Return to Dust at Download XXIII Donington Park- PipemanRadio Interview

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure. Wow for you. This is the pipe Man here on the Inventions pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here. With Sebastian I play lead guitar and return to Dust and I'm London and I played drums and return to Dust. Nice here at download, Like what the fuck? We were here across the pond, Like I didn't even expect that, you know, and you probably didn't expect that. It's like here we are.

0:45 We were shocked to see you here because you're probably the only person we know in this Preston I know, right, Daytona together choice now Yeah, yeah. Yep, yeap. So look at what Wimber does for bands like you guys like Silly Goose played yesterday, you know, and it's like, I don't know without Wimmer if you guys would be at download or sy Goose at download. You know. Yeah, that guy's he's done so much for us and we're honestly gonna be grateful to that guy forever. Yeah, And that's what he's about, you know. He's always about taking bands he sees a vision and like boosting them. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, It's. Got the A and R brain, the A and R side of him has never left.

1:26 No doubt, no doubt. Yeah. So now that you're over here at download without pissing them off, how do you compare the DWP festivals to Download M. Well, if we get into the catering side. Of things, yeah, let's talk about that. Get free catering at Danny Mommer festivals all the time. It's a little hard here. But other than that, like festival wise, it's it's hard to say, just because you know, if we're talking crowd the people in the States don't usually go that hard or crazy. They're none just kind of stand aren'te rolled And if you get into them, they'll just be like that, you know, the head banging.

2:11 But man, the crowd today was probably one of the craziest crowds we played to in a long time. U K's like that. Man. They love in Europe too, they love music. Yeah, and that's all we've heard before we came people were like, oh, the crowds, the cross the crowd. So I came in with expectation and they just blew it out of the water. How do you feel like the logistics are for you as a band? Like with load in and sound checked, comparable. Yeah, I think all. Of them are pretty smooth. The Wim festivals move at such a such an intense pace too, where it's like you gotta be like nailed to the tea, you know. And it's a little bit more laid back over here, which is nice. Yeah, but I feel like they're just they're so different.

3:02 Yeah. Well, but he has taken some things from over here and from you know, like he went to Helfest check that out, and you know, applied it to where. I think the Wimmer festivals are better than they've ever been because they have more of a European UK vibe as far as the mixture of music and you know, just how it's run in some ways. And it's not like the festivals in America used to be carnivals basically, you know, and so it's more of a event instead of like some carnate type of thing, yeah, which came from over here, I believe.

3:46 Yeah, they have such structured it's very structured back you know, the Danny Wimmer festivals. I feel everything's very like you said, laid back here. And also it's cool because I didn't expect a lot of these festivals to be really is mainly heavy metal, Like we played rocking was it rock and Ring? Yeah? That was like Mega Death was playing the day. Was that mystic one of these festivals where it was like straight heavy metal And we played the show and you know, we play our kind of our soft songs and we got off stage and I was like, we got you know, if if you know, Mega Death is headlining the day, we got to absolutely feed into the heaviness of the festivals. So there's a lot more, uh a lot more to consider when it comes to these festivals.

4:29 Yeah, well download definitely fits in because download always has like a range of music. It's not considered a metal Yeah, yeah, it has metal big difference absolutely, So you guys in perfectly here. Yeah at the and it it showed today with the with the show, because I mean there's people who didn't know us and they still rocked out, and there's like a good thirty percent of people who did wearing our merch and singing along and it was it was just wild, unbelievable. Just across the wor old people that have our merch and they know our names and they know the songs. Never could have imagined that one. That's wild, right, mm hmm. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're here at download. I'm glad we got together. And man, I can't wait to see more of you.

5:15 Oh yeah, absolutely, there's a lot more on the horizon. Nice. Well, tell everybody real quick you're social, so they can find out all those things on the horizon. Return to dust bands pretty much. You can look that up everywhere Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora. Yeah, and there's a lot coming. I think the whole album coming, so so be prepared. Everybody watch out for them by their merch too, or they can't. You can't listen to my show and we'll see you again at back Home at the GWP fest, Yes. Sir, yes sir, all right, thanks, thank you man, Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four c u I Radio. MHM.