ArcTanGent Festival - On The Stage with And So I Watch You From Afar, LLNN, Thot & Shy, Low

[00:00:14] [SPEAKER_08]: And welcome to Fandomentals, the podcast that explores pop culture one conversation at a time.

[00:00:19] [SPEAKER_08]: I am your host, Harley. Every episode I interview different people from around the world to discuss

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[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_08]: and I hope you enjoy the episode. Welcome to the first episode of On The Stage at the

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_08]: ArcTanGent Festival. In this episode I'm joined by four different bands to discuss

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_08]: their experiences playing at music festivals. In this episode I'm joined by And So I Watch You

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_08]: From Afar, Shy, Low, Thot and LLNN. As always I've been sure to put links in the show notes

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_08]: so you can find out more about each band after the episode. These were truly fantastic episodes

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_08]: it was an absolute delight to be invited to the ArcTanGent Festival and get to talk to

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_08]: some incredible bands about their experiences playing at festivals. So without further ado

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_08]: let's just get to it. This is On The Stage at the ArcTanGent Festival with And So I Watch You

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_08]: From Afar, Shy, Low, Thot and LLNN. Hello Chris, Rory and Ewan and welcome to the

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_08]: Fandomentals podcast. Thank you for having us. Hi there. My pleasure. So guys I want to take

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_08]: right back to the start of your festival going experiences. I want to know what was the first

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_08]: festival that you guys went to? Just as a punter, just as to go and have fun. Yeah I think the

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_05]: first festival that I bought a ticket for and went autonomously as a kind of grown up

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_05]: would have been probably when I was around 17 or 18 to a festival called Oxygen Festival in

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Punches Town Racecourse or Ferry Horse Racecourse. Maybe it was at the time, the first one

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_05]: it's called Witness actually but that's right it was called Witness before it was Oxygen. I

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_05]: think it was 2003 or something like that. Right okay. And I had a sort of extraordinarily

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_05]: you know as you do messy transcendental you know experience of seeing all sorts of

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_05]: weird and wonderful colours of the human spectrum of just debauchery and fantastic music and

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_05]: you know sunburned faces and cider and all just all the wonderful stuff that we've all grown to

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_05]: love. That's a beautiful description by the way. Thank you. My first experience,

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not sure if this is definitely the first one but in and around

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_06]: my first experiences of like a kind of proper like outdoor music festival like this

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_06]: yeah would be a festival in Mid Ulster in Ireland called Glasgow Bury which is now

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_06]: no longer going but I actually went to see and so watch it from afar before I was a

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_06]: playing member or I was probably helping doing something lifting boxes or moving things

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_06]: yeah in the grand scheme of things I'm actually a recent addition to the stage so I

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_06]: went to see the guys there along with it was like the entire line up was all local bands all

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_06]: like all Belfast based or Ulster based and it was exactly as Rory says very messy muddy and

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_06]: lots of sunburned people up a mountain in Ireland. Incredible. What else do you need?

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_08]: I love it, I love it yeah and how about yourself? Yeah my first experience actually

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_04]: with Rory on that witness festival and whatever it was 2002-2003 and yeah climbing onto a train

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_04]: with like 24 cans of warm beer and a backpack and yeah full of hope and promise yes yeah yeah

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_08]: they beat you that out of you at festivals but you know but it's a rite of passage

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_04]: and then the little cans of the full breakfast yeah oh yes I don't know who makes them

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_04]: but it was like full English breakfast cooked breakfast in a can that was our nutrition for

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_08]: the week. It's as healthy as it sounds folks brilliant so I want to know what about playing

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_08]: as a band what was the first festival that you guys got booked at? There was a

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_05]: festival called I think there was a festival called Homemade Jam remember that? Right okay

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_05]: Homemade Jam or Forfaye. Okay these were like these are like festivals you know in the

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_05]: most kind of like honest and it's a bit DIY kind of yeah just the kind of you know

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_05]: like 200 people in a field kind of vibes with a generator but there was one called Homemade Jam

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_05]: that I think we played and another one called Forfaye which then went on to become a bigger

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_05]: festival and yeah those were kind of you know daunting and terrifying but amazing exciting

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_05]: experiences you know first taste of you know the 15 minute changeover and yeah monitors and

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_05]: monitor engineers and like you know what what you know why can't I hear anything and

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_05]: you know there's a person that controls that okay what do you do you talk to them and

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_06]: the kind of like where do you drive up to if you want to put the gear like they're kind of like

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_06]: trying to find yeah it seems like no matter what the festival is there's always a bit of chaos

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_06]: in trying to 100% where do we park where do we drive where do we yeah yeah they were quite

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_04]: crucial for us in the early days because then that helped us

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_04]: yeah get ready for whenever we started to go further afield and bigger and bigger festivals

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_04]: and you got you know you already had a bit of knowledge how those things worked and then

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_04]: could be somewhat professional yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_08]: fantastic I love it so something I've been exploring with bands is the appeal of playing

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_08]: festivals right because I think a lot of people listening can get being on the road being in

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_08]: a band you know maybe even supporting your favorite artists those kind of like big things

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_08]: people get to do but festivals are completely different for bands all right like you just

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_08]: said it's a whole new experience so yeah what's the appeal what do you guys enjoy about

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_06]: playing festivals I think for me there's like this is maybe getting into philosophical

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_06]: mode slightly but there is something about a bunch of people like all kind of communing

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_06]: together in an open like field like this that's quite like you know primordial or like you know

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_06]: there's definitely a kind of like and for not particularly spiritual minded person

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_06]: there is something that's like quite magic about that kind of like a bunch of people in

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_06]: an out in the wilds together yeah you know partying maybe is the wrong word but you know

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_06]: kind of like celebrating something together there's definitely a magic and that magic I think

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_06]: you get from those like four or five farm festivals and homemade jam festivals when

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_06]: there's a couple hundred people in a tiny field and a couple of caravans

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_06]: but you also can scale that up to something like our tangent or bigger as well you know

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_05]: it's like no matter how big it is it can only function if everybody believes in the same thing

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah I mean because there's like in reality there's not really anything happening you're just

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_05]: there's just loads of people and there's some bands but everybody needs to be completely

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_05]: signed on to the idea that this is bigger than the sum of its parts and it creates

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_05]: like out of nowhere it creates you know just like we're sitting in at the minute this like

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_05]: magic environment for a short period of time that comes and goes but amazing yeah that's

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_05]: that did get a bit philosophical yeah I love it that was all that malwams you've been

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_08]: that's what happens when that's why I lobe everyone up with sugar before you start

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_08]: give you an energy boost let's go oh I love it something else I've been diving into with

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_08]: the band is some of their favorite memories at playing festivals because like you said earlier

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_08]: you can see a lot of interesting things and new experiences so I wonder what some of your

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_08]: personal highlights have been if you've got any from from playing festivals well

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_05]: we have played a lot of festivals and we've um you know had some pretty incredible

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_05]: experiences being sort of backstage next to the you know some of your idols and heroes but

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_05]: um for some reason the first thing that sprung to mind there was one of the first

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_05]: really big festivals we played this isn't even a favorite experience what's the opposite favorite

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_05]: this is one of my this is like one of the sort of nightmare dreadful living fever dream

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_05]: experiences where we we we had uh naively driven uh from Leeds to Vienna yeah in one

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_05]: thinking we'd do it in about 20 hours it took about 40 in the end up we had no way

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_05]: to tell which way we were going we sort of arrived off the is this is you know when we're

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_05]: very young we arrived off the channel tunnel and just started looking for signs I think for

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Austria like pre-google maps wow anything like that east and we ended up having to go and buy

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_05]: a road map of Europe brilliant and then we were trying to get to this festival in time to see

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Metallica but we wow we didn't get there in time but we still arrived there a day

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_05]: before we were supposed to play okay so we arrived there sort of penniless we'd um yeah

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_05]: we'd slept in the van on the side of the motorway we'd actually been take uh then uh

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_05]: reprimanded by the police for sleeping there and taken to the police station of course

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_05]: and then we eventually got to the festival and we were kind of knackered um you know shells of

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_05]: people and uh yeah we spent all we clubbed together all the money we had and we were able

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_05]: to buy a beer each and we sat and drank it and we were watching some bands and then uh

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_05]: somebody came running out of the backstage and and they had had this moment where they realized

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_05]: there was a red bull bar that um was free drink uh the only thing was you had to have

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_05]: mixed with red bull right so about one a what one o'clock in the day we all got on the red bulls

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_05]: and whiskies um so fast forward about 16 hours and yeah we're just running around the backstage

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_05]: caffeineed up drunk i remember running we ran in and like to kaiser chief's dressing room

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_05]: and like nick deluded their like food and stuff yeah and we were just going

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_05]: so this was all great crack but the following day when we were first on the main stage

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_05]: go on and uh we walked out uh and you know that scene in back to the future where marty mcfly

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_05]: marty mcfly's hand starts to disappear when he's on stage like that was i'm pretty sure

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_05]: happening to me in real time i thought i was having an outer body experience and

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_05]: wow in front of thousands of people and it was one of the most terrifying sort of uh

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_05]: shows of my entire life but it was good good learning curve i bet that's amazing so whenever

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_05]: that kind of goes against what chris is saying you know when you do the smaller festivals

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_05]: you really learn from that yeah yeah yeah you also we were still learning at that stage yeah

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah you never stop yeah on that note red bull and whiskey anyone i could say i've never

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_08]: heard of that combo but uh yeah i don't know if i want to try it i don't think i want to but

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_08]: you know there you go terrible and i just want to be conscious of the time so i got one final

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_08]: question for you guys my last question to everybody is if you were to have your own

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_08]: festival i want to know what's it called and who are your three dream headlines you have

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_08]: anyone you want dead or alive well yeah it's a big one for musicians i think they really

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_08]: struggle with this i'm gonna no i'll let you well dead or alive dead or alive whatever like

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah we're going dream line up here that is um okay i'm not gonna miss the opportunity to have

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_06]: the clash play it brilliant yeah love it so i'll put that right there i'm gonna have to say

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_05]: all members of a tribe called quest yes okay

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_09]: um

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_05]: i'm gonna have to say it's fresh off the back of their first album king crimson

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_05]: nice okay this is a weird festival yeah yeah no i love it go for it and um god this is an

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_05]: intense this is an intense question i can't even think of any bands i like um and it's

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_06]: also like finding ones that would be good at a festival as well it's gotta be zapplin just

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_08]: well i was gonna say thin lizzy okay both i think very solid very solid choices a bit of lizzy

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_06]: yeah yeah and it would be called chris fest i wasn't actually saying chris do you have any

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_04]: ideas but chris fest works who'd you want chris yeah i'd have the sort of live aid era queen

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_08]: oh yeah yeah yeah that's sort of intensity yes yep i agree with that yeah that'd be a good

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_08]: show sammy's dream era oh yeah pumpkins yeah yeah you'd be the second person today to say

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_08]: pumpkins yeah which yeah yeah which i think solid absolutely they'd be awesome yeah they'd

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_08]: be yeah they'd definitely be up there a third one who are we thinking anyone you want

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_08]: i by the way i think there's no wrong answers i've had all sorts of weird and wonderful answers on this

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_05]: bleacher and nirvana would be good oh that's true yeah

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_08]: who's yours oh you're the first person to ask

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_08]: i i would equally struggle with this question genuinely because like for me it's like my

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_08]: favorite band is alter bridge so i'm like i'll give them a sec because it's who's i

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_08]: alter bridge okay i'm a massive like march monty fans i'm like yeah that easy but then on

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_08]: yes same as you guys thinking like who would i i feel like nirvana would be amazing because

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_08]: obviously never got to see him but i'm also like a huge fan of like i would like to see

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_08]: original era alice and chains that would be great yeah you know that like that would be

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_08]: solid but then i'm also like a huge fan of bands like gojira or deftone i put it gojira

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_08]: alter bridge and alice and chains i think just to kind of i mean okay yeah something

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_08]: like that what's your festival called though oh yeah i don't i don't you i started me

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_08]: how do you like it i know yeah what i go fundamentals i don't know i can't do anything

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_08]: with the name doesn't work for a festival um yeah for me i just call it drop tune nonsense

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_08]: that's what i call it sounds good yeah what do you get tickets yeah exactly yeah guys guys

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_08]: thank you so much for coming on the podcast appreciate you for asking

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_06]: yeah

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_08]: hello greg and drew and welcome to the fundamentals podcast thank you thanks for having us that's my

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_08]: pleasure guys so yeah how's things going for you guys so far at the festival well uh it's

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_02]: our first time here we really are loving it so far we got in this morning around 11 i guess

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_02]: and uh we've been wanting to come here for for a long time we've been talking about wanting

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_01]: to play for a while so yeah awesome to finally be here i think for me personally this is one of

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: those bucket list uh festivals that i've always wanted to play probably for like eight or nine

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_01]: years now so i'm really excited that it's finally happening that's brilliant love to hear that

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_08]: so i want to go back a little bit in your festival going experience i'd love to know

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_08]: what was the first festival that you guys went to just to attend went to for me i was

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: 10 years old and i saw my brother's band at warp tour and the states in 2003 i think um so yeah

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_01]: that would have been that would have been mine that's incredible wow i think outside of going to

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_02]: like little like town music festivals with sure bands that no one knows about because

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_02]: they're just you know local dad bands or whatever sure sure probably work tour also and

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_02]: i think 2008 i was in high school wow um yeah he's probably worked or do you remember who

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: was playing aside from brother's band at yours or yeah uh i remember it being a bunch of punk

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: bands um which i was not sense super yeah yeah exactly yeah but well it was before like

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: the like emo yeah it was earlier was yeah sure sure um three i think like glass jaw was on

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_02]: i didn't know them at the time i'm gonna be honest so yeah glass jaw worked for videos

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: anyway yeah yeah you're good that's cool yeah that's cool i think

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: uh if i remember right when i went uh no effects was on the nice um bass i had played

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_02]: if i'm remembering right um there are a lot of bands that like i went to work tour but

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_02]: a lot of like we were kind of just saying there are a lot of bands uh at that era of work tour

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_02]: was kind of becoming more of a like a you know metal core thing which is yeah yeah but uh so

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah i'm trying to remember who else would have been on that then i can't remember i remember

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_02]: specifically seeing no effects though and and being stoked about that yeah classic band you

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_08]: know absolutely yeah great experiences great experiences love it and what about as a band

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_08]: what was the first festival you guys got to play out do you want but oh uh

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_01]: trying to think first i think first european festival would have been dunk fest really um

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_01]: there might have been one before that that i'm just not remembering 100 percent yeah i

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe not there's there might have been one other one i should i should know this

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: um but i think dunk was the first like yeah memorable one for sure yeah 2019 we played

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah right and then in the u.s i think we played a festival in chicago uh that was like a

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: um side stage but uh deaf heaven and uh pianos become the teeth and can't remember who else

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: played it but they were the headliners of of that fest so um we i guess open yeah opened

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_08]: earlier for them so yeah amazing and how was that experience for you it was cool

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_01]: it's good um we played in the smaller room but um yeah we had a good good turnout and it was

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_08]: it was fun so yeah i love that uh leads me on to my next question which is um just kind

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_08]: of exploring what it is about festivals that you guys enjoy like why the why the what the

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_08]: appeal is of playing them right because i think a lot of people understand being in a band

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_08]: on the road or you know touring with your favorite bands those kind of amazing experiences

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_08]: but festivals are completely different right completely different experience so yeah what

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_08]: do you guys enjoy about coming to festivals and playing the shows i think the i mean the most

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: beneficial thing i think for a band is that you just get to play to more people in one

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_02]: sitting right and you get to just be immersed in this community of people that all care about

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_02]: the same thing and it's especially like in terms of a genre you know like art tangent for example

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_02]: is like you know the the sound of the bands here are all kind of like in a larger sub genre

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: but that's cool like that's it's a little more rare in the u.s to see that so i think

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_02]: it's it's um at least for this type of music yeah um so i i think just getting to

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: play to more people and you get to meet all these friends and stuff like and everyone's

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: hanging out and you know just come together and listen to rad riffs all weekend it's pretty cool

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_08]: that is yeah yeah is that part of what made it so like a bucket list thing for yourself

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_01]: um i'm not sure if it was just the the list of bands right that i have seen over the years

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: that i'm like oh i i've been a fan of this genre for a long time sure sure and yeah so

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: it's just nice to be i get like you kind of said immersed with it um whether it be heavy or

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_01]: softer stuff um and then yeah like the community is it seems very strong here and

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_01]: i mean festivals in general it seems like community is pretty strong um yeah you hope

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_01]: that you don't have those the the unwanted folks um i mean they're going to be everywhere

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah it seems like the the positive mindset outweighs uh that side of things quite well so

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah it's nice it definitely seems to be that way especially at kind of more independent

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_08]: festivals like this um yeah there's definitely that vibe of just be nice to everybody because

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_08]: everyone knows everyone and if you're not you won't get invited back next time yeah yeah sure

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_02]: well and i think the other like i was at this festival in the u.s recently called uh camp

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: sylvania it's just like a punk fest um and uh you know like something a lot of people were

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: saying that kind of resonated with me was that you know it's like their their christmas is this

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_02]: festival you know like they right you know and i think for a lot of people here you can

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_02]: probably say the same about art tangent or a lot of other festivals definitely that are like

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_02]: specific to metal or or punk or whatever in between and 100 percent um it's a really

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_02]: cool thing to look forward to to basically be like i get to see like a handful or if not more

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_02]: of my favorite bands all in one place in like a three-day thing versus like i only i have to

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_02]: i don't know drive two hours to go see them for 20 minutes or you know and then i have to

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_02]: go home and work the next day like it's uh yes it's a cool retreat to i don't know get

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_08]: to be a part of all this yeah definitely definitely and what have been some of your

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_08]: favorite experiences and playing festivals so you guys are fairly new you know last couple

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_08]: years but is there any standout memories or moments from festivals that you've really

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_02]: looked back on yeah i mean last night yesterday was great we played at moto culture festival in

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_02]: france oh okay yeah that was uh really awesome we we opened the festival so we didn't really

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_02]: know what to expect but i think uh to our surprise a lot of people were there maybe

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_02]: because they were just excited to you know get to the festival and see the first band and

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_02]: people yeah you know we're hanging out and they they didn't watch the whole show which is really

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_01]: really nice because there's other things going on yeah sure it made us feel really good at

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_01]: the end of the show when we're like oh there's still a full tent here and yeah it's a really

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_02]: nice yeah really nice like pie you get from doing a tour and then you get to do a

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: festival and i would say that one and yeah i would also say um we played dunk like you said

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: earlier in 2019 and i know that they've moved to an indoor facility now but the experience of

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: playing in the woods which we were a little hesitant about we're like how's this gonna sound

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_01]: you know it's gonna be kind of weird um was really incredible people sitting down which is

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_01]: again weird but it's like no this is it was a really really like memorable experience just

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_01]: having people you could tell that they were really enjoying it but also they weren't like

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_01]: um oh yeah they were really enjoying it but it didn't feel i guess awkward because they weren't

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: like standing up or anything like that so it was cool a very unique festival you know like

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_02]: signs it small at the time but like that it was very familial and like you just walking

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_02]: around and like everyone knew each other somehow you know yeah yeah that's like you said the

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_08]: community side of things you definitely get that and i'm sure you guys do as well as you

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_08]: from like festival to festival you probably see the same people and it's like oh you again

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah yeah yeah yeah with some i mean like some of the bands like closer friends we all met

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_02]: like that day or like around that time and brilliant there that's cool yeah that's really

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_08]: cool that's really cool is there anyone you're looking forward to seeing here in the weekend

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_02]: my sugar my sugar yeah they are like my top five favorite bands of all time probably

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: really lovely every i think in the last four years like just by chance

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_02]: uh like they happen to be playing the day we leave for a tour oh and i like have to miss

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_02]: them yeah yeah so then i really want to see night verses yeah yeah um are good things yeah

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_02]: ton of ton of cool bat caspian yes yeah um there's a yeah i slew of bands on this bill

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_02]: and there's a ton of stuff that i don't even know that i'm really excited to see because i'll

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_02]: probably like it if they're playing here you know so i was gonna say that's another

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: perk of this is that you get to go see new bands and 100 hear something you never yeah

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_02]: thought you would okay yeah yeah so it's cool i'm gonna plug a band to this band black shape

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_02]: that's playing right now that we befriended the other day um yeah i hope people who are

[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_02]: listening to this happen to be there because they're an amazing band that yeah i it's funny

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_08]: i've just been sat here and obviously yeah we can hear it fairly well and i'm not gonna lie i keep

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_08]: kind of perking up and going yeah it's really cool stuff and that's but like you say that is

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_08]: the joy of a festival isn't it just going around you sort of something catches you

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_08]: ear and you're like what's this all about and suddenly you got a new favorite band

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_08]: and yeah you know and that can happen to you guys on and off the stage which is really nice

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_08]: yep yeah awesome yeah so i guess my final question to you guys and i'm gonna warn you

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_08]: it's a stressful question for musicians but uh if you would have your very own festival

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_08]: i want to know what's it called and who are your three dream headliners and you can have anyone you

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_08]: want dead or alive i told you it was stressful i think the name is gonna say the name does throw

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_08]: people it's like yeah you either lean into your band name or something like that usually

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_02]: i know what i would call the festival go on i call it kiss from an angel festival

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_02]: we've been like joke joke listening to hinder as a joke yeah like on blast like

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_02]: non-stop the last three days but this one song that's so terrible very amazing scummy song yeah

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: so that was a joke maybe don't put that in there yeah i that's good ah man names we can

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_01]: do we can do this it's funny while you're thinking uh i don't know of a name and i'll

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_01]: think of it um that's fine but definitely have dreamed of putting together a festival if i

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_01]: mostly have just like experimental weird bands that i wish i could get all in the same room

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_01]: okay there's a band from the u.s well they live in the u.s now they're from venezuela called zeta

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_01]: z e t a okay they're incredibly talented um and i want people to know about them

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: okay there is another weird experimental band called from canada called at sugo chiba

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_01]: they're also very very talented at what they're doing and i mean then there's just

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_01]: hundreds of other bands that i'm like cool i just want to yeah i don't know they would

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah yeah there's a bunch of others but i like that i like the sound of that my

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_02]: uh headliner options i think would be uh radio head failure okay and

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_08]: death tones converge oh lovely lovely i like that i like that death tones is one that's come

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_08]: up a few times because i did uh 2000 trees a few weeks ago yeah and that name kept coming up so

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_08]: my follow-up question for death tones because i'm just curious yeah favorite death tones album

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_02]: oh i don't think there's a wrong answer by the way i'm gonna say saturday night wrist

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah very nice diamond eyes would be a close second yeah yeah very close i gotta admit that

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_08]: the cover of drive that's on saturday night just gets me every time it's such a great cover

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah the health cover is that what you said yeah no drive by i think by cars or something oh

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah oh yes yes yes i'm sorry sorry it's just a perfect like yeah you hear that and go yes of

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: is gonna do this right yeah right yeah that covers album is cool there's some

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_02]: sweet stuff in there are you into team sleep at all too uh no i have to sleep was this uh

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_02]: chino side project with some other guys from around the time that the death tones self-titled

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_02]: came out i think right okay um it's really cool i know he did uh crosses quite recently

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah and that that blew my mind listening to that process is right there yeah yeah that's

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_08]: a good lineup that's a really good lineup but no i love it i love it that's and that's

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_08]: sometimes people want to shout out different bands give people a chance other times it's like

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_08]: i've never seen this person or this person together let's put them on the same bill yeah

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_08]: it's awesome you don't give me a name though i need a name yeah uh

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_02]: we've called it the fruit teller fruit teller sponsored by

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_02]: now we could come with another one no that's okay if kai was here oh kai would have some

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_02]: guitar play would have something okay to call it that would be hilarious uh we'll we'll write you

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_02]: and i tell you what i'll just record in to a phone maybe if you want the name send it to

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_02]: your instagram and somehow it'll sound great i would love to do that i am i am not above

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_08]: strange editing okay my episodes not at all there's just super loud now right like ai

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_08]: phone noise reduction i just use software it does all the stuff for me but i just like messing

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_08]: around with them so yeah i will i will hold you to that brilliant well guys thank you so

[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_02]: much for coming on the show thank you for having us thank you for having us

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_08]: hello greg one welcome to the fundamentals podcast thank you for having me yeah it's my

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_03]: how's your experience been so far here uh yeah we just arrived yesterday in the evening and we've

[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_03]: been watching some bands playing uh but yeah so far very fantastic good good lovely to hear it

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_08]: so what i want to do greg was i want to go back a bit in your festival going experience

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_08]: so i'd love to know what was the first festival that you went to just to attend and take your

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_03]: i was 19 years old was in france it was the is okay in the bell for a huge

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_03]: okay in the east of france and yeah that was my first one because i went there because i wanted

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_03]: to see metallica they were doing this festival uh tour and so they played like i don't know

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_03]: two hour and a half or something yeah really that was my first festival experience that's

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_08]: a hell of an experience yeah yeah i bet that really blew your mind at 19 as well

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_08]: watching metallica really cool really cool and uh how about as an artist what was the first

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_03]: festival that you guys got to play at uh well why i can't really remember it was a while ago

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_03]: okay 15 years ago or something uh probably was a small festival in brussels where we are from

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah i guess yeah lovely really pick a name that's okay yeah but how did you find

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_08]: the experience of playing those festivals back then back in the days oh yeah that was fantastic

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_03]: because we are like a very young band you know in the scene so and i think it was i think it

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_03]: was a festival run by some friends so you know it was easy to get a slot and yeah to

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_08]: showcase our music to new people and yeah brilliant happy days something i've been

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_08]: exploring actually on that note with a lot of bands is the appeal of playing at festivals

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_08]: right yeah i think a lot of people listening can understand being in a band like going on

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_08]: the road for example or touring with some of your favorite artists that stuff but

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_08]: festivals are completely different right for bands so what do you enjoy about playing festivals

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_03]: uh well first is the possibility to see all the bands and meet other bands you know

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_03]: artists you you don't know yet artists you you're for four years you know so yeah

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_03]: really good uh even if it's just for a chit chat you know yeah but that's really cool

[00:33:54] [SPEAKER_03]: this kind of big community or family yeah right okay yeah that's i love that and that's that's

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_08]: been a quite common answer actually for that question is yeah so catching up with friends

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_08]: because imagine you meet people on these circuits and you just see them in your case

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_08]: you know getting to see them in different countries even must be quite cool that you

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_08]: turn up somewhere and go oh you're here as well yeah yeah yeah yeah lovely and i'm curious

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_08]: what has been some of your favorite experiences of playing festivals have you got any sort of

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_08]: memories anything you look back on and think that was really cool i think i would um yeah i

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_03]: think was dunk festival in belgium right yeah uh it was last time we played there in 2018

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_03]: and we played on the small stage but in the forest wow okay and for for our performance we

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_03]: decided to invite actually the our drummer's girlfriend she she had a performance with fire

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_03]: you know and was dancing with um swords oh wow and fire so just before she did her act i just

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_03]: asked everybody to just shut up yeah off all the light and then she she came by the top of

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_03]: the hill you know amongst everybody and then we start playing a song so and everybody was like

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_03]: oh my god oh my god what's happening there and because it was the middle of the forest

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_03]: you know the the promoter we're afraid that we've set everything in fire but it was all right

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_08]: i'm very happy we managed to put out yeah yeah that is one hell of an opening i bet everybody

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_03]: there would not forget that yeah yeah yeah wow because i went back to the festival the year

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_03]: after like just in the audience and of course in this festival like dunk you meet people

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_03]: each year's you know like an act agent i think yeah yeah and then some came to me oh

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_03]: remember your performance last year with the fire was just mind-blowing so yeah yeah cool

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah happy too that we we made this impression to people and have such a good souvenir

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_08]: absolutely yeah yeah have you got some of that on your social media post i'll have to have

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_03]: a look back and see if i can find it oh yeah also we did a video you did if you dive on

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_08]: youtube uh dunk festival 2018 you will find a video for sure do you know i'll find that i'll

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah i mean how have you found it sort of traveling to different countries and doing

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_03]: different festivals so it's very interesting to meet the new people to see how people enjoy

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_03]: that the festival the music new culture new landscapes cities always a lot of fun and

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_08]: mindful experience you know yeah when you learn a lot i can imagine yeah is this your

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_08]: first time playing here actually in the uk yeah very first time really yeah yeah lovely

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_03]: we're supposed to play yesterday nothing got but the show got cancelled like a week ago so

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_08]: today is gonna be the first one ever yeah lovely i bet you're bet you're excited then yeah yeah

[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah awesome make an impression yeah for sure have you got any fires or swords for us here

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_08]: today or is that not not here sorry i said have you got any fire and swords for us to

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_08]: hear today or uh no no i couldn't get them to sign off on that one no that's that's a

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_08]: because you got lots of open space you could do that yeah perhaps next time yeah yeah something

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_08]: i've been asking everybody and it's my favorite question to ask is if you were to have your very

[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_08]: own festival i'd love to know what's it called and who are your three dream headliners you

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_08]: can have anyone you want dead or alive so first the name of the festival yeah yeah

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_03]: guys that's a very tough question it is yeah um as for the bands

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_03]: well i think uh uh yeah i would love to have nine inch nails oh okay yeah yeah and um

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_08]: damn it's tricky yeah yeah it's tricky uh

[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_03]: maybe uh some electronic music artists that i listen a lot like rival consoles

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_03]: okay um and maybe um shannon wright she's from the u.s she's a singer-songwriter

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_03]: all right from the u.s i really love her yeah i saw her playing i don't know 10 times

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_03]: really so yeah it's just amazing yeah yeah so that maybe it would be three names i would

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_03]: pick yes as for the name oh gosh yeah that's tricky but that's a very tricky yeah some

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER_08]: people lean into their band names or something as a sort of a way of getting around it but

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_03]: it's up to you it's up to you yeah i would say no name festival because there's a festival like

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_08]: that already in belgium i think yes that's right yeah yeah i don't know i don't know festival

[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_08]: that's okay that's i don't know festival you can have that you can have that yeah i've heard

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_08]: about that yeah um i've had a few belgian guests on the show the last couple they did

[00:38:45] [SPEAKER_08]: this and did trees and i get the impression there's quite a good scene for festivals

[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_08]: in the round sort of that part of europe seems to be quite popular yeah yeah so that's

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_08]: awesome that's really cool brilliant well listen uh greg well thank you so much for your time

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_08]: thank you for having me yeah it was a pleasure a genuine pleasure yeah thank you and great

[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_08]: answers as well on the uh the last question because i love it to be eclectic i love to hear

[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_08]: the different varieties so yeah that would be a really good time thank you thank you so much

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_08]: bye bye hello victor in kettle and welcome to the fundamentals podcast thank you thank you

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_08]: guys for coming on so my first question to you guys i want to go right back to your early days

[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_08]: going to festivals what was the first festival that you guys went to like uh not as a band not

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_07]: as a band just just to attend just have fun it's of course russ killer festival oh okay

[00:39:37] [SPEAKER_07]: russ killer festival is like a rite of passage yeah being a danish teenager right um lovely

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_07]: it's like yeah it's all all kinds of music uh eight days eight days eight days and you're

[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_07]: just um getting wasted standard fair especially as a teenager yeah yeah that's true that's

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_08]: true did you actually see any bands where you were there then the first time i was there i

[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_07]: remember just a few concerts but they were very pivotal to me uh as a person and like

[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_07]: as a music enjoyer it's like um i remember seeing uh seeing cancer bats wow okay that was

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_07]: that was very very cool yeah as a teenager yeah maybe not today but i don't know do you know what

[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_08]: i saw him a couple years ago and um liam is still throwing himself around that stage that

[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_08]: you would not believe like he's having the best time it's maybe not my kind of thing

[00:40:35] [SPEAKER_07]: anymore that's fair enough that's fair enough but then i also saw ices oh okay not the

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_07]: terrorist organization yes you know erin turner and uh yeah that was amazing that was the first

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_07]: time i had like an out of body experience kind of concert yeah yeah so yeah that was

[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_00]: fantastic amazing how about yourself my first festival was a hardcore festival in denmark

[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_00]: called fraderische hardcore festival sick whoa i remember actually saw you seeing the ocean

[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_00]: back then all right where they had the two drummers yeah yeah they had two drum sets at

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_00]: stage so they were playing double drums wow and it was like a really enjoyable concert for me

[00:41:16] [SPEAKER_00]: i was like 14 15 or something yeah so it was um new for me and the fact that we have played with

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_00]: them later on and and i can talk about that experience yeah like funny yeah really really

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_08]: enjoyable for everyone i bet that's a nice full circle moment for you isn't it yeah incredible

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_08]: life yeah exactly exactly so that yeah that nicely leads me on actually to my next question

[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_08]: which is yeah what was the first festival that you guys got to play at as a band

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_07]: as as like as lnn sure yeah yeah i can answer that i'm fairly new with the band okay all right

[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_00]: that's fine that's fine first lnn festival we played might be a festival in denmark called

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: mono ghost metal i think oh okay uh there is in a in a town called aarhus there is like this

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_00]: rehearsal area yeah mono and they have these diy festivals and one of them i think we attended

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_00]: to at the first and then maybe we had what the icelandic uh what the icelandic festival

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_00]: i think one of them was also our first festivals actually i've heard there's quite

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_08]: the metal scene in iceland it was pretty intense yeah yeah incredible absolutely incredible

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_08]: so uh something i've been diving into with all the people i interview bands

[00:42:38] [SPEAKER_08]: is what the appeal is of playing festivals because a lot of people i think listening will know

[00:42:44] [SPEAKER_08]: okay being in a band right you know it's like you said playing with your favorite artist going

[00:42:48] [SPEAKER_08]: on the road that sort of thing i get it but coming to a festival as a band like you guys

[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_08]: coming over here to the uk and playing shows here like i want to know what do you guys

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_08]: enjoy specifically about playing festivals like being on that circuit so one thing i personally

[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_07]: enjoy is like the it's showing the music to people who might not know us in advance yeah uh

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_07]: i feel like they say it's playing a um a festival can be both like very forgiving

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_07]: yes but also very very uh grueling in a way where it's like you know and it all depends

[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_07]: on time of day the slot you get yes if you get an early set it's people standing there

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_07]: watching your set listening to it intently yes but if it's in the night it's usually just a party

[00:43:40] [SPEAKER_07]: and so it's like two sides of the same coin both is amazing and yeah and then i also really

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_07]: like because most of the time we have time to just hang out at the festival and nice see bands

[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_07]: and uh experience it last year we were here as well yeah uh played at px3 brilliant and we

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_07]: stayed at the whole festival we stayed in a tent uh some enjoyed that more than others

[00:44:06] [SPEAKER_07]: but yeah it was uh it was a great time and we saw some amazing shows and

[00:44:10] [SPEAKER_07]: and yeah also looking forward to seeing a few shows today and then right so

[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_07]: playing a show later today yeah who are you looking forward to seeing i really

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_07]: looking forward to see duty scatter nice okay a bit later today lovely awesome and how about

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_00]: what do you enjoy right now uh well you can at the what i enjoyed the festivals um as victor says

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_00]: seeing a lot of new bands awesome yeah and i'm also very keen for all the like the food

[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_00]: markets okay okay i'm a big guy and i love eating a lot yeah yeah and um i love like

[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_00]: trying new foods sure since victor joined the band i actually have tried a lot of new

[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_00]: foods because he's uh he's all into like all these um uh like uh asian uh what is called

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_00]: asian kitchen yeah okay so i'm a bit more into that now and i love like trying all the different

[00:45:11] [SPEAKER_00]: foods around yeah yeah and at festivals it's a good way to like spend your time

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah yeah i like sample the fruit around and yeah do you know what right so this is my

[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_08]: second festival doing lots of these interviews you guys are the first people to bring up food at a

[00:45:27] [SPEAKER_08]: festival but i think that's such a great point that's so true yeah you're right that's such a

[00:45:31] [SPEAKER_07]: great priority yeah it's very different from festivals festival some focus on it a lot

[00:45:35] [SPEAKER_07]: yeah it is a big thing in in denmark for festivals it's a it's a big focus point

[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_07]: really okay there's even been a lot of festivals where they like they focus on the

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_07]: the whole experience yes it's like high quality bands high quality food

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_07]: high quality festival area of course that's going to be the expensive festivals

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_07]: one called heartland which is a very cool festival yeah beautiful area and you know

[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_07]: you can just like a menu yeah get a um a glass of sparkling wine with the mussels okay

[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_07]: and yeah but seeing that like sampling mussels while watching a like a fantastic pop show

[00:46:21] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah it's a great time that's brilliant wow i love that i love that that's really cool so um

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_08]: something i want to dive into is what have been some of your favorite memories or experiences

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_00]: from playing festivals what stands out to you guys well i would actually go back to where we

[00:46:40] [SPEAKER_00]: started again yeah yeah the friore

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_00]: festival was some of my best memories and i is some of my best memories and some of the best

[00:46:49] [SPEAKER_00]: shows i've seen because it was so new for me so like everything you see from the if you

[00:46:55] [SPEAKER_00]: experience something new yes it's touched you more than if you're like i've seen it 12 000

[00:47:00] [SPEAKER_00]: times of course so uh like being 15 years old again almost punching your head off by air

[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and the blast beats everything yeah holy shit this good yeah and this is something i want to

[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_08]: enjoy the rest of my life right yeah brilliant that's beautiful i love that how about yourself

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_07]: victor for for playing festivals yeah yeah so i think one of the best festival experiences

[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_07]: for a show we had uh we played at a festival called soul crusher wow okay in the netherlands

[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_07]: and that show was just so intense it was very very intense as the name suggests yeah

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_07]: we closed uh a stage for the day uh the second largest stage and people were just going mental

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_07]: wow and it was a weekend it was the same weekend we played uh desert fest right it

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_07]: was yeah yeah and the desert fest show was also mental yeah yeah the soul crusher set

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_07]: it was just the energy oh hello we've got we've got parasail loose behind us

[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_08]: oh it's been fixed we're on it kim has it you never know what's gonna happen brilliant

[00:48:16] [SPEAKER_08]: it is both really hot and windy here at the same time it's a very strange yeah

[00:48:20] [SPEAKER_08]: it's a good combo though it is yeah yeah that's fantastic yeah yeah i love that i

[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_08]: misunderstood your question no you're fine you're fine yeah yeah but also yeah the best festival

[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_08]: memories might actually start there no it makes sense yeah i love what you're saying now i agree

[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_08]: yeah it makes sense yeah that first time you're just experiencing that that is it's got to stand

[00:48:42] [SPEAKER_08]: out to you totally so something my final question to you guys something i've been

[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_08]: playing around with a lot with uh various people i've spoken to is uh if you were to

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_08]: have your own festival your very own festival i want to know what's it called and who are

[00:48:56] [SPEAKER_08]: three dream headliners you can have anyone you want dead or alive it's a big big question okay

[00:49:04] [SPEAKER_07]: well so i'm gonna call it uh trash fest nice um i used to book like diy shows in cobin hagen

[00:49:16] [SPEAKER_07]: brilliant monica trash boy shows yeah yeah um so revive that yeah festival yep yep

[00:49:24] [SPEAKER_07]: main headliner is every time i die oh yeah and then um converge yeah nice and um

[00:49:36] [SPEAKER_07]: third band anyone you like go for it that's a top one

[00:49:44] [SPEAKER_07]: maybe

[00:49:50] [SPEAKER_07]: because i also want to go back like yeah that influence okay yeah system of a down

[00:49:55] [SPEAKER_08]: lovely okay lovely they're like my teenage heroes yeah yeah brilliant i think i would do

[00:50:03] [SPEAKER_00]: something else okay something different go for it might be a festival only with like film

[00:50:09] [SPEAKER_00]: oh movie scores game scores everything like you have if you had like a top three of like

[00:50:17] [SPEAKER_00]: hans simmer and your son and oh wow and the guy who made mario i don't know what his name is

[00:50:24] [SPEAKER_00]: like all like uh very um unique yes yeah musicians with all these huge uh bands

[00:50:33] [SPEAKER_00]: huge orchestras wow funny to have like a festival with that i don't know what i

[00:50:38] [SPEAKER_00]: would call it but i will probably call it like trash fest or something like that

[00:50:44] [SPEAKER_08]: that's great and you know you're the first person to give me that kind of answer like a

[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_08]: newbie score i love that that's great because yeah we i'm sure you get it you know back home

[00:50:54] [SPEAKER_08]: but like i know recently actually friends of mine went to see uh hans simmer like do

[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_08]: performance of the famous songs from his films and yeah i agree seeing that a festival

[00:51:05] [SPEAKER_08]: everyone would come 100 they would yeah yeah that'd be phenomenal yeah wow i'm gonna have

[00:51:11] [SPEAKER_08]: to listen to cinema schools on my way home now that's great that's brilliant well guys

[00:51:15] [SPEAKER_08]: thank you so much for coming on fantastic answers brilliant cheers cheers cheers

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_08]: a massive thank you there to and so i watch you from afar shy low thought and l l n n as i

[00:51:27] [SPEAKER_08]: said up top i've left links in the show notes of this episode we can find out more about each band

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[00:54:14] [SPEAKER_08]: from some of the incredible bands playing across the weekend thanks for listening and i'll see you