Aug. 11, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Ghosts of Atlantis at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Ghosts of Atlantis 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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Hey you Lanti, Yes, that's true. For see wow cue you.

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This is the Pateman here Andia BRIT's Patemn W four

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cy Radio and I'm here.

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With Phil from Ghost of Atlantis.

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Nice here a Bloodstock.

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Yeah, man, there's been an absolutely incredible weekend. We're here

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bright in early ten forty five this morning on the

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main stage. Yeah, it's been fantastic.

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So what brought you here to Bloodstock?

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Well, many many meetings years ago we went through in

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a previous band, Free Metal to the Masses that had disbanded,

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but like.

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Three of us stuck together.

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Another guy who'd been through Metal and Nassas joined in

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and in twenty twenty one we had our very first show.

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We're on Sophie Stage. So it's kind of always been

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in our blood. We've built it up and gone through

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and done the tours, we've done the followings.

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And yeah, and here you are. Yeah, today we're here.

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How is it absolutely incredible? Like the fans have been

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amazing by the feedback, brilliant, Like I wasn't expecting a

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queue all the way to the main stage from the

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signing tent and it was just like yeah, and they

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were like going, you got to keep it going, keep

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it going, keep it going, cause I was like, how

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many more people is there?

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I was expecting like five? So yeah, absolutely.

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Brilliantly, especially early.

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Yeah, because listen, Saturday night partying at the festival, partying

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in the campground. For them to get up early on

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a Sunday and be there, that says a lot about

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your band.

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Yeah, an awful lot about the band, but also a

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lot about the fans here at Bloodstock. They're just hungry

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for music and they want music constantly. And that's what

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I love about this festival. I always discover new bands

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or bands I've sinned around but never been able to

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see or check out. I see him this weekend and

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it's been absolutely incredible.

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It is a beautiful thing about Bloodstock because what sucks

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more of a community than festival in my opinion, we're

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all one big family and everybody's supporting everybody.

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Yeah, exactly that. And like, for instance, I see like

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you got the Arms who Oblivion shirt on right now

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and like their local guys to us that they were

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here last year, and that's how it should be. Like

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you sit there and like you support these bands that

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are coming through, like part of like metal to the

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masses is kind of like the heart I think of

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that where you see the local areas and all those

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independent scenes around the country. You'll get together and celebrate

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that here and it's just built and built and built

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year after year.

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Yeah. And the other thing too, since you mentioned the shirt.

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Is the cause of Sophie Lancaster. I mean, like this shirt,

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that's why it is. They made it towards that, and

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it's such an important message because we've all had to

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deal with.

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What Sophie had to deal with the differences. We're still here.

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Yeah, and the whole Famia was that stamp out priguded

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hatred and intolerance everywhere. I mean that just everywhere. Yeah,

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where we are in the world where we do like

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I accept everyone around the world, like and there's no

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hatred or whatever ex or anyone. Like there's good people

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in this world wherever they are in the world.

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They're right here of bloodstuff.

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Yeah, yeah, the best people to hear of blood.

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That's right, that's right.

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So how would you describe your music to the listeners

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who have never heard you? Not from a genre standpoint

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or label, because I think that boxes are us in.

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What do you think of when you think of your music.

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So there's the symphonic elements obviously, so that's amazing and

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it gives a real cinematic approach to what we do.

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There's a lot of influence from like Inflames, and SOI

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work kind of that Swedish kind of sound into it.

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There was a little bit more of a black metal

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influence on the first album and second album. It's moving

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a little bit calmo as we've gone through Onto, we're

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moving into the third album. The new single Milking Style

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that came out is a lot more of that inflamesy

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vibe and the more aggressive.

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What is it?

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Because I'm always a big believer in artists evolving. As

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you become better at your craft and doing it that

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you tend to evolve, experiment, do different things.

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What was it that made you feel that it.

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Was time to start evolving and kind of not sticking

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to the same thing.

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You've got two sorts of artists as well.

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We've got artists that will sit there and do the

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same thing over and over again and that fans love it.

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And you've got artists will sit there and change your

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sound through the time, and they evolve and they go

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through it and every album's slightly different and it moves

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in a different way, and that's fantastic as well, because

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there's something there for everyone and what everyone wants to

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see that. So yeah, and for us, it was a

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lot kind of just a natural thing.

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Really.

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I see.

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That's cool because as an artist, it is a natural

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thing that you would do.

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The more you get better at.

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Your craft, the more you want you want to explore

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what you can do.

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Yeah, exactly that, and like we've not really planned for

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that to happen. It's like I want to say, it's natural.

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I no, it's a cliche, but yeah, we've not really

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planned that. That's the route we were going in. We've

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just written songs and that's how we've turned out.

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It's the vibe, it's what you're feeling at the time.

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And to me, that's a true artist.

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Yeah, exactly that, one hundred percent. And we get to

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sit there write music, have fun. And like we've kept

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this line up since like the first album. Everyone seems

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happy and in a good place. We're all friends with

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be friends for more than a decade before we even

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started this project.

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I love that because that's important right there. If you

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can't if you're not friends, it could be really horrible

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to be in this industry.

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Yeah.

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I mean we've done seven weeks tour last or not

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last year year before were now we're fear Factory and

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we were in a camp of van.

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We went on a tour.

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Bus, seven or five guys the seven weeks in one van,

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but we did it.

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They're friends or you kill each other.

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Yeah, yeah, we all stay friends out of that. So

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that's a massive thing.

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Really Yeah.

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I think if you can do that, then you can

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stand the test of time as a band.

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I think that's what happens a lot of times.

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You come up with this idea of a band and

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everything's cool until you guys spend that much time together

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and that closely. Time fines and there's egos involved or

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things that happen, and nothing's better than band that says,

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like you did, you're all just friends and you have

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that chemistry connection because it's a family.

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A band is a family exactly.

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And yeah, there are times when each one of us

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have got our own individual challenges, like or we could

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be up and down in different ways and have different

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mental states, but we can sit there and support each other.

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And that's the thing to always remember. We have friends first,

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and we support each other.

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What a great way to put it, because that's what

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makes it great for us the listener, because we can

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tell when you're up on stage whether you support each

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other and.

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Their friends or not.

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And it doesn't need to be as extreme as Perry if.

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You know anything, Yeah, it could just be.

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You know, I noticed I look at bands upstage on

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stage and I'm just like, they don't look like they

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want to beat together.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I don't really tend to have a lot

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of interaction with the guys whilst I'm on stage, but

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that's because I'm as a front man. I'm looking at

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the audience, right, But a bit in I'll wink to

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Colin and he'll just laugh. But it's very, very minimal.

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But we know each other where we are, and we

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know the bits that we can sit there and we

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can make each other smile without having to sit there

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and look really cringey to everyone else.

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Right.

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I just saw an interview with Tony Iaomi and he

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was talking about how the audience would never see it,

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but Ozzie used to just go up to him, back backs,

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turn and make faces at him.

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Yeah, you can imagine that to be honest, you know,

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and Ozzie was actually an incredible character, wasn't he So right,

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that's how you would imagine him to be.

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And you know what, that's pretty cool because on stage

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it can be stressful there, it could be a lot

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of things. So it's something as simple as that light

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and to load and makes it a lot more fun

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for you guys.

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Yeah, exactly that, And that's the thing is keeping it fun,

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enjoying what you're doing, and then.

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It's fun for us. How do people reach out to

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you on socials.

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The webs, and more importantly, how they buy your merch

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because they can't listen to my show unless they buy merch.

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Yeah, so if you head over to our website, goes

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to Atlantisofficial dot com. We've got our own web store

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through there, so that's the best way to get our merch.

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Nice, is there anything you want to tell the listeners

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they have coming up that we haven't covered already.

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Yeah, we're out on tour in October and November into

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Germany and into Switzerland as well. Nice doing two weeks

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out with Examorphy.

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Guys. They've been friends with Colin for a long time, so.

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Yeah, we're looking forward to that we've got a few

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festival bits that on announced yet for next year that

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we're booking in. Sorry, we're keeping ourselves busy, keeping the

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ball rolling and just moving forward at all times.

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Well keep moving forward because you are badass, and it's

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great that you're here at Bloodstock and thanks for being

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on the Adventures of Pete Man.

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Thank you, Dean Chiz.

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Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking

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career here in the UK, my entire 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 going to 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.

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Bass that you know and love you probably heard of

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because of that woman right there, if not Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium,

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kill Switch, Engage, Hey, Reed, you name it. She helped

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lift everybody up, man, She helped lift everybody up, and

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in so many ways she helped make this entire music scene,

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this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock.

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Man, she helped make it.

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So, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr,

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thank you

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For listening to the adventures of plate Man on W

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for CUI Radio.