Shows/2003-04-27

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Links:

• Review of the show by Katy Raddatz

Setlist: (incomplete and possibly out of order)

• Why Does The Sun Shine?
• James K. Polk
• In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle
• Dead
• Eye in the Sky

They Might Be Giants
Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA
April 27, 2003

Fan Recaps and Comments:

This show featured 2 sets, one with McSweeney's, and another with TMBG.

Excerpt of Katy Raddatz's review:

They Might Be Giants, the long-running absurdist popsters from Brooklyn, find song material in the most unlikely of places. On Sunday afternoon the group anchored an odd duck of an event at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, performing songs about the sun, President James K. Polk, pedestrian safety and being dead, among other things.

It was just weird enough for the celebrity fun bunch of Dave Eggers' literary journal McSweeney's, several of whom, including Zadie Smith, Sarah Vowell and Eggers himself, were on hand to read from their work. Their presence added an amusing extra dimension to this nerd-chic sock hop, dubbed McSweeney's vs. They Might Be Giants.

— Katy Raddatz