Shows/1994-08-28

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Setlist:

• The Guitar
• Perdido
• Don't Let's Start
• Your Racist Friend
• Particle Man
• She's An Angel
• The Statue Got Me High
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• Snail Shell
• Twisting
• Birdhouse In Your Soul
• Dig My Grave
• Perdido (reprise)
• Spy

They Might Be Giants
— with Tindersticks, American Music Club, Cud, Echobelly, Morphine, Jeff Buckley, Archers of Loaf, Scrawl, Dig, Cellophane co-headlining —
Reading Festival in Reading, UK
August 28, 1994

Fan Recaps and Comments:

The third and final day of the 1994 Reading Festival. They Might Be Giants performed on the secondary "Melody Maker Stage".

John Flansburgh wrote about this show in a Fall 1994 TMBG Info Club newsletter:

We have spent the bulk of the last three days driving. We traveled from London to Amsterdam, performed at the Lowlands festival, turned around and drove back. Yesterday we performed at the Reading Festival, which is a big event with multiple stages that takes place over three days in a town outside of London. Our set was limited to forty minutes, which was kind of restricting. We didn't get a chance to play much of our repertoire beyond the better known material, although we did play "Spy" with the conducted improvisational ending. We got them going though, and the crowd (of about 7000) at our stage was pretty packed out. I didn't get a chance to see anything else due to interviews and the necessity to leave before the evening ends in a colossal traffic jam. But I heard an echo of what I suspect was Henry Rollins' voice as we left the tv tent.