This kind of goes for just about any band as most bands I see live will sweat quite a bit while on stage regardless of what they’re wearing. How do bands that travel from city to city without much stopping get their clothes cleaned for each show, especially if they have multiple costumes/clothes they wear on stage?
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Several different answers to this, actually.
My main touring client wears a machine washable body suit underneath her costumes with 2 pouches sewn into it that hold the receiver pack for her in ear monitors and the transmitter pack for her headset microphone.
That gets washed several times a week and she has multiple of them.
A couple of her costumes are machine washable, and the other ones are either hand washed or professionally dry cleaned on non show days.
The band members stage clothes are either machine washable or hand washed.
And some don’t wash their stage clothes.
Seriously.
Without naming names, I know one band that didn’t wash their stage clothes for the whole tour. Their wardrobe case smelled so bad..
Bands who are at the stadium level use the laundry facilities of the stadium (same as the teams that play there), which have industrial size washers and dryers. For things that are machine washable, anyway.
Met a lead singer from a band at a hotel bar one time. The bandmates were using the hotel’s industrial sized washing machines to do everything from the tour bus and the shows.
Water/vodka mixture in a spray bottle goes surprisingly far towards keeping stinky bacteria at bay for touring artists who don’t exactly have Taylor Swift money.
I wish things in the hotel sink and dry them on a clothesline in the shower. I sing when I do this, to help the clothes dry faster. Nothing beats a fresh pair of underwear washed in the hotel sink with mint lavender bar soap. It usually is dry by morning, and I can splash some Scope mouthwash on it if it needs a pre wash. I am in the rock band group Chappstix Roam
Many tours have washers and dryers they plug in at each venue, usually some of the first items unloaded and last loaded along with rigging gear and catering (tours with catering bring ovens and stoves with them).
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