Shows/2012-02-04

5 wikians attended: Bashful223 Bigdadyjosh DrBones Fijiwriter Nosaj56

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Links:

• YouTube playlist by Nosaj56
• Willis MacGillis' Write-Up

Ticket • Setlist

Setlist:

• Sammy Intro
• Subliminal
• Can't Keep Johnny Down
• Celebration
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• Snowball In Hell
• James K. Polk
• Judy Is Your Viet Nam
• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
• Old Pine Box
• Marty Beller Mask
• Careful What You Pack
• Crazy Train
• Pandor Jingle performed by The Avatars Of They
• Paranoid performed by The Avatars Of They
• Spoiler Alert performed by The Avatars Of They
• Crazy Train
• Cloisonné
• The Guitar
• Birdhouse In Your Soul
• Damn Good Times
• Ana Ng
• We Live In A Dump
• Fingertips
• 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:

• Alphabet of Nations
• Clap Your Hands

On the setlist but not played:

• You Probably Get That A Lot

They Might Be Giants
— with Jonathan Coulton opening —
Tipitina's in New Orleans, LA
February 4, 2012 at 9:00 PM

Fan Recaps and Comments:

Nosaj56:

Yes, this was the first TMBG concert I've attended. Yes, I had a great time. Now onto the important things:

• Flans bantered that he was smoking the best pot that he had ever smoked from the crowd and he didn't even have to smoke any pot.
• Linnell smiles a lot more than I thought he would.
• We didn't get a Dan M. intro to Istanbul, but we got an extended outro by the band.
• Dan M. ascended to the balcony to play his solo at the end of Fingertips.
• Linnell said that this show was the first time he had used a wireless accordion mic live. There was much interference, so HCISLAG had to be aborted and retried with a trusty old wired mic.
• They ended the show with Clap Your Hands. :( They played just about everything that I hoped for Them to play except Don't Let's Start. That would have been an awesome end to the show.

Fijiwriter:

A few other funny moments:

• According to Flans, they are now "Marty Beller's They Might Be Giants."
• A front-row fan was celebrating his birthday and received a signed record from the Johns. Flans remarked that the fan had an "impossible mustache" which "doesn't just happen."
• "People" won the contest.
• According to Flans, ARNATQ is a "collection of creepy songs."
• The Blue Avatar said we should all make Pandor our "safe word."
• Linnell's bass clarinet is an endangered species, akin to the "passenger pigeon."
• During the wireless accordion troubles, Flans said Linnell has a "very short bucket list."