| CONCERT REVIEWS |
| Motion City Soundtrack/The Start/ Student Rick/ Bigbluemonkey This is for the show on 9/26/02 in Columbia, Missouri |
| Motion City Soundtrack Wow, this was a really really great band. My friend went to this show for the soul purpose to see them. We "emo-danced" to them and had a really great time. The keyboarder was fucking awesome, and if you havn't heard anything by this band, check them out now! The Start I didn't stay for them... Just didn't feel like it and I don't like them at all. Student Rick This is the reason I went for the show. Brett and Adam came out with acoustic guitars and explained how their drummer was bowling and broke his arm yadayadayada... Their acoustic stuff was brilliant, and Adam even played a Beatles song. Great Great show. Bigbluemonkey Wow... This band was funny as hell, and I don't mean the kind of funny that you laugh with.... The bass player hit his head on the microphone, and the band collided into each other at numerous times. They were still a really good band, and I had the most fun with this band. overall: 4/10 reason: not alot of people showed up, and The Start was terrible |
| By Tony Lutz |
| Reel Big Fish October 12, 2002 This show was fucking awesome. The opening bands were the Kicks and The Starting Line. Both of these bands are great. Very good, they opened the show like no other could. The first two bands took much energy out of the fans, they rocked hard to both of them. The crowd was really big too, so moshing was pretty hard and big. Then, as everyone was tired and almost ready to go home, Reel Big Fish came out. A wave of energy blew across the crowd and everybody was suddenly in the mood again, as if they sat through the last two bands and saved their energy. Reel Big Fish took the crowd by storm, we rocked hard during songs and laughed during their mini-intermissions where they talked. And the crowd gave it their all, these rockers showed up to the concert even though the day before a bunch of Nazi bastards burnt their bus down. They rocked out the song "Beer" three times in a row. And at the end, after about 2 or 3 hours, I lost track of time, of rocking out to Reel Big Fish, they finished the show with the song "Sell Out". For tickets that cost $13 before the show and $15 the day of the show, I was willing to pay $100, they rocked out harder than any other band I had seen, and when you left you felt so out of energy. There were even those who couldn't handle the hard rocking and left early because of "injuries". As for all three bands, The Kicks, The Starting Line, and Reel Big Fish, well they all get a 10/10. If they come to your town, I recommend you go see them, it'll be the best time you'll ever had. Anyway, So long for now. Critic Tiz |
| Reel Big Fish October 12, 2002 |
| By Arturo Olivares |