June 15, 2026

Self Deception at Download XXIII Donington Park- PipemanRadio Interview

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PipemanRadio speaks with Self Deception at Download XXIII Donington Park about their performance at the legendary music festival.

Self Deception - NAPALM RECORDS played an electrifying set at Download Festival on Saturday, June 13, 2026, on the Dogtooth Stage Self Deception Setlist at Download Festival 2026. Their performance is widely remembered for a surprise flash mob by the Facebook fitness group that saw around 100 dancers storm the area.

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Hy you have done to crue.

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Wow crazy your.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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

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I Get from Self Deception.

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And Eric from Self Deception.

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Oh good, So you're not gonna accept me only yourself?

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Yeah, of course we do see in that way.

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First thing I want to talk about is this new album.

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The fact that you did it all completely on the road.

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That's badass.

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Well, we found out that was a way good way

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to write a new album because it's like a connection

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to a live audience and to write music that is

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fitted for the live scene. Mostly. So yeah, why do

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I not combine to do what we love the most

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the mostly Yeah.

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Absolutely. And since you did it like kind of like

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you're doing from the marshpit, we should have done our

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interview in your marsh pit.

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Yeah you're moaning, welcome to join us at the show

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and do it in jew. I know I'm getting out there.

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I'm getting out in the march for doing the show.

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So I was just telling the story that, like I did,

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I was in a bring Me to Rizing marsh pit

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and I was filming it and I'm in the pit

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pitt in some of my sides. Wipe. Man, it was

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like a movie. My phone flew up in the air

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slow motion, landed on the ground and peoboard stepping on

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and I dove down and grabbed it and it recorded

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the whole thing.

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That's the best video ever, right, totally. I should have

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looked so cool, I know, I.

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Mean, I like, it couldn't have worked out better and

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the phone was still working, So okay, I'm fine with that.

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You know that. I love how you guys started. It

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was a mistake that never works out well for me,

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so I'll know how that happened for you.

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That was no, No, it wasn't a happy mistake.

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You know our singer he was searching for new bandmates

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and actually by accident, he wrote to me, it was

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he was supposed to reach another Eric and it was

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an accident, but a happy accident.

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Look at how that happened, Like that is fucking cool

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as hell. Like me, I make those accidents and I

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actually text some X when I was actually taught texting

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the current that doesn't work out too well.

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Yeah, that's never good. That's never good.

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So what do you think of download? Have you been

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the download before?

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It's the first time we're here, never been here as

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a visitor eater, so yeah, we're looking forward to seeing everything.

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We've only been here for like an hour, so we

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only see the artist area in the press area so far,

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but we're looking forward to the show a lot.

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Oh wait, do you see your crowd here right download?

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Looking really forwarded.

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It'll be like the whole world came to see you.

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You know.

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Sounds perfect.

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So I got a funny story about you, not about you,

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about me, about your home country of Sweden. Okay, So

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when my bro got married to a Swedish girl and

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it was in Uppsala and his brides parents were reindeer farmers.

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Now at the time, I was a vegetarian and my

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wife ate meat. So I decided to fuck with her

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because she's eating the meat. She had no clue, And

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you'll find out Americans are stupid when it comes to

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stuff like around the world. Because I'm like, is that

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meat good? She's like yeah, I'm like, you're eating Rudolph.

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She goes, what the fuck you talk about? Like, that's

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reindeer meat, that's Rudolph the red Nose reindeer. And of

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course I appealed to the dumb American and she's my

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ex so I can follow her that now. And she's like,

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there's no such thing as reindeer because Americans think that's.

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Just a saying yeah, you know.

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And I'm like, no, Ing's parents are reindeer farmers. We're

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about a half an hour from the North Pole right now.

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Like she even realized the North Pole was.

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Something in the movies, right right, it was.

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You had to see the look of horror on her

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face when she realized I was serious.

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Did you become a vegetarian after that?

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No? No, But I think she tested every meat ahead

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of to ask somebody what it was beforehand.

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The graindeer meat is really good.

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Yeah I heard it's better than venison that.

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Yeah, but it's really lean and good. So yeah, it's nice.

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There you go, so like, hey, listen, of course it

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was good. Why would it not be good after you

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know it's Rudolph? Of course still good?

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Yeah, of course.

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I also love your country because I love hockey. Yeah,

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but I had I had a trippy experience. I never

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knew about Bondie. I knew about hockey, and I played

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hockey in Gothenburg on a Bondie field.

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Yeah, I was like, holy shit, this is big. It's

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like a football field or as you say, sucker field.

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Right right, yeah, because I think football field is yeah, no,

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it was about ten times a side a football field.

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But yeah, like it's it's huge. There's so much cool

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stuff there. I think. I think everybody, especially America, they

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need to travel the world and see different fish shoes. Yeah,

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because your perception once you go there is so much

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different than what you grow up with in your little

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sheltered like.

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Yeah, of course. Yeah, everybody should travel did not dependingbody

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every from me. You should travel the world and see things.

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It's amazing. Yeah, if you will find out there.

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Yeah, and I'll tell you something else funny is that.

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So I'm originally from Jersey, so to get to New Jersey,

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American would call it Jersey Jerseys in UK. Yeah, but

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we have an Ikea at the Newark airport. Yeah. So

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we take off and we're landing in Sweden and I'm like,

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are we back in newer because right there, yeah exactly.

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I'm like, holy shit, but I knew I k was

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from Sweden, but it looked exactly the same.

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Yeah, it's the same concept of one why I'd say.

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Americans are obsessed with Ikea. I don't know if you know.

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It's good and cheap, so why not.

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I love how you guys look too. You guys need

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to play. Have you ever played Bloodstock? So you need

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to play Bloodstock because they have one in the days.

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Everybody in the whole place, where's pink?

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Yeah? That suit does really well.

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Exactly Yeah, perfect match.

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Right, and there's a reason for it. So it's in

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dedication as Sophie Lancaster. I don't know if you know

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the story, but she was a goth girl and leaving

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a gig. I think it was in London. Some people

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jumped her and her boyfriend and beat her to death.

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Oh that's so sad.

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So Bloodstock always honors her on the Friday that everybody

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should wear pink and honor Sophie Land.

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That's amazing.

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And there's even a stage to Sophie Lancaster stage cool.

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You could show up and play.

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The Sophie definitely.

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I'm putting out there to Vicki Hungerford, who who might

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bring you to.

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Bring us and we bring the pink. We promised the

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Pink Explosion.

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We will be there of course until now. What has

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been your favorite festival to play?

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I don't know what you I think. Like one of

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the highlights from last year was a grass pop yes,

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and also we played the Rot in Canada in Victoria Mill.

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That was really nice.

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Nice.

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And we also have always our home Home Home gig

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in Sweden Rocket's Sweden Rock Festival. It's always a blast.

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Do you have anything else?

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I know?

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Over Oak We played that the last year. It was

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amazing too. It was we were so surprised about so

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many people. It was so wild, you know, flying in

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people over the place and fire and everything is I

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love it.

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We love it.

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So I asked that too, because like I do festivals

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all over the US, UK and Europe, I've never done

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one in Sweden. So tell me what it's liked for

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a festival in Sweden.

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Well, it's the crowd are a little bit more common Sweden,

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but they can get rowdy as well, but they turn

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up like like for Sweden Rockets, it's like a community.

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People have been going there for thirty years straight and

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they bring the kids and everything, so it's really it's

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fair family feeling. You always feel welcome and it's yeah,

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you get like fifty sixty year old big man come

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up to you and just hug you for no reason.

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So it's just a loving festival to be at.

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So you know why I love hearing that because there's

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a bad stereotype about Swedish people that they're not that way,

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that they're very reserved, and yeah.

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That's kind of true. But if you come to a

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rock festival, people are really hard warming nice and yeah.

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I think I think it's more about once they get

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to know you goods. I go to the Netherlands a lot,

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and I've lived there like for months at a time,

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and people think the Dutch are very cold. They're only

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that way because they don't know you. Once they get

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to know you, they're like super sweet and nice.

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And Swedes get better when we get a couple of

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drinks in it.

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I was good.

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Yeah, yeah, we need those two three things. Then I'm

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gonna be a best friend for life.

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Yeah, because when I was at that wedding, I made

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a bunch of friends at the wedding. Yeah, but it

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was after they have to party.

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Yeah, right, exactly, that's when we turn up there.

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You go, is there anything else you got going on

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after download that you want to tell the listeners about.

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Well, we do a couple of shows and not a festival.

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It's over to some We have a support tour in

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October November, and then we have a co headline with

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a Spanish band called Anchor that we're going to do

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in November December. That's going to be amazing through Europe.

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So we have a full full fall and winter. So

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that's promotion for the new album One of Us.

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Yes, that was the last time I go over that.

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I stole you a line.

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I love the name of that album. How would you

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say that album differs from anything you've done in the past.

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Well, like before, we try to be really perfect with everything,

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like find the perfect sound, the perfect production for everything.

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Now we more made it like the imperfect is the

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perfect and letting stuff going like no, it's gonna sound

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like this.

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It's more of a live wive you know on the drums.

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It's more you know, live feeling of everything, not that digital.

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But so it's more, Yeah, it's a lot of inspiration

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from the live scene went into this. So it's a

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very much Yoh, it's it's written to to to connect

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with the audience.

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And yeah, and we started off there and I think

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that's so cool because same with doing radio or podcasts,

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like I always tell people, don't edit the ship to death.

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People want real Just let it stay in there, man, you.

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Know, bring everything.

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People love it.

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And it's like we have In the end of one

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of the songs called the Wedding, Eric's wife is actually

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in the studio and she starts talking at the end

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of the recording, so we kept it at the track.

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So if you listen at the end of the Wedding,

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you can hear them bickering with each other, like why

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are we talking in.

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That's so funny because I was gonna say what she

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you know, mad at you for something.

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Yeah, now he tells her to shut up because you're

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talking on it on the fucking recording. Oh, that's fucking

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that's that's one of the things. Just keep it in.

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It's alone. Everybody should definitely get the album.

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Yeah they should.

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Well, I'm so excit you're here at download and thanks

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for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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Thank you for having us my pleasure.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on

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w for CUI Radio.

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