Shows/1983
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Promotional poster used in the band's live shows, 1983.
Early promotional flyer for the band, including show dates from 1983.
They Might Be Giants busking on the Brooklyn Promenade, 1983.
They Might Be Giants performing together at the Pyramid Club, 1983.
They Might Be Giants performing at Dr. B's, 1983.
Cancelled shows[edit]
- The band were booked to play at the Mudd Club in the summer of 1983, but the venue closed right before the scheduled gig.[1][2]
- A New York Times listing indicates They Might Be Giants were set to play R.T. Firefly on January 31, 1983 alongside Providence and Mike Neville, but as the show is missing from a 1983 promotional flyer and came before the band's second show (at Dr. B's on February 13), it is assumed the gig did not take place. A listing in The Village Voice suggests they were replaced by the band The Spells.
Unknown dates[edit]
- They Might Be Giants were known to have busked once on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in 1983. It was likely John Linnell's first performance with an accordion, as he had previously mentioned first borrowing one from an apartment friend for this gig[3]. Songs known to have been performed were "Alienation's For The Rich"[4], "Cowtown"[5], "Space Suit"[6], covers of "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" by the Monkees[7], "Maybe I Know" by Lesley Gore[8], and songs by the Ramones. John Flansburgh also mentioned on Tumblr in 2023 that "Cabbagetown" and "Complete Paranoia" may have also been performed, as they were some of the band's earliest songs that they regularly rehearsed[9]. Flansburgh recalled the gig in 2003[10]:
[We] had no money. We couldn't even buy Happy Boy margarine, hot dogs or noodles, so we went to the Brooklyn Promenade with an accordion and a guitar and played our stuff, some Ramones, and this one song, "Maybe I Know," by Ellie Greenwich [writer of the song with Jeff Barry]. A relative [of Greenwich's] just happened to be on the boardwalk and gave us 20 bucks. We were like, "Yes! We're outta here! We're going to [eat]!"
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