot of weak people American stepoint you think that, Yeah, you know, like and Mike, It's funny the experiences people have. Like, So, my son was stationed in Germany and my daughter hers my son in law. He was in the army. She was stationed in Germany. My daughter absolutely loved Germany, never wanted to come back to the States ever, and my son not so much. I'll tell you what the difference was. Yeah, please so well, for my daughter, she was into all the castles and all the hiking and all the cool stuff. But she also lived on base. Okay, that's not Germany, that's America. In Germany, my son hated living on base anywhere he went, So he got an apartment and he had to deal with the apartment, the electric, the.

2:55 Yeah, so. That is why he hated it. I totally get it. It's it's so stupid because especially with like playing in a band, it can be pretty tough to be yeah, or just being self employed as well, super hard to keep up with everything. Texas are super complicated and yeah, I don't know. I feel like we have like a shitload of paperwork, right And the Germans seem to love it, but actually everyone hates it though I don't already get it really well. You know what I do like is what you guys have to You wouldn't probably don't like it, but what you guys have to go through to get your driver's license. Yeah, because you guys know how to freaking drive, like yeah, yeah, I live in Florida and the States and they are the worst drivers in the Verity.

3:44 And one of my. Biggest pet peeves is, you know we have the same law as you stay right past left when you're driving. Yeah, nobody fucking does it. The slowest people are always in the fast lane. You flash your brights down and they don't even move. I just feel like running them over. Yeah. Now if they did that on the auto bond, because they would have got Oh my god, yelled a lot. Yeah, it blew my mind. I was driving on the autobond and I was going I don't know, I like to think, like two hundred kilometers an hour. Yeah, and there were people in the fast lane passing me by like I was standing still. Yeah yeah, yeah. Like I had a car that that's as fast as I could go, Like I hit the gas.

4:27 As far as it could go to I could go ay faster. But I'm thinking, yeah, if you were one of those idiot United States drivers in that fast lane, you're gonna get smashed because there's no way they would stop it. Done. True, true, But to be fair, not everyone can drive in Germany. But I get what you're saying, Like we we like rules a lot in Germany. So it is with like driving, and you. Guys spend a lot of my I heard then when I was there was like three thousand dollars to get your license. Nowadays, yeah, it can be that high. Actually, but I did it like I don't know, like a years ago or so. It was around one thousand to two thousand, but no, it went up pretty drastically. Wow, insane.

5:08 I'll tell you what. Another one of my most scary experiences is when I was driving from Czech Republic into Germany over that bridge and literally the. Wind moved my car over a lane really like not me. I was driving straight, and also I'm in another lane like the wind was so strong, and I'm like, I'm not doing that bridge again. Fair enough, fair enough. But I do love Berlin. It's like one of my favorite cities in the world. It's like, you know, I'm a Jew, so you think of Berlin a certain way. And when I got there, I was like, wow, this is not at all what I pictured Berlin to be, because you, like Americans, we live in this sheltered shit, you know, like we're sold a bill of goods and you go and you go over and to anywhere in Europe and you're like, yeah, it wasn't really like what they were telling me.

6:03 You know, yeah, totally. But you got. The reason I'm bringing it up is the music scene. Oh my god, all the cool clubs in Berlin. That yeah, clubs. I would definitely say Berlin is the most diverse city when it comes to music. They just have the biggest scene in pretty much every genre because you have a lot of big pop productions coming from there, a lot of record labels sit there actually like Sony Universal, right, So that's the hot spot to be in Germany for sure. Yeah. And I had so much fun just going into these clubs at the live music that would. Because it's everywhere you can. You can see a DJ play in this venue. Then you go on like to the next one and there's a jazz band playing. You know, it's awesome.

6:46 That's way cool. So how does it feel to be here at Download? It's a pretty surreal experience. I've seen videos of this festival when I was a kid. I was looking up to slip Nod and whatever you name it, and everyone played here. It's a legendary festival and we are just blown away to be here actually because it's just awesome. And uh yeah, we just came back from stage, went backstage and there was just Keanu Reeves hanging around like casually, he's here. He's here. I didn't even know that. Yeah, And just to see people like that here and like this crowd and the big stages, it's just awesome.

7:27 Was he playing in one of the bands. Yeah, he's actually playing bays in one of in a band I don't know the name. Yeah, holy shit, Like inside you gave me info. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. That's fucking crazy. Closed my mind if I would have been because I've been walking back there, if I would have looked at it, but like, what the fuck? What was he doing here? Yeah, that's what I thought as well. And then our singer was like, he plays in the band the plays here today, but I forgot the name. I'm really sorry. I know he plays in a band, and I've forget the name. So don't Yeah, yeah, because if you think about him, you will think about Max or Matrix or whatever you call it. You know what I think about I'm a surfer, so can you guess what I think about?

8:10 No Point Break? You know that movie? Actually, no, I'm sorry. It's a very famous movie he was in. It's where he's an FBI agent catching the surfers that are doing bank robberies and it's a like aby in the State or abay that's a surfer, Like really knows that movie. So that's pretty wild. Yeah, I get it. But yeah, to be here is awesome. It's just so cool. There are a lot of cool bands playing later, like Lincoln Park. They to remember all these bands. It's it's awesome. Are you going crowdsurfer A day to remember, because everybody has the CrowdSurf to them today. We can try.

8:52 I would love to, because especially it to remember as a band that I really grew up with and that inspired me a lot to do music more. Seriously, I maybe I hope I don't cry if I see them today, because I haven't seen them in like ten years or so. It's okay, you could cry, Yeah, I know, six you could cry. Yeah, sometimes it's good to cry. That's right, especially when you're right A day to remember shop. Yeah, and then it's because of I think you're happy. Hit by a crowd surfer or killed in the pit. Then then it's not good to cry because that means it was bad. Yeah, true, true, So yeah, that it is. They are amazing, sad, yeah for. Sure, but say, yeah, I want to say I never have seen so many people on the infield of a festival.

9:36 I think, and didn't see earth anymore. This is just people, people, people everywhere. Close your mind, right, like you're up there on stage. You don't even expect that, right, Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, I can only imagine how insane it is to play the main stage. We played it in the tent. But I I've seen some pictures of Electric Collboy that played here yesterday or so yeah do it. That looked insane. It looked just like model or like in a lot of the ringsmen. It was insane, right. And then yesterday yet Guns N' Roses and you had Architects both playing at the same time, the two big stages, so. The whole place was crowded entirely.

10:16 Like you couldn't even walk through. That's incredible. I was there for Architects and I'm like, I've never seen a band playing at the same time as a headliner have this big of a crowd. Yeah, totally, that's crazy. I mean Architecture is a huge band in Europe in general or all over the world, but I mean they are from the UK. People love them and they are just a sick life band. So yeah, they are awesome to see. So what else you got going on? Now? How are you top this? Good question? Man? We have some festivals left this summer. We were actually playing jeron air next week or no, then the week often next week in two weeks. Yeah, and yeah, we just came from where did we play.

11:05 In Austria which was awesome as well. And yeah, we don't have that many festivals this yere, which is okay because we just want to concentrate on writing new music and we have a big year next year ahead of us. Which we can't talk too much about. But yeah, people have to connect you on socials now to tell them how to do that. Yeah, just follow and it's okay everywhere, like on every platform you want to. It's Instagram, YouTube, we will just post whatever we're about to do. And yeah, we're. Just happy that we have some shows left this year. And you know what, now, I'm thinking right now you're required to do a Michael Jackson cover.

11:48 Finally, because we have a Michael Jackson EP with I think four or five songs but ten years old or something, I don't know. Wow, that's pretty cool. Maybe we should bring him back into the set and do like a special thing about it or something. Definitely I love it. How about have you played Varkan? Yeah? Last year we played Vakner. What was that like for me? Personally? It was the most surreal thing ever really, because the same it's just the same with download and what and these are all just festivals, you know, since you're a child, and it was always a goal of every one of us to play there at one point and to just be there, and everything was live streamed, and after we got from the stage, I got a shitload of messages from our family and friends and they were like, holy shit, what did you do?

12:38 And it was just awesome? But how was it for you? Really? Yeah, I think it was one of the best festivals we ever played, and the result was shitty. After our show was Yeah, we just stayed in the artist village in the tent and took some drinks, some food and that's all. Yeah. Well, Red, Yeah, the weather was pretty bad, but it's always bad. I think it's your fault. I think you guys rock so hard that opened up the clouds. That's nice of you. But we actually have this kind of inside joke that everywhere we go it starts raining. Yes, Like see, when we played at the last festival, it was nice weather the whole day. When we started change over, it started raining.

13:25 It's insane. I don't know how this works, but it just seems to follow us. It's definitely you. Yeah, so I think I'll make sure I have to look at your schedule that I'm not at any more festivals. That you're at. But yeah, you broke the chain today because so far, yeah, so far we are lucky to say it. I'm not even gonna say it, but so far. Yeah, don't jinx it. Exactly all right, Well, you guys rock. Thank you so much, you were here. Right download and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you for having us man my pleasure. Thanks you for listening to the Adventures of Patement on w for c u I Radio.