They Might Be Giants at Brooklyn Steel

They Might Be Giants during one of their two sets at Brooklyn Steel on Friday, May 29, 2026.

John Linnell of They Might Be Giants at Brooklyn Steel on Friday, May 29, 2026.

John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants at Brooklyn Steel on Friday, May 29, 2026.

They Might Be Giants at Brooklyn Steel on Friday, May 29, 2026.

During They Might Be Giants at Brooklyn Steel on Friday, May 29, 2026.

On Friday, May 29, 2026, They Might Be Giants continued their three night stand at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY. The band released their 24th studio album, The World Is to Dig, in April and performed different albums in their entirety each night. The second evening was their Factory Showroom record that was released 30 years ago. John Flansburgh and John Linnell were accompanied by a full band (Marty Beller on drums, Dan Miller on guitar, Danny Weinkauf on bass, plus a horn section featuring Dan Levine, Stan Harrison, and Mark Pender) and performed two full sets each night, separated by an intermission where they performed “Sapphire Bullets of Love” backwards in the first set, and played the video in reverse to begin the second set to prove they learned to perform the song backwards. They began their run of three shows at Brooklyn Steel on Thursday, May 28th and concluded on Saturday, May 31st.

Flansburgh joked that Factory Showroom would be performed along with other favorites that they didn’t rehearse, and that the album’s “vinyl copies are available nowhere...and that's not about to change” but the band’s website mentions that the album will be reissued in different platforms sometime in the future.

I covered the great show for Bowery Presents and the full gallery is now available on “The House List.”