June 18 - Milwaukee, WI

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By Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel

Eddie Murphy's fluffy R&
B records, Sam Kinison's late-stage division of concerts between stand-up sets and band sets and even Andy Kaufman's Elvis Presley impersonation are examples of a comedian's yearning to be a pop or rock star. None of them is particularly endearing.

Conversely, Flight of the Conchords was quite endearing Saturday night at the Riverside Theater because the duo made sport of the very idea of rock stardom while filling the venue to capacity, as rock stars do, and selling branded t-shirts and other merchandise, as rock stars also do.

The jokes usually worked because Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie aimed at a wide range of music topics, from the relative largeness of their lineup compared to the "
usual"
one-man bands of New Zealand to the mundaneness of the 22 to 23 hours of a day touring musicians don't spend onstage.

When the jokes were directly musical, they worked even better: Clement and McKenzie were solid players, with McKenzie especially fine on piano, while supplementary instrumentalist Nigel Collins — introduced as the "
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra"
— added cello and double-bass shades.

However, Conchords' greatest musical talent remained the ability to ridicule rock and pop subgenres with authoritative affection.

Many mockeries came from 2009 — the last time Flight of the Conchords appeared in Milwaukee — or earlier, when the duo had a TV series and two albums.

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Yet the show kept comedy and music mostly in balance and the audience mostly in check. The gents in Flight of the Conchords might not actually be rock stars, but they have learned to use star power to get some respect.

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Jemaine's art has definitely improved over the years. :#haha#:

blondesnotbombs wrote:I wonder if this artist did a Bret version of the poster that we'll see later in the tour?

[size=150:1tau9oye]Flight of the Conchords @ The Riverside Theater
June 18, 2016
By Michael Carriere



It has been over four years since the New Zealand-based comedy band Flight of the Conchords last toured. Their last studio album, I Told You I Was Freaky, was released in 2009, the same year that that the act pulled the plug on their eponymous HBO television program. Since then, band members Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have seemingly left the rock-and-roll lifestyle behind: McKenzie has served as music supervisor for the rebooted Muppets film franchise, while Clement wrote, directed, and starred in the indie vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows.

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Ultimately, it is the laughs induced by such songs that make the Conchords continue to matter. The band emerged at a time when indie rock was moving more in the singer/songwriter direction, and beginning to take itself way too seriously. The Conchords playfully skewered both of those trends. While a lot has changed within the world of music since 2009, there is still a need for bands that can remind that humor can elicit emotion just as well as pathos. Here’s hoping the Conchords stick around a bit longer.

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