Ultra Q - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2048 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the rock band, Ultra Q, while on tour with Anxious and Stateside. Ultra Q is currently supporting their newest album, Empty Eddy.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 6, 2025 Location - Cobra Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH ULTRA Q: Facebook - https://facebook.com/ultraqmusic Instagram - https://instagram.com/ultraq Twitter - https://twitter.com/UltraQmusic  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Driver's Area 04:33 Middle of the Van 07:43 Back of the Van  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.

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00:00Hey, what's up? We're Kevin and Enzo from UltraQ. Yeah, we're going to show you what's inside the

00:13van today. Let's see, we're on tour with Anxious right now and our good friend Stateside, also

00:19from California. Yeah, been on the road for about three weeks, got about one more week left. We're

00:26in Chicago right now and at Cobra Lounge. Yeah. Back in town. We made it here. We're live.

00:33One week left. Home stretch, but then on the wrong side of the country so we could drive

00:38it back. Yeah. So this is the front seat of the van. We all share the driving responsibility.

00:48Our dear drummer and fearless leader, Chris, is driving most of the time and then me and

00:55then Enzo and Jacob. I might drive the least, unfortunately. I'm a backseat warrior. Jacob

01:02likes driving in the morning. No one likes the home stretch, obviously, but I'd say mostly

01:11Chris and I are driving. But then once the drive hits over eight hours, it's like all four

01:16people are taking a shift for sure. Yeah. We tour with no crew. It's just the four of us

01:21in the van. And so we had no driver, no nothing, no tour managers or anything. So it's just us.

01:28So we kind of got a bunch of essentials up here. We got some Kleenex, gum. I'm knitting a scarf

01:35for my girlfriend. That's a scarf that was crocheted by my girlfriend. Yeah. So we keep

01:41a stash of sunglasses up here. Sunglasses. We got some rubber duckies. A Star Wars bouncy ball.

01:48Origami cream. Oh, wait. Origami cream. Little front. Yep. But most importantly, we've got our

01:57hand sanitizer and our wet wipes. Yeah, we are not dirty. We are not dirty folk. At least

02:02we try not to be. We keep it pretty clean and hope no one gets sick. We have first aid kit.

02:08First aid. Power. Knives. Chargers. Cough drops. We kind of got a bunch. This is kind of super

02:19random zone right here. Kind of all the things you need to stay healthy on tour. We got another

02:26one. Oh yeah, more first aid. More first aid. We're chilling on first aid. We don't have to

02:32go to Walgreens that much. No. But you know, we got tapes from bands we played with. Like, we

02:38played with this band in Minneapolis last night. Everybody takes one. So, I guess, in pretty

02:44much 99% of circumstances, the driver is on Ox. And I'd say Chris plays a lot. Chris is

02:52our fearless leader drummer. He's playing a lot of classics. He's playing, you know, he's

02:57playing, you know, some hits. Keeping everybody happy, I'd say. He's got a lot of classic rock,

03:02a lot of, a lot of Motown, a lot of, like, classic hits. Yeah, for the, for some of the

03:11heads, you know, classic albums for some of the music heads out there. That's nice to

03:15hear. Yeah. You know, some deep cuts that everybody knows, though. It's interesting. You

03:20know. Um, Kevin is playing a whole lot of scrams recently. It's getting a little bit interesting

03:28for long drives. Sorry. Sorry. A lot of, yeah, I appreciate it, you know, but, you know,

03:34it's. I'd be playing agriculture every day when I'm driving. It's a little bit much. Uh,

03:39I'm more of, like, a gentle, soft kind of guy in terms of, like, soft piano music. Oh,

03:44yeah. Apex Twin. Apex Twin. Or just, like, soft acoustic music. Like, Elliot Smith in the

03:50van is never. A lot of Wilco. Everyone's playing a lot of Wilco in the van. And Jacob just is

03:55on his, uh. He's always playing Power Pop. He's always playing Power Pop. Always, he's

04:01always on that. He does not, he does not falter. But that's, it's kind of playing in

04:06the van. Super noteworthy as well. We installed CarPlay into this van. We bought it in a government

04:13auction. Um. That is the way to go. And it was really low miles. We spent more than we

04:20would have liked on it. But, but the first thing we did is we put CarPlay in it. And we just,

04:24like, are able to plug in the phone and just have directions up. And obviously play music

04:29really easily. Take good care. Alright, well, welcome to the back. Or the middle

04:36section of the van. Um, I would say I spend most of my time here. I kind of hog it. And

04:42so I usually have, like, a neck pillow on and then jacket on top. And that becomes sort of,

04:49like, my bed. And you just, you just kick it right here. And you're just like,

04:53and you're just like,

04:55my zone. Um, I, I'm not a hog. I don't, I like, you know, we need to rotate. So I

05:01wouldn't say anyone's stuff is particularly. Yeah. In one spot. Even when we shift, like,

05:07in the middle of the drive, we're swapping out backpacks. You know, make sure everybody has

05:11what they need. Right now we have, unfortunately, we're bringing back, uh, a JCM 900 that we had to

05:18pick up in Minnesota. Um, so that's unfortunately blocking this. So it's, this is almost purely just

05:26a, either you're doing the thinker right here or you're, you're laying down. We don't travel with

05:31the trailer because it's so prohibitive. Like, you have to drive way slower. You can never find parking

05:38anywhere. Um, and if you can avoid it, it also costs more money. So if you can avoid it, which we do,

05:45most of the time, we try. And like, we have double roof racks on top of the van. And like, that is

05:51filled with merch. That's like, filled with boxes of t-shirts and vinyl. Um, another rule about our stuff,

05:59we all travel with one small suitcase and a backpack. That's not really a rule, but that's kind of what's

06:04ended up happening. Yeah. If it's not, if that doesn't happen, I get pissed. So wherever you're

06:09sitting, you bring your backpack with you. So if I'm driving, this is my backpack. If I'm driving,

06:13my backpack's right there and right next to it is the person who's sitting in the passenger seat.

06:17And if you're sitting in this row, your backpack goes right here. There's kind of all these designated

06:20locations. And in terms of trash, we don't have a trash can, but we're trying to take out things

06:27pretty periodically. We just, you know, we resorted to just things going into the wheel well or the footstep.

06:34We call it the pit of despair. It's great. It's a great, it's a great name for the pit of despair.

06:40Um, so you know, when you're done with your thing, you just, just goes in and then you,

06:44when you stop, try and take it out. That's kind of how life is on the, on the, on the open highway.

06:52Yep. Pit of despair. Pit of despair. We have our singer, Jacob in particular,

06:57but truly all of us, it's such, it's so hard to eat fruit and vegetables on tour.

07:02And you hit a grocery store, you get some apples, up some bananas.

07:05You can't have too much though. It changes your life. Yeah, it's true.

07:08It spoils and produces like stinky garbage. Yeah. So it's tough. It's tough. And that's one of the

07:17reasons to start. Yeah. So this is, this is the funniest looking part of our van.

07:21We have two rooftop boxes on this, which is how we, this is literally how we tour with no trailer.

07:30Um, it's filled with boxes of, of t-shirts and vinyl at all times. And because of not having a trailer,

07:36we have to restock more often than other bands would. But so up top, we got all this stuff.

07:42And then, let's see, I don't think this is open. On the inside, we've lined it all with this,

07:49or Chris, our drummer has lined it all with this reflective material that really is, helps darken

07:56up the back of the van. Yep. Makes it definitely easier to sleep in the back. Um, and also just

08:02doesn't allow you, I mean, we come from the Bay Area, which is like, the land of bands getting their

08:07vans broken into. Dude. Unbelievable. So it's just one more step to take in terms of like,

08:14people not seeing it. Death prevention. Yeah. It definitely, I'm sure it has deterred.

08:20I'm certain. Because yeah, all our gear goes back here. So in terms of the pack,

08:25I am usually in charge of the, of the Tetris, the Tetris and making it happen. Right now,

08:32we unfortunately have our gear in the venue. So you don't see the beauty of the pack, but

08:37somehow we do it every time. And literally every time it is like, I mean, to the back bench,

08:45it's just kind of straight up and just, it's kind of unbelievable. And I don't understand how we get

08:51it. I even put like guitars up in the window, like, like sandwiched between like the seat and the,

08:59yeah. But there, we barely make do. We barely make do. And then that's kind of how

09:07you know, we determine how much merch we can bring is, you know, we're like looking at it,

09:10we see how many bins we have. And then we're like, fill these guys up on top. And we're like,

09:16I guess this is kind of the max. And, but yeah, that's kind of, that's kind of how we roll.

09:22That's how we do it. This is obviously our suitcases usually don't come to the venue. So this is kind

09:29of what remains. But yeah, if we had to bring drums on the tour, it'd be all over. It'd be all over.

09:38We haven't had to do a tour in a long time though, where we brought drums probably

09:42two or three years ago when we toured at the Waves of Cloud, no thanks. It was the last time, but

09:46yeah, brutal. Well, that concludes this. And I guess we're going to be on tour for another week

09:53and come check that out with Anxious and Stateside. And you know, the last record we put out was called

09:58Empty Yeti. I'm really proud of it. That's kind of what we're touring on right now.

10:02I'm working on new music, but until then, yeah, peace. I don't know, anything else to say, Kevin?

10:08This is our van. Yeah, this is our van. Thank you very much.

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