Knoll - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2188 - 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 grindcore band, Knoll, while on tour with Agriculture. Knoll is currently supporting their most recent album, As Spoken.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - February 4, 2026 Location - Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH KNOLL: Facebook - https://facebook.com/knollgrind Instagram - https://instagram.com/knollgrind TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@knollfuneral Twitter - https://twitter.com/knollgrind  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 00:39 Skip Grind 01:03 Driver's Area 04:11 Middle of the Van 09:05 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, 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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00:00If you have night terrors though or something and you wake up and you

00:03Yeah, you you jolt like you're gonna hit your head on a 2x4 and it's gonna suck. This thing sucks

00:07by the way

00:09Don't put master locks on your trailer like they can very easily be bolt cut

00:39Hey, what's going on? This is Jamie from Knoll. We're on tour with agriculture right now playing Chicago tonight at

00:44the Empty Bottle

00:45We have a sold-out show and I'm here to show off our sweet sweet vehicle. We spent too much

00:50time

00:56Here we go

01:01This is the the front seat over here. I don't spend any time up here. The more that we've toured

01:07The more assigned seats have sort of become a thing not necessarily by order, but we just don't move at

01:13all anymore

01:13And I'm always in the backseat on my laptop or something so our guitarist one of our guitarists will be

01:18up here

01:19Co-piloting they just they just kind of insist on driving everywhere. It's just two guys

01:24Yeah, we do a lot of long drives sometimes we'll like trade in and out of the bunks that we'll

01:28look at later

01:29But for the most part, it's just those two well so that the two men aforementioned that's them. We got

01:34a sweet memoriam over here

01:37I guess they ever have to pull it out of the wreckage. You'll know

01:41Got a lot of stuff in our side door. We have like a massive thing of hand sanitizer

01:45We get Taco Bell after pretty much every show we really need it. We survive on it

01:50So a little game that we have is to pull this out and we disperse hand sanitizer

01:54But whoever's pumping it they pump like as much as possible before the person can pull their hands away, and

02:00it's a mess

02:01We got a whole bunch of CDs mostly is fucking garbage

02:04Let's say I think the first thing in here is chili peppers. So yeah, I don't even think we really

02:08need to go through that much. It's bad

02:11But you know when you're driving through the mountains in Canada or something

02:13It's nice to have like a little bit. I think we've had a bolt-thrower CD or like symbolic by

02:17death in there for over a year

02:20And that's usually just we'll just listen to that every time that we don't have connection or something, but uh

02:24Yeah, otherwise, it's just fun stuff. We've been really into that into that a late yellow eyes record. I think

02:30it's awesome

02:32Got our lighting of course for you know when you can't see and the headlights are dim

02:39Sharpie an Apple you know what they say about that. We don't have health insurance, so we kind of need

02:44to keep the doctors away

02:45We got this sweet robot over here. I don't know how to work it

02:49But I think I think you squeeze it and you plug it in and like automatically adapts to your phone.

02:54That's a recent addition. It's pretty awesome

02:57Yeah, I feel like there's not an incredible amount going on up here besides that we keep our hats up

03:02here. Oh

03:03Here's this

03:06This fell off of my beautiful board of electronics, and I need to I need to re-glue it. It's

03:11all hide glue though

03:12So I need to I need to get home and do it, but yeah, that lives up here right now

03:17Val sticker we have ski masks and hats up here fuck ice

03:22but we were in Minneapolis a couple nights ago and

03:26Yeah, we have these ski masks and we like took them off the dash because we look suspiciously

03:30Suspiciously like a vehicle that is doing that sort of thing. In fact, we actually had a lady

03:35Come out. They're like these drummers on the side of the street

03:39Protesting and she points at the drummers and then points at cam who was driving and she was like

03:42This is all for you like thinking that we were ice news. Yeah, it didn't feel good. I

03:49Don't know if we have anything cool in our glove box. There's probably some important documents and just a bunch

03:52of bullshit

03:53There's kind of like lamp remnants and wiring and like general fix-it-up stuff from me

04:00Kind of everywhere. We were expecting guests today, so I did clean up a little bit in order to host

04:06So I did my best see we've got this big swinging door that to unlock it that the key can't

04:12do it, so you got to yank it

04:14It's like the one thing in this van that doesn't really work. Oh

04:20There she is. This is where I live

04:24I have this for you so you can see this is something that we definitely have in here all of

04:28the time

04:30You really need it gets dark in here. It's nighttime right now and beautiful snowy Chicago

04:36Yeah, I'm always in that seat right there just chilling on my laptop like you know doing emails or making

04:42art or something like that

04:44I've got a lint roller over here for you know keeping your clothes nice and tidy. I kind of can't

04:50stand. Oh

04:51Yeah

04:52How much hair tends to get on me when I'm in this van like I have this?

04:57Giant coat and everything just seems to stick to it, so this is an important thing for me. You gotta

05:01get to some free rolls

05:02I don't know if I can say that on YouTube. It's legal in Illinois

05:05uh

05:08Suffocation beanie. We toured with them like a year ago

05:12Shout out suffocation. Those are my air pods that just fell out. Oh

05:16There's a bunch of shoes that typically go underneath these chairs

05:20Speaking of these chairs the wonderful wonderful thing about them is that they recline

05:25The guy who sold us this van I don't think he had any idea that this was like a custom

05:29seat job

05:30And it's apparently worth like over ten grand. It's like really nice upholstery and whatnot

05:36And yeah, they recline I've never seen another this is a ford transit van

05:38I don't I don't know if I've ever seen ones that recline maybe I'm dumb

05:41I feel like it's usually like a one big attached bench or something that people could sleep on but uh

05:46You can't sleep in these they're bucket seats. It's really uncomfortable, but that's why we have bunks

05:51We got a triple stack my mom and I built it together. I call it the mausoleum

05:55Because if I ever die tragically, it's it's gonna be there

06:00I'm gonna pull this seat forward

06:03We've got this this wonderful bin of snacks

06:06I'm vegan most of this stuff in here is mine got kind bars, uh

06:11I typically like the snack on these

06:14We're a big incandescent band. I find that the filaments are a lot tastier than what you can get in

06:19LEDs

06:20So yeah always you know flossing glass out of teeth

06:25Yeah, that's about it there. I got some some anti-tunes microwave noodles

06:29I am kind of loyal to this brand chef woo, but they stopped like stocking it online

06:33It's really hard to get nowadays, but it's like 20 grams of protein

06:37Dollar and a half per cup you can microwave it anywhere

06:40We used to bring a microwave on tour and we named him Michael as in Michael wave

06:44He was in my garage for a little while after a tour and he fell off a shelf and hit

06:48me in the head

06:49He went out swinging I pre abused him for years

06:52So we don't have Michael anymore

06:55Luckily nowadays we play venues that just kind of happen to have

06:58Microwaves in their green rooms, so that's sick. These are our bunks

07:02I don't know if I already said but my mom and I built them together shadow Melissa

07:05She's an angel. We practiced at her house for many years and then yeah, actually we had a van before

07:09this that ate shit in the desert

07:11We had an oil leak we had no idea about so it just totally seized

07:15I thought it was a throne belt, but no it was metal on metal and yeah

07:18We originally had a two stack in there it would sleep four and then we'd have one person on the

07:22bench

07:22But now we've got three there's only about like a foot and a half of clearance in here

07:26So if you're claustrophobic, it's really not for you

07:30But I can turn over on my side

07:33I've got like decently broad shoulders and I don't I don't touch the two by fours if you have night

07:36terrors though or something and you wake up and you

07:39Yeah, you you jolt like you're gonna hit your head on a two by four and it's gonna suck

07:43But doesn't happen to me too often

07:46Yeah, Lucas and Ryan will sleep up here. They've known each other since birth, so they're a little inseparable

07:52This has always just kind of been the drummer bunk

07:54Our old drummer he would like kick in his sleep, so we sort of relegated them him to this so

07:59that we wouldn't get disturbed

08:01But now it's just one person's in there, and then we'll usually toss bags in there and whatnot. There's like

08:05some spare records in there right now

08:08Yeah, and then down here is where me and cam will sleep there's some drum heads in there right now

08:13We've kind of been getting a lot of hotels this tour a couple of our guys at home. They work

08:17for Hilton, so we get crazy discounts

08:20But also yeah, well I'll nap in this thing probably every day. It is extremely useful

08:24I actually sleep more on tour than I do at home probably

08:28Yeah, I'm always in this back corner

08:31Just but in in the coffin getting as much sleep as I can it's nice and dark I prefer that

08:36way but getting in and out of it as hell

08:38Sometimes we'll have a cooler down here that you can like stand on and slide

08:41But I do usually have to like hop over these chairs pull it forward move a bunch of bags out

08:46of the way and then slide myself in and it is

08:48Physically painful every time I am somewhat envious of the people that do not have those bungs, but I don't

08:54know it keeps me in there

08:55Keeps me nice and warm and toasty. We got chargers in there. I keep bottles of water

08:59It's good. I like it. So this is the the rear

09:03Opens up halfway and then you got to pull this little lever

09:06Get it all the way open

09:10There she is yes, just I mean more bags you can see a little bit deeper into there somebody's there

09:17Uh yeah

09:19Um not crazy not going on here although so

09:23What is interesting is we have this like pullout drawer it actually spans the entire length of the beds which

09:28uh they are a queen size

09:29By the way like they are in terms of width decently spacious again. We can sleep six very comfortably

09:34I don't I'm not ever touching anybody, but uh, I don't even know we have in here

09:39Bucky's beaver nuggets some flyers that we picked up

09:41We always like to try and get those from the shows give them in our practice space or something. That's

09:45a nice little memento

09:46Um this I absolutely swear by bringing an iron and ironing board on tour

09:52We play in like I I play in like some pretty old nice clothes, and I really like to keep

09:57them fresh

09:58Of course things can get pretty wrinkly this thing sucks by the way

10:03But yeah that helps me keep away from that this is a

10:06Steering wheel lock that is very nice to have we got broken into a couple tours ago

10:11Which they didn't take a single thing it was in Canada, and I don't I don't know how that happened

10:16There's still like broken glass in one of our door pockets or something, but uh ever since that

10:21steering wheel lock

10:22Yeah, nothing lost

10:24That's some like tire chains in there

10:27We had to use those once this tour we were almost like we're stuck in a DC driveway for

10:32Maybe a couple hours or something we had to hire these kids in the neighborhood to like snowplow us out

10:36It was rough, but yeah, that's a pretty much all that's going on in the van. So this is our

10:41lovely trailer

10:41We've got a big old ramp door in the back, but this one's a lot easier to access

10:46This lock that I'm opening here. This is maybe my my

10:50PSA to advance that I would really want to pass on is don't put master locks on your trailer like

10:55they can very easily be bolt cut or

10:57Picked I mean you can just use one of those wave rake things and get into it in like literally

11:01three seconds

11:02These are a little harder to pick and I mean you could maybe angle grind through one of these

11:06It would take you a really long time though. One of us will be sleeping in there and we will

11:10hear you

11:11Yeah, get get something a little bit beefier like these oh in the cold

11:16They're a little tricky. Oh boy. Holy shit. This one is stuck on there

11:21We barely ever open this side door

11:25There it goes

11:27But yeah, our trailer is like mostly empty right now

11:31We were just grabbing restocks for merch

11:34Yeah, I really dislike doing cardboard boxes for merch so we always have these like big old tubs most or

11:40half of them

11:40I would say are inside right now a lot of these are quite empty

11:44It's like decently full right now

11:45Agriculture is actually carrying our back line and their van just because they they've been loading in and sound checking

11:50earlier than us on the store

11:52So yeah, right now it's not too full

11:54I mean my we have these lamps that are always like wrapped in moving blankets and like bungee together and

11:58they sit kind of in the nose

12:00Behind the merch pins and then I have my big table with all of my effects stuff on it

12:04I'll sit like between the bins and then yeah, I mean it's

12:08When we don't have our back line

12:09It's it's really like half full and also we had no idea this was going to happen

12:13But every single show pretty much on the store has sold out and it looks like it's going to be

12:17that way for the rest of the tour

12:18So our stock has just gotten completely obliterated holy mountain and edgeman printing in detroit

12:24We're very kind enough to do some really last-minute restocks for us. We got some today. We're getting some

12:29more tomorrow

12:30So but yeah, we have like I mean, it's just been we've got plundered. It's ridiculous

12:35We're very appreciative. It's cool to not really have anything but uh

12:38Yeah, that's that's pretty much what goes on in here. Oh, I guess for who packs it

12:42I don't touch it ever hence. That's why my hands look like this. I'm always selling merch at the end

12:47of the night like

12:48For a very long time. I'd settle up and whatnot

12:52So yeah, pretty much everybody but me honestly will pack the trailer. I do what I can but typically I'm

12:57on like just handling the business end of things

13:01Yeah, thanks for checking out the video again. I'm Jamie with Noel

13:05We're on tour with agriculture right now. We've got a new record coming out this year

13:09You can listen to the last three records, so we've got out right now

13:13Everything's on unto viewing.com slash shop slash tour whatever we've got all of our stuff on there

13:18Always posting on socials and whatnot, so check it out if you like. Thank you

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