Shows/1992-01-31
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They Might Be Giants
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, UK
January 31, 1992 at 9:00 PM
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Tickets were £6.50 in advance and the doors opened at 9 p.m.
This show was written about by Peter Easton in February 11, 1992 issue of the Herald's Glasgow edition as part of a spotlight article on the band titled "Giant UFO hits Glasgow":
"WELCOME to our reunion tour," says John Linnell from behind an accordion and a shock of fair hair.John Flansburgh, his neater, darker, and heftier partner, adjusts his glasses and his weird-looking guitar: "There's been a lot of feuding and bickering between us and our drum machine, but now we're back together again." After a couple of dates in New York and New Jersey, the eccentric duo called They Might Be Giants recently arrived in Glasgow with their stroppy drum machine, a new single, and a new road crew. They appeared at King Tut's, instead of a larger venue, because this is only the warm-up to a major tour in support of their forthcoming album, Apollo 18. It is also only their third gig in 13 months, some of the material is new, and things are just a little disorganised.
"This next song," warns Flansburgh, "is totally unfamiliar to everyone here including the members of the band. This is... er... Look, I will tell you what I know. I'm not sure what key it's in, but it's in 4/4 time with that regular back-beat that everyone's grown so fond of." The devoted and seriously bopping audience doesn't care about the occasional false start and when John Linnell loses the words to an old favourite, that doesn't matter either, because everyone is singing along with him anyway.
"Oh man, oh man," says Flansburgh afterwards, "you know, rehearsal is the musician's friend. I'm glad people enjoyed it but I wanted to deliver a more solid performance." Actually, it seemed an appropriate mixture of chaos and proficiency. Where others would employ session musicians and massed keyboards, the Giants rely on accordion, guitar, a spot of sequenced bass, and drum machine to create a pretty impressive sound. They have no plans to expand the line-up − it's easier and more fun this way: "It sounds like it's gonna be some crazy dead-on-arrival type thing, but it's more in-the-moment than many shows."