We all know the outfits will be wild tonight, in that "put-naughty-in-every-costume" kind of way. Things were much more wholesome earlier today during They Might Be Giants' family show at House of Blues.
Like most of the youngsters in the crowd, the Johns -- Flansburgh and Linnell -- dressed up for the occasion. Flansburgh wore a Wild Things-styled furry hat and tie, and Linnell donned a skeleton mask that covered his face for most of the show.
The duo has a new kids' CD out (Here Comes Science), and also dabbled in tracks from their three other family discs. For those who haven't dipped into that stuff, they still played "adult" crowd-pleasers "Particle Man," "Older," "Doctor Worm" and the rousing closer, "Birdhouse in Your Soul." The Giants even offered brief snippets of Edgar Winter's "Free Ride" and, in a strange and wonderful surprise, Del the Funky Homosapien's "Mistadobalina."
Hard to tell who was having more fun, the kid fans or the adult fans. A young Batgirl threw the rock 'n' roll hand sign at the band while atop her dad's shoulders. And, in sad and sweet scenes, a handful of kids who probably had never been to a concert before were wide-eyed at the first loud guitar sounds, and covered their ears.
As always, Flansburgh kept the adults laughing. He suggested any factual errors in the concert staple "Why Does the Sun Shine?" would be taken seriously, and should be sent directly to Duran Duran. In a hilarious puppet-show segment, his puppet claimed to enjoy the Giants' music, though mostly the early stuff, and that they kinda fell off after Apollo 18.
Check out more Giants fun at their site, and our Q&A with Flansburgh here.
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