June 16, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Alcest at Download Festival 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Alcest at Download Festival 2025

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Hi you Larnt. Yes, that's true from W for see

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Wow Crazy Young. This is the pipemin here and venture

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to the pipe Man W four c y Radio at

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Download Festival and I'm here with.

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With Naish from Alcest French band French Project.

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Yes nice here So how was it here at Download

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so far? How was the set?

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Yeah?

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So we just arrived this morning. So it's actually the

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second time we pay a download. We played here maybe

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in twenty nineteen. So it's great to be back again.

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And there are many amazing bands paying. So in France

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we tend to say that, I mean the country never

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had like such a big metal scene and I think

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it's changing now we like Bend's like Gujera or like

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Igor or so yeah, it's it's great as a French

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band to be invated in such a such a legendary

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country for music.

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You know, speaking of which like to blow your mind

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when Gojiro was playing the Olympics, yeah, of course, like

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I'm like, oh my god, how did that happen?

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Yeah, and all the country was so proud of them,

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you know, because we don't have a very big tradition

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of rock and metal music in France. So Gougiero is

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maybe the first band to really get such a big

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recognition on an international level. So even people who are

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not like like the biggest fans of their music, everyone

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respect them so much and admire them so much.

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So what got you into music the first time? What

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made you think like, this is what I want to do.

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So I don't think I really had like a moment

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when I thought, Okay, that's what I want to do,

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because I was never my plan to make music. It

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kind of happened, you know, because so my grandmother is

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a piano teacher, so she gave me playing pianoisms when

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I was a kid. Then when I was a teenager,

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I discovered I discovered range music and a Nirvana, and

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then I discovered black metal, so very very different stuff.

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And it is a very special type of project because

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it starts from an experience.

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You know.

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When I was a child, I had some kind of

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like a spiritual experience and I never knew what to

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do with it. It was so like life changing. And

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when I was a teenager and discovered metal music, I thought, okay,

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maybe I could make like a project to be able

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to speak about these experience and make music about it.

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And that became essist. But I never wanted to be

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like a professional musician. I just had something to say.

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I love that. And what I love about that too

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is when I listen to music. Well, I love about

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your music is it's it's unique, and that's hard to

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come by these days. There's a lot of bands that

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they sound exactly the same because I use some kind

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of formula. And I can hear the spirituality in your music.

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Too, thank you. Yeah, I think it's a very weird project.

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You know.

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We a lot of people like us, a lot of people.

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Don't like us too, But at least I like to

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believe that we don't sound like another band, you know,

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so so yeah, I guess in industry where there are

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so many bands which sound like similar, I guess that's

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a good.

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Thing, definitely good. I think that's what gives you longevity

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and stand out because.

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A very old band. Actually I started in two thousand,

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so twenty five years.

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It's amazing, right, Like, did you ever think in two

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thousand that you would be saying here at download twenty

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twenty five?

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When I started, I thought, if there is one other

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person who like my music, it would be like America.

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I thought because it was so weird.

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As I told you, it starts from a very personal thing,

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so I thought that nobody could identify with this, it

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would stay.

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Something very, very, very niche.

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And actually I mean we are not like a very

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big band, you know, it's still like a niche thing.

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But I would never have imagined, you know, we would

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tour everywhere in the world like we do, because you know,

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we we just come back from throwing the States, you know,

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nice after this, we are going to Asia, so we

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do what Iland, Mongolia, China, Wow, or Japan, and that's

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where we have our biggest fans, like our biggest crowds.

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That's so amazing to me. For a lot of bands, like.

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I think in French, I don't even think in English.

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Well, it's just like America bands that go to like

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Asian countries and they don't speak that language. And it's

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like I hear people singing the songs, I'm like, how

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did they know the words?

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Yeah, And it's it's a bit like I don't know

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if you are familiar with the band Cigarees from Iceland.

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So it's like this very emotional music and they are

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huge in the States and they sing in Icelandic and

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people just say I don't understand the world of what

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they say, but I feel.

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I feel them.

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That's music.

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Yeah, so I like to think that maybe that's what

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people feel when.

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They hear yeah, as in French.

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But maybe what kind of trendscends, like borders and stuff.

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It's kind of like the Who when they come to

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the States. Everybody loves the Who in the States.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like the from Mongolia.

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Yeah yeah yeah, not the other.

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Who, yeah for sure, for sure. Yeah.

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So being at your in France, I'm going to cover

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next weekend Healthfest, which is one of my favorite festivals.

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That place, Oh my god, the decoration thing, it's amazing.

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Like I do festivals all over the world, and just

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just that place, it's like holy ground to me. They say,

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fucking it's the holy ground. I think Healfest is the

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holy ground.

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Healthfest has a little bit of dislake American like sense

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of theatric.

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Right, that's why you maybe you like it.

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Yeah, well because at night, okay, when all the fires

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coming up, I'm like, we really are in hell right now.

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I also love how, like you said, the decorations and

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you can go to different parts and experience.

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People don't go there on need to watch bands. They

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go there for like Theians.

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Totally. Yeah, there's like a pool and I remember I went.

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I did it right after COVID when they had the

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seven day two weekends one.

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You were in the VIP area too, right.

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And pressed Yeah of course, yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah,

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and so it was interesting. It was one hundred and

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four degrees so people were just hanging out in the pool.

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I think I did an interview in the pool because

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it was so freaking hot. In the press. Yeah.

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Yeah, And the VIP section at Headfest is really cool,

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like they really treat the people like super.

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Well, and so I totally love too. Like I was

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going back in like the merch or little town area

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and there was a band playing up on a roof

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and and like it was just like everywhere you go.

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It was an experience.

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And as I told you, for Friends Friends has never

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been like a metal country, so it's it's a big

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deal for us to have a festival like that.

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Yeah, and like you mentioned, go Jira, I think that

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year ago Jira played. Yeah, it's probably one of the

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biggest crowds I ever saw. It was amazing, it felt

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so good to see a band in our own country,

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like people just so loyal inter them, you know, yeah,

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for sure, do you find that for you in your

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local area that you have like this Coltish following, cause

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there's not many like you.

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It wasn't the case in the beginning, Like it took

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us through very long time to be popular in friends,

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but we eventually got there and now I think it's

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where we have our best fans, like our best cross too.

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When we played in Paris last year and we played

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this venue called Olympia and it's like maybe the most

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iconic venue in France. The beaters played there, like the

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ring Stones and edit, yah, you know this French singer.

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It's a very legendary venue and we managed to set

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it down, this tiny band from the southern France. But

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Al says, you know, like what, but the hell so

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my family came from the southern friends, because you know,

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I'm from the countryside.

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Yes, and it was a very big deal for us

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to see that.

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Okay, now in France people like us, people are proud

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of us and it but it took like fifteen years.

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Maybe.

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I always say people think bands become overnight successes, and

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I always say an overnight success takes about twenty years.

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Yeah right, I.

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Mean it can happen, but it's very rare.

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So I know you're the town you're from is countryside,

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but American may cannot pronounce the name of the town.

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You want to tell everybody what town you're from? My town, Yes,

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that the band originated, that the music originated from.

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We are from different places in France.

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But because al says, started as like a solo thing,

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so for ten years it was just me in my

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parents' house. I love it because I was you know,

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I was like fifteen, you know, I was very young

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when I started and made town is called.

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She could understand that. Yeah, I would never be able

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to say that.

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Your Avignon if you've ever heard about Avignon. So yeah,

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it's like a thirteen minutes strive nice.

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Yeah. Tell everybody how they can reach out to you

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guys on the web, on social check out your tour dates,

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get your music, buy your merch all that good stuff.

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Tell them how to reach you. So how to reach

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like on social media web, the.

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Main social media the Instagram and the Facebook. Of course

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we want to be on TikTok, but I guess we

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asked too much of bloomers to be on TikTok. So

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not TikTok but Instagram. Instagram is great for throwing our

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live shows and stuff.

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Well, I'm so happy you're here at download and thanks

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for being on The Adventure's pipe man.

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For the interview.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipelin on

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W four c u I Radio. Yeah.

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