The day after the Winterize The Game tour, I road-tripped with Grand Buffet to their show in Carborro, NC. During their set, I performed Bad Weather, our collaborative song from Winterize The Game. It seemed to go well, and I ended up getting back in the van and doing seven more shows with them, performing that song, or “These Dreams Are Fucked” during their set.
This became a way to continue promoting the new album between my own tours. Throughout the next two years, I tagged along with GB in this manner for three more of their tours with Of Montreal, MGMT and Streetlight Manifesto.
Getting onstage in the middle of someone’s set and trying to impress a crowd with one verse is no easy feat. Trying to appear that I was raising the bar on a high-energy Grand Buffet show did not come naturally to me. Doing this every night taught me a lot about performing. I also got to see what bigger tours were like, and I got to see some great bands that really influenced me.