Return to Dust - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2089 - 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, Return to Dust, while on Pop Evil's "What Remains North America Tour" with Devour The Day and Oni. Return to Dust is currently supporting their newest EP, Speak Like the Dead.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 6, 2025 Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH RETURN TO DUST: Facebook - https://facebook.com/RETURNTODUSTofficial Instagram - https://instagram.com/returntodustband Twitter - https://twitter.com/Returntodustbnd  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 00:30 Driver's Area 02:46 Middle of the Van 05:20 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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00:00What's up? We'll return to dust. I'm Matty. I'm Graham. And we're going to show you our van today.

00:15So we're currently on tour with Pop Evil and we're traveling in this thing. We're basically living

00:20in it and it's going good so far. Yeah, we're at the tail end of it. We just got out of Canada

00:26and we're back in the States and we're playing Chicago tonight. What's up? Yeah, so our situation,

00:32we kind of all drive, we hop, train shifts and stuff. Honestly, our tour manager, Stefan,

00:39does most of the driving. He's a trooper. I don't know what's in his blood, but he just goes

00:46and we're grateful for it. But yeah, so it's just, it's really just us, the van, our tour

00:52manager and currently our photographer, Zach. Everyone kind of sticks to their own, like

00:58they're in their own bubbles. You know, we've got the AirPods in, we've got the Steam decks

01:02rolling. So everyone's, you know, gaming or doing whatever they do on their own. There's

01:09a lot of fallout and oblivion currently. And yeah, sometimes we'll play, we have the TV

01:19back there, we'll get to that, but we play Smash pretty religiously. And that's kind of

01:25the on-wheel situation. All right, so Seb's got some daredevil going on right here. He's been

01:34reading all these. I don't know which one he's on right now, but Sebastian's usually up here

01:38because he can't drive. So he's designated passenger princess. And yeah, we got the Polaroid

01:45from the start of tour. We got like all of our stuff, like our backup cam, our, what's it

01:52called? Dash cam, just in case something goes wrong. We got a cooler right here filled with

01:57waters and some snacks. It runs 24 seven. So we basically always have a cooler because

02:04I feel like that's like, because we get fuel, you know? Yeah. Okay. One more thing. So we

02:10actually have a second battery underneath this seat right here, which powers the cooler and

02:15all of the electrical in the back. So I don't know if you can get right here, but basically

02:20that's our second battery and we did all the wiring to it. And that's a power inverter right

02:25there that converts the AC power to DC, right? Or DC to AC, something like that. Uh, and

02:32then there's an extension cord running to the back, which powers all the like amenities and

02:36stuff. We did this all ourselves, by the way. We're not electricians, but we made it work.

02:42Welcome. Welcome. Um, where do we even start? So we did this paneling ourselves, uh, just lots

02:54lots of Home Depot runs, um, before it was just kind of an empty sprinter shell. And, uh, before

03:01we weren't pulling a trailer. Now we are pulling a trailer. So all of this back room has opened

03:06up, put a couch in, all this paneling, like I said, stained the wood, made it cozy. It's

03:11kind of like a sauna. Um, with how much we sweat, it's a sauna. Well, we haven't properly

03:18done a summer tour, so it'll probably get pretty fucking hot. Um, but yeah, so just basic shelving

03:25and stuff. This actually folds completely flat. Uh, kind of see. So this will come down.

03:33Um, this will come down, um, and this will go flat. It's basically a clean size bed. Um,

03:42pots and pans. Yeah, we cook on the road. Um, we have a grill in the back with a little

03:48propane grill. So I'll like make us like some steak and eggs or like chili or something

03:53like that. Just like breakfast stuff or lunch stuff. We do have a microwave. Yes. Um, and

03:58that's being powered by the second battery. Yeah. So basically like the, the microwave

04:03and all the like high powered stuff are powered by the second battery, which, um, I don't

04:07know if you're like any electricians are watching, but, uh, it's isolated from the first one.

04:11So whenever you turn the car off, the alternator shuts off and it tells the second battery to

04:16stop draining from the first one, but the alternator still charges it. So it's a good situation.

04:20So we don't drain our, uh, our starting battery. Uh, and yeah, I mean, we've got some curtains

04:26to block out the light. Uh, we actually built this whole like second storage area up here.

04:31This big cubby wasn't here before. Um, and then yeah, all this behind the woods, like all

04:36insulated and stuff. Uh, we built all these shelves, um, little coat racks and stuff.

04:43It's comfy. So welcome to the back. We have some fan art up here. Uh, this fan Brooklyn

04:49shruvel, she did this of us and, uh, Zach actually took some of these photos and, uh, and she decided

04:55to draw it and bring it to us in an Omaha show. So it was really sweet. Um, and then we got

05:00like our favorite records up here, uh, Yassified. Yeah. Around the Fur Lady. Um, Yassified Soundgarden

05:08Pearl Jam Flyer. Uh, yeah, we got all of our like cubbies storage up here. Um, there's a whole

05:15bunch of drawers or cabinets that we made, um, to just kind of magnetize. We got snacks up there.

05:21Uh, everyone has their own cubby pretty much. And then London usually puts his stuff up there

05:26in the front. All right. So we got the full band here.

05:28Hello. I'm Seb. I play guitar.

05:31I'm London. I play drums.

05:33We have these nice, uh, edifier speakers right here that, uh, installed and they're really nice.

05:42Um, get the base cut clean in there. And then we have a TV that we play our video games on

05:49that we actually haven't really played video games on at all this time, but that's all right.

05:55This is these drives, dude. And also it's bumpy and whatever. And also the Swish has been in the Onibus.

06:01Yeah. Yeah. I think it's cool to mention this is also, or it was a wheel well.

06:06It was a wheel well. Yeah. We basically built a frame around it. So it's, you know, pretty sturdy,

06:11but then we put upholstery, um, to make it all comfy and stuff. And now it's just kind of like a shelf slash,

06:18you know, ours. So we've got a coffee machine right here. A little Keurig.

06:23The Goat. Yeah. A big old Chris Cornell. Yeah. The Goat. He watches over us while he makes our coffee.

06:31Um, so this actually opens up. A bunch of pillows and blankets live under here.

06:36Um, and, uh, anytime we want to smuggle someone or something.

06:42I live down there somewhere.

06:44Over the border.

06:46Um, we totally could.

06:48Should the drum head?

06:50Oh, yeah.

06:52This is actually the drum head from, uh, either Song Temple or Rockville. It says it on the back.

06:58One of them. Yeah.

07:00Oh, dude, yeah. This is a snack drawer.

07:02There was a recent, um, there was a gas station that would add a clearance rack and we just bought it out.

07:08So we got some fiber bars, um, some French fiber bars, right?

07:13Um, and then some little Velveetas. These little cute guys.

07:17These are some, like, ginger, uh, like, honey crystal instant beverage packets that my dad got us.

07:23Um, they're really, uh, good for, like, if your stomach's shit after eating, like, some terrible food on tour.

07:29Uh, these will help you.

07:30Um, and then just, like, some chips, some, uh, some Nutri-Grain bars.

07:35These little immune, like, packets right here. These are absolutely essential.

07:40I've been drinking one of these every single day and I've not been sick on this tour, knock on wood.

07:45And, uh, and hopefully it stays that way. So, yeah.

07:49And then, um, all the, like, cooking utensils and whatnot are all over here.

07:53I got, like, a mixing bowl. I got, like, a cutting board and, like, some, uh, yeah, there's more tape.

07:59There's the tape. Yeah, there's more of that there.

08:01There's some surprises in here for sure.

08:03Um, there's, like, knives and spatulas and, uh, like, the cutting board, like, all that stuff over there.

08:09So that, um, yeah, and we have some cast iron so that whenever we cook we just drag all that stuff out

08:14and make some eggs in a Walmart parking lot or something.

08:17All right, we're returned to dust. Thanks for checking out our van.

08:20Um, we're, uh, we're about to go on tour with Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace.

08:24And we've got an EP coming out this summer.

08:26So a lot of new stuff coming your way.

08:28But thanks for hanging with us right now.

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