On the RoadCast - Snacks, Trucks and Rock'n'Roll

It's finally here! And we're not just talking about summer, but also Austria's biggest punk festival: SBÄM Fest 2023! For the first time in our history, we're out on grassy fields, recording some hot new episodes for you with members of your favorite bands! Eric Melvin of punk rock superstars NOFX gave us insights on 🎶 His incredible side project MELVINATOR 🎸 40 years of NOFX and the final tour...

Every hard'n'heavy music fan worth their salt will know the genre's legendary vocalist: George Fisher aka "Corpsegrinder" - frontman of American death metal giants Cannibal Corpse! Once again we rolled up to our beloved out of home makeshift studio at Arena Vienna, smashed some snacks and drinks and shared some truly unfiltered real talk with George "The Neck" himself. Are you ready? This is what...

After the severe weather unfortunately ruined their scheduled show at Nova Rock Festival 2022, the Austrian audience was even hotter to finally see DON BROCO live in concert at Arena Vienna! The Bands drummer Matt (and their Tour Manager Alec) met with us to try out our newly discovered beep-button while talking (and swearing) about.. ..the full story behind the bands name! (Don Loco, Don Bronco,...

Welcome to this month's second release of your all time fave tourpodcast

Howdy and God dag! 🇺🇸🖤🇸🇪 So much fun talking to these lovely fellas from Invent Animate - American Guitarist Keyton and Swedish Vocalist Markus. Taking our brand new mobile setup on the road, we sat down to snack, chit-chat and unpack the wildest stories! -escaping death while in Chicago aka "The Windy City" -why you shouldn't do winter sports on tour! -what lenghts you can go to prank fellow ban...

Whip out your hairspray and black eyeliner. It's Emo time!  Time traveling to some point in the early 2000s with our friend Sandy, guitarist for girl-power-vulva-rock band Vulvarine.  Emo culture, My Chemical Romance, from first to last, MySpace, snake bites, bangs and heavy make up are some of the hottest topics (pun intended) three former Emo girls could discuss. Besides unveiling our deepest da...

..some people are real naturals! Can you believe this was our guests first take on a podcast? Making time before a sold-out headliner show in Vienna, Dan Brown, guitarist and songwriter for Australian metalcore giants The Amity Affliction got comfy on our pop up studio's sofa at Vienna's SimmCity for a sizzling hot new episode of OTRC. Get ready for these gems: - which one of musical history's big...

Today's guest proves that drummers must be masters of timing - not only musically. There's no other way if you want to pull off being an A1 drummer, host of the ,bummzack-podcast’ actor, beer brewer and dad of three at the same time! What a treat for us to share some cold ones, snacks and stories with Madsen' s drum crack Sascha Madsen himself. Looking back on 19 (!) successful years of band histo...

First of all - NO Austrian Audio gear was used when recording this podcast - unfortunately! It was captured across two continents - with our phones - and a 7h time difference - so this episode is somewhat special. (and has pretty bad audio quality. sorry for that.) Our guest Kenny joined in all the way from Arizona - just like Vicky, who is visiting him there at the moment. Kenny has been on the r...

Bottoms up! Heavily buzzed on a shazillion shots of @jagermeister_at we're diving deep into the musical production world with the amazing singer/dancer/performer Betty Schurek (IG: @bettina_schurek), who has been starring in shows like "Grease", "Mamma Mia" and many more. Musical productions on the road are all about the glitz, glam and luxurious aspects of the touring industry, right?  WE BEG TO...

Guitar and bass aficionado, tech crack, tour vet and former pro-Zamboni-driver Dakotah Cole spends incredible eight to nine months a year touring! While working on the road he's keeping bands like Halestorm, Flogging Molly, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Lagwagon, Asking Alexandria, Of Mice & Men, Hanson and many others stringed gear in mint condition 24/7. From becoming a dad, withstanding the so...

In this episode we welcome Tito Picon - all the way from Texas, where, according to him, they have some of the best burritos in the world! He‘s been working as a tourmanager for over 25 years and he‘s also a self-taught and really amazing light designer. You can find him on the road with bands like Darkest Hour and Suicide Silence. This episode is filled with poop stories (even more than usual) an...

..when two worlds collide.. freestyle mountain biking and music touring!  We loved having Daniel and Elias, also known als the RUSO BROS on our podcast! ❤  These two dudes are on the road for about 6 months every year, riding freestyle shows like Masters of Dirt or at music festivals all over the world. It is the longest episode so far, but we could have gone on foreeeever. From being robbed in It...

Happy Halloween - Listen up it's getting spooky!! (& maybe you'll pee your pants of laughing just like we did recording this absolute gem of a podcast episode)  We welcomed Dead Richy Gein - Singer and Frontman of BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE! Your favorite new Horror- and Halloween Shock Rock Band!! Richy gave some insight on all the creativity and work that flows into running a special...

Welcome to our dear friend Engel Mayr!!! He‘s not only the guitar player of Russkaja and has his own⚡️ HEAVY METAL BLUES ⚡️band - he’s also producing, recording and mixing music in his own studio! (& he‘s the one who created our awesome Podcast-Intro) Do you want to know what happens when you accidentally snack on brownies with 400€ worth of weed in it? You’ll find the answer to that question on...

SBÄM - Artist, Promoter, Label Owner and altogether one of the coolest cats in this industry is joining us for this episode! Stefan is talking about how he startet out as an artist designing artwork for bands like Lagwagon, Blink182, NOFX and many more. As a promoter he has seen some stuff! From over 20 years ago, when he promoted his first concert, to his very own punk festival - Sbämfest - that...

We could literally talk for hours and hours and hours… about life on the road, travelling all over the world, getting to work at cool festivals or in historic venues and meeting amazing people along the way - but all that glitters is not always gold. In this episode we look back at some of the crazy shit that happened in 2022 as well as some of the biggest challenges and hardships. Some hints on w...

He's a simple man! Drummer of Vienna based rock band Igel vs. Shark and touring audio engineer Lukas 'Linschi' Linschinger is joining us for this new episode! He has seen both sides of the plate - as a musician and engineer. He remembers his biggest moments from playing right before AC/DC in Spielberg with his band to mixing punk shows for Rentokil in huge arenas supporting Rise Against. Tune in i...

RICKY FIZZ - badass lady punkrocker, and bass player of the THE RUMPERTS joined us for this one! ..she told us about her times sleeping on sticky and dirty venue floors, occasional catfights in the band and we talked about what it‘s like to be a woman in this crazy business. Her favorite tour snack is an unusual one - find out more about it in this episode. 

Join your hosts Vicky and Conni for this short pilot episode of "On the RoadCast" to get glimpse of what the podcast is all about. It will be a wild ride through the ins/outs, ups/downs of the live music world.