THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Kings Theatre
Brooklyn, NY
December 13, 2024

Audio Technica U853 cardioid mics (4.7k mod) > SP-SPSB-10 battery box > Sony PCM-A10 > WAV (24/48) > Izotope RX 11 (de-click to reduce close clapping) > Sound Studio (EQ and light dynamic compression) > FLAC > Tag > FLAC

01 Stompy intro
02 Synopsis for Latecomers
03 No One Knows My Plan
04 Snail Shell
05 Out of Jail
06 Particle Man
07 Let Me Tell You About My Operation
08 Last Wave
09 Unrelated Thing
10 Meet James Ensor
11 Stellub
12 Dirt Bike
13 When Will You Die
14 Brontosaurus
15 Stellub (reversed)
16 Memo From Human Resources
17 Man, It's So Loud in Here
18 Moonbeam Rays
19 Where Your Eyes Don't Go
20 The Darlings of Lumberland
21 Spider
22 Spy
23 Lie Still, Little Bottle
24 Can't Keep Johnny Down
25 Twisting
26 Number Three
27 Damn Good Times
28 Birdhouse in Your Soul
29 Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
30 The End of the Tour
31 Dead
32 Doctor Worm

TMBG:
John Linnell: vocals, keyboards, accordion
John Flansburgh: vocals, guitar, The Stick
Dan Miller: guitar, keyboards, vocals
Danny Weinkauf: bass, vocals
Marty Beller: drums

The Horns:
Stan Harrison: saxophone
Mark Pender: trumpet
Dan Levine: trombone, euphonium

TMBG's triumphant hometown return, their first show in Brooklyn in almost two years, before a rapturous crowd at the mammoth Kings Theatre. Two sets (the second starting off with a backwards video of the first set's performance of "Stellub," which is itself the song "Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love" played live backwards), two encores, highlighting songs from their 1994 album "John Henry." The rest of the setlist was crazily varied and extra-long, and featured both their horn section The Horns and an appearance by The Stick on "Lie Still, Little Bottle." (Google it for an explanation if you're not familiar.)

The restored Kings Theatre is unbelievably gorgeous but has notoriously muddy sound for amplified shows – between the card mics and some judicious EQ, I've gotten this to a pretty good place, considering. TMBG have a ton of shows scheduled for the U.S. South and West next year, go see them! https://tmbw.net/wiki/Shows