Motion City Soundtrack "Capital H" from I Am the Movie Live at The Rave Milwaukee, WI Feb 16, 2006

I usually run all the clips from one show in chronological order but in this case I'm posting the headliner before the opener to put all the clips in context. The day we drove over to Milwaukee for the Motion City Soundtrack/OK Go show, there was a blizzard and a half and we briefly considered not going and just eating the cost of the tickets. Instead we decided to leave early, take it slow and see what happened. We got there just fine, though it took forever, and were kind of surprised to see that the show was packed despite the weather. Even weirder, they were having some kind of marathon high school rock band extravaganza in the Rave Bar before and during the main show.

For the first opening act, the Spill Canvas, we went up to the balcony to wait it out and see if there were any decent spots up there. The band had this weirdly active cell of fans down in the middle of the floor, but I found them as insufferable as all those Fall Out Boy/My Chemical Romance clones that somehow manage to be less compelling than their influences. The balcony was really too crowded to be any good anyway, so we kind of wandered around and checked out the merch before moving into the main crowd for the next set. Luckily, the second scheduled opener, Plain White T's, were nowhere to be found, and it was straight on to OK Go.

We got to a place where Emily could see reasonably well, and usually I wouldn't ask her to go into a pack of tall people like that. The reason I did was this Motion City Soundtrack song. I've seen them twice, but only in the small campus venues in Madison. What I wanted was to see the big Rave crowd go completely insane for this song -- mayhem and chaos with a camera in the middle. It's a little hard to tell quite what's going on in most of this clip, which is a lot like how you feel when this song comes on.