How can you tell it’s time to start a tour?

First, it’s important making the distinction between being ready versus it being time.

Readiness implies ample opportunity to build and rehearse a show, organize a trailer pack, and generally manage and/or anticipate all manner of logistical gymnastics. Being ready means you experience a pervasive feeling of calm as you greet the first show day.

It being time means that no matter how well you may or may not know the music, or how magnificently disorganized things inevitably are, anything’s better than spending another minute in the previously unimagined level of hell that is this goddamn rehearsal space.

I’ve never felt ready for a tour, but sweet merciful god is it ever time.