October 20 2007: They Might Be Giants - Northampton Box Office, Northampton MA

So They Might Be Giants, whom I'd never seen play before, were playing for free in that tiny little room where the Iron Horse people sell tickets. Went with Caitlin an hour early cause we figured there would be some sort of line but no one was there. Matt was working and he told us to come back in 45m. So we got a beer at the Dirty Truth and came back in 35m and there was still no one there. People finally started showing up with ten minutes to go, and there were only a few dozen folks anyway.

And it was a good time. They played three songs. The first two I didn't know, and the third was "Istanbul." Which was pretty fun to hear.

The only downside was that it was for a radio broadcast, so the whole point was to make sure the songs sounded good on the radio, leaving us in the audience to listen to unamplified voices and instruments. So sometimes the vocals got overpowered by the horns, but it was free and a good time and no one was in a position to complain.