Beyond The Black - TOUR TIPS (Top 5) Ep. 892

Hey guys, this is Beyond the Black and we're going to be sharing our tour tips with you today. Let's start with I think luggage tip, because I remember my first tour I thought I need for every day a new pair of socks, underwear and new shirts. I had a suitcase which was so heavy and so big that everyone was like what the **** are you having with you and it was just really like this and what's the best thing take for five to six days my personal tip to be honest five to six days stuff you can wear and check out where you can wash it so where's the laundry service. That's right check out where I can wash it is also my thing but I normally have something with me for 14 days not like six days so I'm safe if I don't have the time to wash so because this is not normal or it can be that everyone wants to wash their clothes and you're the last one and you're too late because I'm standing up very late and then I have like oh okay I also have some stuff and then it's over because we have a list like I don't know so I pack for 14 days but I also have the most luggage I would say but of course because I'm a I'm a woman but yeah I have a lot of stuff with me I think I have like two how do you say that two suitcases I have two suitcases but that's okay you're the girl so big ones yeah I'm pretty happy because they have normally like these but we can turn our underwear that's a good that's right yeah next next thing next thing for me as a singer I don't know if there is a singer out there but I guess it is for me it's always important to sleep a lot it's not that I okay it is that I want to sleep a lot but I think it's also because of the voice and if you talk too much during touring and you have like these high notes that we are singing you need to be silent and it's silent at I don't know 12 hours a day or something like that if you can do that it's best when you're sleeping because when you wake up you want to talk of course because you're with people that you like so for me sleeping is also like some security advice for me definitely I mean in general it's for your for your health I mean it depends on how long you're touring but I just can also tell when I when I did my first tour then with beyond the black and I I mean in the other bands I played before and besides beyond the black I sometimes was singing and then we had this first tour this headline tour through Germany it was just four shows and we didn't have a nightliner we were sleeping in the hotels and so in general we got less sleep but then I still had the let's say the lifestyle from the tours before where of course I was one of the last ones going to bed because I'm just a guitar player and I can drink until five and wake up at 10 it's fine and I think after the third show I didn't have any voice I couldn't sing at all I was just fighting the whole night to to to let's say got it but made possible to play these shows and to sing it and after after that I said okay one I think now at one half past two I'm I'm at the latest I'm I'm the latest no the latest time on this day I'm I'm like I'm going to bed and I also try to sleep as long as possible it's I mean of course when you're on tour it's first tour maybe your first experience of course party and enjoy that but think about every minute or hour you sleep less you maybe get earlier ill because of course most mostly the tours are in winter month so yeah in Europe let's say yeah so it's super cold and you always like freezing and I'm always freezing he's not really freezing but um yeah um so it's it's more often that the whole group is um getting sick someday so yeah that is that is not that cool so you really have to take care of your body and um yeah also if you have the possibility about uh having a shower after the show because sometimes and of course I know it's not in every club there is a possibility to shower it depends on how you tour if you're opener or if you're headliner or whatever but I got the feeling that when you had a shower after the show immediately you're staying longer healthy than without because I think the sweat I had a feeling that when I when I when I when I keep the sweat just dry on my skin um you're getting earlier cold because of the salt than when you when you have showers that's my personal experience but yeah maybe I'm wrong but but I I try to get a shower immediately after the show first it's the best time because you still have time to shower and get uh your hair get dry and everything and second I think you feel um better than of course and you and you fresh and then and then you stay healthy so that's something else I could just yeah give as an advice not for me because I always have my makeup on and um I just take it off shortly before the bus of course I'm doing something like that I'm not um do you say that you don't smell of course but um everything else yeah I don't know I like that everyone is is showering um from the boys because they are really smelling definitely so yeah what's what's else sports I think sports we we tried it on the last tour yeah to just more very long yeah for this time and we had like four and a half weeks of touring and then I think two weeks a lot of us were still doing sports some were also skipping um from after I think four or five days or something like that but most of us were keeping in and doing it like almost every day um till this third week I think because Toby is our um sporty spice I would say and he is also as he he's having the most um discipline in that and he's taking us with him um so yeah for me that was really good and um and then he got sick and um then he skipped it and everyone else was giving it up and it's not just about getting let's say to lose weight or something it's really just it's really just because you you also your mind is more into the day when you have done a one hour or half an hour and it doesn't have to be any day um two or three hours hard workout it's just like I don't know I was one time running with our foh um um guy or you did your your stuff with Toby or whatever it's just how much as much as you can do that you feel well yeah and it's just not always the same thing that you're doing waking up and then you're like um looking like that and so you you're you're much more fresh than uh before after doing sports and can understand what is happening much more and all of that stuff it's keeping it's keeping you more like um yeah I don't know how to say that in English to be honest but um yeah it's making you more um open in your head I would say yeah totally totally yeah and and yeah of course and your uh immunization system your your health everything health system is just running better because you're you're there and that's a good thing and also in winter month especially I mean you don't have to sweat and run in the cold of course but the venues and the clubs there's anywhere corner you can do some sports I think yeah so so that's also people are standing sometimes um tour yeah maybe in the in the bus um I mean I I don't know many of you are touring or ever had a chance to um try to let's say keep respect about the other guys in the tour bus because like we said for example we went a singer we are going to bed earlier so at first we try to show our respect to the party uh people in the bus that we maybe go completely to the other side with our bunks our beds to the in the bus where the party is happening because then you are they don't uh yeah make you uh angry and you don't uh yeah and you don't get angry by them so um but when you are um when you're doing a party because we sometimes we had about we had a small tour bus um yeah like like on the tooth and temptation it was just like one thing where the beds in um behind and then um in the front we had like the party with a door that was really like not really close so let's say so so but then you have to show the respect to the guys who are sleeping because I mean if someone wants to sleep give him his sleep yeah but also we try that we have like something in our ears that it's not like uh when they're doing the peep or I don't know that we say okay you have to be no we're always like it doesn't it sounds like we're keep we're keeping we keep getting angry we keep getting angry um but it's like once on tour that somebody says okay not everybody has to sing that loud that's it but of course the tip is be respectful with everyone also toilet when there is a girl with you the girl has to sit on this toilet it's good if you don't do everywhere don't do that so this is also something that I would recommend to people touring with girls and toilet I don't know if you entered the tubers keep in mind it's not allowed to ---- in the tubers really it's not it's on it's printed I don't know how often there the tubers uh drivers are printing and telling it and it happens so often on tour I don't know why but anytime there is one person in the tubers who is not getting it and the problem is that they can't empty this toilet collecting thing this there's no system that is doing that like and that that it's getting out again yep so that is the problem so it smells like oh my god and you have to sleep there you know and and yeah and and and and and other ones like girls want to sit there again they want to go on the toilet and that it's not working so keep in mind tubers if you want to have a a ---- somewhere tell the bus driver stop put your another advice put your tour pass you get a tour pass not that you can show it on instagram it's it's what you should not do never um but um it's more also that for example you leave the tour company um you leave it at you at your tour manager and say hey I'm off or leave it at the bus driver hey I'm out I'm in this gas station going to the toilet or I don't know wherever whatever you're doing because the bus driver has to keep his times and has to to be in time at the next place so he can't wait for you until you're back he can but sometimes he don't know that you're still outside because maybe it's a new driver and he doesn't know you so um yet we know a lot of um things where people told us that someone was missing because he was still there I know a lot of guys who had to uh yeah get uh by some guy he met them on a parking lot in just in an underwear yeah coming to the within a car to the next venue because there was no other chance he didn't have his mobile phone with him the bus was away nothing and then oh take your mobile phone with you as well exactly in these days take with you because then you can you can at least call your bus driver or your tour manager that's a good advice and yeah what to say maybe last one I would say yeah maybe maybe uh leaving a venue me leaving a backstage area because what do you mean yeah you know rock and roll live um it's it's not a good thing if you're on a festival on tour or on even in a venue and you destroy the whole backstage area because you think you're the rock star and you can do whatever you like to I mean of course take your drinks have a party there we're also having after show parties but we try also to be respectful to the guys at the venues at the festivals and because they are taking care that we are uh yeah we're having a good time there and it's never a good thing yeah for everyone I remember I wanted to be um behind the stage so I was a crew member of another band because I wanted to understand what it is like and then you got to know much more how it is to wait for a band to be away or that you can you have to wait and then you have to keep yeah make it clean again what what they destroyed or something so um if you know that you don't are respect not respectful anymore I think so um also maybe a tip try to be a crew member as well once and then you maybe get some new things that you're in your mind and maybe you're not or much more respectful again I don't know also to the crew and let's say always be respectful that is a tip for everyone all the people who are around you your crew members the people at the catering the people at the venue bus driver these are all people you need on tour because otherwise you have to drive by yourself you have to build up everything by yourself maybe you do that of course because we all did that but um if you have the people around you treat them like uh you want to be treated by them and that's the most yeah let's say one of the most uh important things on tour because you live together I mean as a family and yeah it is and it makes so much more fun if everyone has fun because everyone respects each other so um that is the most important thing as well to say um yeah why are you doing music um it's maybe not because you're making a lot of money so you have to have a good time so this is the rule number one and have a good time with all the people that are around you so yeah let's leave it like that I would say thank you so much for watching and um yeah maybe see you at more concerts being respectful with each other goodbye yours VTB