Mark & Gareth Haze On Opening For Seether And What Touring Was Like For A South African Band In 2008

The Haze Brothers

With Mark having finished second place on Idols SA & Gareth being his long-standing drummer turned solo musician in the UK, it’s no surprise that the duo has a long history of touring and playing alongside some of the world’s biggest names like Bon Jovi and Seether. They took us back to the Seether tour and gave us some exclusive insight on things that went down

What Touring Was Like In 2008

‘So we got to open for Seether in 2008 and we had a new album we had just released but we had it rough on tour

We’d stay in one room with one bed and that was if we even stayed over at some place. Sometimes it was just, pack up the show, leave the venue at 2/3am in the morning, drive to the next city and then start again

Several times we nearly died on the road, we’re talking head on collisions nearly and falling asleep at the wheel

We didn’t get to shower, you had to kinda touch up and we’d get to a venue, they wouldn’t open the doors to the public yet and we’d go in and wash our clothes in the sink in the club and then hang them outside the tour van 

We’d be in the tour van and there’d be clothes hanging off the windows, they’d smell us coming before we showed up

We really went on the tour scene hard. The only other band that toured harder than us and had it as bad as us was Fokofpolisiekar’

The Takeaway 

It’s quite evident that life on the road is not as rosy as it’s often portrayed in movies, at least in 2008 it wasn’t

The Haze brothers zoned in on many more experiences during our episode with them, one of them being about how they were sabotaged by another named musician’s manager and replaced as Bon Jovi’s opening band as a result, find out who it was by catching the full interview here