Polaris - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2222 - 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 metalcore band, Polaris, while on Electric Callboy’s “Tanzneid World Tour” with Scene Queen.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 3, 2026 Location - Wintrust Arena in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH POLARIS: Facebook - https://facebook.com/polarisaus Instagram - https://instagram.com/polarisaus TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@polarisaus Twitter - https://twitter.com/polarisaus  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 00:37 Skip Intro 01:08 Front Lounge 07:38 Bathroom 08:34 Bunks 18:02 Back Lounge  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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00:00My Sasquatch Preservation Society number one and number two because we love the

00:05Squatch. One of the most important things on a bus is a Sharpie because it means

00:08that you can put your name on something and you hope that it's protected.

00:41G'day, g'day. Come on in. Welcome to Polaris HQ, I guess. So we're out here on tour with

00:48Electric Cowboy for their Tanzined World Tour and so far the run has been bloody incredible.

00:55Yeah, shows have been insane. Having a good time. Hey, welcome. We're just here actually

01:00sitting down watching a bit of golf. We came in this morning and there was some F1 on so

01:04I'm sorry Jamie for turning that off. That's right. We've got it here so it's all good.

01:07Exactly. So there's always a second screen with F1 on. But no, we've had a bit of sports

01:11on for this tour. We've been watching a bit of ice hockey because Waldy loves it as well

01:15as who else is Ryan also? All the Americans. Basically all the Americans. So plenty of

01:21ice hockey been happening, a little bit of basketball, but we've also managed to spend

01:24a bit of time watching movies and we've watched The Mummy 1 and The Mummy Returns so far.

01:29So slow starts, but we're getting there and this TV has gotten a bit of use.

01:33This is the number one draw. That's the holy draw. This is the holy draw. This is the hydration

01:38station. Most other draws are just shoes. Only to be ended up like this half drunk around

01:44the whole bus, excuse my language. The rest is all just kind of, everyone's got some snacks

01:50here and here. So yeah, something we realised when we first got in. A couple of shoe drawers

01:54as well for the stinkies. Yeah, like we first got in and with 12 people were like, okay,

01:58it seems like storage is a little bit of a premium. So we, everyone basically just threw

02:02all of their stuff into every cupboard and so every cupboard is just like a menagerie of random

02:06groceries and I don't know, souvenirs and gifts and whatever. But mostly everything at feet level

02:12is for shoes or water. Yeah. Up here is my pantry. That's where we keep the carne. Really? It's also

02:23where I keep my canned pineapple and my cereal sideways because it can't stand upright. I don't

02:33really have snacks. I just, I buy stuff that lasts long and I put it in places I probably shouldn't.

02:43Where's your snack drawer, Rick? I don't have a snack drawer. I think I, I know I have some

02:47Clif mini bars somewhere. You always have a little stash somewhere. Yeah, there they are. See?

02:54And I've had one. So yeah, that goes to show what I've been snacking on. I've been snacking on

02:58catering every day. But yeah, there's quite a few snacks in here actually. I had something down there,

03:03but it's gone. I think this one is kind of like the, um, Waldy said that's supposed to be communal

03:09slash like Ryder, but that's also Dan's bag. And then Waldy also said he's got his stuff and

03:13there's Elmo's. It's just a mess, man. It's just a mess. Okay. So, well, of the Ryder,

03:20we, we get chips every day. We actually get some chockeys as well. So we've been slowly getting

03:24through the, um, the giant party size chockeys that we get. We got some of these, some, uh,

03:30Doritos chips. Yeah. Well, I was going to say we have like an overwhelming majority of original chips,

03:36but like not enough dips. So they just end up going in the cupboard and wallowing in there.

03:42It's definitely the chocolate that is most consumed on the Ryder so far,

03:45which is a bit of a sad thing. I mean, we do have some bananas and apples, but

03:48Seth just came through before and had to throw out a few black bananas.

03:51Wait, what's, what's missing that? There'd be like very few twigs or stickers.

03:56No, no. Look, it's everywhere. It's all the good shit.

04:01That is all the, well. So this is very, that's what's usually left, I find.

04:05Really? Yeah. And it's usually these guys are gone.

04:09I'll take one of those now. Yeah, same.

04:12That and, uh, you already saw it before and the water is, the water is incredibly important. So that

04:17gets, um, that gets brought up on the bus before anything else. Water is like number one. And

04:22then the rest is like, all right, we'll get to that. But with that water, the bus is not a,

04:26it's not a happy bus. So we've got a, uh, coffee kind of set up here. A few of the,

04:32a few of our crew

04:34like, uh, doing a big old French press with their, with their coffee. They're pretty serious about that.

04:38The rest of us kind of just go to whatever good cafes nearby and enjoy it there.

04:42Yeah. That's our morning ritual right now. We just go to a cafe where Ryan, the guy filling

04:47up the base at the moment, he just has like a crazy rig that he does. Yeah. Hooks up Waldy

04:52and

04:52whoever wants to drink that. Yeah. I think he's done Seth a few days. Yeah. Yeah.

04:56I usually go brave the elements and go find some coffee place. It's usually way too far away. And

05:01yeah, it's nothing on, no offense America, but nothing on Australian coffee.

05:06Yeah. We, uh, we, we don't realize how good we have it until we're overseas. Like, oh,

05:10shit. Yeah. I'm a, I'm a tea drinker, so I don't, I don't partake in the bean so to speak,

05:16but, um,

05:20no, um, I, uh, I've given up on American tea because I, I order breakfast tea and it tastes

05:25like flowers and I don't want it to taste like flowers. I want it to taste like bitter leaf,

05:30but, um, yeah. So we've got like, we've got a station to set up everything. I feel like I've seen

05:38people use this toaster like a dozen times. So like, really, it's just right now you're,

05:44you're witnessing the bus with three people in it. So times this by four. And then suddenly

05:48everyone's like this and they're going in the bathroom where it's like, whoa, watch out.

05:52Everything trying to get in the fridge and trying to get in and out of the bunk alley and that

05:57it's

05:57tight quarters. So it's like, you know, you, you, you make a coffee or make some toast when you can,

06:02not always. Yeah. Yeah. One of the most important things on a bus is a Sharpie because it means

06:07that you can put your name on something and you hope that it's protected, but you never know.

06:11Like right now I've got a few pineapple juices in the fridge. So let's see. Oh yeah, they are still

06:16there. Ready for me whenever I want. See pineapple juice for Rick. Respect the name. Well, the fridge is

06:24a bit bare at the moment. It's, um, we're kind of in between stuff. Like we have a bit of

06:28catering juice,

06:29which is always good. We have some random Coke zeros and hot sauce. I don't know whose that is,

06:34I guess. I really don't know whose that is. It's mostly just like catering leftovers and some like

06:40protein things like protein yogurts for some of the guys. Um, we've got some old salsa, got a few

06:48different salsas actually. We should probably clean that out, but no, there's nothing too fun. We're kind

06:53of like a bit of a dry spell at the moment. Cheese. Oh, there is the, um, there is the

07:02jelly to go

07:03with the peanut butter. Oh, so that is Matt long cars. Yes. Cause I've seen him make PB and J

07:08sandwiches

07:08like six times. Yeah. He uses like half a jar per thing. I've seen it. And then what's in the

07:16freezer?

07:16I think we have a whole lot of frozen meals in there. Yeah. I got a couple of frozen meals

07:20in there.

07:21Oh, not too many at the moment. It's pretty low. And then Dan got some, uh, some frollies.

07:27Don't have them back at home. They kind of look like a Calippo though. So that looks good.

07:32And then just across from the general living room, you have the bathroom. Come on in. I think the

07:38shower has been used twice so far. There's Dan's pants. That's usually where they live just across

07:43from his underpants. I don't know whose pants they are. I think they're both Dan's. That makes sense.

07:49I'm pretty sure they're both Dan's. Yeah. But yeah, there's actually a bit, a bit of storage

07:53in here and there's some space behind the, behind theirs and coming up here. So it's a pretty decent

07:58bathroom, obviously. It's quite, quite roomy and spacious once you get in. And, um, as per the

08:03rule in every like moving vehicle is you never put a solid in the toilet. And that goes for toilet

08:08paper that goes for, I don't know, just anything. Just Jamie, if it's

08:14What the fuck did I do? You know exactly. What did he do? I didn't do shit.

08:20Just trying to throw someone on the bus. I don't know what he's on about.

08:25So we'll head on through to bunk alley. Um, here you go. Welcome. This is, uh, our general sleeping

08:35quarters. I've, uh, chosen down here because I got a CPAP machine. So I kind of, unfortunately

08:41to everyone had to pick first to see where he's going to work best with the CPAP. So I've got

08:45that.

08:45Rick though. That in here, that lives in there and I've duct tapes all through up in. So I've got

08:51my mask up there when I go to bed so I can breathe and not snore in the middle of

08:57the night. It's not

08:58too exciting of a setup, but I followed suit with Rick. Uh, we're at a, uh, what was it? A

09:04dollar

09:04general store in middle of nowhere in Van Horn, Texas. And that, uh, which is what Rick has as well.

09:10It's a little, um, uh, is it like a little dish drying that kind of thing? Yeah. It's like a,

09:15like a dish caddy. Yeah. Like sink. So we've, I saw what Rick did and I'm like,

09:20yeah, I'm going to do the same thing. Just tape it up against the wall and tape up the edges

09:24to make sure stuff doesn't fall out. And other than that, that's pretty much my bunk. It's a little,

09:30little hat from Van Horn and, uh, my clothes are down the end. That's pretty much my bunk. It's not

09:37as

09:37exciting as the others. All right. So it's a bit of a mess at the moment, but it's functional and

09:41that's

09:41all I care about. I've got my hat. I've got my camera hanging up. Then this vent doesn't close.

09:48So I've just like half taped it. Just, you know, a bit of temperature control. Got my steam deck up

09:52here, which is just, you know, always ready for me. I've been playing Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005.

09:57So I've got the PC version of that and been ripping that. Seth's been playing it with me,

10:00which has been fun. I've got like a portable charger, some toothpicks for at night, my wallet,

10:06and of course some snacks. Um, my watch charges up there. I've got my light so I can kind of,

10:13you know, as I'm going to bed, put on the red light. So it's a bit more chill, but I

10:16also got

10:16a big light up here, which I don't use much. And then the classic thing when you want to watch

10:21a

10:21movie, but you don't want to hold your iPad. I've got the sandwich bag in the ceiling

10:26so that I can watch it right here. That's probably the highlight to be honest. All right,

10:32I'm about to take my touring powers to the year 3000. Welcome to my humble LeBeau temple.

10:39So humble. Whatever you want to call it. Rick's very jealous. So I don't know where to start,

10:43but I essentially have my phone, which has all my little widgets set up so I can, you know,

10:49check what's going on, what time it is at home, all that stuff. I have a TV, which is hung

10:55in by

10:55hooks so I can actually take it out. Innovation, you know what I'm saying?

11:02Yeah. Wall plug. This is probably the highlight. I'll try and get into this right now, but

11:08I've got it pretty worked out. Quick slip in. But yeah, Nintendo Switch. I've been playing 64 on it

11:17the entire time. So, because I'm an absolute geek. You can play Zelda too. Yes, Zelda. That's my

11:22whole arm and all that kind of stuff. But then get out of here. Oh my God. And as you

11:28can see,

11:29as a 33 year old, that is not good for your back. Down there, we have like a little shelf

11:36nook thing that a lot of us have. You do. But you're going to have to come through this way

11:41and I'm going to show you the pride and joy.

11:46So, when you live 30 weeks in a damn cylinder. 30 weeks? Jesus. A year. A year. A year. A

11:54year.

11:55You need to have a wardrobe. So, I have installed this on this little hook thing. See, all my clothes,

12:03it's for socks from Red Rocks. That's pretty cool. It's kind of fucked up at the moment.

12:07So, I need to do my washing. Yeah, it's really good for the door. Yes. Oh, actually, the door's good.

12:12You can probably see the traffic jam that happens when Jesse's trying to get dressed and people

12:16are trying to come in. Try to get my clothes and my underwear and then bam, bam, you know.

12:21Puts me back to sleep. Hello. And then a perfect transition to Daniel. Hello. Bye.

12:29Year 3000 to my touring pals. But that's it. That's my... Oh, sorry. I've got a little...

12:34Actually, I just use this hat. Are you guys getting the Jesse Penthouse bunk experience?

12:39The hat rack. As well. So, yeah. That's it. I'm done. This is what people do when they spend a

12:45lot

12:45of time in their bunks. This is the 33-year-old virgin. My bunk is for sleeping. It's a 32

12:50-year-old

12:50virgin showing his Nintendo to the world. Proudly. Just little things. Yes. All right. Hi, my name's Dan.

12:58I play drums in Polaris. I was late for today's bus tour. So, we're going to cut this video in

13:03and it's not

13:03going to look as professional as the other ones for various reasons. Partly because my bunk is

13:07much less interesting. But I'm going to show it to you anyway. I didn't get as far with the

13:11customizations as these guys. I got a little bit lazy. I'm pretty, like, minimalist on my approach

13:16to my bunk. I don't tend to spend a lot of time in my bunk unless I'm sleeping, really. I'm

13:21not really a,

13:21I'm not really a daytime bunk guy. But this is a welcome to my little, my little home in here.

13:27We got the, we got the bare essentials in here. My, the extent of my customizations is basically

13:32a little power strip running from here. Gaff tape to the wall and staying over here,

13:36which is honestly a huge upgrade for me because me and my long pointy elbows used to knock the power

13:41out of the wall all the time. So, this is keeping that a little bit more regular. We've got the,

13:45um,

13:46we've got the Apple Watch charger taped down over here to make a nice, um, very clean and professional

13:50charging station. Basically, all I need some earplugs, um, a little ducky that was gifted to me by a fan

13:57outside a venue. Um, and she signed it for me, which is very cute. Um, and I do have a

14:02window

14:03that is worth mentioning. Um, I don't open it very much until, um, until I need to. But right now,

14:08I've got a beautiful view of the Chicago streets. It does make it a little bit easier when you're

14:13trying to ruffle around for stuff in your bunk. Um, I've got my nighttime mouth guard retainer because

14:20I grind my teeth. Um, the other customization I have in here is a little hook that I stuck up

14:25here

14:25that Jesse gave me because he had a spare one. I've acquired quite a lot of hats on this tour.

14:30I came

14:30over here with one hat and then I ended up buying many more hats. I didn't think I even liked

14:34hats

14:34that much until this tour. Um, this is a cool one that my friend Zach gave me. Um, it's a

14:40nice little

14:40piece of Texas here. Um, we've also got the ones I'm really proud of over here. Don't mind that. Um,

14:49my Sasquatch Preservation Society, number one and number two, because we love the Squatch. Um,

14:56and this cool one that I picked up at a vintage store in Utah, which is super dope because it's

15:02like a 1996 Casper, the friendly ghost hat from Hollywood that I just thought was really dope.

15:09And probably we'll never see again. Um, aside from that, I've, yeah, I'm, like I said,

15:15I'm pretty, um, I didn't get too inventive. I tend to keep my spare clothes, um, in a variety of

15:21tote bags in the bags of, in the bottom of my, uh, bunk because I don't like going into the

15:26bay and

15:27getting my suitcase out all the time. So I just kind of rotate different clothes in and out of these

15:31various cloth bags and one for, one for gym clothes, one for show clothes, one for other clothes.

15:38We got the, uh, we got the Red Rocks hoodie in here. Lots of Red Rocks memorabilia because that

15:42place is the coolest place in the world. Um, a nice little Red Rocks throw pillow that I couldn't

15:48resist because I really wanted to have something for my studio couch at home. So a little thing to

15:53remember that show by, um, a nice pair of pit vipers that were also gifted to me by a generous

16:03fan in

16:05Vancouver. Um, and I wanted to trade him something back for them. So I gave him the

16:11like knockoff gas station pit vipers that I had bought a few days previously. So we exchanged

16:16sunglasses and that was really fun. Um, and

16:23more Red Rocks memorabilia, my, uh, my day bag. And that's, uh, yeah, that's about it. That's,

16:31that's how I've been living on this tour. Um, if you hear a jingling sound, that's because I have

16:35all these things hanging off my keys, which, um, it's good. It lets people know that I'm coming,

16:38so, you know, so I can't sneak up on anybody, which I'm obviously prone to do. Um, so yeah,

16:43we're, we're a full bus. All 12 bunks are taken. So as Rick was saying earlier on, it gets quite,

16:48uh, quite squishy, quite quick. Um, but yeah, so no junk bunk. Uh, everyone's got all their

16:55suitcases underneath and, um, up the back in the, uh, other living room area, which we'll get to in a

17:00moment. Um, it's kind of become just where everyone puts their backpacks. There's a couple of cupboards

17:04where we were originally chucking our bags, but now it's just ended up all over the seats. But,

17:08um, yeah, like, I guess you could say like, you know, uh, us, the band usually we'll pick

17:14where to go kind of first. Um, and then everyone else kind of goes from there. Um,

17:19but our sound guy who isn't on this run with us, he's back home, but Lance, he's a very tall,

17:24long boy. So other than us picking first, Lance usually goes around with a measuring tape

17:30on which bunk is going to be best for him, uh, that he can just about fit in,

17:34because most of the time he's not really able to fit. Um, but yeah, I guess that's, uh,

17:40the general gist of, um, how we kind of pick our bunks and, uh, choose who's sleeping where.

17:45I guess, yeah, other than seeing the party that's going on down here and that, we got

17:50the back lounge area, which like I said before is usually just, um, chockers with backpacks and that.

17:57Just a few of us store our bags. There's a cupboard here. There's another cupboard here,

18:00which I think has a whole bunch of the boss's laundry, like change of sheets and pillowcases

18:06and that. Um, but yeah, at the end of the night, this becomes quite chaotic. Everyone's got their

18:12bags in here and you know, some people chill in here. We've got another TV, but the main, uh, living

18:18space and hanging out space is the, the front lounge, um, where everyone chooses to kind of spend their

18:23time or up here. Cause I guess as well with this open, everyone's trying to sleep in the middle

18:27of the night. So, you know, down there's a bit, uh, easier to be a bit louder than up here.

18:32So

18:32not like we're a rowdy bunch or anything. That's not what I'm trying, not what I'm trying to say,

18:35but yeah, this usually ends up being a bit of a quiet zone or no one's really in here. So

18:39yeah.

18:40Yeah. This table kind of gets used mainly for, uh, Sean who's in, in their videographer content.

18:46Oh God. He's, uh, if he's not in the venue editing or whatever, he'll be set up here,

18:51uh, you know, editing away. Um, we have had Ryan as well, uh, in the early stages of this run.

18:57Um, with his Pelican, he's got, he's all set up, you know, cause he's learnt our set for this run

19:03over

19:04about 13 days. I think it was. So he's been pretty much sitting here grinding and out every single

19:10day that we've had off. He's sitting here getting the songs drilled into his head and everything.

19:15So we appreciate the hard work that you put in here. Right. Um, but yeah,

19:18that's kind of essentially what this space is used for other than a bit of a just storage,

19:25you know, it usually, you know, if, if there is a junk bunk, then you have, you know, some people

19:29put some backpacks or whatever in there, or we leave our bags in our, um, in our bunks. But if

19:33we've

19:33got the space like here, we try to have as much space in our bunks as possible because it's

19:37comfier that way. So yeah, I mean, that's, that's essentially it. I don't really hang in here too much.

19:43I don't really have much else to say other than it's another quiet space. I usually get dressed

19:47in here in the morning because it's quiet and I've got my bag in there and my deodorant's in there.

19:51So that's pretty much it. Yeah. Hey guys, thank you so much for coming to check out our bus on

19:56the

19:56electric cowboy tour. We've had such a ball so far and we can't wait to finish it off. Uh, in

20:00the

20:00meantime and in the future, check out our website, parisaus.com to check out all tour dates, any new news,

20:07merch, whatever you're interested in. We've got it there. So thank you so much for being with us

20:12and, um, yeah, catch you next time.

20:13Yoop!

20:15We'll see you next time.

20:17Okay.

20:44The

20:45Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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