First time I saw Motion City was with Yellowcard, Matchbook Romance, and Maxine in 2003. I think there were like 200 people there
First time for me was with The Weakerthans and onelinedrawing in 2003, too. Show was so good. I still think the tour with Limbeck and Tsunami Bomb in 2004 (?) was my favorite, though.
First time I saw Motion City was at Warped 2013 (started listening to them in 2010, but had to wait forever for a convenient time to see them because I lived in the country growing up). They did an acoustic set/signing earlier in the day, which was fun, but their actual set got rained out halfway through. Wouldn't get to see them properly for another two years after that, but I ended up getting to see them 6 more times between 2015-2017, so it all worked out. Part of why I'm doing three dates of this tour.
Justin Pierre did an acoustic set outside at a dinosaur statue in Pittsburgh in like 2009 which was random and cool
I need the Minneapolis date. I’m really hoping I can make that since I’m only going to Chicago right now
The first place I saw them was an acoustic show at a Best Buy right after MDL came out, but it was cool cus I got to meet them
It would be cool if Tiny Stills opened, but I wonder if Tony would do double duty. Sounds exhausting.
I would not be surprised to see pronoun. as one of the support bands. She seems to get on everything these days (as she should), and I think opening for Justin was one of her first big tours.
Ahh shit. I didn’t even think of that. I always thought it was weird Motion City stopped headlining First Ave so that would make a ton of sense if there is bad blood there.
There was an article in one of the MN papers about the Fillmore that mentioned MCS as one of the first shows that was being announced.
Motion City Soundtrack announces reunion tour with hometown Minneapolis gig TBA Wish I would have seen this back in June! All makes sense now