[fallingwithscissors] - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2036

Hey guys, I'm Trey from Falling With Scissors here with our 2021 Chrysler Pacifica rental. We're on a little run with, we hopped on a few dates with 156 Silence and Victims Co-Headliner with them and Heavy Hitter also on this leg of the tour so really excited to be on it. We're in the beautiful city of Chicago and yeah this is what we got going on. We were able to backline Josh from Heavy Hitter is backlining shelves for tonight so we were able to just take a minivan, not towing anything, super easy five-day run so excited to be here. Yeah, show you what's going on, what we got going on. Alright this is the cockpit right here, real real high-tech stuff. So we got Michael, plays bass, say hi. Hi. That was perfect. We also got our dog, this is the wonderful wonderful little dog pillow. This is my travel buddy, he's catching some Z's right now but yeah some people say he looks like a capybara but he's a dog, no question. Other than that, Michael, myself and Matt are all split in the driving, you know, keeps everybody fresh, got a lot of miles under our belt so it's nice to cram through it like that. Picking music, we're mostly our driver picks schedule, you know, we've got a broad range of interests in the band, a lot of a lot of electronic music, a lot of heavier stuff between hardcore, mathcore, metalcore, all of the above so on the way here we were just jamming some Purity Ring, before that it was some Cult Leader so I like to like to switch it up from something, you know, relaxing to something energizing. Had to play some Rise again since we're coming in Chicago. Yeah, shout out, the legends. Yeah, I haven't really played a lot of music. He's been playing a lot of Ska. Oh yeah. He is the resident Ska listener in the band. Ska, um, how does that find me, I don't know. Is that Irving's Frenzy, Ska? No, um, post-hardcore stuff, Angel Hair from Boulder, shout out. So, I'm on hog duty. That's a, that's like a marker for anything notable that happens, so we were, this is Victims in 156 Silences Tour, but we're calling our little leg of it the Hog Tour, part tour, because we were originally, we did another little run last January, or this January, and that's, that's the pig that is our other guitarist who is not with us for this run, so we're taking him with us. Shout out, Brett. We miss you, Brett. Alright guys, here we got the middle section of the van, this is Chance. What's up, I'm Chance. What do we got here? We got the essentials, we got the wheat things, we got the yellow mustard pretzels, we got a bunch of Pringles crumbs, tragic, some empty monsters here, we got the AirPods, body lotion, I don't know where that came from. Yeah, dude, this has been a lifesaver on the road. I can just charge my AirPods, my phone, laptop, whatever. It's been sick. Also got, I made sure to bring boots along with, you know, winter tour in the in the Midwest, you never want to get caught without some good foot protection. Also, this is most, this is what keeps Matt, who you'll meet in a second, this is what keeps him going right here. He's got his own little, like, pantry. It's a full-ass pantry of snacks. Goldfish, flavor blasted. Oh, there's some, there's some good snacks. We got, you're almost out here, Matt. We got some chocolate chip energy bars, got, got some Cheez-Its, and then, then we got some, got some deodorant, you know, good snack. Yeah. Pretty much nothing, just sleeping, playing games on the phones, watching anime on the phones, that's about it. This is for sleeping purposes. Shout out Buc-ee's. We did have a little setup where we had to do mostly overnight drive on this run, so we, I'll have Matt talk a little bit more about that, but we did fold this seat down and have makeshift, makeshift bed here, so, you know, it's multi-purpose. We got a, we got a transformer going on in this, in this honey, so. Alright, here we are with Matt. He's our Tetris master and guitarist for this run. Yeah, I play guitar. Yeah. Let's see if everything stays put. So, as Trey was mentioning, we lucked out that we were able to use a back line on this tour, and it makes touring in a smaller vehicle actually possible. I've done tours where I literally toured out of a Scion XB cube car, and that's because shells and, and, like, cabs are backlined, so that's just get your breakables and stuff, and so typically what I try to do is I get all of our instrument breakables and stuff, like heads, pedals, stuff like that, on this bottom row. We had four merch totes to begin with, two were boxes, two were plastic totes. We then put that on the next layer up, and then we put a bunch of soft, like, personal bags on top, and I think I heard you mention that we did an alternate setup one night. So, we had a long overnight drive from Colorado to Des Moines. I was like, I don't think I'm gonna wake up easy at the hotel that we got. So, I moved it to where we put the back bench back up. I put the merch totes in front of it, and I put a bunch of the, like, soft personal bags on top of it to make a really mid-shift mattress. I woke up super sore, but I think I slept better than I would have in the hotel, so gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Alright, well thanks for coming along for this, this little tour. Again, shout out to Heavy Hitter, 156 Silence, and Victims for having us along on this run. Super stoked to be here. If you guys want to check us out, feel free to give us a follow on Instagram. We'll have all our show dates. 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