Spring Break
Motion City Soundtrack play SMU, plan new album release
Sommer Saadi, Contributing Writer, ssaadi@smu.edu
Issue date: 6/4/07 Section: Entertainment
This year the CODERED concert on May 1 featured Phantom Planet and Motion City Soundtrack. Despite the small turnout of around 200 students, the excitement on stage from both bands charged the audience, and the night ended with both bands claiming the show was one of their best in recent tours.
Motion City Soundtrack had spent the previous weeks touring Europe. Their first stop back in the states was SMU, but neither jetlag nor dirty laundry would stop the guys from rocking the state in their energized and charmingly awkward fashion.
Three days after the show I had the opportunity of interviewing Motion City Soundtrack's lead singer Justin Pierre. He talked about the band's recent tour in Europe, the band's upcoming album and his time on the McFarlin stage.
What did you think of the CODERED show?
I thought it was awesome. I was a little worried at first because apparently there was no PA for the show. I have no idea what it sounded it like out there. But it was definitely a great show. I'm not lying when I say I think it was the best show of the whole run. Well, I don't know about performance wise, but I know it was the most fun we've had. The amount of fun, definitely, was the best.
I know the band just finished a tour in Europe so were you jetlagged going into the show?
Yeah, we were playing festival dates in the UK and in Europe. We flew into Dallas from London the day before [the show at SMU]. We were definitely jetlagged, which I think just added to the whole experience.
The audience size was a lot smaller than the turnout for a usual show. Was the band disappointed?
A lot of times at college shows the turnout is smaller. It's a show where everyone can come so it depends. There are so many different people with different tastes in the college environment so usually college shows are smaller. It's definitely different. You either get a show where everyone shows up but half are just standing around because they don't really know what we're doing. But like with this smaller show, most of the kids there were into what we're doing. There was no one really standing around looking confused.
Motion City Soundtrack had spent the previous weeks touring Europe. Their first stop back in the states was SMU, but neither jetlag nor dirty laundry would stop the guys from rocking the state in their energized and charmingly awkward fashion.
Three days after the show I had the opportunity of interviewing Motion City Soundtrack's lead singer Justin Pierre. He talked about the band's recent tour in Europe, the band's upcoming album and his time on the McFarlin stage.
What did you think of the CODERED show?
I thought it was awesome. I was a little worried at first because apparently there was no PA for the show. I have no idea what it sounded it like out there. But it was definitely a great show. I'm not lying when I say I think it was the best show of the whole run. Well, I don't know about performance wise, but I know it was the most fun we've had. The amount of fun, definitely, was the best.
I know the band just finished a tour in Europe so were you jetlagged going into the show?
Yeah, we were playing festival dates in the UK and in Europe. We flew into Dallas from London the day before [the show at SMU]. We were definitely jetlagged, which I think just added to the whole experience.
The audience size was a lot smaller than the turnout for a usual show. Was the band disappointed?
A lot of times at college shows the turnout is smaller. It's a show where everyone can come so it depends. There are so many different people with different tastes in the college environment so usually college shows are smaller. It's definitely different. You either get a show where everyone shows up but half are just standing around because they don't really know what we're doing. But like with this smaller show, most of the kids there were into what we're doing. There was no one really standing around looking confused.
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LaurenCryptorchid
posted 6/05/07 @ 10:27 PM EST
I'm pretty darned excited for that album to come out. I hope they don't change the date again haha.
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