Like Roses - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2079

Hey, we're Like Roses. We are currently in Chicago on tour for Mayday Parade's Three Cheers for 20 Years tour with Mayday Parade, Microwave, and Grayscale. We put out an EP called Stuck last year, and today we are going to show you the inside of the van. Okay, welcome to the driver's area. My name's Devin. I usually drive morning shift on our drives, but last night I got the late night. We all kind of take turns depending on who needs to get sleep at the time. So yeah, everybody drives. I usually hit some of the morning ones too with Devin. I work remotely, so it's just kind of the way it has to shake down, but yeah, no, it's super fun. I take the easy ones. I mean, I've been, every time I'm trying to get reared up and ready to go, I've been listening to the new Loathe song, because it rips. Gifted Every Strength, so sick, and then sometimes go into Loathe. Other times we listen to Alanis Morissette. We listen to Gracie Abrams. We listen to Microwave. Occasionally I'll punish Amy with some 90s classic rock or 70s classic rock. The butt rock. Yeah, also butt rock, as she calls it. I was on an ACDC kick the other day. I often drive in silence. My favorite drive to do is the Sunrise Drive, because everyone, but other than that, I don't even really know if it's specific. Sometimes it's Pop Bangers, because I like singing while I'm driving, especially if I'm trying to stay awake, and then other than that, it's probably the 2000s kind of stuff that I haven't stopped listening to most of my life. Yeah, so we do save our hot sauces. We organize them, not because we knew you were coming, just because we're very organized, but sometimes they don't give you sauces. Sometimes you want to put sauce in something else. We keep those here. We got lotions. This is the medicine cabinet. Hand sanitizer. We got aspirin, Pepto-Bismol. Yeah, the essentials. We all got matching tattoos in Dallas, so the lotion has been passed around a lot, because everybody's trying to moisturize. Yeah, and then sunglasses here and there. This is an envelope full of all of our receipts for taxes. Liquid death. It's a must. Yes, that's... There's a bug spray in here for whenever we get to the humid parts, and we also have salt just in case. All right, so we got our snacks here. We usually keep about two bags worth of snacks. The number one essential being the peanut butter pretzels. We have to have these, especially for Amy when she gets hangry. Yeah. And then we keep a couple spare, just like G-Zeros. Costco's just another essential for the van, another must-have on the rider every single night. A couple other things in there. And then we got just some random... That's the snack bag specifically. And then, yeah, Costco's another fun one, another must-have that we do. So we got our cashew clusters here. Yeah, just a ton of good ----. The Sour Patch Kids. Anything that you could easily eat that's not going to make a mess, because we try to stay super well organized. So in the organization, too, usually it's like only one person can sit here, one person sits in the back, and then two up front, so you can lay down, we can rest. Yeah, the back bench is the best. That's my favorite, because it's the most quietest, and it's not cold up there. I get super cold. On the rider, we get Gatorade Zeros. We get hard seltzers, either Jameson or Jim Beam, depending on what they feel like giving us. Always Liquid Death on there, too. Then we get turkey pinwheel sandwiches and carrots and hummus, but we established a policy today that after 24 hours, the turkey pinwheels and the hummus and carrots have to go, because we found some old turkey sandwiches today. We also get bananas, but usually we try and finish them either night of or the next morning, because we have had some incidents of leaving them up in the sun and forgetting about them, and then they turn brown and no one wants to eat them. So, yeah, we try and finish those as fast as we can and make sure no one steps on them and makes the whole van smell like bananas. Yes. The weights were an attempt to stay in shape while on the road. We ended up, I ended up getting a Planet Fitness membership a couple weeks in, because I was not using these as much as I thought I would. Also, cardio for the vocals. But this is for, like, upper body stuff, and then we've got the 20s for, like, squats. There's two of each of them in there. We wish we used them more. A lot of times we put a bag, like, whoever's currently on the back bench will have their bag here, so that when you lay across, you can kind of, like, level it out and actually lay down flat here. So we're always filling that gap, but usually with whoever's currently in the back bench. Is my little cooler over there, too? Oh, yeah. Kayla's cooler is sick. Another thing. I don't know if you want to talk about this. Another, just something to punish Jamie with the Iron Maiden, and yeah, oh, there's some spoiled things in there. Is that a turkey sandwich? Yeah. That's an old turkey sandwich, and that's part of why we established the 24-hour rule. That smells bad. Oh, this is Kayla's thing, right? No. Oh, that is our touring drummers. Is this his switch? I think so. I didn't know that it even fits in here. This is great. He said he would put it away. Um, he loves playing Smash Brothers. We kind of play Smash with all the other bands. I kick their ass. That's that. I don't know. The touring photographer for May Day Parade also has Smash, like, cracked on a Steam Deck, so has all of the characters, but we can play with other controllers, too, because playing with the Joy-Cons is tough. It's, uh, it's, what, uh... The bar? Yeah, oh, sorry, it's the bar. The bar is closed currently. So, yeah, like we mentioned, on our rider, we have either Jim Beam or Jameson, and obviously we don't always finish it, so just in case, we keep the bar under here, and, you know, sometimes people will stop by when we're hanging out in the van, and it's nice to be hospitable when that happens, so. Uh, we also have this solar panel here up in the window. It both acts as, like, a sunshade, but it charges up this battery here, um, and I utilize it to charge my laptop and my phone for up to, like, two days at a time. Like, one afternoon in the sun will do it, so it's pretty sweet. Somehow, there's still bugs on the back of the van. That means they must be flying into it when we're parked, you know? They're backing up at warp speeds. So, I am the lead Tetriser for the back of the van. I'm also the smallest, so here's my back, at least. So, we try to keep it as organized as possible, merch, gear, right? We don't want our vinyl getting crushed or anything. Um, but yeah, generally, it's all filled with gear, and then once we load out, Amy and I will kind of hang out in the back before the show just to get a little bit of peace and quiet. It's super nice. I like that. This is where they do their vocal warm-ups. And vocal warm-ups are essentially lying across the back of the van and blasting, like, pop bangers that I feel hit different parts of my range. Um, it's just so, like, nobody else has to witness that. Thanks for checking out the van. We're Like Roses. Our EP, Stuck, is streaming everywhere, and you can follow us on Instagram for updates on tour dates and everything else. The Instagram is likerosesca, by the way. At likerosesca.