bus engine caught on fire

From early March to late May, the band went on a tour of the U.S. with support from Mae and Sherwood . During this trek, they appeared at The Bamboozle festival. In the early morning of June 28, 2007, Relient K’s bus engine caught on fire due to an oil spill. Everyone escaped safely, but the band lost many instruments, laptops, cameras, phones, iPods, clothes, and merchandise. Matt Thiessen said he lost a laptop that had roughly 100 unfinished songs on it, and Dave Douglas lost his Battlefield drum set. In the midst of it, the band still laughed at the situation, calling it “cinematic”. On a blog post on the band’s website, Matt Thiessen stated that the next day after the fire, the band members went to view the damage of their van and found that while 85% of their gear was intact, Douglas’s drum kit set was not salvageable. As a result from the fire, the group had to cancel their performance at the Cornerstone Festival.