June 16, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Split Chain at Download Festival 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Split Chain at Download Festival 2025

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Hey, you have done too, Yes, that's true.

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Wow, where you you? This is the pipe Man here

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on the Adventures pipe Man w four c Y Radio

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at Download Festival and I'm here with.

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Jake from Split Chain Ali from Split Chain. Nice.

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So how does it feel to be here a download

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sweating your ass off? Look, he's wearing a long sleeve shirt.

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Crazy. It feels like home? Like where is home? Bristol? Right?

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Yeah, so I live in Florida, so this totally feels.

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Like home to me.

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But I packed like I've been in the locker. I

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have a thermal beanie. It's download Man, and like sometimes

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like ten mins from now, it might be cold and

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then it might.

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Be Rayah, I've got a raincoat on me today it's

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raincoat and a T shirt.

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There you go.

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So, first thing I want to ask you about tell

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the people about your genre, because you have your own genre,

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which is so cool me because I hate the whole

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fucking genre thing. So one of the things I do

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I a lot the festivals. I'm like, if you were

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to describe your music as you made up a genre

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for your music that only you're in, and you guys

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have already done that, So tell us something.

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I mean the whole Dumo thing like started when we

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first started, and then me and Aaron had a bit

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more of a new metal influence, so it kind of

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brought in that kind of whole new gaze and I

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think obviously a lot of people are using that at

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the moment, but yeah, it kind of comes out perfectly.

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Like we like the ethereal sounding kind of chords and

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dreamy leads and stuff like that. You know, it want

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to be sound like you're floating. Great to have a

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little smoke to you, like, yeah, you know, and but

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I also love the heavy stuff, you know, I want

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to I want to get people going. I want a

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hearts pump, and I want people move in spin kicking

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each other and you know, having fun like That's it's

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a good balance, I think, and I think we've achieved

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that quite well. Obviously a lot of Deftones worship in there,

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but I mean, yeah, I feel like the dreamer thing

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is like still there and we kind of keep it

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in mind, but we draw from everything. I like to think,

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there's absolutely no scene on what we do. We can

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do whatever we want, play whatever music we want, and

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we did that from the start, and that's how we

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want to keep going.

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I love that because, like I come from the eighties

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and it was like such a gatekeeping time you can

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only be thrash metal or you can only be this.

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And now it's so many bands. Like back then there

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we're not that many bands. So now with so many bands,

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it's like a lot of bands are trying to do

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this formula for your music because this is what this

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should sound like, and then they all sound the same.

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So I love bands like you that bring in different

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influences because it makes you unique and stand out. I

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don't think those other bands are writing to sound just

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one way are going to last.

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So that's pretty cool.

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And I also tell you, like I listener music and

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I have I have different things. I like, I'm a metalhead,

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but I also dig Floyd and The Grateful Dead and

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shit like that. So it's like I'm listening to you guys,

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I'm like, Wow, it's fitting all my personalities in one.

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Love to hear that. That's the thing. Why why wear

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one one suit?

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You know, like you can do whatever you want, like

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this should there shouldn't be a box for you for

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your music and your art, Like do what you want

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to do.

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We fully write for ourselves and we're not going to

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allow anyone to tell us what we should write and

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how we should sound.

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Like we just were.

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We write for the five of us, and all of

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us contributes to the writing and stuff. So the album

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that we've got coming out is like a blender of

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all of our influences and stuff. And like you say,

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it's it's not just metal and whatnot. We've got bits

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like the Orc and stuff in there. We've got techno

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and whatever influence somewhere in there. So yeah, it's a

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bit of everything.

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I love.

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The post punk thing is like big, like Tom like

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loves that stuff like that.

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You can hear that.

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I think you can hear that clearly on like who

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am I like the new single we just dropped, and

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quite honestly, that's a path that I've not explored much

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and I've finally enjoyed it.

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I don't want to go there again, so why the

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hell not?

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Yeah? I think Ali said it best when they were

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giving them so much shit for changing Bring Me to

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Rise in over Time. Yeah, Yeah, He's like, why do

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I want to write the same song and over again?

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And like that makes so much sense. If I was anyous,

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I'd probably want to slip my throat if I had

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to write the same album.

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Well, the other thing is you're down, if you're doing down.

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If you don't, yeah, you might as well write for

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yourself and enjoy what you're doing, yeah, you know, And

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and if people vibe with it, and then great if

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they don't, everyone's got their opinion entitled to it.

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So you know, it's you gotta do for yourself because

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that's the only way you're real. And it's transparent for

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us out there watching you. We know if you're just

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downing it in or if you're really loving what you're doing,

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that makes a difference. And then I take an example

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like myself, like Metallica back in the day before the Blackout,

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before anything, like in the very beginning, there were like

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twenty five of us that were Metallica fans, seeing them

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in little clubs, and then when they the Black album

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came out, we're like fucking pos.

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Er sellouts, blah blah blah.

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But then you know what, you got a little older,

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a little a little more mature, and now they're still

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my favorite band, And it was just bullshit, Like and

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then I think about now as I'm like, why wouldn't

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you want to grow as an artist? Why do you

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want to stay a garage band? Like that's what everybody wants,

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they want you to stay a garage band. But that

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would be boring too. As a musician, you want to

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learn the craft and get better and better and explore.

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I I think that's the biggest barband musician. Like, when

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I played guitar, my dad was like, you ever quit that?

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You don't know what you're doing. I was just like

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experimenting what sounds I could get out of it to

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create some unique sound.

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You know.

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Yeah, that's exactly all about. That's what we're all about

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as well. Yeah, and the album is littered with that

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kind of stuff. For me, I'm very much like a

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soundscape kind of guitarist. So I like building layers and

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stuff and seeing what I can get out of it.

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Because there's only so much you can do with two hands,

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you know. But if you can like layer stuff up,

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create a whole new sounds.

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I love it, love it.

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I just love a good riff man. That's why that's

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why he's leading number.

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You know.

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I just put that right hand to work, you know

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what I'm saying.

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So let's talk about the new album, tell people about

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it and you know it drops in July, right.

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Yeah, July eleventh.

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Albums called Motion Blow and Epitaph Records again dream label

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as well. To have them on board is Shower like

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Shower Brett and the whole team. They're like, they've been

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absolutely phenomenal from start to finish. Did me so supportive

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and so like believe trusting in us and they've just

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looked after us so much, so shout them, like, honestly,

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they've been great.

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I still love hearing it because like there's so many

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record labels that are not.

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Oh man, honestly, like the faith they've have in us

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is you know, it can be like who am I?

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The latest single you know it that was into Imposter

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syndrome a lot. Everything's happened very quick over the past

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couple of years. We've only been a band for two years.

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Been our first show it was a June seventh, June

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seventh Flash in twenty twenty three, you know, and to

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have all this happened, moved on two years tours so far,

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I was on the UK headline run like b markets

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and like, it's just been a whirlwind and hence why

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it's called motion blow, you know, like it's all happened

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so fast.

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Can't stop and think about it too much because you

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will have a meltdown.

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No, no, just keep just keep going, keep trucking, take

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it there and like, yeah, honestly the album is reflective

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of that and the last two years that we've had

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we've built quite a good team around us.

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Shout out Kel who would record the album with.

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We did all our singles prior to the album with

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him part from two hence while we went back because

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he's just been absolutely great. He's great to work with,

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gets the best out of us. So yeah, really really

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happy to have their chance to work with him on

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a full length. Shout our Middle Farm Studios recorded down

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there for a month and they were great, all the stuff.

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They were great, lovely, great bit of land as well,

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nice little walks in the countryside and stuff.

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Nice.

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Yeah, it's just it's just been absolute well and recording that. Like,

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I've never done an album apart from the inner bedroom

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with like old mates, you know, so doing this like

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professionally is like trip right, Yeah, it's mental man's it's

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too much to even comprehend, but like I just enjoyed

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the ride and had a great time doing it.

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That's the key.

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Yeah, forget all the stress, enjoy the ride.

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Yeah, I loved it.

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I mean doing the album was the first time we've

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had to do something to a deadline, So that was

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a real interesting experience. Like well, the record label obviously

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they were they've been amazing throughout, but obviously we had

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to work to a deadline because we knew the album

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had to be finished by a certain time. So it

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so being locked away on a farm while it's like

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storming like mad outside and we got nowhere else to go,

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it's like, you just have to record and write this album.

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Like we were finishing ideas there. I think two days

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before we left we finished up who am I. That

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song got rewritten like three times because I'm quite happy

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with it. So it was it was just constant from

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from day one to to the end.

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And yeah, I love that.

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Yeah, I think that's something we were going back to

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after COVID that. I think COVID, if you're gonna take

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a positive creatives, you could be creative again and not

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be like, oh, go out on tour and write the

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songs on the tour bus and have that album to

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us in a week.

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You know, that's it.

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I get the insta R on tour, but like having

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the space to the capacity is hard, man.

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It is the nature of the beast. And then you

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just keep going there.

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It is no days off exactly, all right, real quick,

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Tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials,

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on the web, how they can get the new album

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when it drops, buy your merch because they can't listen

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to my show. And let's say buy your merch because

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that's the way you can get to the next gig.

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Yeah. So we've got our website splitchain dot UK.

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You can find all us streaming our YouTube like Spotify,

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Apple Music, much is on the that's US and UK.

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We've got distribution to and EU.

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Splitchain bands on Instagram, on Facebook as well, TikTok, Switchain

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and again. Yeah, and obviously if you're a show, just

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come reach child, come say hello. We always at the

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match time we want to say hello to people, shake hands,

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you know, just and meet the people that are like

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making this go because it's you know, it's we're so

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grateful every day to be blessed in us.

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Like just don't be shy man, like we're we're all

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about just having fun and having a good time.

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So yeah, that's what it's about.

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Hey, and we're down for a home.

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Well, I'm grateful you guys are here playing a download,

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and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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Thank you for having us man appreciate I had a

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great time. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of

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Fate Man.

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I'm w for c u I Radio.

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