People on Vacation (often abbreviated as POV) is a supergroup composed of Ryan Hamilton from the indie rock band Smile Smile and Jaret Reddick
from the pop punk band Bowling for Soup. The duo's concept is to 'tell a
story' and to 'avoid typical topics such as relationships.' The duo
describe their genre as indie rock.
Ryan Hamilton and Jaret Reddick decided to start writing songs together
after Hamilton's band, Smile Smile, opened for Reddick's band, Bowling
for Soup, on a few of their tour dates. After four days of writing, the
duo had written six songs, which later resulted in the formation of the
band People on Vacation. The band began streaming a song titled, "Better
Off Dead," on their official site in late 2010. During his eleventh
Bowling for Soup podcast regarding the band's newly announced side
projects, Reddick played a demo that he described as "the first People
on Vacation song," titled "Rainy Day." The band has since announced they
have written and recorded fifteen songs and plans to release album in
Fall 2011, through Kirtland Records. The band released another song,
titled "She Was the Only One," as a free download via Twitter as a
"Tweet for a Track" promotion, in addition to streaming it on their
official site in January 2011. The band's music video for "Better Off
Dead" premiered on the Dallas Observer website on January 19, 2011. In
an interview with aduioADD, Hamilton jokingly named the album Buskin'
& Name Droppin'. Another song "Because of the Sun" was played live
on 102.1 FM for the first time in March 2011. In order to promote the
project, the band joined Bowling for Soup's 2011 UK Acoustic Tour as an
opening act, alongside Linus of Hollywood and Erik Chandler and the
Mulberry Street Socialites. In July 2011, Reddick explained the band
expects "a long EP out around the end of November, with a full length
album hoping to be out by next summer with all new material," stating
the band has fifteen songs that are "written, recorded, done" except for
drums while they have written six to eight other songs that have yet to
be recorded. The band will be having its CD release show for The Carry
On EP on November 24, 2011, at the Kessler Theater in Dallas, Texas.
Reddick announced in a recent podcast that People on Vacation would be
making a music video for the song "Where Do We Go," which the duo filmed
with Built By Ninjas in January 2012. People on Vacation announced that
they would be headlining their first ever UK show at Borderline in
London on March 25th with Erik Chandler, being the only support act,
this event got cancelled due to poor ticket sales.