- "Yo, what's up, man?
I'm Chad, I'm from Oregon, I like to skateboard."
Oh, sick, you like skateboarding , cool.
I'm not very good at skateboarding,
but bang, we're in conversation.
It's sick, and I learned something new today. Woo.
All right, this is Yungblud,
and this is everything I do in a day.
[slow jazzy music]
Technically it depends on what time I go to bed,
but I'm saying this 'cause it makes me look like
I got me [beep] together.
At 8:45 AM in the morning, I open my eyes.
Usually when I'm on task, someone will wake me up.
I'm just kinda like, "Where are we today?"
And like, "Chicago," and I'm like, "Sick."
I roll out of my bunk on tour,
and walk in to the front lounge,
and usually say rather energetically,
"Good [beep] morning!"
And everyone's in the bunks like,
"Shut up, man, we're still sleeping."
Hopefully we've pulled into the loading dock.
I get off the bus, usually stretch out like this, "Ah,"
walk into the venue, and get a shower, go and wash me winky.
I just kind of turn it on, put on some music.
It's usually like The Cure, The Smiths,
The Jam, Amy Winehouse.
Turn the shower on so it's red-hot,
walk in the shower.
And just probably sing along to whatever's playing.
I wake up with chronic anxiety.
So I'm just like, "I want something to make me upbeat."
You know what I mean?
I call it like my Bacon Sandwich Playlist.
For a British person, there's nothing better
than a bacon sandwich in the morning.
And if I don't have access to a bacon sandwich,
I put on a Bacon Sandwich Playlist to, in my head,
make me feel like I'm at home on a Sunday morning,
eating a bacon sandwich, it makes me feel happy.
I'm quite a long shower-taker, rather selfishly.
Sometimes I use up the hot water
before anyone's woke up,
and then I lie, and be like, "Fuckin' venue,
you don't have hot water, bastard."
Don't ask me what I'm doing in the shower.
[laughs]
Just got outta the shower.
I just got a wardrobe on the bus,
and it's pretty easy, to be honest.
It's usually black clothes, pink socks, and some creepers.
All right, so it's about 9:30 in the morning,
and I'm gonna run out to go and get me-self a cup of coffee.
To say it's somewhere in the venue,
Western areas, coffee shop, they're gonna say,
"Down the road, take a right, take a left,
blah, blah, blah."
So go get a coffee, 'cause it's not about the coffee.
It's about a conversation, like, "Hello, what's your name?"
"Yo, what's up man?
I'm Chad, I'm from Oregon, I like skateboarding."
And I'm like, "Oh sick, you like skateboarding, cool.
I'm not very good at skateboarding," but bang.
We're in conversation, it's sick,
and I learned something new today, woo!
After I've got me cup of coffee,
I walk around the city I'm in,
because I really liked to make a big effort
about seeing things.
I'm not really good at eating breakfast.
So normally my Australian tour manager that you met earlier,
he's like, "Tom, you gotta get some breakfast in you, mate."
Terrible.
He's like, "Here's a bacon sandwich,
here's some oatmeal, here's some fruit."
I eat it, and then I do my thing, you know what I mean?
So I'm running around, I'm talking,
and weirding out interviewers,
and I'm eating breakfast against my will.
Before me granddad died, rest in peace,
I used to get him a fridge magnet
in loads of different cities.
I still try and get as many as I can,
because I don't know, I love weird things
like little finger puppets and stuff, know what I mean?
Something that's like really important to me
is my fan base and my community.
So I always like pop my head out and say hello.
And if it's cold, I bring out a cup of tea
to people in the line.
My fan base and family, they're fucking madmen.
They're outside for like two days before.
So I've got to make sure they're fed and watered
like little flowers, man.
At this point in a day, I'm like sat in a green room,
havin' a couple beers.
My ideal rider is Stella Artois.
As much of it as you can carry.
And a bottle of whiskey, bottle of red wine.
I love a Mars bar, and a cup of tea.
Yorkshire tea, specifically.
Melt one sugar, dip my Mars bar into it,
take a bite of my Mars bar, happy, done.
Bag of crisps, which are chips in America.
I put on the bottom, "Surprise me."
Some days you'll get underpants.
Some days you'll get a local sweet of some kind.
As I said, I love it.
This morning I might have spotted some curl badges,
or patches, or something.
And I'm in the thing like, fucking up a pair of jeans
that I bought the day before, all like-
you know what I mean?
It was kind of like crafter-noon time.
Typically, on a tour day,
unless it's like album or EP release week,
I'm chillin' until like 4:00 PM.
At that point, I'm in the venue,
I'm running around, and I hear, [mimics bass drum].
'Cause people are setting up.
Know what I mean, it's my favorite thing ever
when that starts happening.
'Cause I'm like, "Oh, yeah, we're playing
a fucking show tonight, baby."
We'll have a conversation, put the guitars on,
do sound check.
Which is one of my favorite parts of it,
'cause we just get to fuckin' jam.
We'll just start jamming Rage Against the Machine,
and once we did Justin Bieber, we're like, "Fuck it."
So it's 5:00 PM, we just did sound check,
and I'm not gonna eat, man, because I'll be sick,
'cause I jump around like a bunny rabbit on stage.
Know what I mean, we go on in four hours.
So bit more drinking out.
I usually sign a lot of like posters,
or I'll sign like a hundred vinyl, you know what I mean,
sit on the merch stand.
Play a game of cards,
it's like a fucking poker room with a bat.
Everyone's like playing cards and smoking and whatever.
At 6:00 PM, I let people in.
In every show I allow the first 100 people
in line, in, for a free meet-and-greet.
The thing about me is I write songs about me fan base,
and the people I meet.
I can't be naive to my fan base.
I want to here what they're thinking,
and what stories they've been through.
So it's 7:00 PM, and usually doors open now.
There's usually speakers in the dressing rooms
with the crowd mics on, so you can hear, like...
Know what I mean, people talking shit.
And I'm just like, in the dressing room with me mates,
I will not get ready till 8:00 PM.
I started to put my makeup on, I started to do me haircut,
the music gets turned on.
It's usually Oasis, a lot of Brit pop,
Travis Scott, Joy Division, Blondie,
Madonna, Lady Gaga, to kind of get us in the zone.
I usually like have a set uniform for the tour
because I want our tours to be like
a fucking circus train, man.
You're gonna come around,
and you're gonna see the same template,
but it's gonna be completely fucking different.
I puts me ears in, and then we fucking walk to the stage.
Intro tape starts.
A list of people I love, before I go on stage, like-
[gibberish] Go!
"I love you mom, I love you dad,
love you Jem, love you Izzie," walk on stage.
From 9:15 to 10:30, I have the best fucking time in me life.
In that moment, I'm like, I get to be who I am,
and they do too, and it's this fucking bond.
If like you're out, and you've been to a Yungblud show,
you're everything to me,
and it feels like the feeling's mutual.
Okay, 10:30, show ends.
We walk off, on karma, "How was that?"
And Jess is usually way inside of stage, by the wall,
like, "Oh yeah fucking good show, mate, great, mate."
Drink fucking water, go back on stage, do three songs.
And then after the last song,
the fucking stage is smashed up.
At 11:00 PM, I walk outside, and madness erupts,
and it's fucking sick.
At 11:30, I get in the shower,
'cause I'm sweaty as fuck, man.
I look like I've just been rained on.
Wash me winky, so I smell nice.
I put some leather pants on, a bit more makeup.
So it's probably moving on a whiskey time.
Go at a pub, and just fucking rage, man.
And like celebrate the show.
I'm stood on top of a bar,
squirtin' the soft drinks at people like a water gun.
Go get some late night food.
Me favorites, Chinese. Fucking love noodles.
Spring rolls, hoisin duck, chicken and black bean,
fried rice, curry sauce.
And then some like ice cream to top it off.
And then I go, "Fuck, my alarm clock's
gonna go off at 8:45, I better go to bed."
Get on the bus, throw up, drink some water.
I wash my face with water, I don't usually have a facewash.
Engine turns on, that makes me sleepy.
I go walk up to me bunk, get inside me bunk.
I tried it a double bed, I didn't like it; like me bunk.
I feel like I'm in a coffin, it's sick.
I'll probably put on a little series on me phone
to help me fall asleep.
I love a terrible rom-com.
I love like fucking "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past",
"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", or a horror movie.
It's very polar-opposite with me.
One night I'm watching like "Silence of the Lambs",
or a fucking war film,
and then the next night I'm watching
Kate Winslow snogging Leonardo DiCaprio on a raft.
And then the bus rocks me to sleep gently,
and I go to bed the happiest in the world,
because of the people coming to my shows,
that's my community, that's like what
I literally live and breathe for.
I fucking love what I do, and I hope I get to do it forever.
Thank you so much for having me, Vanity Fair,
that's everything I do in a day.
See ya later.