Shows/1996-09-22
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Setlist: (possibly out of order)
They Might Be Giants
— with Aquarium Rescue Unit, Bio Ritmo, Everything, Agents of Good Roots, Gibb Droll, Spike the Dog, and Jimmie's Chicken Shack opening —
Mayo Island in Richmond, VA
September 22, 1996
Fan Recaps and Comments:
Tickets were $10 advance from Plan 9 and Digits, $15 at the door.
- Well its looks as though I was the only one among us to go to the Mayo Island Show, so here's my short review or whatever before I miss too much of my class this morning. First of all, I drove a total of over six hours by myself and spent all my money, so if I'm not giving rave reviews, then that's might be why. There were by far more bad points than good. The only good thing was that most most people were not there to see Them. In fact, I suspect maybe more than half people left before They got done. Anyway, I got as close to the johns as one could possibly get. Well that's all the good stuff I can think of. BAD: Half of the people watching TMbg were obnoxious 13 year old boys. I had to sit through six hours of other music, not that it was bad, I was tired. The set list clocked it atbarely an hour, with 19 songs. The Johns both looked and sounded really tired and more or less said so as well. And, Linnell hardly sang one song; Flans did all of wdtss by himself for example and just about all the songs were with just flans singing. They ended with Istanbul, which Flans practically whispered so that Linnell could also be heard. There was no encore because the security guard kept making the cut signal and pointing to his watch. Anyway, they got off at around 7:10 pm and probably left right away.
- Well I have to say I knew it would be a bit dissapointing from the moment I saw the setlist on the stage. Through a feat of memory, here are all 19 songs they played in no real order:
- spider
- polk
- polka
- spy
- xtc
- old
- sexxy
- exquisite
- istanubl
- sleeping
- dig
- ensor
- maybe
- sun
- guitar
- twist
- actual size
- sing like a girl
- nyc
- Oh, on exquisite dead guy, they used the puppetheads to sing. I was wondering, is this is something they employ ofteb at their shows??