THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS SETLIST

— Set 1 —

Synopsis for Latecomers
Turn Around
Particle Man
The Darlings of Lumberland
Twisting
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
Women and Men
Moonbeam Rays
Stellub
Cloisonné
Your Racist Friend
Museum of Idiots
Road Movie to Berlin
Brontosaurus
— Set 2 —
Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
Memo to Human Resources
Minimum Wage
Letterbox
Number Three
Whistling in the Dark
Lucky Ball and Chain
Hot Cha
Spy
Birdhouse in Your Soul
2082
We Want a Rock
Dead
Theme from Flood
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (The Four Lads cover)
— Encore —
The Darlings of Lumberland (redux)
Fingertips
— Encore 2 —
Doctor Worm

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Tour Dates

MAY 18 Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, OK
MAY 19 House of Blues Dallas, TX
MAY 20 House of Blues Houston, TX
MAY 21 ACL Live at The Moody Theater Austin, TX
JUL 6 Tree House Brewing Company Deerfield, MA
JUL 7 Garde Arts Center New London, CT
JUL 8 Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY
JUL 14 Belly Up Solana Beach, CA
JUL 15 Belly Up Solana Beach, CA
JUL 16 Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA
OCT 5 The Tivoli Brisbane, Australia
OCT 6 The Enmore Theatre Sydney, Australia
OCT 7 Forum Melbourne, Australia
OCT 8 The Gov Adelaide, Australia
OCT 11 The Astor Theatre Perth, Australia
NOV 3 O2 Guildhall Southampton, UK
NOV 4 Cambridge Junction Cambridge, UK
NOV 5 O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London, UK
NOV 7 SWG3 Glasgow, UK
NOV 8 Boiler Shop Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
NOV 10 Mandela Hall Belfast, UK
NOV 11 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland
NOV 14 O2 Ritz Manchester, UK
NOV 15 Leeds Beckett Students’ Union Leeds, UK
NOV 16 Rock City Nottingham, UK
NOV 17 O2 Academy Bristol, UK
NOV 18 Roundhouse London, UK

After three years and four unplanned reschedules, Brooklyn’s They Might Be Giants brought their long sold-out show to The Truman in Kansas City MO on Tuesday. The tour was in support of the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough record, Flood (which was played, but not in sequential order) and also celebrating their recent book, cleverly titled, “Book”.

Now four decades in, the duo / band remains always entertaining and maybe the best bang-for-the-buck musical act working today- two full sets of “all killer / no filler” old and new favorite songs; paper headpieces (think the TMBG version of the Burger King crown) to wear and collectively celebrate with; a song played completely backwards and then a reversed video playback to start the second set to prove they completely pulled it off; and after a technical flub on the fourth song of the night, a triumphant redux in full added to the encore in order to not cheat the audience. Chef’s Kiss!

The hilarious banter between songs was priceless as usual, too. More info to come!

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We love the Johns and all the wonderfully eclectic music they put out, as does most of the nation, because almost all of these dates have been sold out…for over three years! Covid, a car accident, and scheduling has caused date changes, but it’s finally happening and they’re coming for real!

The band will play seminal album Flood in full, as well as other numerous hits to celebrate their 40th anniversary as a band. We caught them live last Fall in Minneapolis and can’t wait to see what the live show looks like now.

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