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answers Tom. “I think that’s the whole etting their first tour supporting nal.”
music industry summed up, really. You’ve GSimple Plan really set the ball “The first day we were driving to Madrid
got to be good at what you do and people rolling. Burger-loving Callum says, “I think and the bus crashed,” says Max. “Any-
have got to like you, but you’ve also got to that was our first ever real tour, on a big where we go, trouble just seems to follow
be bloody lucky. Right place, right time; scale; playing to more than a thousand us!”
stuff like that.” people every night for five weeks. We’d It was one of the biggest shows in
“A prime example of that is; the initial never been to Europe before, never done Spain. Callum continues to explain, “The
contact with Simple Plan was because Cal any of the big shows in the UK, so it was a bus literally crashed into the side of a tun-
and Tom actually met Seb at Reading,” ex- real statement tour for us.” nel at 4am, so the bus was screwed. We
plains Max. “Seb was like, “Oh yeah, I “We got to live on a bus as well,” adds woke up in the morning in a Mercedes
played a couple of tracks on my podcast,” Tom, “which was just a crazy experience. garage and stayed there pretty much the
and then ended up swapping emails and That wasn’t through being divas at all, as whole day. We got to the show as Simple
getting in touch and finding where else we we can prove when we sleep in any vehicle Plan were going on stage and there was
needed to get in touch in order to get on the we can get. The logistics of that tour, we such a sad feeling. On our first ever big tour
tours. So yeah, right time, right place, but wouldn’t have been able to keep up with if and we missed the first show. It sucked.
also, yeah, hard work.” we had set off driving, we’d have killed our- But the rest of the tour was so good.”
“If Callum had gone to a burger van selves. We managed to bus-share with an- A lightbulb flickered in their heads.
when Seb came into the tent at Reading, we other band called Ghost Town from the “That was the tour where we were so
may have never been touring,” laughs Tom. States. So that was a surreal experience, bummed out, so annoyed. We’d go on tour
Callum likes burgers, it seems. pulling up to venues in a tour bus and play- not able to afford it, so if we didn’t make the
ing these crazy shows. It was phenome- merch money we’d have been kicked off the

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