Forever The Sickest Kids tour diary (Part 5)

So this week has been adventurous to say the least. The most memorable part of this week had to be making a miniature bonfire outside the bus in Columbus, Ohio. Only bad thing was that it made the whole bus smell like a hott mess of burning shoes and cardboard. I climbed a few roofs this week, just to keep my spontaneity fresh and clean.

We all watched the Dallas Mavs last game and tears ran heavily from our eyes. Someone brought me that Monopoly game which is freakin' ill cause I'm about to involve myself in 14 hours of board game entertainment. It feels like we've been on tour for years but it's really only been about two months. I love it, don't get me wrong. I just cannot wait to get into a vehicle, start up the engine and drive into the sunset. Well, thats all I have this week. Give hugs not drugs.

Austin Bello

You, Me And Everyone We Know Tour Diary (Part 2)

I wake up.
I shower with what hotels call soap.
I hop on my scale. It tells me whether or not i should have eaten that pizza at 10 p.m.. Generally, no.
I put on underwear that shrunk in the dryer and are now half a size too small. That scale should help.
I wander off to the local eatery and hope I don't have to eat anything fried or overly processed.
I listen to something that puts me in a good mood, like "Summertime" by Will Smith.
I think about the people I miss. Hugs and such i would i could get on demand. I'm a softy.

This is my morning.

To be honest, i'm a little tired right now so I'm not much in the mood for writing. I just wanted to tell you about this morning.

Last night's show in Philadelphia was incredible. The Barbary is a small venue, but it had a great vibe and the room was packed, so I was pleased as punch. I saw so many new faces last night. I liked that more than anything. I love hearing people tell us stories about how they've been waiting like two years to see us. I'm glad they are starting to be able to make it to our shows.

Like I said, I'm still kind of asleep. The only thing keeping me able to drive is sugar-free Red Bull. We'll be in Buffalo tonight, playing that skate park we've hit up a bunch over the last year or so. Hopefully we will see some of you there!

My first video post here will likely be on Monday. We have the day off, so I will have some time to edit some things together for you.

-Ben

Forever The Sickest Kids tour diary (Part 4)

Howdy, AP!!

Kent from the Sickest Kids Forever here once again to update you on what's been going on with us! So last week was our last week of the Bamboozle Roadshow and it was an amazing last week of tour. We got to play in Worcester, MA at one of my favorite venues of all time (the Palladium) and it was sooooo much fun! I'll never forget it. The crowd tore the place down during "She's a Lady" and our good pal Geoff Rockwell came out and played drums with us. It was the bomb. If you were there you know what I'm talking about. After Boston we head to NY and played the last show at the Crazy Donkey in Long Island. It was insane as well! A good farewell show for an amazing tour.

We played Hoodwink festival in which we covered a band but it was raining the whole time and cold. We woke up the next day to go to BAMBOOZLE! We played at 2 p.m. on Saturday. It was INSANE!

There were so many people there it was overwhelming, it was like emptying out lake Ontario and filling it with screaming, moshing, crowdsurfing fans, that's what it felt like. The crowd was as far as i can see, and that's pretty far. LOL. So now we are on our headlining tour the "Rockin Rodeo" tour. A lot of sweet bands are joining us on this run including Cash Cash, White Tie Affair, Friday Night Boys, Mercy Mercedes, The Audition and more! Stoked about this little run down to Oklahoma, then we get to go home for a week before we leave to record a record. :) Check out our new poster/ad in this month's AP (with Taking Back Sunday on the cover) and hang it on your wall! 

Hopefully i will see you guys on the Rockin Rodeo tour! If not, Warped Tour is just around the corner. ;)

much love! keep it real

kent

Forever The Sickest Kids tour diary (Part 3)

Howdy, Alt Pressers.

Kent Garrison here. The current time is 4:10 p.m. and I am still in the darkness of my bunk. It's hard for me to wake up on the bus a lot of the time because it's so dang dark in this bunk. No windows or anything so it's like sleeping in a coffin all night long. With no daylight, it's hard for my body to realize when it's daytime, I guess. At least that's the explanation I've come up with to justify it. So, we are here on the Roadshow, and things could not be better.

Since last week, we've played in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore and more. I can't say enough good things about the shows because they've all been amazing, sold out and the kids have been going crazy so you guys get an A+ from me. In Chicago, we played at the House Of Blues (aka the House Of Stairs). We call it that because it's literally 10 flights of stairs to get from the bus to the dressing room/stage. Just hope you don't forget something in the bus and have to go all the way back down and up. I'm too old for that kind of stuff.

In Cleveland, I made a trip by myself to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame only to find out it was closed at 5 p.m. I was shocked and appalled that they would close it so early, especially on a weekend. Most people work until 5 p.m., so I guess in order to go see it you have to take a day off of work instead of keeping it open 'til 8 p.m. I thought that was weird. Oh well, it looked cool from the outside :]

My favorite snack this tour has been Hot Pockets by far. I feel as if I'm the only reason the Hot Pocket company still exists anymore, because I keep them in business with the dozens of Hot Pockets I eat every week. After Bamboozle in New Jersey, we take a few days off and then head out on our headlining run, so I guess I will check back up with you guys then! See you all very soon thank you for reading! :]

kent

You, Me And Everyone We Know Tour Diary (Part 1)

I am very important.
I am very interesting.
I am very well spoken.
I am very attractive.
People are very interested in reading about my life on the road.
These are the reasons I gave Alternative Press while trying to convince them that they should give me a tour blog for the duration of Razia's Shadow: The Tour. I figure at least one of those has to be true in order for me to be here today:

Hi, my name is Ben Liebsch and couple years ago I accidentally started a band called You, Me, And Everyone We Know. I don't know how we came to be called that, I only remember the idea coming up on a porch swing at a house-turned-pizza place in Georgia. My friend Ryan had apparently heard me singing in the shower and insisted that I be the one to record the vocals for some songs we had written together. I guess I sounded pretty good, because we split up the band we were in and started You, Me, and Everyone We Know in a basement on March 3rd, 2006.

I could get specific about everything that has occurred between then and now but for the sake of brevity I will sum it up by saying some faces have changed, major mistakes have been made, a van has gone up in flames, arrest records have been established, and we've survived it all solely through the moral and monetary support of our fans. Over the next few weeks, this blog will hopefully give you some insight as to who I am, who this band are, and how we make it all work as a thriving independent act. However, we can live the future later. Let's live in the now.

We just left for a roughly 30-day tour with Forgive Durden and Anarbor on Forgive Durden's Razia's Shadow: The Tour. I actually met Anarbor at the Columbus, Ohio, stop of the Take Action! Tour about a month back. I had originally gone to imbibe a little with the guys from Every Avenue but it was fantastic to meet future tour buds ahead of time. They were very nice folk and I'm really stoked spend a month freeing my mind. I am very eager to see how FD's musical gets delivered live. It's such an interesting concept and I'm glad to be a part of it. We're going to be everywhere on this tour. We'll be seeing all of my favorite places like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Texas. I love Texas. It's probably because I love sweating in the sun. It makes me feel like a kid again. In addition, we'll finally be spending some quality time with the west coast. We're even going to Las Vegas, which should be an experience in itself. Here's hoping we make it through without incident.

Current Stresses:
1. The van kind of stuttered out for a second while we were sitting in traffic on the way to practice the other day. We were running the A.C., so that could have something to do with. I need to get it checked out.
2. I recently moved and a very important check got lost in the mail until just the other day. This caused a delay in paying for CDs, shirts, and a new laptop (all of which the band needs desperately).

Thing to smile about:
1. We're finally ordering real CDs! We haven't had the money to do so up until now, and I couldn't be more pleased. I loved the handmade CDs don’t get me wrong, but these cost so much less and are so much easier to deal with.
2. Our new t-shirt design looks amazing. It should be available within the first few days of tour.
3. We are main support on an awesome tour. This is a big deal. I plan to make the most of it.


Wow! This turned out to be a pretty long first blog entry. Thanks to Altpress.com for hosting this diary of sorts. We have a fun road ahead of us, so keep checking back for all sorts of pictures, videos, and updates all may and some of June while on Razias Shadow: The Tour featuring Forgive Durden, Us (You, Me, And Everyone We Know) and Anarbor. See you soon!!!

-Ben Liebsch

Forever The Sickest Kids tour diary (Part 2)

Well, another week on the Bamboozle Roadshow has passed and I am here to update you on all the new happenings. Right now Robi and Kyle are eating their boogers... gross... and we are about to wrap up the Best Bunk awards for the weekend. Somehow me, Kyle and Jonathan have already been disqualified, I think it's jealousy partly, but it's something you prepare yourself for when you make a killer bunk.

Somehow a ton of Red Bull showed up to our bus the past few days and we have all been hyped up, I haven't slept in like 4 days so it’s all good. Joe just walked in with a trash bag full of ice.... who puts ice in a trash bag? Tonight I’m pretty sure the band is hiding in our beds and gonna run the gauntlet on everyone that walks through the hall... pounding them with pillows as they try to pass through the bus. I will let you know how many casualties we have next blog.

This past week we have hit every type of weather, and it’s playing with me now. The first part of the week was humid, hot Florida weather. Followed by some perfect 80 degree short-wearing weather. Now we are in Milwaukee and it snowed this morning and is now raining and is about 40 degrees.... freezing.

This is the part of the blog where I keep zoning out and can't think of anything else to say, so right now we are going to do some interviews and I will be back after that to share something that is hopefully interesting and about 50% made up!

And we are back on the bus after our wonderful interviews. Me, Caleb and Austin are hooked on nazi zombies Call Of Duty.

We have been playing for the past hour or so and starting to have nightmares. I will leave everyone with the nice thought of us munching on bean dip and lays potato chips and coca cola classic.

-Marc

Forever The Sickest Kids tour diary (Part 1)

YO AP!!!

Kent here from the Sickest Kids checking in from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

As many of you know, we're currently out on the Bamboozle Roadshow with We The Kings, the Cab, NeverShoutNever and Mercy Mercedes. So far the tour has been nothing but a blast! We started out in California at Bamboozle Left (which was super pwning) and then played in Arizona, did three shows in Texas, Oklahoma, St. Louis, Nashville, and now Florida. The shows have all been sold out, so it's been insanely fun every night!

We've made really good friends with all the bands so far and we're all having fun just hanging out and goofing around. There has been some sort of a rivalry going on between the Sickest Kids bus and the We the Kings bus at FIFA 2009 and NBA LIVE 2009 on XBOX 360. Pick your side and we will be sure to update you on the status of the competition. I think as of right now FTSK might hold a slight advantage, but remember: it's still early in the tour so it is anyone's game!

Be sure to check us out on the Roadshow tour but if not, we're going out on a headlining tour run in May which will be just as fun. Mark your calendars for the date nearest you!!!

Austin and I will be keeping you updated on here on the happenings of the tour so come back to Altpress.com for all of your FTSK needs.

See you soon!!!!

Kent Garrison -- FTSK