Shows/1984-06-22
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They Might Be Giants
— with Swarming B-Girls co-headlining —
Darinka in New York, NY
June 22, 1984 at 11:30 PM
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This was the band's first show at Darinka, a small East Village performance space that had opened the previous month.[1] Over the next three years, the band played dozens of shows there and came to be regarded as the venue's house band. The poster for this show, and the following night's performance, was reproduced in a 1995 TMBG Info Club newsletter with the following text:
Darinka was the site of some of our happiest moments in the mid-Eighties. It was a hundred or so occupancy club in the East Village. We played there almost every month for a couple of years, including a few times for New Years.' Like many clubs in Manhattan at the time, the set length there was very short. However, the Darinka crowds would often call us back for insane numbers of encores. Having played every song we'd rehearsed, we were sometimes called upon to play songs we had just played in the set over and over again.
In a 2020 interview with the Don't Let's Start fan podcast, Darinka owner Gary Ray recalled that there were about 10 to 15 people in the audience for this show. The act that followed They Might Be Giants on the bill was Swarming B-Girls, a performance group featuring Karen Stroker and Britt Arbelius. They performed a multimedia theater piece titled "Sensible Shoes" at 1 a.m.