On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the soul punk band, Nightlife, while on Honey Revenge's "The Loving and Losing Tour" with Daisy Grenade and Vana. Nightlife is currently supporting their newest single, strangeluv.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - June 8, 2025 Location - The Vic Theatre in Chicago, IL
VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:42 Driver's Area 05:13 Middle of the Van 10:50 Back of the Van
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What's up, y'all? This is Nightlife, the band, coming at you from the Loving and Losing Tour with Honey Revenge, Vana, and Daisy Grenade.
This is our tour bus.
So, one of the main features of going on tour and going through the Midwest is you will not leave without an entire graveyard on your grill and your front end.
We're thinking of replacing the wiper fluid with bug wiper fluid, because I didn't know that that was a thing.
Green juice.
You need the green juice, apparently.
Hell yeah.
This is a little mismatch, but we've got our A-driving team over here, and I'm on B-team.
Don't lie.
That's wrong. That's wrong.
We've got B-team over here. I'm A-team with Summer, our photographer and tour manager.
Usually, B-team takes the mornings and afternoons, and then Sami and I will take the night drives after the show.
But, you know, it all varies.
We all get our little shifts in there.
You know, that's a seasoned professional right there.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, no, we all switch it off.
We all make sure that the driver gets to DJ.
There's requests always, but we're into everything, and we're all trying to show each other new ----, so we're always doing that.
What's the one band we've been listening to that has a Rainer?
Look at me, I'm a Rainer.
Oh, YK. It's Yahweh Nailgun.
It stands for Yahweh.
Yahweh Nailgun.
They're really cool.
What about you, Allen?
If I'm in a driver's seat, I'm going to put on some R&B.
I'm going to put on some soul music.
Can a white boy have soul?
We've got to find out, low-key.
We test that in the van. We've got to.
JT, we're coming for you.
They hate to see me in the driver's seat, bro.
I be putting on the ******* weird ----.
This ************ put on the Swans album.
Yeah, I put on Swans in the dark sometimes and let the 30-minute song play while he's going,
We're coming down the mountain. It's crazy.
I think we all kind of **** with Model Actress, a band from New York.
We put them on a lot.
Duran Bernard, we listen to a lot of.
Pink Panthers, that new album, has been rotating in the van.
What else?
OK Lu.
Choking up by OK Lu.
We are so fully OK Blue on this tour.
All the blue stuff that we've got going on is all very much inspired by her album and her creative direction and all that.
Dude Wipes is an absolute must.
You never know when you've got to go.
They sell them at Target or Walmart, wherever you prefer, for $3 for $9.
Good deal.
Solid deal.
We started with $4 and now we've only got $1 up in there.
I don't know what happened, but we be shitting.
Somebody's shitting.
We be shitting and farting.
It's true.
We got Sarah V.
That Walmart loach.
We all just got tattoos.
Can't be ashy on tour.
Talk about that Mucinex, my boy.
Tell me what happened.
What happened to St. Louis?
This boy was off the Mucinex for real.
Never take Theraflu in the morning and then follow it up with Mucinex in the afternoon.
I blew my nose and I was just flexing.
Man, Mucinex is doing work.
My nose started bleeding.
Stay away from that.
Not medical advice.
We got paper towels.
This duck's name is Milton.
That was given to us by Honey Revenge
on a day that I was having a really bad day
and they were really nice and they were like, have a duck.
I don't know how these got here.
Happy Meals from McDick's.
We got the Ram over here.
Also a Happy Meal, I'm assuming.
Nah, that was from a Love Zara pilot.
She stays there.
The microwave popcorn from Costco stays at the front window.
It hasn't cooked yet.
But we've been trying.
We've been trying.
That's all for the front.
Gun in the glove compartment.
Oh, we got Dubai chocolate.
We got Dubai chocolate.
The viral sensation.
Two of them.
We got paper towels because we messy bitches.
The LED lights from the merch table.
You know.
That's a good place to put those.
We got trash bags.
Finger sleeves.
My fault.
Wet ones.
We got forks.
I'm not going to best that.
I don't know when you've got to go as crazy.
Sami, our TM photographer, just saw that at Starbucks
and said, I need that.
It was day one and that has not moved from that spot
since day one of tour,
which was like three weeks ago.
That's the spot.
That's where that's going to stay until July 14th.
You know what I mean?
Welcome to my crib, MTV.
This is the middle of the bus.
Right here, it's a whole ass bench.
As you can see, I'm spreading my ---- to the front.
Pause.
Usually I'm like this.
Sometimes I'm like this.
I got some pillows here.
This is my boy, Karopi.
This is my nephew.
I got this guy right here.
This is my boy, Manu.
He's a rainbow caterpillar.
He's been with me through a lot of tours.
This is my pillow. I sleep on him every night.
Holy ----, it's raining.
You already know what it is, though.
Over here, we got some vapes.
Tucked away in the corner with some hair mousse.
Oh.
What you know about...
Where the hell at?
You want some Cajun?
How about some Cajun seasoning?
Did you ever...
Did you want some Cajun seasoning?
I got you.
Pause.
Unpause. Resume.
Happy Pride Month.
I put my shoes right here.
We got some baseball gloves.
Pause. Resume.
We got some gloves.
Makeup.
This little bad guy, we got yesterday, right?
Just got some little drinks.
Some water. Some Red Bull.
Some...
Djerba Matin.
Getting us through the night.
We usually have a big little thing of
waters, but then sometimes they be
falling out and ----.
Got a little cooler to keep them in, so it stays organized.
I'm a big organized freak, as you can tell.
My little lane is nice and clean.
This is my makeup bag. It's got makeup.
It's got a **** ton of candy.
Oh, hold on.
This right here, this is my pretty boy swag, right?
Jigglypuff.
Shiny Mudkip. I'm a big fan of Pokemon,
in the color pink, if you couldn't tell.
I'm not really wearing much right now, but it's alright.
That's probably my most special piece in here.
Hold on, let me show you the other.
This ----.
This ---- right here.
Colourpop Pokemon palette. Can't live without it.
This ---- makes me look pretty every day.
On God. On baby, bro.
On baby.
We got some pink sparkles.
Maybe you can't tell I like pink a little bit,
but that's alright.
This is my little makeup bag, but I got some other bags
I'm trying to show you.
Right here,
that's my camera bag.
I play the saxophone.
I don't really be doing content that much.
Let me let you in on a little secret.
I'm stocked up, right?
I got my disposable cameras.
I got my VHS camera.
I got a 360 camera here.
I got another camcorder if you need.
On God. If you want something filmed, let me know.
I'll put it up.
I'm sorry, I've been yapping for a second.
I got a couple more things if you're okay with that.
Oh! Charmander!
This guy, apparently,
when you hug him, when you grip him nice and tight,
it's like a perfect fit.
Type ----.
My fault. My fault, Kuro-P.
My fault.
Me and the gang.
It's just me and the gang.
I'm sorry. I'm talking so much.
Usually, we always have a passenger princess,
but they're on point.
They're trying to keep everyone or the driver going.
Put things in the phone.
We do not look at the phone and drive
most of the time.
We usually got one person on the bench
because that's a nice way to lay out
and get some rest, and one person
on the back bench because this seat usually
has ---- on it, usually my big-ass
show bag, and then Zae's always
laying back here at the end of the night.
It's good rest.
This is my little bunk.
Usually, Hansel and Summer
have their food and stuff there, and I
put it somewhere else because
I like to lay down.
This is my little cubby.
I got
beef jerky,
a little
tool kit,
some more tools just in case,
a do-rag,
bucket hat, shout-out Baltimore,
Oreos,
a little cropped shirt.
It's inside out, so I won't show you.
More do-rags,
bonnets,
and then I got this in
Canada, Mobile Suit Gundam,
the manga, Char's Counterattack.
Pretty sweet.
I've been reading that.
This isn't mine, but I claim it.
It's
essential to what I need.
This has
Hansel and Summer's
protein, their
Nature Valley
oats and honey.
I've never looked in here, honestly.
They got some
good ----.
The communal bin that never opens,
unfortunately.
As a drummer, this is the number one thing you should have.
Foot spray, Dr. Scholl's.
Please don't have stinky feet in the van.
Everybody uses this.
Put that ---- on your feet.
Wash your feet. Don't let the water run down.
Wash your feet. Get down there with the soap
in between the toes, please.
We know when somebody lets the piggies out.
We do. We always know.
I found my glasses, too. That's pretty sweet.
Oh, hell yeah. We've been looking for those.
Shout out Green Bands.
They gave us the high top this time.
We ain't never had one of these before.
I'm standing right now.
I am short, but it's not like that.
This is really sick.
I'm of average height.
When it's full,
we can usually see through the back,
which is insane. That's not a thing we're used to.
We can actually look back there.
We usually got the drums over here.
The stage box goes there.
We got our merch up here.
All of our bags,
including my other show bag,
is down there. I brought so many clothes.
I'm such a diva. I'm sorry.
All our bags usually go over here.
That's really it.
We just throw ---- on top at the end.
There's so much room back here.
We do not need the trailer. We are spoiled.
We will not **** a trailer.
We will not get a trailer
if we don't need to get a trailer.
This has yet to go onto the bass drum,
but it will eventually.
It's always here. It's hanging out.
This is also the dressing room as well.
I don't know if you mentioned that.
No. It is the dressing room.
Sometimes we prop up that broom,
get a little tarp going. It's like a little fort.
I get nice and naked up in there.
I'd be wearing thongs, so I got to take off my normal dude underwear.
Straight butt ass naked.
Balls out and everything.
But I can't do that for you right now.
I'm sorry.
We are Nightlife The Band.
The Band.
Trademark.
We are putting out a couple songs.
I don't know if they're out yet
because we don't have a label or any of that ----.
It's all up to us and when we get it done.
We ain't getting that ---- done.
When it's out, it's out.
That's really it.
Just go check out those songs.
Check out what we got up.
Listen to I.O.
I got the mic, so I get to say my favorite.
So that's fine.
Listen to I.O.
Listen to all of it. It's not much music.
It's like 25 minutes of music.
Come out to a show in the future.
We're going to be in this ******* bus
for a while.
We're going to be banning it for a second.
So come see us and
have a fun time. That's all I need.