Shows/1987-11-04
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They Might Be Giants
The Bog in Brooklyn, NY
November 4, 1987
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This was a benefit show for the Williamsburg Around the Bridge Block Association, a local community organization in Brooklyn. The event was organized to raise funds for their fight against Radiac, a radioactive waste facility that was unsafely storing toxic materials in the neighbourhood.[1][2]
The show took place at The Bog, a small club operated by Marc Singer, located on Driggs Avenue between South 3rd and South 4th Streets. The band reportedly played several shows there in the late 1980s, though most were unadvertised and their exact dates are unknown. Singer recalled this show in 2011: "I was there. We had no fire exits. I thought it was a bad situation. It was a fundraiser for WABBA to fight Radiac--every time I turned my back they let in 30 more people. All for a good cause, I guess."[3]
Excerpt from "Giants in a Big Village" by Niels Frid-Nielsen,
Dabladet Information, December 2, 1987
(Translated from Danish)
- Idiosyncrasy and communism
- John and John have to go now. We follow them to the station on Bleecker Street. "It's typical. When we came to New York, this station was a place that nice people avoided." They jump on the train. "Today there isn't a single graffiti tag on the trains, and it's almost all business people that take the subway on Bleecker Street."
- The subway rumbles under the East River to a part of Brooklyn, "which is not dangerous if you walk straight out, or are accompanied by someone who lives here." John and John do. They are preparing tonight's set for a concert against a nuclear power plant in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. "We are totally and utterly against nuclear power. The plant is right in the middle of our neighborhood. It's one of the first benefit concerts we've had the opportunity to participate in. It's only recently that people have started to know who we are when we play. We've suddenly become so popular that we can be used at benefit concerts. If people don't know us, we're no help for the cause. It's great to have the opportunity to do something. The attitude is probably different in Europe, but in the USA people keep asking if we're communists when we want the nuclear power plant in our neighborhood to be closed down," says one John before the other continues, "It's not because we have anything against being called communists. It just should have been a secret."
- They get off at Driggs Avenue, walk seven blocks down and into the Bog, to get ready for tonight's rampage in white folk hip hop. Because, as one of The Might Be Giants — John, I guess — says: "What really works worldwide, is created out of idiosyncrasy!"