Novelists - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2219 - 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 progressive metalcore band, Novelists, while on Dance Gavin Dance’s 2026 North American tour with The Fall of Troy, Horse the Band, and Wolf & Bear. Novelists is currently supporting their newest album, CODA.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 15, 2026 Location - Riviera Theatre in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH NOVELISTS: Facebook - https://facebook.com/NovelistsFR Instagram - https://instagram.com/novelists TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@novelistsmusic Twitter - https://twitter.com/novelistsmusic  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 00:36 Skip Intro 01:06 RV 1 01:31 Lounge & Kitchen RV 1 05:30 Bunks RV 1 06:01 Bathroom RV 1 06:33 Bedroom RV 1 07:15 RV 2 07:32 Driving Area RV 2 08:27 Lounge & Kitchen RV 2 09:36 Bedroom RV 2  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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00:00I think it's really comfortable when it's light out. When it's not, you cannot really live here.

00:04We are too afraid of using the gas here, but I usually love the toaster.

00:41Hello, come inside! Hello, I'm coming from Novelist. We are currently touring with Dance Giving Dance on their US tour.

00:49So we want to introduce you our two RVs, because yes, we have two RVs.

00:53The first one is the Ben RV. I don't know if you saw, but the stairs doesn't work.

01:01So we have to climb really high to go inside the RV.

01:05Here we have the driving cabine. This is where we drive. It's an automatic RV.

01:13As we are French, we are not used to automatic vehicles, but it's really cool to have this.

01:19So the guitarist Pierre is sleeping up there. He said that it's pretty comfortable, even though the road is moving

01:28a lot, but it's cool.

01:30Here we have the dining area, chilling area, which is also my bed, because I sleep into this.

01:39We just take off the table and then we add something more and this is where I sleep.

01:45We have here a little kitchen. So we don't use the gas because we are too afraid of using the

01:52gas here.

01:53But I usually love the toaster and we use microwave. We have a fridge full of delicious dishes from America.

02:01I don't even know if it's well packed or no, but here is our fridge.

02:09We have a little bit of catering from every venues.

02:13So I'm vegan. So most of the vegan things come from the venues.

02:18Like we have a vegan slice, vegan cheese, and we have every day, like we ask in our rider to

02:28have oatmeal every day.

02:30So we drink a lot of oatmeal. Every band members, even though they are not vegan, they drink oatmeal.

02:36And then we have, okay, so Pierre, the caterer, he loves blueberries. Like it's something because he always started a

02:45package and he never ends it.

02:47So we have a lot of packages with only two or three blueberries. And in the end, we just have

02:51to put them in the trash or they stay in the fridge for forever.

02:58And I like to buy some chocolate chips because I can add them on like for my breakfast. Like I

03:08have yogurt or stuff like that.

03:11And what do we have? We have Flo, Alma and Nico. They love to do pastas. So they made a

03:21new technique because they are cooking the pasta on the toaster.

03:26Which is weird, I think. But still, they like it. So that's cool. Do we have something here? Yeah, we

03:34have like ice creams that we bought in Walmart.

03:38When we arrive in the US, we only stock with Walmart and we buy a lot of things. And that's

03:46it. We have been pretty reasonable for this one.

03:50We have here. Okay, so I think we have white clothes here. And here we have like the thing we

03:59don't put in a fridge. Flo, Pierre and Alma are really reasonable.

04:04They are counting their calories on this tour. So you cannot find any guilty pleasures.

04:11But Nico, he's got so many things like, you know, these cereals, Froot Loops and a lot of sweet snacks.

04:23And yeah, that's it. Like we try to count our calories so we don't lose the shape during this US

04:31tour.

04:31So this is not how it looks when we are driving. Here we have space is when we are parked.

04:38So we can slide out this part.

04:40So when we are sliding, it comes here, I think. Yeah, this way. So it's really, really narrow.

04:48But when we are driving, we are sleeping because we have a driver or we are just sitting and waiting

04:53to arrive at the venue.

04:55And then we slide out. And I think it's really comfortable when it's slide out. When it's not, you cannot

05:00really live here.

05:01This RV is really old because, for example, here you see there is tape. It's because this window when we

05:08are driving is always opening.

05:10Like in the middle of the night, you can have a lot of wind. So we try to tape it.

05:15And yeah, like the slide is like, it's not sliding this way.

05:20He's doing like this. And in the end, it's really weird. And the stairs are not working also, but still.

05:27So then we go to the other part of the RV. So we have two bunks here. So the funny

05:34story is that we make 20 hours of driving to swap RVs.

05:38Because on the previous one we had at the beginning of this tour, there wasn't any bunks. So we couldn't

05:44be able to sleep the six of us or the Benz and the driver.

05:48So we swap and we drove 20 hours to get this one. We have two bunks. Flo is sleeping here

05:53and Nico is sleeping here.

05:54They have a TV here. Lucky boys. So they can watch TV if they want while we are driving. Important

06:02room of this RV. Bathroom.

06:05So we have toilets and the shower. So we use shower when there is not shower in the venues or

06:12when we are in day offs.

06:14And we can refill and dump the water at like dump stations or love station. And yeah, that's it. That's

06:23really convenient to have that in the RV.

06:27And the last part. This is the room. And our driver is sleeping here. So when we are moving around

06:36during the day, we are not disturbing him so he can sleep.

06:39And Amma, the drummer is also sleeping here. So when the RV is parked, it's really comfortable. But when it's

06:47driving, it's horrible because it's the end of the RV.

06:51And when there is a bump, here you are flying. So that's why I'm not sleeping here. I prefer to

06:57sleep in the middle.

06:58And we have a lot of stuff here to pack. To put your stuff like clothes or stuff like that.

07:06And here we are for the first RV.

07:09Band members and one driver. And we can go to see the second RV.

07:15So now we are going to check our second RV. Come here.

07:24Let's open this door. And let's see what we are going to find out.

07:28So here we are in the RV, the crew RV. We have the same as before. We have the driver

07:35cabine. So if we come here, maybe this is some like, I don't know how to say it in English,

07:41but Grigri.

07:42Some little, yeah, gnome. And yeah, I don't know. It's our driver. I think he likes these kind of things.

07:53I don't know. He's got that. I didn't know. We don't have that in our RV. So I think he

07:58just added on the package.

08:01Up there we have our light guy, Vlad. He's sleeping up there. He's got a pretty comfortable bed. Like he's

08:08a double, he's bigger than ours.

08:10So I'm a little bit jealous, but no way. I didn't say that. So yeah, he has a TV. Okay.

08:16So I don't want him to complain about anything because his bed is so big and he's got curtain. That's

08:21pretty cool.

08:23They still have the same like chill area. And I know that our merch girl and media girl, she's sleeping

08:30here also like me.

08:32I think they just have to put the table down and add a mattress on it. And that's, that's perfect.

08:39Then we have the kitchen.

08:42Here is the kitchen. They have the same as us, like microwave, a oven with gas. I don't know if

08:48they use it. We don't, but maybe they use it.

08:50They don't have the toaster. We have one. They have the fridge. Let's open this fridge. We're going to see

08:56what they have.

08:58Oh my God. Okay. So they basically, I don't think they did a lot of Walmart. Yeah, they didn't buy

09:08anything in Walmart.

09:08So we have, this is from catering. What is this? Greek yogurt drink. Yeah. It's, it's pretty in an empty

09:19fridge and here.

09:21Oh, they have, okay. They have frozen food here. So they, they did go to Walmart. And then we have

09:29like a shower here.

09:31The toilets are here. And here we got the beds. I'm jealous because their RV looks better than ours.

09:41But I'm happy for them. They have big beds and they have a lot of storage space on both sides.

09:49And it's sliding now. So there's two slides as the same as us. So they can slide the kitchen part

09:56and also the room part at the end.

09:58So I think when you are living inside, it's, it's wider, it's bigger than ours.

10:04Uh, so yeah, I think it's a good, uh, but they don't have bugs, but there are only four in

10:10this RV.

10:11So that's why we booked this one. And so that's it. So we have two RVs.

10:17We are following each other's and, and arrive at the venues and, um, yeah, I think that's pretty much it.

10:24So, uh, I'm coming from Novelist again and we are touring the U.S. again in September.

10:30If you want to follow all the dates, all the news, you can add us on Spotify and also on

10:36Instagram.

10:36Our account will be Novelist or Novelist Music.

10:40And we only, uh, we also have, uh, a store. Nobody's store. You can buy merch.

10:46And we're going to release a new, uh, single in September, but that's a secret.

10:51Uh, nobody knows. And yeah, that's it. I hope to see you in a, in a show in the, in

10:56the U.S. or whatever, wherever in, uh, in the world.

11:00We'll see you in the next one.

11:04Bye.

11:11Bye.

11:20Bye.

11:21Bye.

11:23Bye.

11:34Bye.

12:06Bye.

12:10Bye.

12:20Bye.

12:22Bye.

12:35So now you think it's sliding but no it's not.

12:38We have to push one more time.

12:42And now it's fine and we do the other way.

13:03Okay and this is how the RV looks like when we are driving, which is pretty much smaller

13:11than before.

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