Shows/2026-04-25

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They Might Be Giants
The Vogue in Indianapolis, IN
April 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM


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Lichenz:

This night was the best show I’d ever seen - helped by the fact that John Henry is one of my personal favorites. I’m incredibly excited now for the Flood show on Sunday night. As before, I will be wearing my Triangle Man hat, feel free to say hello if you spot it! I have some photographs from this show on my website (I am unable to link to my site here due to the age of my account, but you can find a link to it on my userpage).
First Set
Last night, They started things out a little more mellow and then built the energy up. Not so this night. The energy was high immediately. After their first show Flansburgh asked how we were doing, to which the crowd responded with the usual hoots and hollers; he said “that’s good, because we’re a little sleepy up here.” It certainly didn’t show in their playing though. I felt the irresistible urge to start jumping during Subliminal, and it basically didn’t subside until Wu-Tang. Meet James Ensor got us particularly excited.
When they were introducing Wu-Tang, they said they’d be playing a couple new songs, and implied that the audience would be disappointed by this, so we screamed to disabuse them of this notion. More than a few people already knew Wu-Tang well enough to sing along.
For Dirt Bike, the horns came to the front of the stage, and I was fortunate enough to be quite close to the barricade. They stayed up there for No One Knows My Plan, a definite highlight of the evening which forced me to don my dancing shoes. Spy, of course, segued into a free improvisation conducted by the Johns. Last night they did a longer improvisation on Spy, but this night I thought it was a more interesting improvisation, with everyone in full force from the first note. At several points they had one member of the band improvise continually, with conducted hits from the rest of the band. Stan Harrison’s solo was especially invigorating.
For Birdhouse In Your Soul, a fan had earlier handed out William Allen White glasses with instructions on them to wear them until the end of the first chorus. Lots of people in the audience did so, and in fact many people continued to wear them for the entire duration of the song. It was fun.
Second Set
The second set was similarly full of energy. After the reversed video of stelluB and the intro, at first only John Linnel and Dan Levine came out on stage and did a long improvisation. This was only the beginning of a long improvised intro to Istanbul, which featured also a few other members of the band taking turns performing solo free improvisation. The last one was Stan Harrison, and then they went into Istanbul proper, which featured an incredible trumpet solo by Mark Pender. At this venue, there was balcony seating, and near the end of the song Dan Miller went up on one of the balconies and took an extended guitar solo up there. It was incredible.
The second set kept me moving the whole time, making me jump and yell for the first few songs, and then, when they started to cool things down a bit with Eyeball, I had a bit of a break and was just sort of rhythmically wiggling. Several people in the crowd, myself included, went wild for Stuff Is Way, and the collective excitement continued for every song till the end, particularly Cloissonné and When Will You Die. Get Down had us all hyped as well, although there was no pretense of it being the actual last song. Flansburgh introduced it by saying “we have a few more songs for you people… and this is one of them,” so when the band left the stage it was clear they’d be coming back.
Encore
The first encore featured Doctor Worm. As I said in my review of the previous night, there’s not too much that can be said about Doctor Worm; it’s an all-time classic and everybody knows it, and we went nuts for it.
Before encore two we began the classic “one more song! One more song!” chant, and when first the band took the stage again Flansburgh began something of a counter chant, featuring such lines as “no more songs!” and “crowd go home!” They played another song nevertheless. She’s An Angel was an interesting pick for an encore two song, definitely not one I was expecting, but I was thrilled for it, as their first album is one of my favorites.
Miscellaneous
Before the show, a fan handed out zines while we were waiting outside in line, and we also passed them out inside the venue. They were fun.
Fairly early on in the show, Flansburgh asked Linnel what he had gotten up to that day, and Linnel mentioned that he had gone to an art museum that day. I cannot remember the name of the museum, but Linnel said they had very nice fine art, and recommended it.
At one point in the show Flansburgh commented that this was probably the least Indy 500 crowd in Indianapolis, but that some of the people in the crowd had probably been dragged to a race by their respective fathers. They asked us if anyone had been to the Indy 500, and there were a fair few people who indicated that they had. Flansburgh commented on one of them, noting that the guy chewing tobacco with a big beard was one of the ones who had been to the Indy 500. That got a decent chuckle.
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