It only takes us three questions to figure out if somebody’s been on tour before: Do groupies exist? 💋 Have you stepped in v0mit or other body fluids? 🤢 Has anybody ever eaten or dropped your labeled food (RIP, delicious peach yoghurt)? 🚫 Clearly, our friend and coach bus logistics manager of choice Moosi Moosbrugger (IG @moosi_arts) has a sophisticated answer to all of the above and has more than proved, YES, he’s got a whole bunch of tours under his belt. Moosi’s come a long way from kicki...
May 27, 2025•42 min
What do Dropkick Murphy’s, Cannibal Corpse and Coheed & Cambria have in common? They have great taste in audio engineers and have been on tour with the man, the myth, the legend: Pete Robertson ! ⭐ (Btw has anybody told him he’s going to be part of the most chaotic - yet insanely hilarious IOHO - podcast ever? 😱😱😱) Pete works as a FOH and studio audio engineer and has been turning knobs on desks for a really looong time. 🎛️🎤 Being the personification of a story book, he’s got countl...
Mar 18, 2025•36 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The girls are back in town, baby! 👩🏻👩🏼👩🏼🦰 Everybody give a warm welcome and round of applause to our kick-🍑 tour photographer and merch manager friend Sarai (@photosbysarai). 🙏 Sarai had been out with Stick To Your Guns on their “Keep planting flowers”-tour just a bunch of weeks ago and didn’t even hesitate when being asked if she wanted to have some 👏real 👏 talk about the touring life, the biz and our aspirations of finally getting our life together by making our own sour bread...
Mar 04, 2025•36 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Crazy but true. We made it through this without having a “Conni’s tummy bug is acting up” incident. ( Disclaimer : No furniture was harmed during the recording of this episode 💩). Our dear, fearless friend Zach Jordan (@zachbane) took the risk of getting a special (gastroenterological) tour souvenir and sat down for a chat! And he even showered for us! 🚿 Well… Zach’s definitely been in stickier and more interesting situations, like… …getting mugged on tour, maybe? 💀💀💀 …or finding a huge...
Feb 18, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Sorry, guys. 😢 We simply had no other choice than… …spend our last hard earned tour bucks (and future retirement fund) on plane tickets to escape the cold and dismal Viennese winter. Thankfully we found shelter in Conni’s new influencer hacienda on the Canary islands. 🙏🙏🙏 #gaycation2025 🌈 Picking up where we left off in our last release, we’ll take a peek at our upcoming tour schedules and finish part two of our 1:1 episode with another round of Q&A. We’ll see you again in a co...
Feb 04, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Farewell and goodbye to 2024 and hellooooo 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣!!! With new tours already around the corner for 2025, last year basically feels older than yesterday’s jam! 🫙 Packed in a quick and fun round of Q&A, we relived our recent tour memories - the good, the bad and well… the ugly and put it in a new episode. 🎤’Nuff said! Season 3 of On the RoadCast is here, so hit that play button fast! 👉▶️ And if you enjoy what we do, feel free to leave a 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review on our episodes! Find us on the...
Jan 28, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Summer is officially over. Boooo! 😭 To make coping with that heart-breaking fact a tad bit easier, we made a little podcast episode for you! A 1:1 of your On the RoadCast hosts Conni (@connitschiwaa) and Vicky (@victourious_tm) is waiting for you! What a banger! 🧨🧨🧨 Chit-chats about this past summer and tours, snacks (duh!) and... oh wait. Let's not give away too much. Find out for yourself on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and give the new drop a listen! And if you enjoy what we do, why not leav...
Sep 10, 2024•46 min
Here it is - our final (😭😭😭) Sisters Festival Special for this year - featuring the all-girl Austrian powerhouse @crushtheband . We're picking the "moms-on-tour-challenge" topic back up, but also 😵💫 when shows almost go down the drain (thanks, local prod! not.) 🫸se*ism and lines being crossed in the industry (check out Crush's Zine "Let's make a scene" here http://www.crushtheband.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Lets_Make_A_Scene-Online.pdf) And, well, you know, more lighthearted subjects o...
Aug 06, 2024•20 min
Not even broken rides or lack of naps could stop this superwoman from opening the 2024's Sisters Festival! Everybody buckle up for a brand new drop of On the RoadCast x Sisters of Music with the lovely Baiba, featuring: 👴🏠 questionable venue choices 🎤 why Baiba didn't join Eurovision Song Contest 🌎 it's a small world (in the music business) ⭐ being artsy + freshly ditched + writing poems = ❓❓❓ What great hangs we had with our girl Baiba and we hope you're going to enjoy our recording as well...
Jul 30, 2024•17 min
Welcome back, sisters (and brothers!)!👧👦🎉 For the second year in a row, the Sisters Festival took place at Arena Wien on July 12th 2024. This time we had the pleasure to welcome Danish singer/rapper Iris Gold . Riding along with the motto of the festival, we obviously had a lot of (but not exclusively) girl talk going on, such as: How's touring as an expecting mother and can you still tour after having had a baby? 👶 Setting boundaries as a female musician ⛔ And ofc grub talk, crazy tour stor...
Jul 23, 2024•20 min
Some call him the Savior of guitars aka String Jesus. 🙏🎸 Some call him Minimal Effort (actually he, himself). 🤷🏽 We (mostly) call him Mike Woods. 😎 If you've seen shows of The Ataris, Versus The World or Silver Snakes - you've definitely laid eyes on this handsome friend of ours relentlessy shredding on stage! Or maybe at some of Flogging Molly's (and so many other bands) gigs giving some well deserved TLC to their beloved guitars. Mike is currently on tour across Europe with his band Versu...
Jun 04, 2024•32 min
This guy is a LEGEND! American Pie and Grey‘s Anatomy actor THOMAS NICHOLAS took some time in his busy touring schedule to talk to us - to say we had a blast is an understatement!! He‘s touring Europe with his punk band, playing shows and spreading good vibes (and funny tour stories) wherever he goes 🥳
Apr 02, 2024•49 min
Oh the good old days... Checkered Vans, skateboarding in parking lots (failing miserably and breaking every single bone in your body ofc), being stoked about the next summer festival's pop punk filled line-up... 🎶🛹 Thank you, Simple Plan for lending us your drummer Chuck Comeau for a little pre-show snack and chat sesh. We're not only looking back on the late 90's and early 00's, but are also talking (music) biz and how things have shifted - both for bands/crew and fans. Chuck also fills us in...
Mar 19, 2024•26 min
Remember what your parents used to tell you back in the day? "Don't get on a van with random people offering you candy!" 🍬🍬🍬 Well, Tom we hope your parents aren't disappointed, but to our defense, all we offered was homemade and questionably shaped Austrian funnel cake. Besides serious grub-talk (surprise!), this is what you can expect from this fun episode with Tom May (The Menzingers): What's the salsa-relativity-index? 🥫 Why you shouldn't trust preppy Bavarians weraing Rolling Stones t-sh...
Mar 05, 2024•33 min
Flash those pearly whites for the camera! 😁 If you've been on a Flogging Molly cruise or any other Sixthman cruise before, you've for sure seen their outstanding video and photography footage, capturing the wild days on the boat. Maybe you have even found yourself on one of those recordings? Wanting to know more about the person behind the lens of Sixthman's camera, responsible for immortalizing all the fun things on the decks of the Norwegian Pearl, we invited our friend Rich Johnson to take a...
Feb 13, 2024•33 min
We had a HARD TIME focussing on this one with DEVIN CLARK, but hey, it was day 4 of the cruise 😅 Getting some insight on how Sixthman employees hustle in the background to make every show run smoothly! Devin, taking care of the backline for all of the stages on the ship is also the drummer of metal band CANE HILL and shares some memories of touring the world with us🌎 (… and especially memories of what happened to them at Vans Warped Tour 2016 👀) We also took some time to give Sixthman‘s Heath...
Feb 06, 2024•32 min
After a *very* successful whiskey tasting, Flogging Molly's OG Dennis Casey took a seat on our "On the RoadCast" aka "On the BoatCast" couch and spilled the beans about his initial thoughts on the first SALTY DOG CRUISE , what to expect at Flogging Molly aftershow hangs and his secret fave snack 💇🏻♀️ Again we didn’t hold back with the special video effects on this one (look closely for the Fight Club-ish surprise). Thank you, Dennis for taking your time. We for sure can’t wait for our next ha...
Jan 30, 2024•31 min
You know it takes two to tango. 💃🕺🏾 But it only takes one KENT JAMIESON to manage, tour manage and mix punkrock superstars NOFX! Looking back on literally decades of being out and about with these legends, Kent (a true legend himself) has for sure done and most likely seen it all. 😮 But not only NOFX can be found on this machine's resume, countless other bands have been relying on his qualities and skills, For example PENNYWISE, whose shows he mixed on the past Flogging Molly Cruise. If you ...
Jan 23, 2024•31 min
Dreams do come true! 🤩💫 After (not so) secretly fangirling hard over THE BRONX foreeeeeever, we finally had the chance to invite their personal shred-master KEN to On the RoadCast! If you've ever witnessed The Bronx's high-energy performance on stage, you probably wouldn't believe that their touring party is actually super calm. Oh and thanks for getting us hooked on those Japanese Candies! Check out this episode and enjoy Ken's valuable tour wisdom and lessons! P.S.: If you’re enjoying what w...
Jan 22, 2024•29 min
Ooooh oh oh it’s CASEY THE PUNK ROCK MAGICIAN ✨in a slightly NSFW edition on the Flogging Molly Cruise!! 🛳️🤫 Well, to be completely honest, if this episode was a Cinemax flick, it’d be NC-17 (or rated X for our more mature listeners). Together with our buddy Casey, a touring magician that absolutely blows minds with his magic tricks. We elaborated the more magical and also spicier things in life. We won’t give away too much but rest assured: this one is kinky!...
Jan 09, 2024•31 min
They are bandmates. They are workmates. And they are... SHIPMATES! Meet 3/4 of THE ATTACK and Flogging Molly Cruise veterans Brad, Charlie and Mikey, who squeezed in our cozy podcast nook to talk about working, drinking, playing shows together and why you might be questioning your life choices when you're in a band. But besides making sure to keep punk rock alive, these guys also run their own merch company ENEMY INK! Over the past years they have stepped up the shopping experience game on count...
Jan 02, 2024•29 min
Somebody bring the liquid IV, please! What's the price of fun nights with heavy drinking on the Salty Dog Cruise? Having to cure the mother of hangovers the following day... Kudos to ALL HAILs Mike and Spencer (yes - he's also in Flogging Molly) for making it out of bed (or the hot tub) and spilling some vodk... uhm tea and walking down memory lane together. All aboard for a slightly pensive, yet hilarious new podcast episode SHIPment of On The RoadCast! Streaming now on Spotify and AppleMusic. ...
Dec 26, 2023•32 min
We got him hooked on JUMPY'S! Lewis MacRae, vocalist of UK-based metalcore four-piece RITUALS joined us in the podcast van for a hilarious episode which is all about the snacks!!! Right after touching down in Austria for their short tour alongside UP CLOSE, the guys visited the Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum (where Conni might or might not touched Arnie's d*ck..) and took a deep dive into Austrian culture. If you want to know more about Lewis' scottish heritage and his family castle (?!) or the ba...
Dec 19, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Ahoy and welcome back, ye salty dogs! Coming in hot right after their blow-the-roof-off-this-joint set in the champagne lounge of the Norwegian Pearl, George and Johnny of PET NEEDS spill the tea (UK-pun intended) about why their band was told to GTFO Serbia, how to go to Disneyland for free and many more stories you don't want to miss out on! Are you ready for a shipload of fun? 🚢
Dec 12, 2023•29 min
We love this woman. Funny, smart and the voice of an angel. It’s PÄM!! She started out as a merchandise manager for TURBOBIER and now she is building her career as a singer and songwriter, while working a day job and using her social media platform to inspire women and encourage them to be who they are. Nothing can stop her... not even almost freezing to death while trying to pee and falling into a river in Switzerland? Keep an eye out for this one because PÄM has big plans....
Dec 05, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 5
It’s a family affair! After playing the sail away party during daytime (apparently one of their favorite shows ever!) husband and wife Lorna and Dan from the band Skinny Lister joined us for our first Salty Dog Cruise episode! These incredibly sweet people make touring work with their 3 year old daughter Bonnie, with help of a lot of their bandmates and other family members. ...kudos to the captain who was stirring the ship like a real pro - the band hadn't always been so lucky when it comes to ...
Nov 28, 2023•26 min
Spoiler alert: this episode features a really cute dog, so we highly recommend watching it :D It's all about STRESS! Running his own (stress-)studio, working as a tourmanager for SEILER & SPEER, mixing shows for bands like BOYSETSFIRE or touring as a guitarist with his own Punk Rock band ANTIMANIAX.. TOM ZWANZGER never takes a break! Check out this mildly stressful but super funny episode with our whirlwind of a friend Tom and his dog Panzer....
Nov 21, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This guy is CRACKING us up. Pun intended. This year Mike and his band DeeCRACKS will celebrate 20 years of punk rock history with a big festival at Arena Vienna. (Nov 17th & 18th 2023) ...and it was quite the journey. Including eleven different bassists (Vicky already put in her application to be number twelve). From being banned from the United States of America for a lifetime to making it big in Japan and how their approach has changed over the years - don't miss this super funny episode :...
Nov 07, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This episode is HOT!! ..and not only because of the people in it! While building his hot sauce empire „TOM’S HOT STUFF“, Tommy Hlatky also drums in various punk rock bands like DEADENDS and A GUY NAMED LOU. His stories about touring in Japan are hilarious! Have you ever heard about an OWL CAFÈ? (..and even better, a HIGHLAND COW CAFÈ?) Listen and find out more!
Oct 24, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Is there a better place to record the first episode of season 2 than under the Italian sun in MILAN? And is there a better guest than DAVID BAQI, touring guitarist of Being as An Ocean and vocalist in Takers Leavers? Both times the answer is NO. We had such a great time chatting about moving tour memories and the importance of being a 'clutch' player in this industry. Oh and if you want to hear the story of how Conni almost died while sleeping in a Minitours van this summer (with THE SAME driver...
Oct 10, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 1
