Friends o the C

FoTC mention in Salient.. supposebly ;)

Thanks to Becks for posting this news on the Conchords myspace page.
From there I quickly searched it down and posted it here. Very boring intro I know but I am in no mood to be witty today..not that I’m witty any other day..hmm..ok, back to the post..

It’d be like Rolf Harris, Times Two!
By James Robinson | August 14, 2006

Flight of the Conchords

I always just thought Flight of the Conchords were one of the multitude of New Zealand comedy acts that were probably okay, but unspectacular all the same. I figured that I’d probably see them by accident one day, maybe at Indigo or something. Until one day a foreign friend of mine brought up that he’d seen them on the Conan O’Brien Show and HBO. Then I happened across a North and South article that spelled out just how big these guys were: a bidding war for a television show in the United States between HBO and CBS, a record deal with Sub-Pop, a BBC radio show that took England by storm, sell out crowds, movies in the works. And when these guys were in New Zealand last they toured as the opener for Bic Runga. I can’t wait to see these guys buy and subsequently destroy Bic Runga in five-years time. And why not? The self-proclaimed “fourth best folk-parody outfit in New Zealand”, rise above Tenacious D comparisons by just being better than Tenacious D. (’Frodo, don’t wear the ring’ out Jack Blacks Jack Black.) ‘The hiphopopotamus meets the rhymenocerus’ should one day take its rightful place in the cannon of rap classics.

Still largely ignored by New Zealand audiences.

And from the same page..something on Taika

Taika Waititi
How much kudos can you give a man for pretending to be asleep while they were reading out his category at the Oscars’ One gesture has never said more about the stale and boring set of industry routines the ceremony has become. And the guy was from New Zealand!

So much more than that guy from Scarfies, he got nominated for an Oscar for his short film Two Cars, One Night (as you will all probably know) and his follow up debut feature film will be released in the coming months. He was unavailable to be interviewed recently because he was stuck in the United States becoming involved in yet another bidding war over a New Zealand artist because of said movie.

Somehow manages to also indulge in standup comedy under various different guises. Despite obvious forces pulling him overseas, has expressed a desire to never relocate his base from Wellington.

From: Salient