Kid, You'll Move Mountains "Wives Tale" (22.3 MB) Summerfest Milwaukee, WI July 8, 2007

I haven't been to Summerfest in quite a while, because the value has plummeted in the last few years. At $15/ticket, it's roughly a $70 event for us to come over from Madison, and since Liz Phair and OK Go played together in 2004 there haven't been any nights with more than one act we wanted to see.

Totally free is a much better value, however. On the last day of this year's edition, admission was free from noon to 4:00, and I was already in town for Art vs. Craft. Luckily, one of my favorite Milwaukee/Chicago bands was playing then -- Kid, You'll Move Mountains won a competition put on by Shepherd Express to play the 12:30 slot, and since nobody ever got scheduled for the following slot, they played for two hours in 95 degree heat. It was kind of intense.