[ATTENDED: June 12, 2016] Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords
After having gotten a number of concert tickets fort he summer, I had planned a moratorium. But it was impossible to pass up the opportunity to see Flight of the Conchords. Especially if they were going to be singing Flight of the Conchords! I didn’t even realize they toured (clearly they do), and since there were no plans for a new television season and since Jemaine Clement has lent his voice and face to all manner of awesome evil roles, I assumed the FotC was no more. [Bret McKenzie has also done things but not nearly as much as Jemaine].
Since we loved the show and the music, I jumped on tickets once they were available. Once again, I thought our seats would be better than they were (I really need to understand seating charts better), but it didn’t matter because they had two giant screens on which they projected the two of them and did many great visual effects as well. It was easy to forget to look at them on stage since the screens were so compelling, but it’s always important to see what the guys are doing too.
They played 13 songs in total and did a lot of very funny banter in between. The strange thing is that I didn’t know they had released a second album (how did I miss that?) so a lot of the songs that I thought were “new” were just new to me. Although there were some brand new songs thrown in as well.
It was also awesome that as soon as Arj Barker left the stage, there was no delay before Flight of the Conchords came out. (more…)
