Alvarez Kings – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

This crazy story from the road was written by the indie pop band, Alvarez Kings. You can check out their story, after the break.

Probably our most notable crazy tour story happened on Vans Warped Tour in 2013 when we were pretty green when it came to touring.

Our singer Simon got detained at the U.S./Canadian border due to an issue with his Visa.

Now we needed to play shows in order to get paid and cover our overheads otherwise we would have built up some serious debt. When we lost our frontman we very nearly gave up bearing in mind it was the early hours of the morning and we were all tired and in shitty moods from having just been woken up.

So as we said our goodbyes to Simon and he was escorted over the bridge to Canada we started to hatch plans in order to try and resolve this issue so we could play the shows. We ended up staying awake all night recording his guitar parts onto our sampler which our drummer could trigger live. We rang and emailed friends we had just made on the tour to see if they would learn one or two of our songs on vocals.

The support these other singers gave us was amazing. We had Sydney from Echosmith singing a song, William Beckett from The Academy Is.. sang and Zack from Allstar Weekend all stepping up to help.

As a result, we soldiered on for 13 shows with guest vocalists until we finally resolved Simon’s Visa issues and he rejoined us back on tour. You can watch this story unfold on Fuse TV’s season 2 of Warped Roadies. They managed to document this whole story capturing our ups-and-downs.

The lesson to take from all this is to never give up no matter what obstacles are thrown at you on tour. Try and make it work and learn from your mistakes.

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