TMBG shows I've been to

[desh]

• May 1, 1998: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening act: Lincoln.)
  
• March 4, 1999: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening acts: Teen Heroes, Zebrahead, and Reel Big Fish. Still the concert against which I measure all other concerts.)
  
• May 5, 2000: Cabrini College, Radnor, PA. (Opening act: You Were Spiraling.)
  
• November 24, 2000: TLA, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening act: Muckafurgason.)
  
• April 14, 2001: The Vanderbilt, Plainview (Long Island), NY. (Opening acts: Mike Viola and Josh Joplin.)
  
• November 2, 2001: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening acts: The Moldy Peaches (worst opening act ever) and Afroman.)
  
• June 29, 2002: outdoors behind the Smithsonian, Washington, DC.
  
• October 19, 2002: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening act: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. It was also a McSweeney's show, and the worst of all of these.)
  
• September 30, 2004: TLA, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening act: Corn Mo.)
  
• June 30, 2006: World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA. (WXPN Free At Noon concert. No opening act.)
  
• November 25, 2007: TLA, Philadelphia, PA. (Opening act: Oppenheimer.)
  
• December 31, 2008: TLA, Philadelphia, PA (early show). (Opening act: Corn Mo with .357 Lover.)
  
• April 5, 2013: World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA. (WXPN Free At Noon concert. No opening act.)
  
• September 7, 2013: Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA. (Free show.)
  
• October 22, 2013: Stubbs, Austin, TX.
  
• April 25, 2015: TLA, Philadelphia, PA. (No opening act.)
  
• April 10, 2016: TLA, Philadelphia, PA. (No opening act.)
  
• April 26, 2018: TLA, Philadelphia, PA. (No opening act.)

Comments

[angrychicken.livejournal.com]

I love the Vanderbilt. I punched a guy in the crotch there once.

[desh]

You love it because of or in spite of the fact that you punched a guy in the crotch there once?

[elyssa.livejournal.com]

Reel Big Fish + TMBG? Wow. The only thing that could make that better (for me) is BNL, too.

[ulicqel.livejournal.com]

I was actually at 2 of those shows, and yes, the reel big fish one was pretty kick ass.

[benjifus.livejournal.com]

corn mo!

[bz-mahrabu.livejournal.com]

I'm two degrees of separation from Corn Mo, and thus three from They Might Be Giants.

Wow

[bz-mahrabu.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just haven't kept that kind of records (the way I have for my 15 Phish shows). To the best of my memory:

* May(?) 2001: Radcliffe Quad, Cambridge MA
* December 2002: Irving Plaza, New York NY (Opening act: Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players)
* May(?) 2003: Bowery Ballroom, New York NY (Opening act: Corn Mo)
* ????: Tower Records, New York NY

Re: Wow

[desh]

This wasn't all from records; a lot was memory and the wiki. Unfortunately I couldn't peg down the dates of those first two of yours, but the third was May 22, 2003, and are you sure that the last wasn't at Borders, perhaps on Feb 15, 2005?

Re: Wow

[bz-mahrabu.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the wiki! So the second was December 28, 2002. The fourth must have been Virgin Megastore, November 18, 2003 (i knew it was a big chain but forgot which). The Harvard show must have been on the DL.