03 May - Amsterdam, NL (Melkweg, The Max)

Amily wrote:

[size=100:ds0wxt2v]Loved the Flight of the Conchords gig, slightly messy set caused many giggles from B&J about being rusty& forgetting lyrics: more fun! #fotc

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Amily wrote:
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Amily wrote:

[size=100:ncujyol8]Loved the Flight of the Conchords gig, slightly messy set caused many giggles from B&J about being rusty& forgetting lyrics: more fun! #fotc

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Katie wrote:

Amily wrote:
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Aw, they giggled?

[size=100:dukv4isk]Just back from Flight of the Conchords, had a great time! Funny guys, esp. when the occasional mistake turns into a 10 minute digression " title="" border="0"/>

sargifster wrote:

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hellomyfriend wrote:I'd pay to see them do a concert of nothing but banter.

Amily wrote:

hellomyfriend wrote:I'd pay to see them do a concert of nothing but banter.

So would I.

Quote van de avond Flight of the Conchords: B: "
I think I need some mandoline"
...J: "
I think you need the right key"
;
-)

Red wrote:
U2roeli - Quote van de avond Flight of the Conchords: B: "
I think I need some mandoline"
...J: "
I think you need the right key"
;
-)

Red wrote:Sounds like the Boom King was using the DG20!

[size=100:7p945su5]Yes to Boom King, no to Demon Woman.

We got excellent seats, but not as good as Nonch and SheWolf who got front row Bret. ;
)

Excellent awesome show and the mistakes actually made it even better.

Oh, and my first thought when they finally hit the stage: "
They do exist!"



I'm truly too tired to post any more tonight. I've been up since 4 a.m. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more from others, though. Oh, and the lighted robot helmets were for the finale, which was Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor. Bret was awesome.

Oh and little red didn't get played, because they couldn't remember how the song goes.

Red wrote:Indigo_jones from WTF! was at the show tonight and she just popped in to give us a few details:

[size=100:wasnt9ko]Yes to Boom King, no to Demon Woman.

We got excellent seats, but not as good as Nonch and SheWolf who got front row Bret. ;
)

Excellent awesome show and the mistakes actually made it even better.

Oh, and my first thought when they finally hit the stage: "
They do exist!"



I'm truly too tired to post any more tonight. I've been up since 4 a.m. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more from others, though. Oh, and the lighted robot helmets were for the finale, which was Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor. Bret was awesome.

Oh and little red didn't get played, because they couldn't remember how the song goes.

hellomyfriend wrote:
I'm happy they had an awesome time.

Nonch must have been bubbling over with excitement.

[size=150:cd1jfgro]Come one sucker, lick my battery
4 May 2010 in concert review, music



[size=100:cd1jfgro][scroll down for complete setlist]

Finally the wait was over, Flight of the Conchords made it to Amsterdam!! Positively giddy with excitement myself and my motherflippin FotC partner in crime entered Melkweg only to find a room ful of chairs!! Oh no! We had wanted to be within sweat-spray distance of New Zealand’s finest folk rap duo, but we made do with seats on row ten in stead.

Jemaine and Bret opened the show with The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room) and the crowd gave a huge warm welcome. They make up a ludicrous story about the origins of the venue name ‘Melkweg’, claiming it pays tribute to the olden days when the people of Amsterdam used to don wigs made of old milk. “It was a bit smelly though. Yeah.. those were the days”. Milkwig laps it up.

The set continues with gems like Robots, Jenny and Think About It. After a while thwboys admitted they hadn’t really played for a year and were a bit rusty, this then became the running gag of the evening. Before playing a new song about wooing ladies in the thirteenhundreds, they explicitly asked the crowd not to record and YouTube this delicate moment. They threatened to out Holland for being a filthy country due to the recent binman strike if we broke our promise.



Later on you could see they were struggling with the in between song banter, “this is the longest gig ever”, “we have now officially run out of things to say if you hadn’t noticed”, citing jetlag as the culprit. However, the moments when the boys address their mistakes or mux up the words and burst into laughs are actually the funniest. They play Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymnoceros at practically twice the normal speed, after Jemaine finally gets the hang of the guitar tabs, but it works out alright.

They play a few more songs than planned because “we’re staying until we get one right!” and end the main set with hilarious version of Mutha’uckas with Brett on a mini drumkit swallowing all the supposed swear words until there are hardly any lyrics left.

The encore, with Brett & Jemaine coming back on stage wearing flashing robo-boxes on their heads, is ironically plagued to when a piece of their equipment won’t work, “this is awkward. It was supposed to be our grand finale”. But it is soon fixed and Too Many Dicks (On The Dancefloor) is a worthy gig closer.

A wonderful evening with the New Zealand (much funkier and more modern than your old Zealand) twosome. But where were the season 2 classics like Hurt Feelings and Sugalumps? Just as wel I’m going to see them again in London in two weeks!



SETLIST

01 The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)

02 Robots

03 Jenny

04 Think About It

05 [New song about wooing a lady]

06 Bus Driver’s Song

07 Foux du Fafa

08 Boom

09 I’m Not Crying

10 Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymnoceros

11 Bowie’s in space

12 I Told You I Was Freaky

13 Business Time

14 Ladies Of The World

15 Song For Epileptic Dogs

16 Mutha’uckas

[encore]

17 Too Many Dicks (On The Dance Floor)

Amily wrote:

[size=100:98j4o38n]They play a few more songs than planned because “we’re staying until we get one right!” and end the main set with hilarious version of Mutha’uckas with [size=150:98j4o38n]Brett on a mini drumkit swallowing all the supposed swear words until there are hardly any lyrics left.

Amily wrote:

... We had wanted to be [size=150:lyselps5]within sweat-spray distance of New Zealand’s finest folk rap duo ...

gezyka wrote:

Amily wrote:

How "
mini"
was this drumkit??

[url=This][/url] mini??

sargifster wrote:

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Nigel on keyboards.

(I think... There was certainly a set of keyboards on his side in that photo of the stage setup.)