Slow Crush - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2139 - 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 shoegaze band, Slow Crush, while on their US & Canada 2025 tour with Faetooth, Flooding, Pure Hex, and Nevermind. Slow Crush is currently supporting their newest album, Thirst.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - September 12, 2025 Location - Reggies in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH SLOW CRUSH: Facebook - https://facebook.com/slowcrushband Instagram - https://instagram.com/slowcrushband Twitter - https://twitter.com/slowcrushband  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 Intro 00:38 Skip Intro 01:07 Driver's Area 05:58 Middle of the Van 11:22 Back of the Van 12:30 Trailer  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, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, 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, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00This is my first time in the front of the van. I'm a backseat princess. Here we have

00:05a collection of edibles. We have a little duck that we were that we were gifted in Allentown.

00:30Hi, I'm Isa from Slowcrash and this is Greg, our driver. Hello. And we are here on our full

00:46US headline tour for our new album Thirst, together with our friends Fade Tooth and Flooding

00:51at the minute. Right now we are just about to play our eighth show on the tour at Reggie's

00:57and Chicago, which is, I believe, sold out. And we're super excited. So thank you for

01:03having us on Lesson Vaders. So yeah, on this tour, I'm pretty much doing all the driving,

01:10which is fun. I enjoy it. And also tour managing for this one and having fun with that. And

01:19just being cool. Okay, I guess. Thanks. That's all. Yeah, we do have a couple of longer stretches

01:24on the route, so we may shift it up a little. Yeah. Get Greg to lay back in the back and

01:31not sleep because he does not trust anyone else driving. It's not me. It's a nice experience.

01:37Yeah. But yeah, we love him and he's a great driver, so feel free to book him after we're

01:43done with him. We will keep him with more priests, I promise. Yeah, this is my first time in the

01:49front of the van. I'm a backseat princess at the minute. But no, it's comfy. It's comfy up here.

01:57Usually Andy, our merch guy. He's a merch guy. He's got two pillows. So he's got one where he

02:06sits and cuddles it, and the second one he puts behind him. Yeah. And then he's usually asleep

02:15or listening to music, which is fine. I don't mind it. I listen to pretty much whatever I'm feeling

02:25in the day or like in that moment. It is literally from Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey to a band called

02:34Colch, a band called... It's just as wide as it can go. Andy and I listen to a lot of like older pop

02:42punk stuff. I saw Greet Death on earlier. Yeah, Greet Death. And On Chair Expert has been on. Yep,

02:47lots of podcasts. It is a wide range. Most of the time, I try to be respectful in the back

02:56and I have the speakers just kind of up front, but occasionally I'll put it in the back when

03:01everybody's feeling like energized or needs a boost and I'm just like, all right, cool.

03:05After shows, sometimes our ears are a little bit, um, a little bit sensitive or, uh, over,

03:12overexerted. So sometimes we just, like, make it quiet in the back. Yeah. But obviously Greg

03:18needs his wiki wiki music. Of course, of course. I honestly listen to podcasts when I feel most

03:24tired because that is like, a good podcast will just keep you engaged and like, keep you like,

03:29go, can you do this? Sorry. And then of course, these, uh, fancy old Red Bulls that I, uh,

03:37hate admitting that I drink as much as I do, but yeah. Um, yeah. So up here, I usually have my charger

03:44cables, uh, just for all that stuff. Phone mount, typical stuff. Um, this is my cow captain,

03:52instead of co-captain. Uh, my niece, this is my niece's cow that I try to take on most of my tours,

03:59uh, just as like a little fun thing. Um, these are my, uh, the sickest shades that I don't remember

04:08where they came from. I bought them as a joke because I would never actually wear something

04:12like this. But now he does every day. But now I do every day because they're very comfortable. Uh,

04:16and when I put them on, instead of Greg, I am Papa Yui because I'm popping U-turns all the time.

04:23It's like Superman. Exactly. Yeah. So, so Papa Yui, uh, and now I'm Greg again. Um,

04:31so those are my driving shades. I have my normal, normal sunglasses as well. We have a stack of

04:39stickers from Atomic Music. Shout out to Atomic Music. Shout out to Atomic Music. They hooked us up with a

04:44base cab, last minute, um, just before tour started. And, uh, then we also have our drug of

04:52choice on this tour. Dayquil! We've all, um, we've all caught a cold in the first week of tour. So,

04:59I guess better to have it on the first, at the beginning of the tour than, rather than somewhere

05:03in the middle or towards the end. We are all kind of getting over it. So, um, Chicago will be spared,

05:09hopefully. Um, yeah, we have a small... Snacks and trash. It's a mix of snacks and trash. You kind

05:15of have to... Trash snacks. Guess what you're getting. But, I mean, crackers, crunchy things to

05:21keep you awake, uh... And trash. Semi-healthy things to keep you awake, and then trash, yeah. Yeah.

05:26Um... So, we also carry a raccoon on board. Oh yeah. Yeah. And then, uh, Andy has his stack of,

05:32uh, caps. So, what's he got here? He's got ingrown, relapse, and I don't know what... It's a primitive

05:38man. Oh yeah, it's a primitive man! Yeah. Primitive man. Our buddy's primitive man. He is also a

05:42primitive man's merch guy. And then his pants, and we have some tied pods here. So, we do do laundry.

05:51We do do laundry. I'm close to it. Too bad. Right now. All right. So, here we have our collection of edibles.

06:01Edibles. But they're clean edibles. Um, yeah. There is just a mixture of stuff that we've, like,

06:07bought on the road, and also stuff that, uh, have been on our rider. Um, we have some protein

06:13muesli bars. We've got some granola, some warm muesli bars or biscuits, um, ricola, so throat sweets.

06:23A bunch of liquid IV, because you've got to keep hydrated on tour. And then we have some pasta,

06:28some pasta sauce. So, uh, we tried to get Airbnbs, and when we have enough time, then we can cook a big

06:35family meal, um, and just have a relaxing night in with a bottle of wine, maybe. Um, so yeah.

06:42Pasta has been on the menu. Some olive oil, some fruits, and some croissants, apparently.

06:52So yeah, that's in the dry food. And then we also have a cooler that has some, some more veggies,

06:59cheese, some immunity juice, um, some drugs, some insulin. Yeah, a guitar player is, uh, diabetic,

07:09so we've got to keep that cool. Um, and yeah, some more veggies, uh, oat milk, almond milk,

07:20more fruit, and hopefully none of it will expire. Yeah. Yeah, so it's, it's a plug-in cooler. Luckily,

07:26Gregor was able to be, to find one for this tour. Um, it's been... It's too big, but I'm sorry.

07:32It's too big, but it's fine, but it works. It's got its own seat. Yeah. Um, we're traveling with nine

07:37people in LL11, so we've got space for the cooler. The cooler is full. Usually it's Freddy, our drummer,

07:46and his girlfriend Irene that sits here. Um, and so they, they have all the snacks. They are the masters

07:53of snacks, and they also have some puzzles to, to do along the way. All right, so row two, this is

08:03where Ari, our sound engineer, and Nick, our guitar player with the longest legs in the world sits. Um,

08:10they do tend to switch spots occasionally, so both have their pros and cons. Um, this is quite a tight

08:17seat apparently, so it's not for big butts, but it's got all of the leg space, which Greg and I,

08:24sadly don't need. Yeah, we don't need leg space. It's not sad, it's not a sad thing. Yeah, we also need

08:28leg space. Wait, yeah. Yeah. It's fine not having leg space. And then this one, obviously you can lie back.

08:37So, but we also have a lot of luggage, so sometimes there is no space to lie back.

08:42This is another cooler that Ari picked up at a Trader Joe's. Um, it is also full of snacks.

08:49Um, he has apparently bought a huge box of saltwater taffy. I didn't know that.

08:56Ari eats the rainbow. He has very colorful snacks. Um, also some Gatorade. More, more colorful snacks.

09:03Um, and some, some noodles. Yeah. That's good. That's good. That's healthy. And also some seaweed,

09:12roasted seaweed. And water. So that's in there. So one very important life hack is if you want to watch

09:22your Netflix or whatever, you can stick your cell phone just under the headrest and then

09:28your hands free. Nice. My domain of trash. More trash. Judgment. More trash and more food.

09:37Um, yeah. So here, this is, this is where I usually sit. Um, I have a little caddy of things like cups and,

09:45and paper towels. And we have a little duck that we were, that we were gifted in Allentown. Um, so the,

09:53the promoter of production, um, she had a whole collection, a whole family of, of ducks and she

10:00wanted to give it to me. I didn't want to take it to, from her, but then she asked me if I wanted

10:04to see her duck collection. And so I, I allowed her to give it to me because she had tons. And so

10:09thank you. Thank you, Maddie. I love the duck. Um, we also have wardrobe.

10:14So this is where my, my, my stage dresses live along with some more hydration and snacks. I think

10:24Andy's got a couple back there. Andy has a whole crate full of, uh,

10:28he shipped like three or four boxes of just random, yeah, energy drinks and

10:34Redcon energy something to my house before the tour. Um, and then we have more food. So we have more

10:43ramen, always easy to eat and tour. Um, we have a bottle of wine, which is, I don't know how old,

10:52so I'm not sure if this is still drinkable. It may have turned into vinegar. Um, we shall find out.

10:58Uh, then some protein shakes also from Andy, I think. Some empty bottles of water. Um, what else do I have?

11:06I have my van shoes. Well, slippers that I also wear outside of the van. So yeah, I don't know.

11:12You've got to be comfy. Uh, we're in here for a long time. Yeah. Um, and that's it. All right.

11:18We can't open the van completely because of the trailer, but, um, as you can see, we are very organized.

11:27Uh, yeah, we have just some merch stock, uh, and some luggage in here and that's pretty much it.

11:33Yeah. Yeah. So we have some vinyls in here. We like to keep these in the van so that it's

11:39temperature controlled. Um, and then our personal luggage that we take in and out there. We use

11:44in hotels and stuff. Um, we try to keep heads and guitars in the van as well, just so they're not

11:49getting jostled around and all that, especially they use tube heads. So we want to keep those as, uh,

11:56uh, I'll say comfortable as possible, but yeah, you know, temperature controlled and, and, uh,

12:03and shock, shock, shock. That's the better way to put it. Yeah. Thank you.

12:07Yeah. And some, some purchases that we've done along the way. Yeah.

12:11We have been shoe shopping. Um, it wasn't me. I haven't bought anything in this trailer.

12:15Uh, and, uh, yeah, crusty cowlish. Sorry. So, this, this is a wonderful thing. Uh, I highly suggest

12:28every band invest in one. It's called Snatch Latch. Uh, you, granted I've unlocked the trailer before,

12:34but you, there's no way to get bolt cutters up in there and all that. It's a pain in the ass to

12:41get off and all that, but it's also really nice because it just locks down onto this and then

12:50right through there and then you can't open that up once that thing's on. So, I highly suggest

12:55Snatch Latch. Yeah, you're good. Uh, and then, I mean, it's a pretty typical straightforward trailer,

13:05uh, six by 12. Um, U-Haul doesn't supply you with lights. So, I bought a little magnetic light

13:14and just lived there. Highly suggested. We've got some racks for the merch, so if there aren't any

13:21racks in the, in the venue, then we can just bring our own in. So, this is something that I love and I

13:28try to bring it on almost every U.S. tour that I can. I was playing a house show in Richmond, Virginia,

13:34where I live in like 2011 or 2012 and just saw this down there and they're like, yeah sure you

13:41can have it. And I think it's been all over the U.S. and Canada and wherever I've been. Um, so, it's a

13:49rib stick. It's a wiggle stick. Uh, try to bring it on every tour that I can. Uh, and it's super fun.

13:55So, shout out to this thing that still lives on. Uh, yeah, we've got racks. We've got, uh,

14:03Andy's world for merch. And then, at the end of each show, everybody brings out everything. Um,

14:09and I'm usually the one that Tetris' it in. Um, and we've got a very organized way that it

14:19stays loaded so that it's not super nose heavy or tail heavy. Um, and yeah, it's, it, it works, so.

14:28All right, thanks for checking out our van. We have been Slow Crush and this is our new album,

14:34First, out on Pearno's Records. You can grab it on all of your, all of your favorite

14:42streaming platforms. Streaming platforms. Uh, you can buy it off our van camp. Come to a show. Uh,

14:50we are still touring until the 6th of October, so we will be in the States for a long time. Oh,

14:56but this will come out afterwards. Yeah. Sorry. Um, but yeah,

14:59we're also touring in Europe after this comes out. So, come see us. We'll be back in the States as

15:04soon as we can. So, thirst. Thirster. Thirsts.

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