Atlanta announcement

[hailah]

In case any of y'all aren't on the announce list... (sorry to post so
late, I figured it would have been mentioned by now)

"Hey hey!

Want to tell everyone TMBG will be performing a
special free show in Atlanta GA THIS FRIDAY through
the kind sponsorship of 99X. This is their website with
directions to this most excellent of evenings:
<A HREF="http://99x.com/">http://99x.com/</A>
"

This Friday = tomorrow, June 5, outdoors at Stone Mountain park, show
begins at 7, 2 opening acts. I'm just prayin' it doesn't rain like it
has done every day around here...

There's a lot of other stuff, including 2 reviews, do any of y'all
need that too?

Hailah

[Izzy]

"hailah" <hai...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:22bb8418.03060...@posting.google.com...

Hey I'm planning on going to this but I only have a babysitter till
midnight. Does any one know the order in which the bands will be playing?
The other two bands are SR-71 and Psyche Origami. and it is raining at stone
mountain right now (5pm) :(

-Izzy-

[hailah]

Hope you made it Izzy. Flansburgh said it was the greatest show of
all time, but I think he was kidding. It was a pretty damn good show,
free. It didn't stop raining, but it stopped raining Hard, and there
were hordes of kids there. And it was all over before 11. I heard
Psyche Origami cancelled - if they were there, I missed 'em.

Forgot to take a pencil, and didn't get an official set list, but I
remember they played Clap Your Hands, Birdhouse, Supertaster, Polk,
The Sun, Istanbul, Famous Polka (the mud wrestlers started clog
dancing furiously in the mud), a long spin the dial with Michael rowed
the boat ashore ("you will need a boat to get home"), Older, Wicked
Lil' Critta, encore was We're the Monkees and Fingertips. What am I
forgetting... I didn't get any pictures (camera not equipped for
water) but mental images include Dan Miller perched on top of this
towering amp, blasting into the stratosphere, Linnell peering upward
and adjusting the coverings on the equipment as the lights picked up
curtains of rain blowing in on Them.

There's an long interview and a few interview pictures from the
interview on the 99x site. Go to http://www.99x.com/, hover over
Station, click on Interviews, and click on the words They Might Be
Giants. It's hard to tell who's talking 'cause they all sound like
99x...

Hailah, the woman in the orange poncho on the right

[The Third John]

Psyche Origami played. Not that that's very important. In case nobody
pulled this out of your review, there was a mudpit going on the ENTIRE
show, due to some retarded suggestion by SR-71, who attracted the
entire lower half of Atlanta's under-18 population. (The Streets
were/was supposed to play, SR-71 filled in at the last minute.)
Impressively enough, the mudfights were interesting enough to make
nearly the entire crowd turn their backs on the band to watch, but
during TMBG's set, everyone was paying full attention as far as I
could tell. At the end of the show, Flans was thanking people, and
ended with "And thanks to the guys who took their shirts off!" to
which Linnell responded "...for putting them back on!" Linnell
proceeded to bitch them out, and I really don't think he was kidding.
Then Flansburgh went into a bit about seeing his brother, and one of
the hicks went along with it. Pretty amusing.