Aug. 11, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Adfeilion at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Adfeilion at Bloodstock Open Air 2025.

The Pipeman Radio tour landed at The UK’s biggest independent metal festival featuring not only some of the biggest bands in Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, but also some of the best emerging metal music out of the UK and Europe competing in Metal 2 The Masses for a spot to play on New Blood Stage. The festival also features The Sophie Lancaster Stage dedicated to the memory of Sophie being brutally beaten and murdered just for being Goth and different. Sophie’s story particularly resonating with anyone who has been bullied, abused, or attacked for simply being who they are. The mission of The Sophie Lancaster Foundation is to stamp out prejudice, hatred and intolerance everywhere. This festival is more than just great music, fun, awareness, and togetherness. It's a family driven DIY Festival that cares where there ar eno outsiders. We join together for a common cause.

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Hi, you have done too.

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Yes, that's true.

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Wow, pray you. This is the pipe Man here on

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the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and

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I'm here.

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With This is Matt a keyboard player put on.

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And this is Scott the Nylon guitarist from ad Villon

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Nylon Guitarist.

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Oh my God, tell me about that. That's so cool

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to me.

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So we came to Bloodstocks through Metal to the Masses

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competition nice and someone told me that there might not

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be a single other nylon guitar in the whole of

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Bloodstock and I take that with a lot of pride.

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Wow, that's pretty cool.

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We infuse Celtic melodies from the nylon guitar. It sort

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of represents the harp sound, and then we overlay that

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on top of ambience and like just sorted metal guitar.

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So it's got got a very interesting sound, a very

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interesting place within, but it does fit and people seem

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to love that sound.

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You know what I love about it is, I've been

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talking about this a lot, is there's so many bands nowadays,

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metal bands that they sound exactly the same because they're

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following some formula. So I love why I hear bands

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like you that are doing something unique to make your

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stand out.

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Thank you. Yes, do you want to say something about that?

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Yeah? I think a lot of it is also been

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at the right place at the right time, and luck

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in the sense that it was lucky that we are

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passionate about things that potentially haven't been done before. We

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both share a massive love of medieval and Celtics, sounds

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and scales and tom bras. We also love atmospheric electronic

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music and we love metal. So it just so happened

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that when we wanted to create our music we would

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pull those three things in that haven't been done before.

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But we did also early on tried to make a

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very conscious effort to create things that haven't been in

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the space with those ingredients. Well, so it was in

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our minds, but there's also a lot of fortune and

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good fit.

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Yeah, no doubt. And I love Celtic music, like I

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got at a Ramsance festival back home every year, and

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my favorite part is going to the Celtic live shows

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and it's like so cool. And most people think, oh,

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metal heads all the say anything but metal, and that's

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such bullshit because if you love music, you love.

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Music absolutely, and I think the rise of dark Scandinavian

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folk band's Highlung Nitle Hyland. They are getting really good

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recognition in metal festivals, right, but they don't use a

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single historic guitar, So I think, as you said there,

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it redemonstrates that it's a really inclusive community and there

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are particular themes that people just really resonate with and

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you don't need an electric guitar for that. Sometimes that we.

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Do right, Well, it's fine you mentioned Hyland because I

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do hell Fest and I interviewed them like the first

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year after COVID at Hellfest Wow, And before I interview them,

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the publicist was like, you need to go see their

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live show because we don't really hear about them in

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the States, and I went, I was like, oh my god.

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So this year at Helfest, I brought somebody with me.

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I'm like, we need to go to their live set.

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You ill blow your mind.

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There's something about their live set that feels like a

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whole ritual, isn't it, And that's the arc that they

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go for. I think what we wanted to do was

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to create something similar, but to reflect our roots, right,

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why not from sort of Norway or Scandinavia, Way from Whales,

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and a lot of the old Welsh instruments have a

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similar feel to the instruments they use. For example, the

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crust is the equivalent to the tago happa, and we

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have the loot and things like this, and so we

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wanted to create something similar but to be as authentic

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as possible to our culture. So when we saw Hilung

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first with such a similar experience to you, it was

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like an incredible experience. When you go and see this

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almost feel like you're watching something special happen on stage,

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isn't it. And we kind of recur it the same

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thing but with a druidic feel.

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And then even the crowd. Yeah, it's like almost cultish

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in a good way.

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Yeah, yeah, positive, Yeah.

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tall enough that you could be from scanmy maybe.

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Of Wales.

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Right, So when did this all start for each one

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of you that not the band, but your musical journey

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where that moment where you're like, oh, this is what

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I need.

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To do.

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For me. I've always been surrounded by music. My father

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isn't a musician, but he was a big passionate fan

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of music and he often would show me his interest

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a lot of classic rock, a lot of ACDC I made,

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and things like this that I really resonate when I

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was younger. But he also loved a lot of folk

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when she really loved Scarboroughfair for example, he loved the

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tune of Green Sleeves, and by extension of that, he

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loved a lot of films that would have balloon soundtracks

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by Hans Zimmer, like Gladiator. I would buy those. So

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for me, that seeds of enjoying ancient music mixed with

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metal and rock, even if it wasn't one song, but

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over a playlist, it was mixed. It was really really

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special for me. But then when I got older, and

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I think I was in university, I was late teens,

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That's when I really wanted to pick up a guitar

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and actually play and share music and really feel what

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it feels like to share something I'm really passionate about.

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That was it for me, and that song was Twilight

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of the thunder God.

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Nice.

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Nice for me. I was trained to play classical piano

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and classical guitar, so obviously I'm influenced by a lot

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of the classical musicians, but I think growing up also

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around us in Wales, you see the culture is like

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heavily influenced by the things that happened the historically, and

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so you can see still druidic circles that exist around

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and growing up you could relate to things within the

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media like a Lord of the Rings of the medieval

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fantasy kind of films and media, and so I found

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that within what I write when I write for that Violeon,

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it's largely the Celtic melodies with a lot of ambiance,

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and so we try to balance the two to create

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a very dynamic experience when we're playing. And I think

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that when we think back to our early influences, like

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now we look back and we go it just makes

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sense as to how this has formed. But it's really

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hard if you were to try to take it apart

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now to understand. So right, yeah, it's come about that way.

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And Bloodstock Bloodstock, what's your opinion of Bloodstock?

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What's my opinion? Yes, Well, this is my first time

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being at Bloodstock and it is absolutely incredible. It's very

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very chill, right, but you're surrounded by incredible bands. So

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we've seen off Us, which we're on the Sophie Lancaster stage.

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Yeah, they blew me away.

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They were incredible and I'm not even a big fan

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of black metal necessarily, but they were absolutely incredible. So

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they've really turned my opinion on black metal.

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Real passion is what they're for me. You could see

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it on stage.

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Yeah, and then we also talked Ellen yesterday and through

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now Wolf and again these artists are more in line

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with folk metal and they're people that we really want

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to connect with going forward and hopefully do some tours

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with in the UK.

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Nice.

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But yeah, it's been some amazing art artists who's been

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some of your favorite mark.

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Very very similar. We really wanted to support the other

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folk metal bands that were president at the festival. I

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absolutely loved thuner Wolf and LN. The energy, the ferocity

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on stage, the presence backed up by incredible music was

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really specially. I almost was quite teary when the flute

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was playing backed up by the bass and the guitars. Wow,

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this is so beautiful and I can't believe the right

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of front row watching it. I loved it. So I

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don't know what it's like to be on an avail

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Young gig because I'm always on the wrong side of

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the barrier. But that would be beautiful if someone feels that

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way as I felt about Wolf because it was fantastic.

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And Jule playing next year, yes, yeah, that's very exciting.

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I saw Judas Priest a few years ago in Amsterdam

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and they were fantastic. We're absolute heroes of the scene. Wow,

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we'll welcome them back with open arms next year. It's

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gonna be fantastic.

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Oh yeah. I've been saying them since ninety one and like,

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I just a time they're playing, I have to go

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to their set type of because they're just fucking badass

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and they're cool people too. See that even the icons

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of metal, they don't have that nose up in the air.

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They're just one of us, and that's what's cool about

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the metal scene. And especially you're at Bloodstock, I find

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it it's like we're just one big family here. It's

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a DIY festival, which I think is incredible, and I

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think just the whole atmosphere is great for bands like

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you guys too, because it is where you connect and

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doing the whole metal to the massive thing. It's like

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just making the metal community better. So what else do

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you have going on that you want to tell the

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listeners about? That we haven't discussed yet of course.

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So we recently released a new album last week. It

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is called revel Weird, which is the Welsh word for

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warriors because the album was recorded as a prize for

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winning the Swansea Battle of the Bands if you one

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last year, so we just dropped that. Please check it out.

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It's all streaming platforms. We've also got Vinyl in production

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of that as well. The autumn and we've got loads

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of gigs coming up. So next gig is in London

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next Saturday, week after next with twenty third and twenty

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third in London and then we're going around the UK

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little bit. We're playing Liverpool in October, we're playing in

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Swansea and Cardiff. But all of the dates and venues

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that are all in our socials. Check out a website,

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our instagram at Vailion and you'll see where you can

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find us. But it's gonna be a busy end of

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the year, but we're gonna love it nice.

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And let's talk about your merch too, because people can't

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listen to my show and let's say buy your merch.

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It's the only way you guys get to the next gig. Yeah,

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tell us about the merch because I'm sure people would

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love it.

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So we've tried a variety of different T shirt designs.

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So far, we're selling some of the dificial merch here

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and that was produced by the Bay which is a

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local company teacher printing company in Swansea and it looks

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really really cool and what we've tried to incorporate is

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a lot of the design that we've used on the

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album that we've just released. So one of the sigils

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is from a single from the album called Hallowed Glad

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and that's on the back and it looks very runic

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and beautiful now with Celtic influence of course, and then

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on the front there's a really nice design that we

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were collaborating with often Us to create, so very thankful

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for Alan from offen Us. So that's our current T shirt,

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but we've got a few different ones. We're hoping to

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get them onto the website soon. Over and above that,

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we do have some patches and then of course the

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vinyls that will be coming out in a couple of months,

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so that will be our merch for now.

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I love it.

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I love that you're a bloodstock and I hope we

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see a lot more of you, and thanks for being

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on the Adventures pipe now so much.

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Thank you so much.

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It's been a pleasure, pleasures all mine.

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Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking

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career here in the UK, hire her career with Machine.

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She recently passed away and it was a very, very

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sad day. And I can tell you the reason that

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I'm gonna tell this story is because she was family.

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She was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family.

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Most of the bars that you know and love you

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probably heard of because of that woman right there. Slive Knots, Slayer, Machinehead,

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Trivium Kills which engage, Hey breed, you name it. She

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helped lift everybody up. Man. She helped lift everybody up,

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and in so many ways, she helped make this entire

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music scene, this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at

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Bloodstock Man she helped make it. So, ladies and gentlemen,

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please make some noise from Michelle Kurt.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patment on

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wfur CUI Radio.