Be Your Own Pet have revealed that they recently turned down an offer to appear on the Vans Warped Tour in the US because they didn't want to tour with emo bands. "It's not really our thing. We didn't want to be with all those other bands that are playing. All this emo-screamo stuff seems so overdone and pretentious and not real."
They've been opening for Sonic Youth instead. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore says of BYOP's decision: "Any rock band of 17-, 18-year-olds would love to do the Warped Tour. But they were like: No. Way. They see it as fabricated, moronic music and a propagation of dumbed-down youth culture, and it's who they tried to set themselves apart from in high school. They just want to be in the van playing doughnut shops across America with their friends. They know that right now, that's the coolest thing they can do."