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We have a Chevy van, which everyone drives, and there is room for the 4 of us and a sound engineer to sleep in the van if we have to, as long as it's not moving. There is no tour manager or roadies.
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We've been touring for many years now, and can support ourselves pretty easily on tour, so we don't take tour support. It's just better for you if you don't take (and spend) unnecessary funds from your label. It always comes out of your royalties, somehow, so why buy a tour bus if you don't need it?
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We pay ourselves 10$ a day for breakfast/lunch and when we play a show, the club must feed us dinner. Sometimes we get cheap pizza, but more often then not, we get a really nice meal.
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We used to sleep on people's floors most of the time; people who we meet at our shows who offer their floors to us, but now more often, we are starting to stay in motels; we get 1 room for the 4 of us. It's often very tiring to be on tour and sometimes when you go back to peoples' houses, there are...parties.. Sometimes partying is the last thing a band would like to do after they play a show. (But not all the time!) And sometimes we sleep in the van, at rest areas. We all have sleeping bags.
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We have the same booking agent we've had since we first started touring; we are lucky because it is very hard to find a good booking agent who listens to you. We tell our booking agent (her name is Ellen Stewart) to make sure the shows have cheap ticket prices, try to make them all-ages, and we tell her to give us about 1 day off every couple of weeks. We drive ourselves crazy on our days off.
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