Shows/2026-04-24

11 wikians attended: Birdmoth, Disinvited Guest, Duende, Illioptopede, IMBDave, Juanferrr, Lichenz, Renoyxx, Sonyar, Tmbgdanfan, Zacharyaaronriley

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Setlist:

Set 1:

• What Nut Intro
• Santa's Beard
• Stand On Your Own Head
• Piece Of Dirt
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go
• Pencil Rain
• Lie Still, Little Bottle
• Shoehorn With Teeth
• Cowtown
• I'll Sink Manhattan
• They'll Need A Crane
• Wu-Tang
• Hit The Ground
• Snowball In Hell
• Ana Ng
• stelluB
• Particle Man
  • Elusive Butterfly

Set 2:

• Stompy Intro
• Synopsis For Latecomers
• Birdhouse In Your Soul
• The Guitar
• You Probably Get That A Lot
• Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
• Twisting
• Letterbox
• Fingertips
• Till My Head Falls Off
• Eyeball
• Moonbeam Rays
• Brontosaurus
• Spy
• Get Down

Encore 1:

• Let Me Tell You About My Operation
• When Will You Die

Encore 2:

• Doctor Worm

They Might Be Giants
The Vogue in Indianapolis, IN
April 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Fan Recaps and Comments

Lichenz:

This is my second time seeing They Might Be Giants (second instance, third show; I saw them both nights when they were in Nashville last November) and they really brought the energy this time. Also my first time writing a fan recap. I showed up wearing my Triangle Man hat, and will again both of the following nights. Feel free to say hello if you spot it!

First Set

First set was featuring the album Lincoln, which is honestly not one of my favorite TMBG albums but it was an amazing set. They opened with Santa’s Beard, which I thought a bit of an odd choice for an opener but they rocked it and it got everybody hyped.

The peak of the first set definitely started when Flansburgh brought out the Stick. A chant of “Stick! Stick!” began, and, dutiful They-fan that I am, I had to join in. That song was killer, and I could feel the groove deep in my soul. Shoehorn With Teeth featured Marty Beller exercising his musical restraint and getting a scream from nearly everyone in the audience, and of course also the horns. Cowtown was probably my personal favorite song of the first set, and a big hubbub was made about Stan Harrison playing the clarinet (along with Linnel, of course).

I really enjoyed Snowball in Hell, during which Linnel and Flansburgh did a recreation of the tape on the bridge. There was a fair bit of improv involved and I was cracking up. At one point Flansburgh interrupted Linnel and said “I don’t mean to talk over you,” and they riffed on that for a couple minutes, repeatedly interrupting one another and saying “Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t mean to talk over you.” They also kept mixing up the names used on the original tape, and they played on this a bit as well. When things finally progressed and Flansburgh said “I get it, back on that old time is money thing” Linnel responded quite emphatically: “No. No! NO! NOT back on it!… Still on it.” The whole routine made me legitimately laugh out loud multiple times.

The first set was fairly relaxed in terms of the energy level overall, but the energy started to build towards the end starting with Ana Ng. stelluB, of course, got a lot of screams as we were absorbed into Linnel and Flansburgh’s diabolical scheme. And Particle Man made people go crazy, as it always does.

Second Set

It was clear from the first song that the second set would not continue the relaxedness of the first. Every song from Synopsis for Latecomers to You Probably Get That A Lot was a high-energy, foot-stomping, fist-pumping extravaganza, including one of my personal favorite TMBG songs, The Guitar (featuring the horns in all of their majesty). Next came Overnight Sensation, a little more mellow which was nice as it gave me a break from all the jumping around I was doing, but they followed that by Twisting which demanded my movement. Things cooled down a bit more for the next little while – Letterbox and Fingertips got the crowd excited, of course, but they didn’t inspire great excitement and movement in my body.

The highlight of the second set for me was Spy, which of course turned into an extravagant conducted improvisation involving each member of the band and, ultimately, the audience too. I adore that sort of thing, and was glad to get it at this show. Having listened to their new album several times before the show, I was also eagerly anticipating Get Down, which I was quite confident they’d play, so hearing it as the last song of the second night really got me excited.

Encore

When Flansburgh started saying “Let me tell you people…” I SCREAMED. Let Me Tell You About My Operation is one of my favorite songs, and they really delivered on it here. Then came When Will You Die, another one of my favorites, and I was sure to jump up and down the whole song to express my appreciation :)

Second encore was Doctor Worm. What can I even say about Doctor Worm? It’s an all-time classic, and the crowd was quite satisfied with it.

Miscellaneous

Danny Weinkauff was really feeling things tonight. He and Dan Miller were incredibly locked in the whole night, and seemed to be really enjoying themselves. Marty Beller was great as always. The horns really brought the energy.

We never got the reversed version of stelluB, due I think to technical difficulties. The first couple frames popped up on screen a couple times but we never got the actual video. My brother, with whom I attended the show, suspected that they forgot to record the audio.

At one point in the show Linnel mentioned that four members of the band each independently went to the same Shake Shack earlier that day, but did not coordinate and so each had to go there and eat by themselves.

In the middle of the show, they had people hold up their copies of The World is to Dig, and commented on how, while cassettes were not making as much of a comeback as they had been lead to anticipate, CDs were making a comeback. He told the cassette listeners that the cassette “went well with their waxed moustaches.” One person had a vinyl. Flansburgh had them open it up so we could see the beautiful inside art, and commented something to the effect of “man, imagine how much marijuana you could clean off that thing.”

Near the end of the show Flansburgh said “man, I should start smoking cigarettes again.”