Shows/1989-03-30

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They Might Be Giants
— with The Del-Lords, Martin Ball opening —
Marquee in London, UK
March 30, 1989


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Admission was £4.

Peter Tork of The Monkees attended this show. John Flansburgh recalled in a 1989 interview:

Peter Tork's daughter is a fan of They Might Be Giants. When she approached us for an autograph and she had an American accent I asked what she was doing there. She said "Well I'm touring with my father." I said "Well who's your father?" She said "My father's Peter Tork," and she pointed over there and there was this guy who looked just like Peter Tork. So we ended up having a few beers with Peter Tork. He was a real nice guy... a brush with greatness.

Flansburgh later wrote of the meeting:[1]

Around the time of [The Monkees] 90s reunion, John Linnell and had the pleasure of spending a late evening with Peter Tork in London. His daughter was a fan of They Might Be Giants, and he used his famous face to get backstage to make an introduction). He struck me as a gracious man trapped in a bubble of perpetual, if marginal, celebrity. John recalls he told us we should address him as Mr. Thorkelson rather than Mr. Tork-an unexpected level of realness-but I suspect we landed on Peter soon enough. The evening culminated at the Columbia Hotel bar where touring rock bands would drink elbow to elbow. Spotting a performer at the Columbia was hardly an event. But this evening the bartender startled our party by asking him if he “used to be Peter Tork” with all the cheer of a guy looking to start a fight. Peter Tork just laughed it off as if the spirit of the comment was entirely innocent. He seemed, for lack of a less tired word, zen.