On this episode of DTB’s “Tour Tips (Top 5)”, the pop rock band, Young Culture, recommends their tips for being on tour, while on tour with Homesafe, Kayak Jones, and Keep Flying. Young Culture is currently supporting their self-titled album.
Information about this video: Film Date - October 22, 2019 Location - Subterranean in Chicago, IL
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Hey what's up you guys?
You're here right now with Young Culture and we're here to give you some tour tips.
My first one off the bat is no matter how big or small you are, it's super important
to go up to every fan, make sure you talk to them whether you're playing to 5 people,
whether you're playing to 100 people, talk to as many people as you can because you never
know who's going to be your next biggest fan and you never know who's going to really need
that that day or who's going to really appreciate it.
So another big tour tip is definitely hit up the dollar menus like Taco Bell, McDonald's.
If you want to save money, that's big.
Also I recently learned a new one where you can get a crock pot with mac and cheese and
bring it to every venue.
What?
I don't know about all that, but if you want to save money, definitely hit up the dollar
menus.
For sure.
Yeah, something I realized is it's really, really important to stay drinking water and
stay hydrated as much as possible.
Obviously it's easy to drink alcohol or drink soda or whatever.
Just make sure you're on top of yourself when you're drinking water because you're not always
getting the most sleep necessary, you're not always getting the best food that you want,
so water is the best thing for your body, so just keep drinking water.
To go along with that, staying healthy and just, when you're on tour it's really hard
to keep your routines that you have when you're at home, so two big things is trying to stay
fit because when you're driving around, you can be in the van for a while, it's good when
you get out to try to get a little bit of exercise in, which we're trying to get better
at doing, and trying to just stay clean.
Obviously it's hard to find showers every single tour and find a place to take a shower,
but we keep these big wet wipes, these body-sized wipes on us so we can just get naked in the
Walmart parking lot and clean ourselves, and the ladies love it too.
I would also say just, you know, you're going a long distance for a long time with a short
amount of space with like five or six people at a time, just make sure you're transparent
with everyone, you know, if you're bummed out one day, tell your friend and they're
going to be there for you no matter what, and you know, that way no one's getting angry
at each other, no one's getting mad, it's just like, you're just being honest about
your feelings and it brings up no problems at all, it like really, really helps.
