Have you been sticking to your New Year’s resolutions or have they already fallen by the wayside? We’ve been checking in with some of your favorite bands to see what they’ve resolved to do in 2010. First up – Paper Route!
“Jesus Christ! It’s 3:00am, and we’re carrying a bong up the street!” This is one of those realizations you have while on acid. It takes you by surprise when you’re hit by its absurdity. Seriously, we are carrying a bright green bong in a neighborhood with roaming security, and three of us are walking up a well-lit street.
Okay. So, everyone wants to hear the full details about the accident we recently experienced on tour. Before I get into it, I have to say that all of us walked out (or climbed out) of that van in one piece. We are EXTREMELY lucky because 4/6 of us were not wearing seat belts. Before I tell you about the accident, I have to tell you what lead up to it.
In mid-September 2009 our first label release, Red Right Return, was slated to drop and we were all psyched to head out for a month-long tour with Framing Hanley. How kick ass is that? Unfortunately, touring isn’t as fun as it sounds. By the second day, I became ill with a stuffy head and cough. Yeah, I had caught a summer cold. Perfect. There isn’t anything more uncomfortable than having a cold while trapped in a van for eight hours every day!
It’s amazing when everything goes off without a hitch, especially when there are nine of you traveling around together in one van for weeks on end. I can’t quite remember even one day, on any tour, that didn’t involve some sort of problem. Okay, the van is broken again. Okay, we’ve circled this town seven times and we don’t think the venue exists. Okay, we’re all out of cigarettes and I think someone pissed in this Gatorade bottle by my pillow.
With a career dating back to 2003, Orange County’s Saosin has gained momentum and fans over the years- thanks in part to their extensive touring and festival appearances. To date, Saosin has been on four Vans Warped tours, a Rockstar Taste Of Chaos outing and 2007’s Projekt Revolution tour. Revolt had a quick Q&A Session with Beau Burchell.
As you probably know, we recently had a huge week. After 10 years of grinding, writing songs, and playing shows, we released our first major album, Time To Win Vol. I (yesss!). Even better, we were scheduled to perform live on MOD (just like TRL, but in Canada).
Back a few years ago, we were still traveling in two cars when we went on tour. One was always packed full of gear, and one was packed with us. We were heading back from SXSW in Austin, TX and in the middle of the night, in Bryant, AR something weird started happening with our car.
We were on our way to the big time… or so we thought. We had finally gotten up the courage and the money to do our first semi-national tour. We were fresh out of high school and had high hopes and little knowledge of how the whole tour thing worked. We had booked over 30 dates from Florida to Nashville, Chicago, and St. Louis and so on.
A year ago, we visited Russia for the first time, before the ‘crisis’ hit and the Russian’s were still riding high as the petro-dollars were rolling in. It was a time of hedonistic revelry like we have never experienced.
