Shows/1987-09-30

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They Might Be Giants
— with The La's, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Visitors opening —
The Sir George Robey in London, UK
September 30, 1987

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One of two known shows played during a small trip to England booked by the band's record company, Rough Trade. Another show took place at a Mexican restaurant.^[1]

John Linnell briefly talked about this show in a 1987 interview with the Daily Collegian: "We played a place called Sir George Roeby's [sic] in London. The audience was reserved, very cool. They stood five feet back from the stage. They wouldn't come any closer."

A review of the show by Push
Melody Maker, Oct. 10, 1987:

The duo who believe They Might Be Giatns rely upon backing tapes to provide rhythms for their rhymes. To these they add an accordion dabble, a sax foghorn, the odd guitar chord and the lump of the Fender case upon the stage. For one song they dance like The Stylistics on speed, for another they order the audience to scream. Sometimes they're polka roosters, sometimes uncut bluegrass billies, sometimes just a raucous corrosion. They're funny ha-ha, funny peculiar and, in a funny way, a little sad, a kind of Otway and Barrett reunited having spent the last year listening to Residents records.