THICK - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2096 - 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 punk band, THICK, while on tour with Slaughterhouse. THICK is currently supporting their newest singles, "Mother" and "Father."  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 13, 2025 Location - Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH THICK: Facebook - https://facebook.com/thickinbrooklyn Instagram - https://instagram.com/thickinbrooklyn Twitter - https://twitter.com/thickinbrooklyn  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 06:08 Middle of the Van 12:30 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 I'm Nikki. And I'm Kate. And we're from Thick. And this is Large Marge. She's proud and in

00:17charge. We're on tour with Slaughterhouse right now on the Northeast. Going up to Canada. Yeah

00:25ending in New York which is exciting. Love a hometown show. Yeah this is like a week-long tour.

00:30Nineteenths I think in Pooza Fest in Montreal in the middle. Which would be really fun. We've never

00:35played Pooza before so. No. I'm excited. Yay. Yeah. Yay for festivals. So we usually drive in shifts.

00:43Three to four hour shifts. Right? Yeah. And what are the rules do we have? Our rules are we try to get

00:51Nikki not to drive with her knees while she's eating and driving. My favorite thing is to drive like this.

00:55You know eating something. It's not very safe. Don't tell her parents that. I learned it from my dad. Oh okay

01:01Matt it's your fault. Um and we like to have an awake driver at night or awake. Definitely an awake

01:09driver ideally. An awake co-pilot at night is important because you need someone to talk to

01:14otherwise it gets really lonely. And we all learn like who's a good co-pilot and who's not. Like I'm not

01:18good at night time co-piloting. She snores. I'm okay. Rosie's good at night time. Rosie's good.

01:23Jillian no. Jillian no. Elena refuses to co-pilot so far this tour in general. Elena just sits there

01:29the entire time with those glasses on. This is my spot. Yeah she's a backseat baby. Sometimes I

01:34wonder I'm like did we forget Elena? I've gotten scared twice this tour. I truly have. Oh yeah so

01:41that's it. Also driver gets to pick the tunes or the podcast. Tunes are podcasts. Lots of scary podcasts.

01:49No murder. No no true crime though. We don't do murders. No when it's too scary. When it's too

01:55scary we don't like the scary podcast. Um we learned a game from Together Pangea of song roulette which

02:05is fun to play where you play a song and then the next person has to cue up a song that's related

02:10in some way. Thematic, lyrics, producers, band members, whatever and then everyone has to guess

02:15how they're related. So we were doing that all day yesterday. That was fun. And what else? There's

02:19another game we haven't played yet but we do it sometimes where you have to do the opposite of

02:23the band name. Oh yeah. So you say a band name but you say it in the opposite way and they gotta guess

02:28the band. So um like I'll do it. Small, small mouth. Big. Big. Smash mouth? Big. Bright eyes? Big. Big teeth? Big.

02:40Big teeth? Big smile? No. Small mouth? You guys. Look at the opposite of the mouth. Eyes? Bright eyes? Big eyes? No. Big. Big girl.

02:47Big mouth? Small. Tiny gums? What? Big teeth? Dead teeth? Dead tooth? Dead tooth? No. It's like a, it's like a,

02:57a famous band that we all grew up with. Spice Girl. Okay so this is how we spend our time. Am I telling

03:05about the answers? No it doesn't. Fat lip. Oh wait, that's what you saw. Okay never mind. That's what

03:15cut it off. If I had the ox. You do scary podcast. I'll just do like Heart Starts Pounding. I listen

03:22to a lot or Two Girls, One Ghost has been my new thing. Uh or like we have like Spotify playlists or

03:29we'll get into like an album kick but like that's kind of random and on the mood. The new vinyl thing. Oh

03:33oh yeah if anyone buys the vinyl on tour that's a rule we have to listen to the entire album in the

03:37car that day. And I've been on a pop kick which is very funny. Lots of um every member of Blackpink

03:47plus some Olivia Rodrigo and Chapel Rhone. Yeah. And uh yeah it keeps you awake. It's a bop.

03:55All of it's a bop. I think I usually do. We did a lot of Otherworld yesterday. Yeah. Oh yeah that's

03:59a good one. We had a Whitney moment. I had a Whitney Houston moment. That is true. That was fun.

04:03I'm usually working on my laptop. I haven't inflicted my Beatles moments on you guys.

04:07I have a little. To the extent that I could. I listen to uh I like to listen to like astrology

04:13podcasts and um cult like documentary podcasts. Those are really fun. I like those. I need

04:22something that's like keeping me engaged while I'm driving rather than music. I like podcasts better.

04:27Yeah I like um uh National Parks After Dark and Dungeons and Daddies which are two totally different

04:34things. Um one's a spooky scary podcast and like about the parks and the other one's like

04:41some comedians playing Dungeons and Dragons. Why haven't they listened to Dungeons and Dragons?

04:45Because Nicole doesn't like it. No. Oh okay. Forget it. Never mind. That's not happening.

04:48It's been nerdy for her. It's okay because Elena doesn't drive anyway. Yeah Elena just sits there.

04:52I'm just working on it. What was that um My Dad Wrote a Porno. Oh that was funny too.

04:57What was that one? That's what it was called. My Dad Wrote a Porno. It was a podcast. It was hilarious.

05:01Yeah that was good too. Where these people read this kid's dad wrote a screenplay for a porno and then they just

05:08read it on the podcast and it was hilarious. But we should talk about what we mostly do in this

05:14van which is the women's wellness thing. I mean like we stole this from the hotel.

05:19But don't tell anyone. Nicole! We have our little pictures so our good luck charm for this tour

05:26and I mean the biggest thing we always do is make sure the key's on the land. This is the biggest

05:30thing for us. Kate has lost the keys in the van. No only one time. Like we had to unpack

05:37the van a couple times. One time. One time we had to unpack. We have these now. Also we all have

05:42giant tote bags and it's always floating around random bags so it's easiest to find if it's a bright

05:46color and large. So you can hear it. Like Marge. Large like Marge. Other than that yeah we just have

05:54boring coffee cups. Usually there's a bunch of water but we drank all the water yesterday. Rosie drank all of them.

05:59This is our middle of the van where we hide all of them. Fully equipped with beautiful land.

06:10Uh sometimes you know you'll catch us doing some riffs. Oh yeah. Oh it feels good. It feels so good.

06:19But that's enough of that. I'm Jillian and I play guitar. I'm Rosie. I play drums. I'm Elena. I'm the

06:28emotional support hype woman that comes along and I do merch. I have another band with some of them

06:34and that's I just hang. I'm the professional hanger. She's a good hanger. Non-musical band member

06:42officially. So usually I feel like the sleeping corner is this area. Usually there's like a big

06:48suitcase here so you can like kick your feet up on it. Like really just lounge back like this you

06:53know. It's pretty nice. Over here we usually have our station. We ate it all already but we usually

07:00have a food like bank over here where you know we just divvy it out like chips and dip and hummus and

07:08veggies and stuff like that. That lives here. This seat is definitely a mix of like sometimes there's

07:14some napping but it's mostly like the working and like kind of hanging with the front part.

07:18Yeah that is like the nap area. This is hyper vigilance because you can't really relax in this

07:24seat. I love this seat. She loves this seat. And I love this seat. And that's far removed. That's like a

07:28whole other country back there. I should not sit back there. I'd be too lonely. No and on long rides

07:34these are the therapists and this is the hot seat. Oh this is the hot seat. So if you're sitting in this

07:38seat we are going deep dive into all of your darkest and most complicated emotions and we

07:44will not let you off the hook until we have had some kind of emotional breakthrough. So yeah if

07:50we have other bands sometimes swap members on long rides just for fun between our bands and then

07:56they don't know it yet but they get put in the hot seat. Oh yeah. Like tell us about your childhood.

08:00We're like telling you about all your mommy and daddy issues right now. We're gonna discover them.

08:04We really like shadow work. We really like you know inner childhood trauma, tarot, internal family

08:12systems, family systems, diagnoses. I'm a therapist but these are all witches you know. This is the

08:20covenant over here. They're all witchy. I just kind of guide them with a little bit of a like tools over

08:25here. But you can always talk. I feel like sometimes this is the hot seat because usually this becomes

08:30the hot seat when Nicole's sitting over there and she'll just turn to you and be like so.

08:34That sounds interesting. Tell me more about that. How does that make you feel? Interesting. What does

08:41that remind you of? You're good at that. Kate's good at that. I'm like huh. There's a connection I

08:47already see and I'm waiting for you to get there. Okay we'll do it. Kate's like Kate you will have

08:52an analysis already in your mind and you like basically lead and I'm like I just like I'm like

08:55okay I'll wait. That's because you're a professional and I'm not so I don't have to be polite. Do you think that maybe

09:01it's because you're a little bitch? That's kind of what Kate says. I have never said those words.

09:08I probably have thought them though. I like thought them. No they're my favorite people in the world.

09:15But this I want to come in here though. This is actually the best part. You can stand up all of us.

09:20All of us. I want to stand. Oh yeah this is pretty nice. This is the standard. I can stand on the seat.

09:26Well almost. We'll have a dance party. Like literally. I'm six foot four in these and I can

09:30stand up straight. This is crazy. It's great. I don't know how this we we walked into this. Sometimes

09:36we host wrestling matches back here. We have like dance parties. Dice games. This is actually the

09:41private party after the show. We move all this stuff into the hotel room and then have a party

09:45in the van. Yeah. Back here. What else goes on in here? We got the tarot. We haven't done tarot yet

09:54in this tour. We need to. Elena's been busy working. Yeah. We play a lot of dice cards. We play a lot of dice.

10:02What else? Actually Jillian is we call her Jilly two checks because you don't she double checks

10:08everything and she'll she'll count all the gear to make sure we have it all. Yeah honestly that's

10:13two hard cases two softs. Yeah she's the Virgo so she's always counting everything. And I'm always

10:18the last one in the van. That's probably why I like the seat too because I'm in the in the venue being

10:22like all right let me just do one last round of checks. That's true. We could have all checked separately.

10:29I have to do it. It's like I think it's a Virgo OCD type problem. And I lose my phone about five times

10:34the van. Rosie always finds it. Yeah. Or tells me it's in your purse nipples. Yeah. She loses her

10:40phone in her purse six times a day. In the van. In the van. Another reason why we need a lanyard

10:44on the keys. See it's not just me. It's not just Kate. See it's not just me. Where are the keys? Where's my

10:53phone? Where's my wallet? Where's my passport? Oh that's another thing we do. I haven't checked that

11:00every time we leave. We're going to Canada on this tour so every time we change locations we go okay

11:07everyone check they have their passport. Because you never know. Things fall out bags. I'm anxious.

11:12I haven't checked. I usually check once or twice a day. I haven't checked today. And it's not it's in

11:15the hotel room. Oh no. It's there. I know it is. So the personal items like Kate brought a huge

11:22suitcase for all her big boots and everything. There's some of them yeah. That's amazing. They are big. And that

11:29goes right here where she rests her feet. I needed something with wheels so I didn't have to carry

11:33those around. I feel like we should get endorsed by Patagonia because there's a bunch of Patagonia

11:36Oh yeah we all have the same duffel. They go right here. And they pile up. We just carry big duffel

11:41bags and put on your back. Yeah. I have one of those in my wheelie suitcase actually. And then we have

11:46totes. Oh show them the tote bags of our clothing like our show. Oh yeah we make go bags. Yeah. Go bags are

11:52great. So you put your show clothes for the day and then what you're going to wear that night in the hotel.

11:56So then you don't have to go into your giant suitcase which we usually have. Jeans, jacket,

12:01extra makeup, straightening iron. We all have little totes. Which one is yours? Oh this one? I just

12:06brought my whole. Oh excuse me Julian. Go bags. See we all have like little go bags with our outfits

12:12for the night and makeup and whatever. PJs, toiletries. So we don't have to bring all the bad stuff but

12:18that's like something we learned to make touring easier. Yeah. Yeah. Make all of your packing modular. Yep.

12:24And this is where the real heavy lifting comes in right back here. Oh yeah that's true.

12:30I'm building muscles finally again. After three days. Oh yeah our friend Richard taught us this.

12:39We didn't figure it out on the first floor. Open it full. Yeah we got mansplained about our van that we

12:44have been living in for a week. And it was helpful. It was a helpful mansplain. It was. He's allowed.

12:49Because we love it. Yeah. So here it is. Amps. Guitar cab, bass cab, extra guitar amp, guitar head.

12:59My bass head is somewhere in there because it's only about this big. And all the drum stuff.

13:04Drums, sax. Again this is not, this is the biggest van we've ever had. So this is again really nice.

13:10Usually we're like bent over like this. Yeah when you have to put everything in a lower transit

13:15it. Your back ends are hurting. Yeah. Trying to load this way. Yep. So this is actually really nice.

13:22Hertz rental. Hertz rental car. Hertz rental van. So the hardware is underneath and then we've got

13:29pick drum and then I think there's some right here. The toms are in this seat. Staff. And the snares over there.

13:36But yeah this isn't, usually we have everything Tetris to like the perfection. But we have so much space we

13:42don't even. Yeah we got lucky. Like they just gave us a massive tall giant. Oh man I love a good pack.

13:49A good van pack is a beautiful thing. But we'll show you something actually once he's caught. We'll show him

13:54punch our window. Oh yeah. First show. First show. This is actually the first

13:58thing that's ever happened to us. Violence to Large Marge. Yeah. Someone was violence

14:04floating. It's an agro energy right here. I don't know who did that. Chicago. Oh no it was Philadelphia.

14:13Philadelphia. People in Philly are crazy. Luckily we can still talk but Philly they're wild. I've never

14:20been to Philly and not seen someone get punched but this time our van got punched so I think that counts.

14:24Yeah it does. Okay well welcome to our van. Thank you for touring and doing our little mini cribs with us.

14:32We are on tour right now. We are recording at the end of the summer. Hopefully putting out a new album

14:37next year. Yep. And we're just excited. We're testing out all the new material on the road so if you catch

14:43us between now and then you get to be our guinea pigs. Yep. A bunch of new songs. Yeah. And you can find our

14:49tour dates and all the other information at thick.band. Nice and easy. Or follow us at thickinbrooklyn

14:56on TikTok. Instagram. Twitter. No no Twitter. We don't do Twitter. Threads. No we don't do it either.

15:06She's saying all the bad ones. Ignore half of that. No just thickinbrooklyn on Instagram. We don't

15:11support you like us. And Tumblr and Myspace. And Tumblr and Myspace. Yeah that I would do. Ask Jeeves about it.

15:19I don't know.

15:20I don't know.

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