June 15, 2026

Return to Dust at Download XXIII Donington Park- PipemanRadio Interview

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PipemanRadio speaks with Return to Dust at Download XXIII Donington Park about their performance at the legendary music festival.

Los Angeles alternative rock band Return to Dust Return To Dust - Lava Records played their debut European shows at the 2026 Download Festival Download Festival, Day 4: Saturday 13th June 2026. They performed on Saturday, June 13th at Donington Park, bringing their heavy riffs and grunge-inspired sound to the Dogtooth Stage Download Festival 2026: Set Times, Lineup, Weather and Secret Sets.

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Hey, you have done to censure.

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Wow for you.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Inventions pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here.

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With Sebastian I play lead guitar and return to Dust

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and I'm London and I played drums and return to Dust.

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Nice here at download, Like what the fuck? We were

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here across the pond, Like I didn't even expect that,

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you know, and you probably didn't expect that. It's like

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here we are.

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We were shocked to see you here because you're probably

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the only person we know in this Preston I know, right,

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Daytona together choice now Yeah, yeah.

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Yep, yeap.

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So look at what Wimber does for bands like you

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guys like Silly Goose played yesterday, you know, and it's like,

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I don't know without Wimmer if you guys would be

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at download or sy Goose at download. You know.

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Yeah, that guy's he's done so much for us and

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we're honestly gonna be grateful to that guy forever.

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Yeah, And that's what he's about, you know. He's always

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about taking bands he sees a vision and like boosting them. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, It's.

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Got the A and R brain, the A and R

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side of him has never left.

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No doubt, no doubt. Yeah. So now that you're over

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here at download without pissing them off, how do you

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compare the DWP festivals to Download M.

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Well, if we get into the catering side.

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Of things, yeah, let's talk about that.

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Get free catering at Danny Mommer festivals all the time.

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It's a little hard here. But other than that, like

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festival wise, it's it's hard to say, just because you know,

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if we're talking crowd the people in the States don't

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usually go that hard or crazy. They're none just kind

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of stand aren'te rolled And if you get into them,

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they'll just be like that, you know, the head banging.

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But man, the crowd today was probably one of the

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craziest crowds we played to in a long time.

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U K's like that.

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Man.

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They love in Europe too, they love music.

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Yeah, and that's all we've heard before we came people

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were like, oh, the crowds, the cross the crowd. So

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I came in with expectation and they just blew it

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out of the water.

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How do you feel like the logistics are for you

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as a band? Like with load in and sound checked, comparable. Yeah,

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I think all.

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Of them are pretty smooth.

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The Wim festivals move at such a such an intense

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pace too, where it's like you gotta be like nailed

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to the tea, you know. And it's a little bit

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more laid back over here, which is nice. Yeah, but

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I feel like they're just they're so different.

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Yeah.

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Well, but he has taken some things from over here

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and from you know, like he went to Helfest check

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that out, and you know, applied it to where. I

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think the Wimmer festivals are better than they've ever been

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because they have more of a European UK vibe as

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far as the mixture of music and you know, just

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how it's run in some ways. And it's not like

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the festivals in America used to be carnivals basically, you know,

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and so it's more of a event instead of like

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some carnate type of thing, yeah, which came from over here,

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I believe.

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Yeah, they have such structured it's very structured back you know,

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the Danny Wimmer festivals. I feel everything's very like you said,

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laid back here. And also it's cool because I didn't

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expect a lot of these festivals to be really is

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mainly heavy metal, Like we played rocking was it rock

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and Ring?

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Yeah?

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That was like Mega Death was playing the day. Was

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that mystic one of these festivals where it was like

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straight heavy metal And we played the show and you know,

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we play our kind of our soft songs and we

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got off stage and I was like, we got you know,

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if if you know, Mega Death is headlining the day,

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we got to absolutely feed into the heaviness of the festivals.

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So there's a lot more, uh a lot more to

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consider when it comes to these festivals.

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Yeah, well download definitely fits in because download always has

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like a range of music. It's not considered a metal Yeah, yeah,

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it has metal big difference absolutely, So you guys in

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perfectly here.

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Yeah at the and it it showed today with the

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with the show, because I mean there's people who didn't

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know us and they still rocked out, and there's like

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a good thirty percent of people who did wearing our

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merch and singing along and it was it was just wild, unbelievable.

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Just across the wor old people that have our merch

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and they know our names and they know the songs.

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Never could have imagined that one.

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That's wild, right, mm hmm.

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Yeah.

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Well, I'm glad you're here at download. I'm glad we

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got together. And man, I can't wait to see more

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of you.

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Oh yeah, absolutely, there's a lot more on the horizon.

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Nice. Well, tell everybody real quick you're social, so they

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can find out all those things on the horizon.

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Return to dust bands pretty much. You can look that

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up everywhere Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora. Yeah,

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and there's a lot coming. I think the whole album coming,

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so so be prepared.

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Everybody watch out for them by their merch too, or

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they can't. You can't listen to my show and we'll

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see you again at back Home at the GWP fest, Yes.

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Sir, yes sir, all right, thanks, thank you man, Thank

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you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on

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W four c u I Radio. MHM.

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