For my birthday I bought four tickets to the Nov 10th concert of They Might Be Giants (tmbg) and Jonathon Coulton (joco). The show was awesome and the venue was fun. I only wish I was taller.
I am having a little problem attending concerts where I need to stand. You see, I’m not very tall and with my luck I’m always standing behind some eight-foot lumberjack that eclipses the entire show. Fortunately (kind of) the guy in front of me must not have been a fan because he did not move at all. I watched JoCo over his shoulder for 30 minutes.
Jonathon opened the show with a half hour set of roughly 50% new 50% songs. It was entirely too short. I’m a rabid fan and I’m always jonesing for more Coulton. He sounds great, electrified and loud. It was a fun change. I will miss his intimate concerts, especially with Paul & Storm (P&S).
They Might Be Giants took the stage after the break. I had squeezed myself into a nice pocket in the crowd where I can see much of the stage. I was however near a natural slip-stream in the crowd that connected the two bars in the room. I was bumped into by many a passer-by, but as long as it was along my back I didn’t care much. The one problem my wife and I had was a short curly headed lady standing right in front of us that LOVED to dance. Well, it was more of a bouncing up and down like a Fraggle Rock on a Red Bull than an actual dance. She only bumped into my junk a half a dozen times. I’m still not sure if it was such a bad thing and she never jumped high enough to get into my field of view.
TMBG rocked it with at least two encores. They played many oldies and newies (is that a word? Should be). We were even treated with a puppet show. I can die now that I had finally seen them in concert.
Crystal Ballroom was the venue for the evening. I had only been to Lola’s Room a flight below the room. Crystal has a neat bouncy floor that made for a fun feel when everyone did the Pogo in unison. It nearly launched the Fraggle into the chandeliers at one point.
I had a great time with my wife, step-daughter and step-son-in-law (it was his birthday gift too). But I’m thinking I need sit-down venues from now on.
Check these out:
Twitter for: They Might Be Giants – @tmbg * Jonathon Coulton - @jonathancoulton
Cool Joco videos:
- "Nemeses" featuring John Roderick
- "Still Alive" featuring Sara Quin
- “Tonight You Belong To Me” with John Hodgman
Cool TMBG videos:
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