Factory Showroom/Fact Sheet

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This fact sheet was included as part of the A Guided Tour Of Factory Showroom press release.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Factory Showroom FACT SHEET[edit]

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They Might Be Giants are John Flansburgh and John Linnell, from Brooklyn, New York, and they have been recording as a duo since 1986. Their new Elektra album, Factory Showroom, is their second full band effort. They have been touring with a full band since 1992.

RANDOM FACTS[edit]

  • TMBG recorded the song "I Can Hear You" off the album Factory Showroom, without the use of electricity, on a wax cylinder recorder, at the Edison Laboratory.
  • TMBG have performed over 1000 shows including 170 in support of their last album, John Henry.
  • When touring, John and John travel in Ford Crown Victorias, which look like unmarked police cars.
  • TMBG are constantly touring in the U.S. and Canada and have toured Europe five times, Japan three times, Australia and New Zealand twice.
  • TMBG have made 10 videos, and won a MTV Breakthrough award for "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".
  • John Flansburgh directed videos for Soul Coughing, Edwyn Collins, and Frank Black, as well as TMBG's "The Guitar".
  • TMBG maintain their Dial-A-Song Service, with a different new song every hour. Dial-A-Song is still just a regular call to Brooklyn. (718)387-6962.
  • The Hello Recording Club, which offers a four-song EP by a different performer each month, was begun in 1993 by John Flansburgh and Marjorie Galen.
  • John Linnell has recently recorded a new EP for Hello called House of Mayors, consisting of songs about and by Mayors of NY. In 1994, Linnell recorded an EP of State songs for the Hello Recording Club.
  • The band's name is from a movie produced in the early seventies, They Might Be Giants, starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward. It is of no greater significance.
  • John Flansburgh's side project Mono Puff released an album, Unsupervised, on Rykodisc in June '96.
  • John Linnell played on both the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's and Frank Black's debut albums.

TELEVISION[edit]

  • The Larry Sanders Show
  • 2 Conan O'Brien appearances
  • 3 David Letterman appearances
  • 2 Tonight Show appearances
  • 1 Today Show appearance (even jammed with Doc Sevrinson)
  • 1 Good Morning America appearance
  • First television appearance: The Joe Franklin Show, 1985 (3 appearances total)

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY[edit]

They Might Be Giants are:

and perform with:

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