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Flight of the Conchords
Kiwi masters of deadpan hipster misadventure play Radio City
Flight of the Conchords
Celebrate that last-minute tax mailing with some “gangster folk crossover” when New Zealand’s “fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo,” Flight of the Conchords, steps off the small screen and into the live spotlight.
Recent inductees into the “New Zealand Fringe Festival Hall of Fame” (also the first members, to be fair), Sub Pop recording artists, and creators of thirty of the loopiest minutes on television, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are taking their act into the real world for a full-on U.S. spring tour of major mid-sized venues. These quirky Kiwi masters of deadpan hipster misadventure can actually play, sing and dance, so odds are this show will be more than just a lark.
Flight of the Conchords is like a New Zealand version of Beck finally surrendering to his comedic side altogether and joining a duo in a Michel Gondry video. Except they do it every Sunday. And Gondry has actually directed at least one episode of the show. But considering the fashions and eclectic musical comedy on their HBO program, it wouldn’t be at all surprising to see Beck appear on the show being managed by “Murray” at some point. But even the mighty Beck would have to step back and give props to a showdown between “the Rhymenoceros and the Hiphopopotamus.” And on the Rockettes’ home turf, no less.
We could see them pay homage to any number of people from David Bowie or Barry White to LCD Soundsystem or Kraftwerk. Whether they bring along any of their friends from the television show or not, this should prove worthy of a trip to midtown Manhattan.