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Venue: Fox Theatre City: Boulder, CO
Date: 2005-07-09 Artist: They Might Be Giants
Time: 9:00 pm Opening Acts: Corn Mo

[edit] Fan Recaps and Comments:

Leonard:

Song 7, Experimental Film, was interrupted shortly into the song. John Linnell said he had a frog in his throat and that they should come back to the song later on. He wanted to do the song justice.
The venue songs were put in the context of a story of They Might Be Giants travelling from each venue to the next. Each venue song was preceded by a short introduction to their travel from the previous city to the current city.
I did not know the name of the song preceding Birdhouse in Your Soul. It may have been an introduction that they normally do before Birdhouse in Your Soul or it may have been something else completely. It flowed directly into Birdhouse in Your Soul.
I did not know the name of the last song played, with Corn Mo. It was a rock song with no lyrics.

Matt G. Ellis:

The un-named song was most likely Hocus Pocus. Corn Mo mentioned it in his blog, and the song was played in St. Louis on the 12. It was as you described, a rock song with no lyrics (some small scatting from Corn Mo), and the offical setlist at St. Louis said "Hocus" so I'm guessing that's what it was.

Dan Miller wrote:

What a charming town. Nothing beats a college town out of season. I love watching the grad students and summer sessioners wandering around the abandoned village with the glaze of "what are we doing here?". The Fox Theater is a delight and we were excited to lay roots down for our two-night stint. The theater is fine club, but watch out for those many confusing levels of flooring. My intro to the place was a tumble down steps in the darkness as I navigated the Esher like floor plan.
The show was a sell-out, which is always nice. We start the festivities with a downtowny intro to Istanbul in lieu of the more traditional guitar intro. Listening to the tape I really dig this way of doing it. It sounds composed, but in reality is Flans and Linnell gesturing to the band. It brings me back to those heady days of the Knitting factory.
We're breaking out a few new ones for this run including Snail Shell, and a mini-set of Venue Tunes. Usually a guest artist reads the libretto for this but on this tour the duty falls to John and John. A future in audio book reading is assured by their confident performance.
There is an edit on this one, we do occasionally do that you know. Our performance of Trees was not up to par. And when I say par I mean way below par. At the end of the tape is a version of Trees from the following nights gig. Please excuse our vanity, but the version you're getting is much better. It's at the end so you don't think we're cheating.
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