campervan enthusiasts
Electric Guest first launched its musical start after releasing its 2012 debut album "Mondo", which included "This Head I Hold", the band's most popular song that currently holds almost 70 million streams on Spotify. Electric Guest's Sprinter isn't converted like a traditional camper vans that people use to traverse thousands of miles.This means the duo — and the two other musicians who play with them while on tour — need to share the three-passenger row Sprinter while on the road.Brittany Chang/Business Insider
This is weak sauce.
I didn’t invent my vehicles for these people to tour in. I don’t consent to them using my property.
I didn’t invent my vehicles for these people to tour in.
Delete this article, it’s pathetic and insulting to millions of musicians.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
delete this
is this a joke
Yeah not a fuckin impressive feat there.
And they sleep in hotels lmao this is a joke
You have got to be fucking kidding me. There are literally THOUSANDS of tours like this each year, most of which have much less luxurious vehicles than a Sprinter. Jesus H, this is equivalent to 'how a man was able to buy lots of groceries using a shopping cart' IT'S NOT NEWS.
No one I’ve toured with could afford that van
This is almost as bad as samsmith crying in his £15m mansion... black flag would spit and laugh at you pussys. Theres nothing hardcore about this.
You guys actually have air conditioning...what's that like?
It's not touring unless you sleep on someone's floor...
You ever pile your rock band into your chevy impala and go on tour because 2 days prior your van took a shit?
Please say its satire
I did a 1 month full US with gear, clothes, merch and 4 band members with 1 merch lord in a 4 runner. Next!
Fancy ahaha
Fucking embarrassing, glad they 'survived' such hostile conditions.
I hope ElectricGuest sees this and realizes what dumbass’s they look like for even allowing this interview to get out. Fucking hilarious and honestly, shameful.
Lol
How did they find space for the cocaine?
I’ve done a full US tour in a car. Lol
There’s nothing crazy about this. They had a fucking SPRINTER VAN THATS LUXURY FFS
Are you.... joking
Asinine.
Wooaaaaaah so cool 😂😂😂😷🤮
😂😂😂 wow they are really roughing it.
Shut up already.
Is this a Hard Times article? REALpunknews
A wild read
Fuck me these poor bastards the struggle is real.
tell this to my '86 church van held together by leak-stop fluids
I’m so embarrassed for you.
I guess it's less impressive when punk bands do it.
Hey, jeremyhiebert, check this out.
As a writer I have absolutely no words to describe your lack of connection to the music world. Hopefully this image will suffice.
This article makes it sound like if they didn't take the water bottles from backstage with them when they left that they would surely have died of thirst in their Mercedes.
lol henryrollins
I see your luxury bullshit and raise you 5 guys and all their gear in a Fiat Ulysses
“Great lads altogether”, we toured across Germany in a Toyota Hiace. 6 people and the gear. Gear Had to be packed around the people sitting in the back
Is this supposed to be unusual
This must be an early april fools joke?
You sirs.. Are a joke.
How does Jorma Taccone’s brother have zero sense of irony?
you do realize how stupid this sounds right? It’s like saying I camped out for my first time at the Marriott!
This is well researched and beautiful I love their MUSIC
WEAK.
Sooooo out of touch. I used to tour with bunk beds built into the back of my van. We would sleep in it overnight in the extreme heat and our only source of moving air was battery powered fans we would sleep with next to our heads
Hahahhahahahhahbahahhahahahbahbahahhahgahgagagagaggagahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahahahaha Fuck off. Grow up. And talk to any band that actually did the grind.
Is this real?
Ooof, shame on the journalist that thought this was worthy of an article.
What the fuck is this article my god
I toured across America in various sedans, packed w musicians, on multiple tours Slept on floors w my jacket as a pillow Drank V8 and ate protein bars bought at 7-11 instead of actual meals. Gimme one of those Sprinters and I'll show you how to live in it thewayoftheroad
legit thought this was an Onion article
LOL
Why is this news? This is LUXURY for a touring band
I feel embarrassed for all parties involved and for their sake, I hope this is deleted. What a joke. Is this satire? It should be.
MOUNTAINGOOD
R u serious
this one should have stayed in the drafts
Yes say hello to basically every metal band ever.
So much cringe, became more and more like The Onion as the story progressed
Lemme tell you all about touring in vans with no AC in the middle of summer, with nowhere to sleep except a floor in a strangers apartment, in an era before GPS or cell phones. Cmon now, these fools are in a Mercedes. I’ve never even sat in a Mercedes.
Do you realize how many bands 'complete tours' in worse vehicles than this?
Toured in 2007 with my (3-piece) band, in a 1996 ford van with 3 seats. I made a bunk behind the drivers seat for 2 of us, and the drummer slept every night in the passenger seat. No hotels. No support staff. 56 shows in 11 weeks across 35 states. A sprinter would be nice...
Delete this lol
I’m not going to read this.
Tampa, FL to NYC and back in a 2001 Ford Explorer with 284,000 miles on it. No hotel rooms the entire time. If you want me to write an op ed about proper dirty punk house hog cranking etiquette, hmu.
HHO powered flex fuel Diesels when? We already did the biofuel trend, why not hydrogen? Oh yeah cuz hydrogen is everywhere lol. infinite fuel.
This is a joke
This must be a huge troll, or the person who wrote this has no idea about what most bands go through 😂
Better bands have better stories
imolivertang take notes
So brave
This is the biggest joke of an article I’ve ever read. Literally just check yourself
hOw CoUlD tHeY dO tHaT
Idiots who know nothing about the music biz ...
Lolol so what my first tour was in econoline with a trailer ...spoiled cry me a river ...smh
Bruh there are artists who drive THEIR OWN CARS to tour but sure the van is sooo rough 🥺
This is the dumbest thing on Twitter today...and, realDonaldTrump had his baby hands on his phone. I know artists who would love to have that sprinter. They'll kick these dude's asses on stage AND in the parking lot!🖕
Jake__Langley TommyXTraina what do you guys think about this
Lmfao
🖕🏻
Is this for fucking real? 😂😂😂
Flashbacks to that one time we toured in a mini van with no beach seats.... but at least we got to sleep on a couple strangers dirty cat poo infested floors 🤷🏽♂️
Is this a joke? Are you muscling in on REALpunknews territory?
This had me laughing out loud. Holy shit.
This is satire right?🤦🏼♂️🤣
I hate this an unreasonable amount. This upset me an unreasonable amount. While thats on me, this is still embarrassing.
Y’all frfr?
Oh my god shut up
Just slap The Hard Times on here and we good
riiiight, la kids 🤣
Is this a fucking ad?
MY GOD ARE THEY OK
Fire everyone involved, plenty of musicians, writers, editors looking for work right now.
make every aspect of their experience 5 times worse and you have what most bands experience
Joke of an article. The writer must be completely clueless.
I've done bigger tours in a dodge van with 5 other dudes and we slept in hotel rooms 3 or 4 times if we got lucky. This us 'luxury'.
all the bands replying to this have me screaming
i toured North America with Sabrina Claudio in a Mercedes sprinter and it was quite comfortable. lap of luxury.
bearingsband bet
Oh, so they have money money.
NO_WIN_LA yeoldrick it’s called DIY sweaty 😤 punkethos
i did not tour in a sedan/suv/minivan for 5 years to read shit like this
Filled in for my friends band for four months, no heat in the van so as we drove through the snow it would come through the roof and make icicles inside
Wait so are they or are they not getting thrown into the ceiling while sitting in the back of a Ford 15-passie
You haven’t seen nothin til I’m behind the wheel of a Dodge Caravan w/ a Hemi in it, getting pulled over with 3 other people + gear in it for going 85.
Oh nah
How did they do it? Pretty fucking comfortably if I had to guess.
ok... This is hilariously out of touch.
This an onion article?
Shouldn't this be labelled sponsored content? I am being serious. The amount of times Sprinter is mentioned along with the photos and captions would imply that MB paid for this.
Obviously the author has never listened to anything not mainstream
fascinating...wow....how did they survive
Afluenza abound.
brought to you by Mercedes
This is bad
Garbage content. Bands have been in sprinters for a decade+ and most still use vans. Usually there are multiple people per bench. Many sleep in the van in a parking lot over night. This reads like a satire article.
Oh, the horror! Maybe do stories on real bands with real struggles, corporate media clowns...
because this has NEVER been done before by ANY band ever in the history of music
Whoever wrote this article should be fired lol
Oh I have some news that will blow your mind
nice joke guys
🤣🤣🤣 let see them do it in a 97 e250 with no power steering and constant oil consumption issues
Nirvana and Tad toured in an Econoline 350 wtf is the big deal here?
DELETE DELETE DELETE
I’ve toured in 18-year-old Toyota Siennas that only the drummer knew how to start and on Greyhound buses with whatever gear we could carry. We slept on strangers’ couches and lived on hummus. Come on.
“Journalism”
I’ve toured in 18-year-old Toyota Siennas that only the drummer knew how to start and on greyhound buses with whatever gear we could carry on our backs. This article is a joke.
what the fuck
no freakin way
Most bands tour in a van that doesn’t even have enough seats to fit every member...
Damn thats lame
Full backline 3 people in an 07 qashqai
Living on the edge.
And the most out of touch tweet of today and possible the year goes to....
hahahahahahahaha this fucking sucks
I think you get the gist from everyone else’s replies, but in case you only have time to read mine here’s the top two talking points: 1) There is nothing unique about this. Literally thousands of bands tour like this. 2) Get fucked.
Yo this is so fucked. Honestly can’t imagine what they went through having to do this
This is the most ridiculous and misinformed article. Such a joke!
last year we rented an automatic van from italy and 10 minutes before we arrived the guy said they only had stick shift. lmao fuck... did a basic lesson in the parking lot then drove 7 hours thru the alps to our show in switzerland
How the hell do y’all think most bands tour lololol you goofballs
What a joke
Wtf
Lmao! This is really wack!
no one, and i mean NO ONE is impressed by this. read the room. ask a BAND.
You should interview the guys in SUNFLOWERDEAD to see what a real tour is. A real band.
You’ve got to be kidding me....
*Warped Tour openers have entered the chat*
This has Advertorial written all over it. You should have tagged it as such.
Love how the flash in the last shot brings out the facial grease in the backseat window
We used to tour in an old retirement center bus that had a leak in the roof and 1 of us had to sleep over the inside wheel arch. That buss is a fucking holiday!
Stopped reading as soon as I saw 'hotel rooms every night.' Countless bands tour without that luxury in vans that are in much worse shape and for much longer periods of time.
At least in this time of hardship, we can all unite against the bourgeois... Fuck.
Oh how hard their lives must have been, doing what most bands do all the God damn time. This is honestly embarrassing.
This is a Literal image of me waiting in my tour van while my other 4 bandmates went inside the Gas Station to pee and catch a hearty sniff of the reasonably priced snacks we still couldn’t afford.
this band sounds like toasted dick holes.
oh boy
Let me tell you about my family’s tripto the Grand Canyon
I've seen bands roll up in a Jeep with a UHaul in tow...
😂😂😂😂😂
A duo could have done this in a Mazda 3 hatchback.
Try a Volkswagen Jetta then check back in about the van.
I look forward to the follow articles of flying business class and have a Prevost all to yourself.
This is a flex
Are you for real?
Utterly baffled
lol they sleep in a hotel still
Went on tour in a Chevy 4 row seater van with 10 people and fit all the gear in the back, and I was still comfortable
awh boohoo
This vehicle is straight up big enough still social distance in.
You’re kidding right ? This isn’t an onion article? Delete this
There’s only 2 of them? Must be nice.
no one has ever been roasted harder than these doofuses lol
bentkneemusic toured the states with six people in a fucking Honda Odyssey. Why is this news
I would advise you to delete this immediately.
what is this
Let me tell ya about the time we fit three bands in a converted short bus half that size
The fuckers take a four seat row each and make their band share a three seat row?
Delete your account lol
Fucking lol, why did you write this article?
ArmsAkimboBand they’ve got nothing on your minivan
Still in shock this isn't a REALpunknews article.
Who the fuck cares... not impressed.
Just realizing now the tour was only 21 days long 😂😂 bitch I just did like 6 weeks in a normal GMC van with 5 OTHER DUDES and at one point 8 !! We were supposed to go for like 2 more weeks too. This is so funny.
this is gross
Hey leave the satire to REALpunknews
Did they tour the US in a Dodge Caravan tho
How is this a story? Are you mad?
ok lol
Listen to literally any episode of this podcast, it’ll blow your fuckin mind
Hahahahaha how out of touch do you have to be to publish this
BRO gtf out of here with this soft ass shit 😂
just wait til you see my chemical romance circa 2003
cool van ad you fuckin nerds
Lmfao who?
fucking lol
Yikes. This is embarrassing.
v impressed these knobs did what every band I've seen in the last 20 years has done with much less.
Lmaoooo this is horseshit. Report back when a band does a North American tour on a Lime scooter.
Slow news day?
Wowwwwww you guys are so out of your own depth-
Meanwhile bands are out here literally touring in vans and pay for everything out of pocket and try to break even
Dude how could they do that? That’s like, impossible.
what the fuck
Wow, how did 4 people fit in a 12-passenger vehicle? That's crazy
how incredible for them. I have never seen anyone live in such luxury here in the US.
Big fucking deal. We did it in an 88 toyota mid engine panel van with no ac or side windows.
Comfortably. That's how.
I love these guys, but ... yeah, this is luxury touring, boys
*how LITERALLY EVER BAND drove around in a van for awhile and it smells bad inside now*
is there an dislike button anywhere?
Seriously the most tone deaf article about band life. If a touring band even sees a Mercedes van let alone a hotel, it’s a blessing.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't some of you guys slept over the gear facing the van ceiling in an AN tour back in the day? Bridge9 ColdCave23
yikers
OH, THE HARDSHIP! HOW DID THAT DUO MANAGE TO MAKE IT!? 🙄🙄
Who is the PR intern that pitched this 🤦♀️
Let's see them tour with nothing more than an instrument, a backpack and a thumb. That's an article I'd read.
You’ve managed to invoke the wrath of metalcore, indie, AND emo twitter all at once. Congratulations
Try the Argo right jeffojeda
Hey this sucks
Is this supposed to be an accomplishment? Plenty of bands did their first international tour in a sedan.
Ffs
Lmfaooooooo
Is this a parody tweet or wtf?
I once did a tour with three people and a full kit in two very small 2-door hatchbacks, which meant that only one person could take a break from driving at a time.
A band did a tour out of a $150,000 Sprinter I’ll pray for them.
hahahahhahahaha
whew, the privilege
Please take this article down. My feed is nothing but a stream of bands mocking its utter cluelessness.
Meanwhile the Melvins did 51 shows in 50 days
Oh my god...business insider has their head insider their butthole...
Iv been to hundreds of shows and every band toured in a van. I saw Jeff Rosenstock pull up to a show in a hyndai once
a five-piece band i’m in has done tours in a Honda Odyssey, no drum kit but we did have a cello & stand-up bass. & keyboard & luggage etc. weeks on the road
Man, I thought touring in a 15 passenger van with 4 other band members + all gear, and no idea where we would be sleeping some nights was rough. Everyone, cut ElectricGuest some slack, they’ve really had it bad.
Answer: Comfortably
This is satire right
REALpunknews
Honestly thought this was a REALpunknews article. What a joke.
stick 'em in one of these for 6 weeks in Europe and you'll break the internet.
QuotedReplies
Wow. Thank you for highlighting the bravery of these amazing rock and rollers and their modest transport.
Every reply here: What?!? My 6 piece metalcore band toured North America in a Toyota Sprinter with a full drum kit and 5 Marshall stacks!!!
Every metal band ever. Just saying.
Congratulations on writing the most pointless fucking article ever
Ok and?
This is considered 'making it' in the touring world nowadays too. 😂😂😂😂😂 I get excited anytime a sprinter is the ride.
They’re white huh
They sat down in comfy seats and accepted press coverage that will make them look awful from a publication that has no clue how most bands tour.
What
davidbazan
Dumbest article I’ve ever seen from business insider bruh how do you think any smaller band is touring?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m soooo impressed...
omg! that shit must’ve been rough as fuck 😫😖😩
While the rest of America tours like this
this article is what started COVID19
short answer: EASILY
that van is nicer than my house, this isn’t impressive.
😬
HeyitsFCC
The fact that this article's intention is serious is absolutely marmalade bonkers... Legitimately seems like the PERFECT headline for an TheOnion article.
Yep that's a blokkin'
I went on an east coast and west cost tour in a Honda Fit, do I get free promotion from business insider?
delete this
OakridgeAve The horror
Someone was amazed by this?
I NEED TO KNOW HOW THEY SURVIVED WITHOUT SERVANTS
wow, congrats y’all, you toured in the nicest fucking van possible and didn’t have to sleep on random people’s floors, hotels only? wow that sounds so hard. touring sounds like such a paaaaain. one time i slept in 3k dollar unfinished house in detroit and woke up w bugs on me.
hotels? come on. you know nothing about music
you suck
what about bands doing tours this size in vans like this?
omg are so fucking out of touch wtf delete
Somebody obviously didn’t do their research on what touring life is for most bands. Might as well have an article about “How I lost 30 pounds with my personal trainer and personal chef”
This is the most white-privlage DigitalTourBus episode I've ever seen.
Is this what Henry Rollins meant by GET IN THE VAN?
.......two people
Hey ElectricGuest y’all should be extremely embarrassed about this. This is exactly why the guillotine is coming back in style.
roryspencer
hyuck hyuck
Everybody from the UK had a Dave Buck-related PTSD flashback reading this
Straight up embarrassing
Step it up
2 dudes in a sprinter. How terrible
...huh?
Wack
It’s hardly Get In The Van territory, is it?
if I didn’t see BUSINESS INSIDER emblazoned across the top of the site, i would’ve thought this was an article from The Hard Times. REALpunknews
😂😆😅🤣 thanks for the laughs ya ding dongs
ZionDood zachdris get a load of this 😂
please delete this thank you
We toured with 3 peeps in a Ford Taurus from ct to the first show in denver. had some gear stolen on the way to Denver. Gave us more room in the Taurus.
woah
7 people plus gear and merch in a 1998 Windstar. Delete this.
Is this sponsored content? Because this smells like sponsored content.
I don't understand. Please make a documentary.
Free health care: These guys - 'NOTHING IS FREE! WORK FOR IT!'
cleopatrickband
ChuckBradford_ I think it’s time you had an article written about the C3 Tour
Not gonna read the article, but I’m very interested in how they got through touring in a CLASS B MERCEDES BENZ MOTORHOME. Must have been rough.
They didn’t tour in a van. A van was their transportation. They slept in hotels. This is a slap in the face to the HUNDREDS of bands who do this year in and year out in SMALLER vehicles with WAY less financial support. This article is so dumb.
bearingsband look at this clownery
uhhhhhhhh....? Jesus.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
how the heck did they do it
Oh fuck. They have snacks in there? Electric Guest giving us all a masterclass on touring!
Oh my god...
LOL
how did y’all do it
i dont even know what to say
DanielonMeds lmao
Traded my 1990 Chevy Lumina for a Dodge Ram 8 passenger with the heat permanently stuck on. Our merch guy made a grilled cheese on the block heater once. We paid him in McDonalds sundaes.
this was definitely a great idea
😥😥😥 what a joke
Y’all are heavily out of touch, probably 90% of up and coming touring bands will be in vans like this or smaller
I toured in a Subaru outback, no trailer 4 people, plus gear and luggage 😂
Five people in a Hyundai towing a trailer across the west coast for a week and a half. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Truly the apocalypse.
LOL
Toyota Matrix babyyyyy
My guess is pretty easily, it’s a luxury vehicle built for hauling things like band equipment.
But do they party on top?!
Bitch we was touring in a motherfuckin church van with all the gear in the cab with us
Is this real?
I understand the sentiment here at least. Most people who read Business Insider know nothing about being a touring musician. Could they have picked a better example? Absolutely yes. But it' still mainstream coverage shedding light on life on the road. Just a horrible example.
tfw you have no clue what touring actually looks like
Way to make a joke out of ElectricGuest. Judging by how entitled they sound in this article I’m betting their music sucks balls. I will never know cause I will never listen! Maybe they should have done the tour in a minivan with no hotels? Zero cred points.
Um, this is how it’s always been done? My sisters old band had a sweet conversion van, they would cook frozen burritos on the engine block whole they drove down the road.
This is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen.
WACK
Try your dads Chevy Suburban with no working gas gauge 😂
Seems like they have a driver lol
please say sike
You had so much time in quarantine to do research
How is this anything new? Do you know what a band even is?
I'm too lazy to read this, how did they complete the tour?
That ain't a band van, sorry. LOL I'm sure they were really roughing it 🙄
Delete
They are technically from the bay.
Try 4 in a converted Post Office van that slept 2, across Europe.
Delete this. This is insulting.
Is this satire
Yikes.
Pussies
WOAH GET EM A GRAMMY
nobody cares or is impressed by this. this is a tone deaf article. please delete it
This just in. Band does what bands do in moderate luxury.
ElectricGuest fire your publicist, you’re losing scene CRED
Did a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter write this?
Man... what we'd give to each have our own row and a hotel room every night! :-)
gaymeat3 thoughts on this?
Now do it in a 1988 Dodge Ram Van 1500
Hahaha
This is the dumbest shit ive seen all day and i looked in the mirror twice
I’ve been on a four person tour in an SUV with a window made of packing tape.
ok but poooolkids did it better
Call me when you've toured(and slept)in a Chrysler Voyager in freezing weather, while occasionally sneaking in to motels. Or you've had to sleep in the back of a van on top of the PA speakers. These guys seem pretty organised and are doing alright.
This is stupid, posers don’t even have auto tune in their van I bet
Toured the PNW and Rockies with all our gear and three people in a Scion. And hotel rooms? Come on.
Wow so hardcore. A true inspiration. Guess they had to leave the Roll's at home?
my guess would be “comfortably”.
i’m interested in this actually
I honestly can’t tell if this is a joke REALpunknews help
Get a clue,
yikeeeys. i gotta go
Such a high standard of living. Get back to me when you write about bands touring in a caravan of two stuffed-to-the-brim sedans
who paid for this? MB? LOL must be dying for content
This is garbage.
Is this an ad for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter?
no
How did they complete the tour?...Uh in comfort and luxury? Probably turned a big profit? Fuck you to whoever wrote this.
Hahahahaha hahahahahah fuck
softest shit I’ve ever seen in my life.
I'd be embarrassed if I were that band, and that 'journalist'
Slick paid content and MercedesBenz 😂
This is how you reverse engineer the face palm emoji into words
omg hahaha
MariachiPunkPVS toured the U.S. in a Toyota Camry. Get on my level ✌🏽
Aren't you supposed to label sponsored content?
Hahahahaha bunch of fucking BITCHES
Hey I did 4 tours in a 1999 GMC van with no AC, can I have a Business Insider article too?
THOUSANDS of bands tour in smaller vehicles, don't have a driver, can't afford hotels, no steady guarantees etc etc etc. these jokesters each have their own row AND a tv inside the van!
I like that this article reads like a Twitter thread from when you just had 140 characters
waterparks awsten tell them how....🤦🏼♀️
Are you guys serious? You should see some of the things I’ve seen. This is nothing
Is this a fucking Hard Times article?
TL;DR a bunch of man babies don't actually know the stress of touring on the road, also buy this cool expensive van
Are you kidding me? You should see the kind of vans hardcore/metalcore/deathcore bands tour the US with.
Some gems y'all
Stop appropriating my culture.
Can’t believe REALpunknews is writing for business insider now.
what a clown of an article lmao
Easily?....
This is so lame and very embarrassing to anyone who has ever toured.
I love that this shit band is getting exposed.
🧐
hotel roomS is key.
Holy crap get a nalgene you monsters earth is dying
Great story! People are loving it!
This article is dumb as hell. Would you really expect to understand anything about touring or why this is stupid
Yo delete this 😂 it's insulting brittanymchang
What is this shit? This happens regularly in a lot less than a Sprinter ffs
incredible.
That is luxury for a tour, FYI.
Thank you for ensuring none of us ever listen to ElectricGuest lol
Lemme guess. Their parents invested their college funds into their art careers.
Bitch I toured in a Nissan xTerra
Omg how did they do it
The funny part is that the person who okayed this ad to run in late March 2020 will - after being laid off - still put “Social Media Expert” on their resume.
I’ve literally toured in a sedan
That’s not a band. That’s a joke.
This band leaving for their next 'roughing it' tour across country...
this is gross
I pushed more miles in a desperate escape from the state of florida in a smaller car with more people, less money and space. You're all wimps.
This is the most bullshit that has ever been bullshat. Fucking pioneers over here, sleeping in hotel rooms. Poor things.
Checking in from a conversion van/trailer combo with 7 people in 2008...
Lmao
Luckily they have enough room for their tiniest violin player.
I’ve known of tours that consist of 3 bands in an old under maintained church transport van
Hardcore bands have toured in worse since the beginning of time
how the f did they think bands were getting around 🤦♀️
Um...
Haha!! They try and make that look so miserable 😂😂
I am embarrassed for everyone involved
Damn. Must be rough. Couldn’t imagine touring with that amount of luxury
This is fake right? Has to be...
puptheband LOL. If this tour doesn't kill me... A Sprinter is a 100K plus luxury van. Delete this.
😂 this is trash
You're trolling us.
The Sprinter is UNCONVERTED people!!!
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
what the fuck is this?
brittanymchang delete this
Every real touring musician losing their shit at this ridiculous headline and/or pretense for a “story” 😂😂
delete this
This isn’t news. This is every entitled and privileged white kid with a band.
...very comfortably, apparently?
What kind of COVID-19 induced hallucination am I experiencing? In the physical world, no one would write this article.
lolllll
There is a series with literally 1568 episodes as of today about bands that do this in shittier vans. Delete this.
Oh this is garbage
I was in a band that toured in a van that had a broken sliding door, and once opened while going 75 MPH on the highway. We finished that tour, in that van. Should I get the band back together for an interview?
ryleywalker
What, they want a medal for doing what literally every band in the last seventy years has done? K.
Are you a subdivision of the Onion?
come see me when an LA band has self-quarantined in a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van for 14 days and then we'll talk
This is luxury compared to how most bands have to tour. What a clueless piece
No band hath ever used a van before
so basically every metalcore band ever? this ain’t news
Why have you written this and why did you post it
Oh wow a large $40k van, must have been rough
Oof someone didn’t research enough to realize this was the easiest tour life ever.
I didn’t realize the “how this millennial paid off student debt and bought a house by 24 on nothing but the income from their dad’s law firm” came in musician flavor.
THAT VANS SO FUCKING BIG LMAO I COULD LIVE OUT OF THAT
Def thought this was a hard times article
How a 5-person Bay Area band featuring two drummers completed a tour around the west coast in a Ford Taurus station wagon that had unlockable doors and a really shitty engine
This article is the most ridiculous joke I've read online in a while. This how bands tour the country when they have started making money, its luxurious compared to how most up and coming bands are doing it.
toured w 10 people but only two of us drove- in a 9-seater ford van that didn't have windshield wipers
Half the musicians I like are fucking homeless lmao
🤢
holy shit open your eyes and notice the metal community
Interview my brother in laws band that toured in a uhaul
This is embarrassing.
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wow, incredible
🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
one time i did a 3 member rock band tour in a 2004 jetta. 4 member north american tour in a minivan. sick times
similar energy
'Luckily, the band gets to sleep in hotel rooms at night.'
Haha, wow
Hi business insider, it seems you didn't go far enough inside this business & are being roasted for it If you'd like an actual story of what it's like for a band to tour in 2020, feel free to contact me, I've written 5 books about it ft SleepOnItBand:
Honestly Braver than the troops
I thought this was a Hard Times article until right now
Pt. 1 - hope everyone actually read the full article cause while I think this wasn’t a great idea to publish when other bands have been through alot worse and sleep in their vans too with more people than they did. ....
This is the worst attempt at trying to pretend you know what you’re talking about journalism I have ever seen in my life. This is beyond embarrassing.
ask every alt band
This is so tone deaf, I can’t believe it
I think everyone in a band is missing the point here... The WOW factor of this story is a Mercedes Sprinter making it to more than TWO venues without an alternator/engine fault. 🤷♂️
Hahahaha
Jesus Christ you’re out of touch
FUCKING LOL 🤡
Delete this trash
lmfaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
What a fucking joke
Lol out of touch and naive headline
one of my friends is starting his tour with 8 people in a 1993 Blazer with 4 different tires and too many problems to count but ok
When did Axel Springer SE acquire The Hard Times?
Tell me what publicist thought this was a good idea
Okay and
Where’s my story about sleeping in cramped passenger vans with 5+ other people for weeks at a time with no hotels and no money to eat. Or the thousands of other DIY bands that work way harder than these Chads with way less. What a joke
very easily i’d imagine.
This is not a REALpunknews article. Holy shit this is cringe.
I really hope this article isn’t meant to be impressive because it’s not at all
Log off
Wow !
The content we neither need, nor deserve
A slap in the face to any one who’s toured,
Try 8 people, their luggage, 2 guitar cabs, 1 bass cab, 3 heads and full drum kit in a Chevy Van in January.
ryleywalker
Wait ... Is this real? We're all getting Punk'd here right? Come on out, Ashton.
THE ARE A TWO PIECE WHAT THE FUCK
I’ve done a 90 day ful US and Canada in a Busted Dodge Durango with 5 other guys and no AC let alone body room 🤷🏻♂️
Hahaha mate
TRASH 🚮🗑
Is this like one of those trust fund bands?
Had the breaks go out in our 1979 Ford Chateau Van while driving 70mph on the highway once.
Unprecedented
Ha ha in this the Onion?! Now if it’s been a Mazda 3 then you’d have 1/2 a story eh WHARVESmusic
ElectricGuest pussies
Please say sike
Honda Fit
Lmaoooo
Hey business Insider, maybe you should of talked to someone and realized black flag literally wrote the book on this 40 years ago.
My band toured in a Ford Econoline with no heat in the winter.
alanisnking this feels like an advertisement for this band / van rather than journalism. I know you didn't write it, but I was hoping for a little more street cred from BI with your addition to their team :(
Go off i guess
imagine air conditioning in a mercedes benz
L O L Try 5 people in a Nissan Quest with only seating for 4.
IS THIS A JOKE
🤦♂️
toured 4 years in a 2001 dodge ram who’s ECM fried in the middle of Iowa and I lived at a truck stop for a whole week eating Taco Johns and figuring out how to somehow make $1500 from the center of earth
4 of them in a ten seater van and they hotel it every night? My heart bleeds purple piss for them. Get the fuck out of it and keep fucking off out of it forever.
Dear please try talking to real bands who actually tour and sometime have to sleep on peoples floors or travel in an old cramped 15 passenger band with 6-8 people. Also 21 tour dates? must have been so hard try talking to bands who tour months on end
Dude i toured in a fucking Chevy Trailblazer with four people and all our equipment and merch... No trailer!
These poor fellas, probably had to wear an extra peacoat when the A/C made the van too nippy.
This is a joke, right?
Truly slumming it eh.
😂😂😂 🤣🤣🤣
wow I can’t believe they did that
i’m laughing...
You do know this is standard practice right? As in literally every band in the world does this?
we toured 4 people in a Prius + gear. If you were in the back you couldn’t sit straight had to lean against the window and you couldn’t hear or see anyone else in the car. We slept on floors. Everyone does this please shut up
Why is there no dislike button on this app
What is this trash?
Jesus Christ
One small step for c**t kind
Next edition; how to self-isolate in a Mercedes Benz Sprinter for those who live in a shared studio apartment. 😂
lol
Two guys drive In a hooked up van around America, im trying to figure out what's suppose to be compelling about it
Do it in a retired Royal Mail van with no windows, 4 smokers, 7 people, full gear, tape deck and no beds. THEN come back to me. Wankers!
😂😂😂😂😂
Such a hard life on the road, just look at those expressions,
Pfff ‘luckily the band gets to sleep in hotelrooms at night.’ I know so many bands who have to rely on friends everywhere to crash on sofas and floors. Spare beds if they’re lucky. Jeezz, bunch of whiners
Delete this
Oh do tell
How I Cleaned My House By Paying A Maid To Do It
Lmaoooooo imagine being able to practice social distancing in a tour van.
Bands tour the country in tiny vans all of the time. Why is this an article?
Delete this
Lol the fuck is this?!
Wow what heroes just think of all the meals and showers they had to endure and working air conditioning and power steering, the absolute horror
this made me want to punch myself in the face
Are REALpunknews outsourcing now?
'A few tours ago, a woman doing merchandise for the band — who was also on her first tour ever — accidentally put the wrong gas into their van. The band was then told that if they turned the car on, it might explode.' 🤐🤐
You must be new here
Is the The Onion? I don’t want to comment until I can definitively confirm it’s not a parody account.
Black Flag, Minutemen and the Replacements toured all of the US and Canada in a Ford Econoline multiple times a year. It’s just what you do when you’re an underground band
LMAO
Rip op
They drive a MB van but sleep in hotel rooms, and each get a row to themselves? The fuck kinda rich kid shit is this?
two dudes with a keyboard n laptop isn't a band
I once did a weekend tour as a tech and we slept in the bed of the truck (with a camper top) with the tailgate open because it was 80° at night and couldn't breathe otherwise.
This is weak AF y’all. Me and 3 friends followed a tour for 13 shows over 3 weeks from San Diego to Cleveland in a regular minivan. A Benz mini van is a fucking hotel compared to that.
Lmfaooo
is this satire
TuckFFAK didn’t y’all do warped in a 12 passenger multiple times? Where’s your news article?
Fuel Fighters
is this real
Whoever made this post is highly uncultured
every diy band has entered the chat
Wow a band touring in a van. What a novel concept. Touring in a van would definitely help a band save more money on the road or something, IDK they get most of their income from Spotify streams right?! RIGHT?!
Get fucked, try a Chevy Avalanche and a 2001 Toyota Corolla.
ThyArtIsMemes
Lmao is this a joke?
This is fucking hilarious.
Two people in a sprinter on a 3 week tour with hotels. Oh, the horror! I'm giving the article a solid two thumbs way down 👎👎
Has anyone told brittanymchang that this is more luxurious than the way 99.9% of touring bands travel? And that the vast majority of those bands probably sleep in their vans too?
Yo delete this
This was a tough read.. Jesus Christ this sucks
3 weeks in a SPRINTER... AND hotels? 🥴 Why do you make it sound like they had it rough? Who’s rich mom wrote this 😂
is this a joke
everyone quote tweet with the vehicles you’ve toured in
Wow. It must have been so difficult for them, wow.
Hahahahahah look at that mansion on wheels. Indeed, how? How was it not stolen in Philly, Chicago, or Oakland?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGAGA
lmfao
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Are you fucking mental
This post gave me a stroke
I’ve never even been in a band and even I’ve toured and slept on the floor of a van.
Must be nice
This is how most bands tour. Why is this a story?
Loooooooool.
In my decade of touring, I can count the amount if hotel rooms I've slept in on one hand...
Slow news day, huh?
this is seriously pathetic writing
This is so LA
alysoncoletta
Is 'Band of showbiz blood and Hollywood connections tours in $48,000 van' really that impressive, or is this just an advertisement for the $48,000 van?
KaidenGamer Bro read this. 😂
While I acknowledge the things this group has been through I think so many of the touring groups who used vans that have been highlighted by DigitalTourBus would have been a better choice.
I reading this gave me a stroke
F
They must fix their own tour van too...
hahahhahahhahahahahhahahahahahahhahaha
ummm MIWband ?
So they tour in a van, but sleep in hotel rooms? Doesn’t seem that bad, considering there’s plenty of bands that tour AND sleep in their vans.
every metalcore band in existence disliked this
and
LMAOOOOOO
Interview everytimeidie
SilentGarrett
You should interview a 5 member band (plus crew) that's toured the entire country in a ford econoline.
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