Case study · Divine Creatures tour · August 2026
How Nuda ran the Divine Creatures tour in Tourouter
8 shows in 10 days, three acts, one van. Told by the artist who ran it, with the screens she ran it from.
Seattle to Arizona and back, August 7 to 16, 2026
Kaylie Cortez plays keys, guitars and everything else in NUDA, the Seattle darkwave project she has led since 2019. In August she co-headlined the Divine Creatures tour with SINE, with Curse Mackey behind the decks most nights: 8 shows in 10 days, Seattle down through Reno and Los Angeles to Arizona, and back.
Nobody on the run was a hired tour manager. Rona of SINE booked it and built the first spreadsheet in February. Kaylie ran the days, and her drummer, who flew in for a few of the dates, worked off the same day sheets and itineraries as everyone in the van.
Before
The group chat is not a tour manager.
Every run starts the same way: a spreadsheet for the plan, and a group chat for the questions about it. Rona built the Divine Creatures spreadsheet in February, and it was a good one. It still could not text anyone at 8 in the morning, split a tank of gas three ways, or tell a drummer landing at LAX where the van would be.
The spreadsheet went in once
Scott imported Rona's sheet into Tourouter. Kaylie went through it line by line, fixing times, adding the hotel check-ins and set lists, and sending feedback on anything that got in the way.
Scott imported our spreadsheet and I went through it with a fine-tooth comb. After that it was the only place the tour lived.
Every morning, the day arrived by text
Load-in, soundcheck, set times, the address, who to ask for at the door. It went to everyone on the run, including the drummer who flew in for a few dates, whether or not they had opened the app. The question “what time is load-in?” stopped getting asked.
Nobody on the run paid for a seat to get it. Crew and viewers ride free on every plan. Anyone on the crew list gets the day sheet by text, and the ones who installed the app get a push as well. If you got one of these on somebody else's tour, your own run is free to plan.
The text as it arrived on the morning of August 14, the day her drummer flew into Los Angeles. Recipient's name changed.
The whole day, in one screen
August 14 in Los Angeles: the drummer's flight in from Seattle, the drive to the venue, load-in, doors, three set times, and the drive to the hotel at 2:00 AM. One sheet, on the phone in her pocket.
The whole day in one view. Hotel check-in, load-in, set times, load-out. I stopped digging through the spreadsheet to find out what was next.
The money got settled as they went
Three acts, one van budget. Gas, tolls, the Bakersfield stairs. Six of the eight shows were settled in the app, and the split stayed visible to all three acts.
Three acts shared one van and one ledger here. If you manage several acts, Roster puts all of them under one account, with ten editor seats and free crew on every run.
Every expense split between the three of us as we went. I got gas this round, Rona got gas the next, and it was all right there. Nobody had to do the math at the end of the tour.
Figures on every screen were changed at the band's request. The structure is the real tour.
This app is a game changer! I will never tour without it.
Hear the three of them tell it
Nuda, SINE and Curse Mackey recapped the run on the podcast a week after the last show.
From episode 42 · August 25, 2026
Nuda, SINE and Curse Mackey
Nuda, SINE and Curse Mackey on the run that worked because the routing did.
Every figure on these screens was changed at the band's request, and so were the name on the text and the flight confirmation. Everything else is the tour as it ran.