havent written a blog in a while! i want to stay connected with you guys more though. you’re our family after all. we just got back from touring with set it off for the first time and it was great. our band learned a lot. firstly, set it off is a band. they function exactly how a band should and they have all of their crap together. they’re putting out an amazing full length later this year that i really hope gets the attention they deserve. cody is an amazing frontman and his vocals on the new record blow me away. definitely the hardest working band ive ever met. and i think thats great because i’m hoping that that rubbed off on us some. we’ve always worked hard but i think seeing how hard they work has pushed us harder. really the biggest thing both of our bands need is better tours. 

here’s what some of you might know (if you’re in a band you can skip this section because you’re probably well aware- i’m just explaining the travesty that is buy-ons) what sucks is the first band on tours, for the most part is usually a buy-on. they pay (ridiculous amounts of) money to be on the tour and open up every night and because theyre giving the headlining band money, most of the time that means other bands who might draw more kids or whose genre fits the tour better, don’t get onto tours. so the process (that we see/have seen for so long) is basically months in advance you’ll find out about a bunch of tours (right now we’re looking at august/sept/oct) and who’s doing what and where they’ll be and then you’re booking agent/management/label all try to talk to the headlining bands people and get you on the tour. they’ll use your sales numbers, your attendance records, your online hype, your press coverage, ANYTHING they can to try and convince them that your band should be on the tour. The first thing I learned once we started getting submitted for tours is to never ever ever get your hopes up about anything, and always assume that you’re not going to get any of the tours you’re trying to get. Some (rare) times a hardworking, deserving band will get the first/second spot on a tour, and thats so great to see! BUT in a lot of cases either you’ll be told something along the lines of “hey (insert band name here) said you can open the tour for $20,000” or “hey unfortunately we didn’t get the tour, (insert band name here) bought on for $60,000”. Stupid I know but thats just how it is! as a disclaimer, in our six years as a band i cant say we’ve never bought onto a tour but some of the numbers you hear are just insaneeee.

so with that said, i really hope set it off and divided by friday can beat the odds and get on some bigger tours in the fall so that our fanbases can grow. and if not, wellll i guess the two of us will just have to hit the west coast this time ;)