Shows/2009-03-28b

28 wikians attended: 2bitmonkey BlueCanary CapitalQ Christob Corey Cubeclub Dairhenien Derek Denim Doktorworm Farmanimalsrock FrankEinstein Frodolives Garybot Hoskie Houseofmayors KathyK Kayakcup Meowwcat MichelleMaBelle Mister Charisma Poutinstereo Sullenmoon Surveysez TDK Thismightbejimswider Vvedge Wireless mike WitheredHope

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Links:

• Write-up on Examiner.com
• YouTube videos and Flickr gallery by CapitalQ
• Videos by kayakcup
• Flickr gallery by BlueCanary
• Flickr gallery by KathyK

Poster

Setlist:

• Still A Young Intro
• West Virginia
• New York City
• She's An Angel
• Ana Ng
• They Might Be Giants
• Why Does The Sun Shine?
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine?
• Subliminal
• My Evil Twin
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
• Los Angeles
• Anaheim
• Albany
• Dallas
• Vancouver
• Pittsburgh
• Glasgow
• Charlottesville
• Asbury Park
• Brooklyn
• Older
• Withered Hope
• Seven
• Four Of Two
• Drink!
• Experimental Film
• Alphabet Of Nations
• The Mesopotamians

Encore:

• Museum Of Idiots
• Spy
• Birdhouse In Your Soul

Encore 2:

• Clap Your Hands
• Doctor Worm

They Might Be Giants
— with Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland opening —
(Le) Poisson Rouge in New York, NY
March 28, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Fan Recaps and Comments:

Nadia:

I've only been to one other LPR rent show, and it was pretty different - this show's crowd seemed a lot less pumped up, for one thing. Also the band was messing up a lot. Every time, Flansburgh shouted Celebration! At one point he explained that they'd come up with that earlier at the day at the kids' show, instead of 'This show is killing me inside.' He also said, about Earth Hour, that the lights had dimmed in his eyes instead. (You're supposed to turn out the lights for an hour, which wouldn't really work at a club.)

Flansburgh was pretty restrained all the way through. But to balance that out, Linnell was in a particularly goofy mood. I've never seen him be so jolly. He had some whole shtick about getting the rest of the band to keep playing when he switched to accordion, pretending that the audience wouldn't notice because we'd be distracted by the guitar. And he was going on about the three faces of eve and how he could work that into the act. Smiling at the audience a lot. Lots of jokes. It was nice! I saw him laughing during the venue songs narration, too. I thought at first the narration was going to be tiresome, but it was sort of fun. Linnell sang both the fake country song and the anaheim house of blues with great gusto.

So a good show for a fan of the band, maybe less so if it was somebody's first time.