Aug. 2, 2026

Saviourself Embraces Wacken, Musical Diversity, and Supportive Record Label

Show Notes
Transcript

The conversation focused on the journey of the band Saviourself as they perform at the legendary Wacken festival. Reflections on unexpected opportunities, the significance of playing major festivals, and the evolving role of record labels set the stage for an in-depth discussion on the power of music, band dynamics, and personal stories.Main Topics Covered

The evolution of Saviourself as a band
Landing a spot at major festivals like Wacken and Impericon
The excitement and disbelief of being chosen for Wacken
The experience of performing at Wacken for the first time
Aspirations for playing on bigger stages and festivals
The supportive role of modern record labels
Musical influences and the formation of personal identity through music
The therapeutic value of music and festivals as escape

Key Discussions & Stories

The band discussed a decade-long journey with varying lineups and a recent lull in live shows, followed by renewed momentum after signing with Corrupted Blood Records, opening doors to prominent festivals like Wacken and Impericon in Germany 00:31.
One concept discussed was the overwhelming joy and disbelief upon learning they would perform at Wacken, a lifelong dream for both the Pipeman and the band members. Reactions included yelling in happiness and immediately reaching out to family to share the news 02:20, 02:37.
The discussion explored the uniqueness of playing a first festival not just as a visitor, but as a performing artist, highlighting how surreal and thrilling the experience was 03:33.
Several points were raised, including aspirations for performing on more prominent stages at future festivals and excitement for additional opportunities in the German and European music scenes 04:48.
A key theme that emerged was the contrast between older, unsupportive record labels and the band’s positive experience with Corrupted Blood Records, which has a modern, artist-centric approach 05:27.
The conversation focused on musical style, describing a mix of modern and classic influences, out-of-the-box genre blending, and non-traditional elements like drum and bass and jungle 05:59.
Band members shared personal stories of discovering a passion for music, starting with early guitar lessons encouraged by parents and solidified by exposure to heavy metal and nu metal bands like Metallica, Priest, Dream Theater, and Korn 06:53, 07:01.
The discussion explored how music serves as a constant companion and source of therapy, outlasting other relationships and providing an emotional anchor 08:46.
Festivals were described as sanctuaries from everyday stresses, fostering a sense of community and escape from negativity 09:04, 09:19.

Notable Quotes

"It's always been a dream of mine, definitely... that someone is coming up telling us you're going to play at Wacken, that was an unreal experience for us." 01:03
"This is my first festival ever, not as a visitor, but as a musician. So I think that's even crazier." 03:49
"They got like a very clear vision. They see like a niche in the market and they want to explore that." 05:28
"Music's always gonna be around. Some people are gonna leave you, but music's always gonna be there for me." 08:46
"It's a way to escape the harsh reality that is our world right now." 09:15

Resources & Links Mentioned

Corrupted Blood Records: The band’s label, providing opportunities to play major festivals
Wacken Festival: Featured festival, most significant for the band’s current breakthrough
Other notable festivals referenced: Impericon, Rock am Ring, Hellfest, Grasspop, Download, Bloodstock

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Hi, you love done to censure for see Wow for

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you young there's the pipe Man here on the Adventures

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pipe Man W four C Y Radio, and I'm here

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with Save Yourself Nice here at Fuckin'. Oh my god.

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It's amazing, isn't it.

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It's great? Honestly. So we've been a band for almost

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ten years, like different variations of band members, and last

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year we kind of had a bit of a drought

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of shows, didn't really play a whole lot of shows,

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and then we got picked up by Corrupt the Blood Records,

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by our label Nice, and they offered us all these

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amazing opportunities to play like Vucking but also impair Con Festival,

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which is like a big festival here in Germany. So

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it's crazy.

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Yeah, Like did before that happened? You ever imagine coming

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to the Holy Ground to play.

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It's always been a dream of mine, definitely, but I

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could never imagine that this really would happen someday. I

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mean I always dreamed of it and I always hoped right,

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but that someone is coming up telling us you were

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going to play at Vakan that was an unreal experience

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for us.

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Even for me, Like I do I go intour and

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I do festival coverage all over the US, UK, Europe.

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I do Hellfest every year, I do Graspop, I do

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download Bloodstock. I'll be going Bloodstock next week. I do

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all the US festivals, and like, this has been a goal.

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And when I got there, and like, I was gonna

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apply last year, and then something in my head said don't.

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And you know what happened with the weather last year.

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So I'm like, yeah, good call, glad. I listened to

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my head, to the voices in my head. Sometimes they're

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not very nice, but this time they were. And then

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but when I got the email and I applied, and

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when I got and like I usually never have a

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reason to worry about not getting implied, not getting improved,

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but you just never know. It's the biggest metal festival

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in the world. So when I got that email, I

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was like in the middle of something and I think

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I shouted or something. Everybody looked at me.

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Because I was like, oh my god, I got it.

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I got in yeah, like and it was it's like that.

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It is an unbelievable feeling, right.

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What's the same with me?

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With me?

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Honestly, the moment we got a PROOFD for wucking I

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was a home alone and I didn't know what to do.

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It was just screaming and happiness. Calling my mother, I'm like, Mom,

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I'm a vucking I don't know what's happening.

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That's so funny. Someone, Well I did that with my youngest. Story, Like,

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she'll call me every week and every festival and she'll

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be like, so, you excited doing this festival. I'm like, well,

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I don't know if I excited. It's the right word

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when you do it every weekend, but it's a lot

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of funny. I love doing it. And when I got that,

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I'm like, I'm fucking going to walk the Vacking And

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I'm like I couldn't even say it, just like then,

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you know, crazy, And I was like I was like

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texting all my kids. I just got approved to do

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the biggest metal festival in the whole world. They call

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it the Holy Round.

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Yeah, it's great. So for me it's been like I've

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never been to a festival as a visitor or really

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yeah and so and obviously then I've never been to

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Valking and now is for me the first festival I've

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ever been to and the first festival I've ever played.

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Because they they We've played some festivals before, as I've said,

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but I wasn't there. I didn't have the time to

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do it. So this is my first festival ever, not

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as a visitor but as a musician. So I think

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that's even crazier.

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That is crazy. You're going to now where you go, Like,

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if that's your first st ever, where is there to climb,

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like do a festival on the moon or something.

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Well, I guess we're probably just going to have to

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climb the stages in a way. So we've played Wasteland,

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which is the smallest stage, still big.

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How was it though? How is how was its playing

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in Wasteland?

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It was so great. We played at two o'clock, so

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I could see everyone in the crowd and that was

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really great because usually when we play, you know, inside

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club shows, lots of lighting, you don't really see what's

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going on. But I could really like watch the crowd

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appreciate what's happening, and that was that was what was

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so great about the show for me personally.

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I love that. Yeah, it's amazing.

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And we went to see some bands today at like

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Hetbanger stage and the what was the pay Face stage?

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I think, yeah, Louder stage, and I was like, Okay,

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that's the next step, move from wasteland to like hetbanger stage.

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There you go. Yeah, well, let's put that out there

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in the universe next year.

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Next year, whenever we're ready. I mean, there's still some

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other great festivals in Germany like Rock cam Ringue, stuff

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like that. That's also I think that's possible with the

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opportunities that we get from our label. I think that's

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entirely possible.

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See. I love hearing that because I come from a

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time where the labels were not good to their artists,

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and it's so good to hear that there's labels nowadays

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that treat artists in a way that they bring it

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up in the interviews of how well they're treated.

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Yeah, and I mean our labels a new label, they

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got like a very clear vision. They see like a

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niche in the market and they want to explore that.

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And I think that's why they're being so nice to us,

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treating us so nicely, because they see all of these

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opportunities and chances that we as musicians can get, but

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also that the label can get.

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Absolutely So tell the listeners a little bit, not genre wise,

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but you know what they can expect from your music

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if they've never listened to it before.

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Combination of a lot of modern elements coming together with

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things we grew up with, like late nineties, early two thousands,

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you're gonna definitely hear our influences coming from there, like

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from the new metal scene in the beginning of the

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two thousands. We also try to bring a lot of

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energy into our music also, but also a lot of

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out of the box thinking, so not just stay like

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in the box of metal, but take everything we can

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get from other genres, for example, like a lot of

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drum and bass maybe also or like jungle was a

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great influence for.

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Us Nice, So what is it that really was that

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impetus one time, that initial feeling that you knew music

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is what you needed to do.

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That's a great question. Like music was always a part

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of my life. I started playing when I was five

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Nice My mom put me into guitar lessons and I

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kind of stuck with it. I wasn't really motivated to

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do it, but at some point when I got into

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heavy metal, I listened to my dad's City collection. So

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I grew up with like the classics, Metallica, Priest Dream Theater,

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but also like bands like Corn were a thing in

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my youth, and I grew up with that and that

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when I started listening to that music, that kind of

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clicked for me that I wanted to play guitar more.

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I was motivated. I spent my teenage years sitting in

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my bedroom torturing my parents with way to help music,

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and at that point I knew I want to start

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a band and just do what I love nice.

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I think it's pretty much the same for me. So

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my parents kind of talked me into picking up a

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music instrument, and I picked the guitar. And at the beginning,

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I was like, yeah, I'm just gonna do it because

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my parents want me to do it. I got my

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guitar lesson once once a week. It's going to be fine.

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And then at some point, I don't even remember what happened,

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but at some point something clicked in my head, probably

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because I was getting better, and I just I just

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wanted to play the guitar. I didn't just want to

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do my lessons once a week, but I just wanted

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to play all the time. And then I also got

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into heavy metal, like you said, pretty much kind of

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like the same bands. And from that point on. I

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started my first band when I was fourteen.

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Nice.

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I played with guys like I think they were like

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eighteen when we started, just because they were the only

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ones doing metal as well. And it's music's always been around. Man,

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If you could you just pull up my sleeve a bit,

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I've got this thing tattooed here. There's nothing I love

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more than music.

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That's true.

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Music's always going to be around. Some people are going

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to leave you, but music is always going to be

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there for me. So that's that's that.

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It is the best therapy for you the artist and

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made the listener.

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Yeah, you can definitely feel that on this festival ground

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as well. Oh yeah, everybody's in a good mood, no stress.

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We escape all the bullshit of the world that like

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everybody's obsessed with, Like, yeah, why are people obsessed with

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the bullshit? Just come to a music festival and enjoy

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your life.

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Yeah, it's a way to kind of escape like the

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harsh reality that is our world.

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Yeah, exactly a million percent. Yeah, that's one of the

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big reasons I love going leaving my country and going

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on tour and doing these festivals. Yeah, because I don't

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even pay attention to what's going on when I'm doing this,

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I don't have time to. Yeah, and it's a much

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better life.

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Yeah, it's it's Calma for sure.

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Yeah, no doubt. Well, you guys are amazing, and I'm

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so happy for you that you played here at Vadkin.

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And thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man.

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Thank you so much for having us. It's been a blast.

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Well, I love hearing that. That's the best compliment I

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could get, because it isn't always a blast when you're

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doing press, so I'm always happy to hear that. Thank you,

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you got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures

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of Tatement on wur CUI Radio.

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