How to find the gigs and more info the best places are firstly Sub Pop or one of the best FOTC resources on the net What the Folk
April 24 LA at Amoeba May 5 - Tower Theater, Upper Darby PA
May 06 Town Hall Theater, New York, NY Sold out
May 07 Town Hall Theater, New York, NY Sold out
May 09 Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C., DC (early and late show)Early showLate Show May 10 Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI Tickets
May 11 Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI Tickets
May 13 Orpheum Theatre (Mpls), Minneapolis, MN Tickets
May 14 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL Tickets
May 15 Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, CO Ticket info
May 26 Sasquatch! Festival, George, WA Tickets
May 27 Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco, CA Tickets
May 30 Orpheum Theater (LA), LA, CA Ticket info
Flight of the Conchords performed in Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University which was sponsored by student-run A&O Productions
Delay in Conchords next Series February 26, 2008
Whitney Matheson at USA Today's "Pop Candy" reports that the second season of HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" has been delayed until early 2009. That's a drag. But she adds that the Conchords are due to release their first full-length album in April. They've already released one EP, "The Distant Future," on Sub Pop. source
A bit of a jam at hush-hush Conchords gig
14 February 2008
It was The Flight of the Conchords' first autograph session and Wellington gig for many months – and it took place in a small video store.
Grammy award winners Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie played to a packed-out Aro St Video Shop yesterday as they marked the release of their DVD – season one of their cult-hit HBO show – with a free gig.
On Monday, the Conchords won a Grammy award for their album The Distant Future in the best comedy album category.
It was the latest in a string of successes for the pair, whose show The Flight of the Conchords won acclaim in the United States when it was picked up by television channel HBO last year.
The show focuses on Clement and McKenzie as struggling musicians with debatable talent trying to make a living in New York.
More than 100 fans jammed into the Wellington shop yesterday, with many more outside for the 15-minute concert. In an effort to keep numbers down, store members only were told of the free gig by e-mail.
The irony of the venue was not lost on the pair. "We headlined for Video Ezy back in the day," Clement joked.
McKenzie said later that the shop was now his favourite Wellington venue.
Aro St Video Shop owner Andrew Armitage said McKenzie, a customer, had offered to do the concert, which was kept quiet because of the shop's size.
Fans queued for up to two hours afterward as the pair signed copies of the show DVD and other items, including a pair of socks, jandals and a piggybank.
They also wrote an absentee note for two 14-year-old Wellington High School pupils who skipped class to attend the show.
The start of the second Conchord series had been delayed by Hollywood's writers' strike, but after this week's resolution of the industrial action, Clement said the pair would return to the US next month.
Student Heleyni Pratley, 21, was one of many female fans at the show. She grew up near the pair in Mt Victoria and believed Mel – the show's over-adoring fan – was based on her. "That's me. I used to stalk them too."
Architect Guy Evans, who lived in New York last year and watched the show's meteoric rise on US television, said New Zealanders had been slow at catching on. "It's huge [in the US]."
He believed Americans loved its Monty Python-like humour.
"It's a New Zealand take on the American dream, which we've forgotten about over here. Americans still appreciate that story."
-With NZPA By ANNA CHALMERS - The Dominion Post Source
Secret Conchords show packs tiny store 13 February 2008
The first post-Grammy award concert for New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords was a freebie show at a small Wellington video store that they tried hard to keep a secret.
Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie entertained hundreds of people at the Aro Street Video Store this morning before signing DVDs and posing for photos.
They began their 15-minute performance with their normal dry humour.
"We headlined for Video Ezy back in the day," Clement said in his trademark flat monotone.
They both then pointed out where people could find different genre movies.
About 100 people crammed into the tiny store, with about twice that number standing outside listening to the show on speakers.
The comedians delighted the crowd by changing some lyrics of their songs and mentioning the video store and what good deals it had to offer.
Owner Andrew Armitage said that considering how popular the pair were they tried to limit crowd size by only advertising the show at 5pm yesterday on an email to their members.
Clement and McKenzie seemed at ease with their fans after the show, joking with them and posing for photos.
As well as DVDs of their Flight of the Conchords show, released today, they signed pretty much anything that was put in front of them including a suitcase, a pie and a guitar belonging to a German band.
The band, Kernspaltung, then responded by singing an impromptu thank you song - in a style reminiscent of the Conchords.
Also in the store today was Loren Horsley, who starred opposite Clement in Taika Waititi's movie Eagle versus Shark, also released on DVD today.
Mr Armitage said he had organised the show a while ago with McKenzie, who was a member at the store, and was thrilled with the turnout.
He said it was a "striking coincidence" both movies were released on the same day.
"I'm so buzzed the stars were aligned," he said.
On Monday the Conchords won a grammy for their album The Distant Future in the best comedy album category.
It was just the latest in a string of successes for the pair whose show The Flight of the Conchords has won acclaim in the US when it was picked up by HBO last year.
The show focuses on Clement and McKenzie as struggling musicians with debatable talent trying to make a living in New York.
Last week the series was nominated for, but missed out on, three awards at the Writers Guild Awards for best comedy series, best new series, and best episodic comedy.
The pair are in Wellington at the moment working on the second Conchords series, which has been delayed due to the three-month-long screenwriters' strike.
-NZPA
By REBECCA QUILLIAM Source
Kiwi pair fly off with comedy Grammy February 12, 2008
Jemaine Clement (left) and Bret McKenzie have been working on a new album, which is due out in April New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords have continued their remarkable run of international success, scooping a Grammy award for Best Comedy Album.
And the award - the first time a non-American has won the category - puts the Wellington pair of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement in auspicious company.
In the past the award has largely gone to stand-up comedy stars including Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Steve Martin, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock.
McKenzie and Clement - who were the Kiwi showbiz success story of 2007 with their breakthrough sitcom for American cable network HBO- joined that honours list at the 50th Grammy Awards yesterday.
And while the duo are now up there with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, jazz pianist-arranger Alan Broadbent, Lord of the Rings scriptwriter and theme song lyricist Fran Walsh and Taupo musicians Jon Mark and Thelma Burchell as New Zealand Grammy winners, they are the first Kiwi artists to do it while performing their own songs - although not many of them.
Their winning "album" was the 23-minute six-track Distant Future EP released by US indie label Sub Pop.
It contains just three studio tracks - which will be familiar to fans of the TV series - and three live cuts from a New York gig, one of which, Banter, is Clement and McKenzie chatting to their audience with deadpan references to NZ and sheep.
But genre-spoofing songs like Business Time and The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room were enough to convince Grammy voters to pick it ahead of the other four nominees.
The comedy Grammy came after the pair's show went away empty-handed at the Writers Guild Awards at the weekend. There it was nominated for best comedy series, best new series and best episodic comedy.
While waiting for production on their second series to begin in the States, McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have recorded an album due for release in April. Given their Grammy success with five songs and a spot of chat, a whole full-length album risks sweeping all before it.
Flight of the Conchords win Grammy February 11, 2008
Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.
New Zealand comedy duo the Flight of the Conchords has just won a prestigious Grammy Award.
Just moments ago the band was awarded Best Comedy Album for their EP The Distant Future.
The EP, which has 6 tracks, was released in August last year.
Wellington duo Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie star in their own TV series as marginally talented folk singers struggling to make it in New York.
The pair, who are currently in New Zealand, were unavailable for comment today.
Flight of the Conchords ended its first season on the HBO cable network in September, and fresh episodes will air later this year.
In the meantime, their first full-length disc, featuring reworked versions of tunes that they performed on screen and in concert, will be released in the United States on April 22.
The Grammys are the Oscar awards of music, although they do have a high number of categories ranging from Best Polka Album to Best Song.
It is not the first time New Zealand has featured at the Grammys.
Auckland-born jazz musician Alan Broadbent has racked up an impressive seven Grammy nominations including two wins for arranging jazz albums. NZHERALD STAFF
Jemaine in Hollywood February 07, 2008
Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement has scored a role in a Hollywood comedy from the guy behind Napoleon Dynamite.
Clement will star in Gentlemen Broncos as a famous novelist who rips off a high school outcast at a writers' camp. Director Jared Hess (Nacho Libre), will work from a script he wrote with his wife, and Napoleon co-writer Jerusha Hess. Guess they saw Clement in Eagle vs Shark.
Production is set to start in March.
In other Conchords news, Clements' co-star Arj Barker (the American who plays egotistical mate Dave), is returning to New Zealand for the 2008 NZ International Comedy Festival, which kicks off on April 18.
Ewen Gilmour (NZ), Jimeoin (Ireland), Mark Watson (Britain), Dai Henwood (NZ) and Jamie Kennedy (US) are also in the line-up.
January 31, 2008
Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell and Jemaine Clement have signed to star in "Gentlemen Broncos," Jared Hess' comedy being produced by Mike White and Ben LeClair.
Jan 10, 2008
Jemaine’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Jemaine!
Dec 19, 2007
Time Magazine (US) named Flight of the Conchords one of the top ten best new series:
1. Mad Men
2. Flight of the Conchords
3. Tell Me You Love Me
4. Planet Earth
5. Pushing Daisies
6. Sarah Silverman Program
7. The Riches
8. Yo Gabba Gabba!
9. The War
10. Kid Nation
Thu Dec 13, 2007
Conchords nominated best new show by Writers
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Writers Guild of America took time out from managing its strike against the Hollywood studios to announce TV nominees for its annual WGA Awards Wednesday.HBO led all TV networks for the 60th annual ceremony, fetching two nominations for dramatic series writing and three for comedy series writing.In the dramatic series category, HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" were joined by Showtime's "Dexter," NBC's "Friday Night Lights" and AMC's "Mad Men."In the comedy category, HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Entourage" and "Flight of the Conchords" were nominated. Also cited were NBC's "The Office" and "30 Rock.""Conchords" was also nominated for new TV series, along with "Mad Men," FX's "Damages," ABC's "Pushing Daisies" and Comedy Central's "The Sarah Silverman Program."The WGA Awards are set for February 9, with simultaneous ceremonies planned at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre in New York.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
16 November 2007
Business time made way for some hard-earned celebration when comic musical duo Flight of the Conchords were named the 2007 Wellingtonians of the Year. Check out the video Here!
Sep 6, 2007
HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" had its first-season finale following "Entourage" at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, averaging 950,000 total viewers. The show, starring the New Zealand music-comedy duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, debuted June 17 to 1.2 million viewers.
May 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For the first time, HBO has used the Internet not only to debut an upcoming TV series but also to allow viewers to spread its pilot episode virally across the Web.
Through a partnership with interactive ad agency Deep Focus, the Time Warner subsidiary launched an online marketing campaign centered on the new comedy series "Flight of the Conchords" that allows viewers to access it on a number of video-sharing sites and to embed the pilot episode on blogs, Web sites and social-networking profiles.
The campaign launhed Tuesday with promotion on the MySpace network and the episode featured on the "Conchords" MySpace page. The user experience will expand, with consumers directed to HBO's site for an embed code that enables them to re-post the episode on other sites.
Besides MySpace, online partners in the sharing and distribution of the show include iTunes, Yahoo TV, MeeVee, iFilm, Superdeluxe, Blip TV, Movielink and broadband sites Comcast.net and Roadrunner.com.
when it was picked up by television channel HBO last year.
thank you song - in a style reminiscent of the Conchords.
New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords have continued their remarkable run of international success, scooping a Grammy award for Best Comedy Album.
ceremony, fetching two nominations for dramatic series writing and three for comedy series writing.In the dramatic series category, HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" were joined by Showtime's "Dexter," NBC's "Friday Night Lights" and AMC's "Mad Men."In the comedy category, HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Entourage" and "Flight of the Conchords" were nominated. Also cited were NBC's "The Office" and "30 Rock.""Conchords" was also nominated for new TV series, along with "Mad Men," FX's "Damages," ABC's "Pushing Daisies" and Comedy Central's "The Sarah Silverman Program."The WGA Awards are set for February 9, with simultaneous ceremonies planned at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre in New York.