Shows/1983-07-07
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Setlist: ("Plan B" (with Flans notes))
- Space Suit (jazz)
- I Wouldn't Be Mad (tape/rock)
- Weep Day (island)
- The Big Big Whoredom (puppet)
- Hell Hotel (white funk)
- Letterbox (jig)
- Sally Boy Candy Bar (rock)
- Cabbagetown (accord. sad)
- Happy (cards)
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog (pop)
- Smiles (dance scream)
- Cowtown (goodbye song)
Encore:
- Alienation's For The Rich (hay hay hay)
They Might Be Giants
The Pyramid Club in New York, NY
July 7, 1983
Fan Recaps and Comments:
The setlist included on this page was from a scrapbook and was stated by John Flansburgh to be for a 1985 show at the Pyramid Club.[1] However, a majority of the songs were written or recorded around 1982 to 1983, and on the next page of the scrapbook, there is a setlist for the Dive, which the band performed at three days after The Pyramid Club in 1983. A majority of newer songs recorded in 1984 and 1985 are also not present here.
Interestingly, the setlist is labelled as a "Plan B" and contains a bunch of one to two-word descriptions for the genre and theme of the songs.
The exact date/year of the setlist has not yet been confirmed, meaning that it could be from another show that has been left undocumented.
A promotional flyer created by the Johns in 1983, seen briefly in the 2003 documentary Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns), lists this as the band's eighth show of the year. A press release for the show described the band as "a clever electronic pop duo that illuminate the ABC's of motion economy." This is a reference to the book "The A.B.C.'s of Motion Economy" by Andrew R. Kosma, which was featured heavily in the band's early promotional material.
