Pipeman Radio Interviews Alien Weaponry at Graspop Metal Meeting 2024

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the pipe Man. This is the
pipe Man, here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio.
Here at grass pop Metal meeting and I'm

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here with alien fucking weaponry. Nice. Nice, and shit it's the first

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day and I lost my voice because
I had to go to your set.

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Well, we are honored, were
honored, mate, Thank you. You

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guys did kill it too. Man. That was a really cool, like

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where you guys played. It was
so cool with everything they had up there,

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even how it had your name up
there, and I wanted to sit

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there all day. That's like the
coolest place. Yeah. I mean that

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stage blew our minds when we saw
it as well. I mean we we

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were like expecting just the same old, same old visible thing and then out

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to him and I just said,
wait until you see this fucking stage,

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man, And we were like,
oh, it can't be that good.

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We get up there and it's like, what that is crazy? I was

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watching like clips after the show and
I was like, wait, was their

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pirate but it was actually just on
the video. Yeah, and did you

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see the ceiling, Like the ceiling
had ship up there too that was lighting

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up it. It was so cool
and there was stuff moving that I thought

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it was like really moving, but
I think it was just a picture.

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Yeah, great lighting. Oh yeah, totally. You know what the first

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thing I thought of before you guys
started, I'm like, I sure hope

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they got their equipment here this time, because remember last time we talked at

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health Fest, you guys didn't have
your equipment. And which band was it

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that loaned euter instruments? That was
cool as shit. I don't even remember

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who it was, but I I
don't actually remember the band that loaned us,

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but I remember it was a solo
guitar that I was playing on that

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one, and it was oh wait, maybe not this. Yeah, it

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was a solo ivertune and guitar.
But this time, we're very very fortunate.

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We've been touring now for three weeks. So when I played health Fish

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last time, it was the second
show of the tour. Oh man,

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So it was we played one festival
and then we lost the gear and then

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the next day was health fist.
So this time we've managed to like no

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Flying because that was a fly date
that show No Flying. Everything's just came

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with us in the bus the whole
way. And now this shows are at

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the end. We're coming up to
our last week now, so we're very

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fortunate, nice and so this is
a bucket list festival. Huh. Oh

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absolutely. I mean Lewis used to
watch like old sod Seats and they were

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playing here, and you know it
was like bands like fucking Lamb of God

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and Sewed and just you know,
these behemoths of middle and guys that we

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look up to and they're all playing
these absolutely wicked sets at grasp Pop and

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you can see why, Like it's
a fucking well thought out festival. It

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is a cool ass festival. It's
great. You know what else was good

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about where you played is I didn't
even realize until I walked out. It

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started raining like a bitch, and
I'm walking out and it's like, oh,

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I'm glad I was under this tent
for that. Yeah, stay in

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the tent, right, they could
have definitely helped own numbers. Yeah,

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in the tent. But then I
also saw like at the back of the

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tent. There was a whole like
like two hundred people that were like trying

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to push into the team, but
they just couldn't because it was like sotting

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pack. Yeah. I would normally
agree with you about it helped your numbers,

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but I walked up and it was
already like that and it wasn't raining

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yet, so it was you guys. Hell yeah, I mean you can't

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argue with that, man, Like
right from the horse's mouth. You.

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So, last time we talked,
we were talking about surfing. Funny thing

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on my way to your set,
going down this ramp at a press,

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I ate shit because I slid down
and then I kind of like I used

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my surfing fall so I didn't get
hurt. And they're like the security came

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around me. I'm like, no, I'm cool, man, I surf.

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I know how a fall. Hell
yeah, man, So what else

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is going to be going on after
you leave Grasspop? Well, I mean

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we've got a few more fascial to
play Healthfest named one week, and then

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we've got like one or two headline
shows and then that's it, man,

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Like we're hitting Actually, I mean
possibly going to go and do some recordings

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and yeah, big possibly on that
one. Yeah, could be looking at

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some new music relatively soon. So
people got to keep an eye on the

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socials. Nice, nice, and
how do they connect to you guys on

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socials and find out that info?
So Alien Weaponry that's us on every social

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media platform, look for the blue
tech. There's a lot of fake accounts

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and stuff. And then all our
personal social medias are linked on the band

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page or the easier way is actually
to go on our website, Alienweaponry dot

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com. You can find too of
dates, you can find links to all

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our socials and everything else you could
possibly want to see about the band.

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Can you tell me what this video
is? That's the end when you had

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everybody formed the Wall of Death?
Oh hell yeah, yeah yeah. I

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mean it's kind of become a staple
in our set, the Wall of Death,

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you know, like, I don't
think there's been a set where we

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haven't done a Wall of Death in
years. Even when we don't tell them

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to do it, they just know. There's enough people that have you know,

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seen a clip or been to a
show that are like everyone, everyone

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listen, this is the time in
the set, sort of like Lamb of

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God have black label and that's always
there's something that they do it right,

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so it's like it's become what it
is and it's fucking epic every time.

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How's that feel, too, though, Because to get to that point where

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people know when to do the Wall
of Death, what song, when to

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do it without even saying it.
Oh yeah, just kind of mind blowing,

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honestly, Like you never thought we'd
even be over here playing, let

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alone having people know the song and
sit so well that they just act as

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a unit and basically read our minds, you know. Nice And going back

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to his surfing, like I just
got back. Well, I've been on

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festival since April. Before that,
I was in Costa Rica for three months.

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I was also in Mexico. I
went to San Poncho and Uh,

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what's the fucking other one? Sayulita
or something like that. But check out

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what happened to me in Costa Rica. Three months there, surfing every day.

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I was there for less than a
week and the riptides were so bad

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that three surfers had to get saved
by LA lifeguards and I was still out

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there and then I wiped out and
the board hit me right in the bottom

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rib and I bad fucking bruised ribs
for like four weeks, and I kept

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surfing through it. What was a
trip is when it hurt the most was

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going out, not coming in as
the wave is like breaking on my rib

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and I'm going goes up and like
squishes your ribs up when you go over

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the odd na totally and then you're
ready for this. Three times, apparently

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it was pretty bad there. Three
times I got taken out by jellyfish larva,

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well sort of, no box jellyfish, jellyfish larva. The babies like

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what what people call sea lice,
but there is no such thing as sea

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lice. They're that. Those fuckers
are worse than jellyfish because they get under

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your rash guard, they get under
all your clothes and they just jellyfish in

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the Yeah. Yeah, god,
it was bad. It was bad there,

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it is. I had to keep
going. I'm like, I'm only

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here for three months, man,
I can't waste it. I'll give a

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ship. I'll just get it again. Yeah that's hot, cool man,

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that's right, big gups. And
now we're here at Grasspop man, and

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you guys killed it, killed it. What band are you guys looking forward

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to seeing today? Oh? Boy, I mean there's a few Carrie King,

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Yes, he's an absolute dude.
We're on the same booking agent and

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yeah he's just fucking cool, makes
great music, super nice guy two two.

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But like, to be honest,
sometimes the best bands you find is

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when you just don't have a plan
and you walk out and you're like,

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oh shit, that band sounds like
some of my favorite bands. Yeah,

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that's what I love about festivals.
That's what bugs me when people are like,

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oh, my favorite band canceled the
festival. I don't even want to

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go anymore. It's not about it
band when you go to the festival,

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it's about everybody, like go to
their concert. If it's only about one

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band. But some of my favorite
bands one playing at this festival. The

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first time I ever heard them was
that festival Bring Me the Horizon, And

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then I was like, holy fuck, how did I miss this shit?

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You know? Oh good fucking live
shot. I've seen them a few times

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and it's like not necessarily like I'm
not necessarily drawn to that genre, but

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you can't not enjoy their fucking life. That's the point, fucking good man.

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That's the point. That's the thing
about live music is there's bands that

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if I heard their music like studio, I might not like them, and

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then I see them live, I'm
like, holy shit. You know,

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well, I've had a few bands
that were like that. I didn't really

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like the band, and I saw
them live, I'm like, they're my

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favorite band. Now. Yeah.
Well, I mean not to make myself

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very unpopular, but like limb Biscuit, I don't really enjoy listening to you

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know, they've got some good energy
in their albums, but live as a

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band, right, Oh my god. Yeah, he disgusted last couple of

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festivals. I thought he was gonna
start Woodstock ninety nine again. He did.

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He was like, let's party like
it's nineteen ninety nine, and I'm

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like, uh oh yeah, but
that's what it's about there, tune.

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I think there were more layers to
that whole thing. Everyone want likes to

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brain Fred, but I think it
was more than just fucking Fred. He's

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fucking bullshit. To blame him,
like blame one person, you know,

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come on, well, yeah,
unnamed festival, but you know last year

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there was some reminding of that sort
of last year organization from it. So

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yeah, I won't name him because
well that'll probably get me in big trouble,

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but yeah, well let's do it
some some complaints. I was there,

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yeah, and I'm telling you right
now. I was helping some band

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protect their equipment and there were four
of us holding the tent down and it

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picked us all up, like fuck
it. And then we're holding another tent

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and we're getting belted by hal and
then I'm watching like they had golf carts

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that were like the golf taxis and
people were trying to fucking flip them over.

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There were fires. I'm gone,
like, this is gonna be a

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documentary. And yeah, but you
know that's metal, that's you know,

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you survive it. So the day
there's not much they can really fuck things

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up other than someone dying or exactly, you know, shit hitting the fan

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in such a way that it's not
okay. Yeah exactly. So now that

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you've done Hellfest, you've done Graspop, you've done many other festivals, is

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there another festival on your bucket list
that you haven't done yet? Boy,

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I can't think of anything at the
moment, Like you've done like but I

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mean the Beast not You're at Grasstow. We've done the big ones. It's

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getting our name on the poster,
but in our font is the goal now,

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you know, Like it's like playing
one of the I mean today we

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played one of the indoor stag and
it was like really cool, Like I

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had this realization that like doesn't matter
when you play, you still have like

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a fucking sick light show. Right. But then, like, I guess

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our next goal is one of the
main stages, but late enough to where

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we can have that sick light show
and not necessarily have to be in a

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tent and maybe real fire because that
fire matched you guys. I gotta say

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that. I was like, that
is totally them. They should do that

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every show IROs or like I've wanted
to do that for ages, but fucking

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logistically you need to fucking find people
with the license, and it's hard to

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get the license, and they're being
seen in Europe's great for not caring about

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that as well. Like we love
Europe for their just like absolutely wing it

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attitude. And that's why I come
over here from the States. I love

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doing the festivals here. It's a
whole different world. All in all,

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you get a better result ninety nine
point nine percent of the time exactly.

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So any other things you want to
share with the listeners before I let you

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guys go chill out. Well,
if you're listening, we love you.

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We love you from the bottom of
our hearts. Big up from Alty to

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New Zealand. Keep listening to us, keep listening to the radio station,

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and we'll see you next time we
are in your area. Nice things are

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cooking. Keep your eyes in.
His peel can't tell you waddle in,

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but things are cooking. Even though
he tried to hint before, you haven't

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said much. Say something. He's
chilling now, But go ahead, what's

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your what Lewis did? Stay tuned
because what's coming is gonna be pretty sweet.

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It's gotta be. It's gotta be
because I don't know one song that

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you guys do that is bad.
You know, like even my favorite bands,

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there will be like a song like
yeah, no, I want I

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want to listen to that next and
that you know, it's it's good to

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have a band in twenty twenty four
that you can listen to a whole album

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and like every song, because that's
rare nowadays. It's the way it used

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to be. So kudos to you
guys for fucking kicking ass and fucking being

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here at Grass pop and fulfilling that
dream. Man. I felt so good

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when you said that up on stage. I'm like, now, that's fucking

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cool and never even attended. Is
the first time you're here. You're playing

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hell badass. Well, you guys
rock. Thanks for being here and thanks

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for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Hey Ida, Hi, my man

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means much love. By the way, thank you for listening to the Adventures

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of Tapement on wfur CUI Radio.