They Might Be Giants with Moon Hooch
Sunday October 27th at The Rio Theater, Santa Cruz
I was up in the Bay Area/Central Coast area for sad reasons I won't bore you with.
Some of my friends happened to be going to the mind-blowingly not sold out They Might Be Giants show in Santa Cruz, so I tagged along.
We got there a little late, but with plenty of time to have our brains deconstructed and reconfigured by Moon Hooch. Seriously, contra bass clarinet and various saxamaphones blasted through time-based effects fighting it out in front of a drummer…
Moon Hooch create infectiously dance-able electro-tinged crazyness. I was not prepared, but it was awesome. They're apparently from NYC and used to play together on the streets. They have the chops to prove it. They were gonna call themselves Moon Juice but too many bands were calling themselves that already so they let the juice ferment into Moon Hooch.
They Might Be Giants were fantastic, blasting our brains with classics like "Dr. Worm" and "Birdhouse In Your Soul", as well as one of their science tunes like "Meet the Elements" and plenty of cuts from their newest record Nanobots.
There was a fun audience participation where the band used a light to bisect the audience and dubbed stage-right the 'people' and stage-left the 'apes'. We then engaged in a chant-off with one half of the band or the other backing us up. I was on side 'people'. We totally won the chant-off. There were no prizes and once it was apparent that the game was over the people and apes bridged the gap and peacefully enjoyed the rest of the set.
I hadn't yet had the pleasure of seeing TMBG. It was quite life-affirming to finally see this group of talented gentlemen do their thing.
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