On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the indie rock band, The Vices, while on tour the "Before It Might Be Gone Tour." The Vices is currently supporting their newest album, Before It Might Be Gone.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - February 22, 2025 Location - Schubas in Chicago, IL
VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:30 Driver's Area 02:38 Middle of the Van 03:40 Back of the Van
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Hello, my name is Floris. I'm playing in a band called The Vices and we just released a record
before Mabigan and now we're touring through the US and this is the vehicle that we're traveling in.
Let's go!
I'll give you a little tour of this. It's way bigger inside.
Simon, the driver without a license.
So, during the tour our creepy tour manager is doing the driving.
We're just chilling back here. There are Matthew or me or anyone can be in here really.
This is the best spot so we try to rotate it.
I haven't sit there the whole tour.
You have to claim it.
Why is this the best spot? I think it's because you got the cup holder,
you can control the music, you can control where you're driving to.
So, if you feel like driving somewhere else you can just **** with the navigation.
I mean, the driver got to follow that.
Leg space.
It's very generous.
Okay, what music we've been listening to in here?
I think, what have we been listening to?
When we were in New York we listened to a lot of hip-hop, Velvet Underground.
Some jazz music.
Jazz indeed.
So, we listened to that.
The music goes into a lot of different places.
We are very different people who like very different things.
So, it can be everywhere and our creepy tour manager has a very broad taste in music too.
This is very important.
We don't recognize our tour manager without the hat and the glasses.
They are mandatory for that.
So, this is Ani.
Shit, my hairline is...
Yeah, I need to go to Turkey in a bit.
Impression?
So, now let me show you the back, because that's where it's really happening.
Our creepy tour manager has to...
Oh, there he goes.
Let's get in.
Hello.
So, here we got band members and behind the band members we got our kitchen and our...
Well, I'll keep that a secret.
Oh yeah, ****, I heard it.
The music studio.
So, it's back there.
Well, after the tour we're going to go to the music studio.
So, you've been watching Breaking Bad a lot and drinking orange juice.
Yes, and sometimes...
Well, mostly sleeping and just trying like lying like this with my head between here
and then the window, that's a good spot.
And then you have some really nice chargers over here in the seat where I can charge my phone.
And also like just pushing this button a lot because it's fun.
And yeah, that's kind of what we do back here.
Yeah, and this is our working position and we also have a sleeping position.
Jonathan, three, two, one.
I don't know how to do that.
Well, I'm way ahead of Jonathan.
Shit, ****, I have a lot to learn.
I have a lot to learn in this fact.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
As you can see, we've got the recording area and we've got the kitchen.
We have in the kitchen, we've got fruit, which is very scarce in the United States, I believe.
It seemed like it.
So we got fruit, we got ice and then we got straws to drink the ice.
The studio here.
We got my Stratocaster, which I love very dearly.
It's Bluetooth.
So here we go, my favorite Bluetooth Strat from 1973.
It was quite ahead of its time.
The best doll ever.
Yeah, and yeah, I just really love that guitar.
The last seat.
Yeah.
Does anyone want to tell about the last seat?
It's kind of wide.
Nobody wants to sit in the last seat.
So, or you do.
Or you do, it depends on your mood.
Yeah, it depends on how much time you have in the shower.
Depends on your level of frustration.
So at the end of the night, we get everything in.
And I think Matthew is often in control of how we sort of load it in.
So you got two amps there.
Then you got a big suitcase on top of that.
You got a couple of guitars, a snare, cymbals, a piano, which goes in between there.
And then this seat is, well, someone is sitting there, but it's like very cramped up.
I'm sorry?
It's private.
Yeah, it's very private.
Yeah, got its advantages.
Thanks checking out our van.
As I said, the album is out before it might be gone.
And we are from the Netherlands, but we will be back in the United States like,
I don't know, this year, next year, soon.
And we love it here.
It's going to be wild when we come back.
See you then.