Shows/2010-03-11

10 wikians attended: Ackyri Alicat BlueCanary Chowabunga Cubmaster938 Garybot Lekker Rat Patrol RipRitchie Snowballinhell7001

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Links:

• Write-up and Flickr gallery by BlueCanary

Setlist: (Setlist photo)

• Sammy Intro
• Meet The Elements
• Fingertips
• The Guitar
• Clap Your Hands
• Doctor Worm
• Memo To Human Resources
• Upside Down Frown
• The Mesopotamians

Flood:

• Road Movie To Berlin
• They Might Be Giants
• Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love
• Women & Men
• Hot Cha
• Whistling In The Dark
• Letterbox
• Minimum Wage
• Hearing Aid
• What Is A Shooting Star? Performed by The Avatars of They
• Stalk Of Wheat Performed by The Avatars of They
• Free Ride
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
• We Want A Rock
• Twisting
• Particle Man
• Your Racist Friend
• Dead
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• Lucky Ball & Chain (started twice but never completed)
• Birdhouse In Your Soul
• Theme From Flood

Encore

• Damn Good Times
• Withered Hope
• Don't Let's Start

Encore 2

• Why Does The Sun Shine?
• Alphabet Of Nations
• Graveyard
• Turn Around

They Might Be Giants
— with Jonathan Coulton opening —
The National in Richmond, VA
March 11, 2010

Fan Recaps and Comments:

A great show and a great venue. I had not seen TMBG since I saw them in Frankfurt Germany in 1989, and it was fun to take my 16 year old son along. They did almost the entire Flood album (in reverse order), but after two false starts omitted "Lucky Ball and Chain" -- Flansburgh claimed the confetti was destroying his concentration (specifically, that it was driving him "bat-shit crazy"). Meg Ryan was in attendance.