{"id":851,"date":"2010-01-10T22:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T03:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2010-01-10T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T03:50:58","slug":"twelve-months-bid-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/twelve-months-bid-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Months Bid Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again I attended a concert by They Might Be Giants<\/a>.\u00a0 Like the previous 2 I went to, this one took place in the Calvin Theater in Northampton.\u00a0 Unlike any other TMBG show I’ve been to, this one was on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n

I took pictures using both my regular camera and my iPhone, so the quality varies.\u00a0 Some of the images have been enhanced because they were too dark (at some point I will play with the iris settings on the camera so that it doesn’t darken down stuff when the flash is on and the subject is far from the camera).<\/p>\n

Here’s the stage setup:<\/p>\n

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They had plastic pigeons all over the place.\u00a0 Here you can see a couple on the main drum kit:<\/p>\n

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I was pretty close to the stage, having a depth of 2 people in front of me at first, more like 1 as the night went on.<\/p>\n

There was a brief opening set by Peter Stampfel<\/a>, who is formerly of the group The Holy Modal Rounders<\/a>, and his daughter Zoe.\u00a0 I was not familiar with Stampfel or the Rounders before this.\u00a0 It was sort of folksy, bluegrassy, irreverent, and odd all at once.\u00a0 Fun stuff, though Peter seemed to forget some lyrics a couple of times, and he didn’t seem to have a lot of physical stamina for performing.\u00a0 The only pictures I managed to get of them are overexposed:<\/p>\n

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That set only lasted 30 minutes, and then approximately 45 minutes passed before TMBG took the stage.\u00a0 They had horn players with them once again, in addition to the 5-member group they’ve been for years now.<\/p>\n

The stage layout was different than they’ve ever done before, as there were 2 drum sets, one on each side.\u00a0 John Linnell’s keyboard was at the front of the stage, but was directly in the center, rather than its usual location off to one side (generally he’s been stage left).\u00a0 Here’s Linnell at the keys:<\/p>\n

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I took notes on the setlist on my phone, so I can reproduce all the songs in order here:<\/p>\n