Shows/2012-02-02
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Setlist:
- Sammy Intro
- Cowtown
- Can't Keep Johnny Down
- Celebration
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Why Does The Sun Really Shine?
- Snowball In Hell (spoken section by The Avatars Of They)
- Dallas
- The Guitar
- Birdhouse In Your Soul
- Damn Good Times (introduced as "The Sex Appeal")
- Ana Ng
- Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
- James K. Polk
- Marty Beller Mask
- Old Pine Box
- Fingertips
- Careful What You Pack
- Crazy Train
- Pandor Jingle performed by The Avatars Of They
- Spoiler Alert performed by The Avatars Of They
- Paranoid performed by The Avatars Of They
- Crazy Train
- Cloisonné
- You Probably Get That A Lot
- We Live In A Dump
- 123 Band Intro
- When Will You Die
Encore 1
- How Can I Sing Like A Girl? (John & John only)
- Particle Man
- Doctor Worm
Encore 2
They Might Be Giants
— with Jonathan Coulton opening —
Granada Theater in Dallas, TX
February 2, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Fan Recaps and Comments:
In the battle between People on stage right and Apes on stage left, People won.
Flansburgh: "I was looking up the fan Wiki of the last time we were in Dallas. And one of the quotes was 'We're a band from New York; we don't take requests.' Seems a little hostile, a little harsh. I don't know if we were being hostile on the square or..."
Fan: I love you John!
Flansburgh: Shut up, drunk people!
When people were drunkenly yelling out song titles, Linnell: "Do you guys really talk like that? [growling/yelling] 'Hey guys! I saw this really cool band last night!' 'Mom where's the cereal?'"
Linnell: "Part of the glamour of all this is being up on stage up here. But what you don't know is that there's this narrow gap about this big that you have to squeeze yourself though to get on stage. It's a bit little bit like being born."
Flansburgh: "Happy birthday, John."
[Referring to Why Does The Sun Shine?]
Flansburgh: "There's a song that is not ours, but we covered it; it was actually written in the 50s. It's about the sun, and how it's a mass of incandescent gas. Well, it turns out that is bullshit."
Linnell: "Fuck that song!"
The Avatars of They: Your flash photography...is useless against us! We're vampires!
Before the show started, the Granada Theater live streamed @GranadaTheater tweets from Twitter. An audience member proposed to girlfriend Robyn on the feed. She said yes.
[Introducing Dallas venue song] "This next song is about a night club here in Dallas that I think is closed now." [Audience cheers as they comprehend that the band is talking about Trees] "Please, hold your applause until all music clubs are closed down."
