Travel like a rocker: tips and travel stories musicians

As the weeks be in the way and it does not look like a bum? How not to fall face in the salad from constant fatigue? How to make friends do not forget about your existence, if you do not see them for months? Musicians - rockers, rappers, DJs - told how they spend their time traveling.

A-Trak: backups and healthy sleep

I'm very picky attitude to luggage packed and always act according to the same procedure. It comes down to a maximum simplification. The only luxury that I do not want to get rid of - two laptops. One for music and one for everything else. One day someone stole my technique, I lost a lot of important data. So much so that no backup could not save me. When you lose three months of work, you learn to hedge.

About jet lag. When fly over the ocean, do not be tempted to lie down and sleep at the usual time for yourself - go to rest on the local time. One way or no way.

Better to wait and sleep normally, than to rest in fits and starts.

There is nothing worse, if you get to the other side of the globe, you need to sleep, and you go to a couple of hours. Then you wake up, you go to work at midnight do not know what to do, then you go back to sleep for three or four hours. The whole day is broken into pieces because of these half-sleep periods. Disgusting.

Best Coast: bones and secret passions

We travel mostly by busBut when we leave and go far in the van, turn on the music that relaxes us. Or that we listen to in secret, that no one knows. And we are not ashamed to admit it! And when we stay behind the scenes and miss - we start playing dice and selects money from each other.

Broncho: procrastination and thrown clocks

On the road, time seemed to disappear. You can throw away the clock, if every night you spend at the new location. Because if you start to think about the time, soydosh crazy - better not to try. Just have to imagine when you have to come to the place, and if you are late - call and report it. We are under the influence procrastinationAnd, therefore, we are always late, and use every opportunity to plunge into laziness and enjoy it.

Chuck Prophet: coffee and reading

Bring coffee from the reserve - two mugs. If one falls over, there will be a reason for the disorder. You can sit in peace and enjoy the "Van therapy."

Imagine a dark night, dark and quiet, and you looked someone in the head... the same feeling you experience when you're lying on the couch at the reception at the psychotherapist and look at the ceiling.

And yet the way - the only way to read the article about the business in the New York Times and understand them.

Courtney Barnett: road lessons

Way teaches us to look how people work, how I work and my musicians, what they experience emotions. When a number of people spend 24 hours a day, willy-nilly, you learn to understand what they live.

Dan Deacon: realistic expectations and public transport

Do not count on comfort. When suddenly he find, you get a pleasant surprise. It is foolish to expect that the journey would be convenient. You are not at home. And there is no place that would be like a house. Conversations with people really helps, of course. The lighter you go to the contact, the easier it is to understand what mad is still far.

Use public transport. Unless you take the public transport helps to immerse themselves in the city, plus there always find someone who can help. And help.

the hardest traveling alone. I was lucky: I travel, to meet people who know me and know what I'm doing. But this is a double edged sword: on the day of the concert you're a hero, and after no one even really will not remember your name.

The Districts: drugs and notebook

Since there is always a cure allergies and a notebook for recording to take notes. And a lot of clothes, because I never wear one thing twice, so as not to stink. The book of Albert Camus: too much time is spent in the van, so you have to somehow maintain brain activity.

G-Eazy: hot noodles and mask for sleep

Recently I live on noodles. Restaurants with instant noodles can be found in every city, it is almost impossible to mess up, so it's a win-win situation. And noodles with broth saved from hangover. More sleep - an important resource on the way.

Excellent piece - a mask for sleep. Of course, they look funny, but it works.

It is necessary to count the hours that can be spent on sleep, and use every opportunity to relax.

Heartless Bastards: minimalist and jogging

The travel needs minimalism! Suitcase recalls from what I refuse more than a month, and shows how little I actually need.

We spent a lot of time in the concert tours and realized that the road to sleep and exercise.

We run a priority, and often have run into hideous places. When you stop at a roadside hotel and send reeling kilometers not expect anything good, except for the dirt and dust from passing trucks. But it is necessary to engage in air.

Make sure your companions are fed on time. On the trip you long to be close to the people that you do not have to do with it. But it does work, and it is necessary to get along with them. And when the blood glucose level falls, maintain a good attitude is more difficult.

Holt: Knife and respect

Always take a knife. Always. I'm from Chicago, so that the knife - is the minimum. Not for self, but for useful things. People do not even know what a useful tool.

When you come to a new place, behave as if you are living here.

Keep your eyes open - you learn a lot of interesting things.

In order not to spoil your trip, do not pretend to be a stupid tourist. Do not, being in London, to talk to people in the same way if you were in Los Angeles. It is necessary to respect the place that you came. And people are more friendly and will show more. Bind up an acquaintance, a chat with the man, and when the talk, he asked: "What is here is?" - a new world opens before you.

King Tuff: the knife again and random thoughts

Always need to carry a knife, suddenly avocado decide to clean? Yet I have a GoPro. For some reason. Sometimes you can catch a couple of interesting things in the pictures.

I'm always full of pens, like office supplies and tools for art. I like to write by hand: every morning I wake up and write something, it helps to structure and put in order thoughts. Blogs by Susan Sontag - a great thing that you can just browse when you read someone's random thoughts, they light your own ideas.

Matthew I. White: Kindle and healthy eating

When you are constantly on the road, do not get a lot to learn, if you do not have super-powers. You can on the year and a half is nothing new to learn. I used to be carried with him the book, and now switched to Kindle - very good. I spend a lot of time in other countries, so I want to learn a bit more about where I'm going, about the culture of these places, to ask interesting questions to local. And yet I have a couple of books by Kurt Vonnegut is always with you.

While I was always a flask, where I pour rum, because it combines with the juices and juice - it's good for your health. :)

The house we have in stock a lot more energy to make up for our failures in the power supply, and on the road, and when so constantly wasting energy, there is no time for rest and recovery, so you should ensure that you eat.

At home, I allow myself to relax, and in the way I prefer healthy eating.

Odesza: disposable camera

We take a camera "at once" to otscholkat only one film. This makes the return to the frames that were made a few months ago, and relive the best moments.

Ryan Bingham: money and clothes

Always keep to yourself a small supply of cash, just in case, you never know what will happen on the road. And traveling I always pile up clothes for performances separately, so you know exactly what I'll wear tomorrow before going on stage.

San Fermin: good final and silent neighbors

During the tour we played in Canada and froze terribly, but at the end of the program were in Los Angeles, where a few days just to get warm and relaxed. And many such examples. For example, after exhausting overshooting I suddenly find myself in Italy, in a fabulous castle. We need to get used to living in inhumane conditions. While comfort is perceived with great pleasure.

Do not talk to people who are sitting on a nearby chair on the plane, until you hear the pilot announce a landing.

And only when the decline has already begun, and your neighbor does not mind talking, perekin'te few words. All the rest of the time sitting in the headphones.