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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the metalcore band, Windwaker, while on the "Mirror's Edge North American Tour" with Invent Animate and Thornhill. Windwaker is currently supporting their newest album, HYPERVIOLENCE.

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Film Date - July 1, 2024
Location - House of Blues in Chicago, IL

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00:00Hey! How you doing? Come on in. We are Wind Waker all the way out in the U.S. from Melbourne,
00:24Australia. It's our first time out of the country and our first time in your country
00:29and we're out here touring our new record that comes out in 10 days, Hyperviolence.
00:33Out July 12th. Yup. This is Liam. I'm Liam. Vocals. Connor. I play synths and Indy plays
00:39bass. How you going? We've got two main drivers. Connor is one of them and then our tour manager
00:47Jaden also takes the wheel and then we sort of rotate the passengers. I sort of sit up
00:52the front sometimes. There's always someone co-piloting. Yeah. Always got to keep each
00:57other awake and alert on the roads especially in our first time here. You're driving on
01:01the other side of the road, it gets a bit dicey so two eyes, two sets of eyes on the
01:05road at all times. This is the charging station up here because in the RV the generator can't
01:11run when we're driving so we all take turns charging our phones up here. We've got courtesy
01:16of Thornhill some thorny dice up here just for a little bling you know. Yeah. That's
01:21about it. We try and keep it pretty clean up here. Yeah. Try and keep it just you know
01:25focused on driving on the right hand side of the road. It's weird. We have a rule where
01:29it's like we always have someone up front next to the driver that's the passenger princess
01:33just to like keep everyone awake. Banter. Banter is good fuel for driving. Banter is
01:38good fuel for driving. Yeah. And then most people will try and sleep while we're driving
01:41but it's possible to sleep up there. The only people that really sleep while we're driving
01:46is Chris our drummer. And Justin. And Justin. Who's playing guitar for us on these tours.
01:53Everyone else is finding it really difficult to sleep. Yeah. So. Alright well this is where
01:57Indy and I sleep up here. It is very tough to sleep up there but we're getting better
02:02at it. It gets a bit hot too doesn't it? It does get a bit hot. It's right above the engine
02:05so you know. Heat. And summer. Summer and humidity. Yeah. That mattress up there actually
02:10goes on the floor. So we've normally got me and Indy up here. One person here. One person
02:18here. A mattress in the middle. And then two people at the back. And that's our seven
02:22person touring buddy. Sleeping up. We constantly wake up in sweats up there. It's great. Yep.
02:27And also I sleep on this side so I'm constantly scared that you know I'll roll over and break
02:33my neck or something. So instead of rolling off he rolls over to me and cuddles me. Yeah.
02:37It's real wholesome actually. It's really really wholesome. Yeah. We've all got partners
02:40at home that we miss. You've got a mate too. I love being cuddled in my sleep by Connor.
02:47It's great. Yeah so this is our content whiteboard. This is our plan of like things we're going
02:52to do in each city. Yeah. Things we're going to do like at different shows because we've
02:56got plans and we want to show everyone what we're up to. Connor loves whiteboards and
03:00lists and he keeps us in line with whiteboards and lists. As soon as we landed he was talking
03:04about getting a whiteboard and he finally got his whiteboard. Yeah. Don't get me started
03:07on an Excel spreadsheet. They're lucky I don't have good hotspot here. So right here
03:13we've got sort of a MacGyver style clothesline way for us to dry towels any sort of laundry
03:23and that's sort of just being secured with these cupboard handles. So in here we've got
03:28all of our pantry items. There's some protein powder at the back and then just a whole heap
03:33of snacks that are awful for you. But you know there's the options are limited when
03:39you're traveling. So we've got a couple of different things. This is Connor's favorite
03:43thing at the moment Reese's Buffs. I love peanut butter. We don't really get Reese's
03:47in Australia. So we're in heaven over here. One of my favorite things I mean other than
03:52the everything bagel. I'll see if I've still got some. Fuego Takis. I always have to get
03:57Fuego Takis whenever I see them. And I don't think I can find them here. Oh no. But I also
04:04like these. These Chips Ahoy. These are the first time I've ever gotten to have Chips
04:07Ahoy. Oh those are so good. These are really good. What else we got in here. What about
04:14pull out the peanut butter M&Ms. They're a classic. So we've been doing. You see two
04:18packets right there. So we've been doing snack reviews on our Instagram and TikTok and we've
04:23been rating different snacks. We haven't reviewed this one but I'm just going to say from the
04:27jump that this is a solid W. This is a 10 out of 10. So that is a 10 out of 10. Peanut
04:32butter M&Ms. Unreal. We've gone through so many of them. I think we've been what 10 bags?
04:37We've been contesting between the peanut M&Ms and the caramel M&Ms. Yeah. And I think four
04:42out of the seven are peanut M&Ms. Yeah. The other three are caramel. Yeah. So the bus
04:48is divided at the moment. They're the go to the M&Ms for sure. The exotic M&Ms. Can't
04:52beat them. Yeah. A hundred percent. Over here. This is sort of like, I swear this is just
04:59a massage gun. It's just for, you know, backs and stuff like that. Now we just sort of like
05:06storage in here. Normally like the boys will put their backpacks and personal belongings
05:10in here. So we've been, cause album two comes out in 10 days. So we've already started working
05:17on album three. Yeah. We started trying some writing on the road. A whole album written
05:22on there. So we've got some more stuff in the other bedrooms that kind of contribute
05:25to this recording setup that we've got. But yeah, that's one of them. So here is our,
05:32I guess like cups, mugs, plates. We've got a few different like ceramic ones, but we've
05:37found that the paper, the paper plates seem to do just as good. Especially when we're
05:43just kind of on the go and we're just needing to just keep moving. Where's my, where's my
05:48Goat Walmart cup? Where's your Goat Walmart cup? Oh, it's up the, up the back right there.
05:53Back right? On the top, on the top shelf. Oh, here we go. No, over on your right. On
05:56my right. The, up the back there. Oh, there it is. There we go. All right. There you go
06:02Connor. Dude, Walmart representing. We love that LGBT representation in Walmart. Not bad.
06:07Not bad. Um, we've got a few like spices in here. I mean just like garlic powder, onion
06:13powder, salt and pepper, sesame seeds. Uh, we've got a toaster in here and I think, what
06:19is this? This is like Parmesan. No. Cane sugar. For someone with a sweet tooth. I don't, I
06:26don't touch this. What is it? Dude, so like Melbourne's known for its coffee, right? So
06:30we've been trying to assimilate a Melbourne coffee in America and we tried to find just
06:34like you just want a teaspoon of sugar in your coffee. But the only thing we could find
06:38was that. That's really a bottle of cane sugar. So yeah, we're kind of rocking the
06:43pod machine at the moment. Uh, we just again got like a cheap one at Walmart just to keep
06:48us going. Uh, you guys have been kind of doing more of that stuff. I've been sort of keeping
06:52on the cold brews. Yeah. You got, you got your Starbucks bottles. Yeah. Starbucks. Um, yeah.
06:57They're not sponsoring the tour, but they could one day. Um, and then just like we've
07:04got cutlery in here and we bought a bunch of just spare cutlery. Um, some, some basic
07:10utensils. We needed a knife to cut chives and stuff. Chris made a amazing egg scramble
07:16the other day. So this looks like we cook quite a bit, but we've kind of been more interested
07:20in trying all of the, you know, the fast food chains and things. So most of this hasn't
07:24really been used yet. There's still a lot of novelty in all the foods that we got to
07:27explore here. So, um, and then this is sort of our like appliances and pots and pans sort
07:34of cupboard. Uh, we've got one fry pan and one saucepan, uh, cutting boards. What else
07:41have we got in here? We definitely got, we bought an air fryer as well for convenience
07:46of just cooking stuff cause there's no oven in here. So we, um, bought this bad boy. It
07:53seems to be, uh, helping with all the frozen stuff that we'll get to in a minute. Now it's
07:58getting a good board. Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore? That air fryer is designed by Drew
08:03Barrymore. There you go. Shout out DB. Um, this is where we're doing all our charging
08:10cause everything we bought over is like Australian outlets obviously. So we're trying to set
08:14up the little charging station there. Yup. Yup. Uh, charging. We can't, we can't charge
08:19our stuff while it's driving. So this is more when we're, when we're stationary and stopped.
08:24Um, should we go to the fridge? It is pretty stocked with beverages. Um, we've got beers,
08:32we've got Red Bulls, we've got almond milks, we've got that sweet, sweet baby raise. Uh,
08:38what else we got? We've got, uh, got some Philly for the, uh, bagels, bagels, bottles
08:45of water, hummus, some heat up meals, got bacon. I didn't know we had this. That's,
08:52that's cool. Uh, and you know, more sweets. We, we love sweets here apparently. Uh, but
08:59we do like to keep a balanced diet of fruits as well. We've got some grapes, man. We've
09:04got some grapes. This is where, um, the disgrace starts to happen. Uh, we've got, yeah, a lot
09:12of, a lot of air fry food and uh, but we do get like this. Like I said, we're balancing
09:15it out with vegetables. We're doing our best trying to stay fit, trying to stay healthy,
09:20but also have some fun too. Liam, you can talk about how we bring a lot of the riders back.
09:27Rider spider. Oh yes. So yeah, where we get a lot of the beers and stuff from, um, we
09:33have like a case of beer that arrives in our green room most nights. Um, so we tend to
09:39just pack the fridge full of Gatorades and seltzers and beers and anything we can get
09:45our hands on. That's kind of where all these, uh, tubs of hummus have come from. Uh, we've
09:50got a hella amount of, uh, corn chips and we've got way too many corn chips, but the
09:56corn chips over here are like, they're built different. I don't know. They're like, there's
10:00something, something in the water. And speaking of water, we can't drink the tap water here.
10:07So all the tap water in the RV. So we're always, uh, nicking a case of waters from each venue
10:13we go to. Rider spider. Rider spider. Yeah. So that's our kitchen area. We've got a microwave,
10:18got a stovetop, air fryer, coffee machine. All we really need at the moment. So yeah.
10:24So in here we've got two doors. Uh, one door here is the toilet, the bathroom. Also doubles
10:32as storage for all the suitcases and everything. Also doubles as storage. We know what goes
10:36on in there. There's a no poop rule. We only do liquids in there. Um, and that doesn't
10:42include liquid poo. So, uh, we've got a shower in here. Um, thankfully most of the venues
10:48that we've been like, you know, arriving at and playing shows that have some like shower
10:52facilities. So we haven't had to use this all the time, but it's been really good for
10:56in a pinch. So, um, yeah, good to have a shower. So I guess this is what you would call like
11:01the master bedroom. Um, it's right over the rear wheel axle. So it is a bumpy ride. Um,
11:07and so something I'm getting used to, but this is where I sleep and then I have someone
11:11else sleep here with me. Um, my, my partner who also takes photo, my partner who also
11:16takes photos, um, is sleeping next to me. I'm very lucky. The rest of the boys can suck
11:20shit. Um, yeah, just got clothes and luggage everywhere. But as I was mentioning before,
11:28we've got a writing tools. So I've got a microphone in here, recording interface, headphones,
11:37mic cables, all that sort of stuff. Uh, that sits in here. Um, we've got some spare merchandise
11:44in here for when, you know, we're not, we don't need it all. Um, we can store some of
11:50it in here. Um, there's probably some other stuff in the cupboards that I'm not allowed
11:55to see. Liam, turn away. So I'm going to, I'm going to leave really quickly. So we've
11:59been doing snack reviews on the roads and we've been getting Liam to like blindfold,
12:03try different snacks. And this is no, this one. Yeah, there we go. This is a, this is
12:13all the things we're going to make Liam eat and then try. So we got, let's see. Cheesecakes.
12:20We've got some, I don't even know what that is. Something whack. Yeah. And cake bites
12:26going to get him to try it and review it all. But he can't know what it is. Defeats the
12:30joke, right? And then, uh, and then down here we're keeping spare drum stuff, got heads,
12:37spare drumsticks. That's about it. It's just kind of like doubles as a storage room, you
12:42know? So yeah, that was our tour of the RV. Thank you for checking it out. Uh, we have
12:46an album out now called hyperviolence. Uh, go stream it. Um, if you want to come follow
12:51us online, it's at wind waker official, uh, on all the socials, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
12:59TikTok, Spotify, all those things. So YouTube, all those things too many. Yeah. You can probably
13:06check out by now all of the silly TikToks we've made as we've been in America. So go
13:12check it all out and stream the album. Yeah. Thanks very much. Awesome.