tour journal

Haven’t posted in a while but it’s been such a crazy tour. I don’t think I’ve ever been so busy on tour. The tour is such a great opportunity and I’ve been trying to take full advantage of everything… talking to every kid at the show and selling as many cds as we can… hopefully it’s working. So far we’ve been having so much fun playing for all these kids every night. We’ve never played for so many kids except in our hometown and in Japan.

The Detroit show was pretty insane… the first show back on Tourzilla in America where we were playing for tons of kids… 1000 kids was so awesome to play for. The show was a lot of fun and kids were going crazy. It was also good to finally play a show where we knew people and people knew us. That show was so fun.

Next night was Milwaukee… I drove till about 3 in the morning to find a hotel and the next day we drove the rest. We played at the rave… it’s the craziest venue ever, so huge and scary. There’s a haunted pool in the basement and just so many crazy passageways and different areas. The show was crazy, it was 1800 people and half of that were ghosts. The ghost kids were crazy and liked to jump a lot. The hoodie is such a hit and I think it looks really good... kids are really liking it. I’m glad we finally have a good piece of merch haha… We’ve always had just mediocre merch and finally kids actually want to buy our shirts and hoodies. Perhaps it’s just this incredible tour but it might be a bit of both.

Chicago was the next night (last night) and it was so awesome. The sound was the best we’ve had yet and kids were really into it. I had so much fun. It was great to see Quinn again. I can’t wait until he can come back on tour, if our crew next year is Quinn, Ian, Delicious and BQ it would be insane. The past few shows Mike and Adam came out as well and it was great to see them too, reminded me of all the old tours where we’d stay with them for days at a time. Good times.

Tonight is Omaha… it was another lonnnnggg drive, and so is tomorrow. I am not so excited about the drives or about being so tired and constantly getting sick... but everything else about this tour is absolutely the best thing to ever happen to our band. It’s so awesome that boys like girls took us out and we owe them forever haha.

There was supposed to be a show in Utah after Colorado but apparently we’re not even on that show. It would have been so insane… if that was the case, we’d have to drive to Iowa… a 21 hour drive… if we left at midnight we’d get to Iowa the next day at 9pm…. Which would have been completely impossible. So it sucks we won’t be on that show but it’ll be fun I think.

Anyway... here we are in Omaha and it’s time to get some work done.

Brendan