Shows/1992-05-13
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They Might Be Giants
Town and Country Club in London, UK
May 13, 1992 at 8:00 PM
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Tickets were £7.50 and the doors opened at 7:30pm.
A review of the show by Dave Jennings
Melody Maker, May. 16, 1992:
ALL the damning adjectives my colleagues aim at They Might Be Giants fit the duo perfectly. Yes, they're wacky, quirky, gimmicky, all these supposedly unforgivable things and more. Yes, they're all intellect and irony; and if you want raw energy and emotion in all your music, they might be unbearable. But to say that there should be no place in pop for whimsy strikes me as pompous and ludicrous, a bit like saying that serious newspapers shouldn't carry cartoons. It's a suitable simile, because the best They Might Be Giants songs have much the same sweetly surreal, logic-twisting charm as one of Gary Larson's glorious "Far Side" cartoons.
Their live show is as minimalist as ever, mostly sustained by a guitar, two voices and an accordion. But it rarely gets dull. In 90 minutes, the two Johns take in bizarre folk songs from a twilight zone like "I Palindrome I" or the great "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair", occasional straight-faced moments — "Your Racist Friend" which is somehow blunt and subtle all at once — and quick forays into proper pop, like "Don't Let's Start" or the inevitable "Birdhouse In Your Soul". Sure, They Might Be Giants have few ambitions beyond making you smile. They might succeed, they might not. But is there any other walk of life where those gentle intentions alone would be seen as some kind of monstrous crime? The defence rests.
