Jack Antonoff and Hayley Williams Talk About the Difficulties Young Bands Face When Touring

Rolling Stone

Hayley Williams and Jack Antonoff talk about the financial burdens young bands face when on the road: "I was just talking about this the other day. Like how I lost a a large chunk of my innocence the first time I realized that we had made enough money to get gas to the next show but we had to give like half of it to the venue."

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00:00Why do they still take our merch?

00:01And I'm fine, but like, you know, like when I was a steel train,

00:04it's like handing over, you know, a hundred bucks

00:08that was going to go in the gas tank.

00:09Like, just stop.

00:10I was just talking about this the other day,

00:12like how I lost like a large chunk of my innocence

00:16the first time I realized like we had made enough money

00:19to get gas to go to the next show,

00:21but we had to give like half of it to the venue.

00:23And I was like, what?

00:25And my dad was like, this is America.

00:27Literally, I remember it too.

00:28It's insane.

00:28And I was just sort of like, I've had that firsthand,

00:32you know, regardless of how anyone wants

00:33to rewrite the origin story.

00:34It's like, I've seen it from every level

00:36and I know how hard it is to be someone who plays for no one.

00:39Yeah, right.

00:40But, you know, that's tough and that's character building.

00:44What fucks me off is why is drawing a few hundred people

00:49not an honest living?

00:50Because that's so hard to do.

00:51All right.

00:52So, let's think.

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