105.7 The Point Welcomes
'Flood' 30th Anniversary Show
They Might Be Giants

Mask: Optional
*This show is 16+ ONLY with a valid I.D.
Set times:
They Might Be Giants – 7pm
Doors – 6pm
*Set times are approximate & subject to change without notice.
Due to increased restrictions due to Covid-19, They Might Be Giants at The Pageant originally scheduled for Sunday, May 17th, 2020 is rescheduled for Sunday, October 16th, 2022. All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date.
About They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants have always been a little obsessed with death.
Over the course of their 30-plus year career, renowned college-pop experimentalists John Flansburgh and John Linnell have never shied away from joining the lyrically macabre with bold and often unusual instrumentation—whether it’s talking about being reincarnated as a bag of groceries on 1990’s Flood or having their remains shot out into space (and coming back as a ghost) on 2016’s Phone Power.
The duo’s 20th studio album, I Like Fun (arriving on January 19, 2018), is similarly—if not more so—interested in personal oblivion.
“At some point we realized we could call any They Might Be Giants record ‘Deathtrip,’ and it would be appropriate,” jokes Flansburgh. “But it wouldn’t be very welcoming.
“I think the truth is, as a band, and as writers, the mixed bag of writing melodic songs with dystopian content is a winning combination for us. I think it speaks more to the persuasive power of melody than it does to the inevitability of dystopian themes. Because ultimately, I think people find a lot of optimism in what we’re singing about, even when it’s relentlessly pessimistic.”
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