Flight of the Conchords
So, B, Ash and I went to Massey Hall last night to catch Flight of the Conchords. A great time was had by all!
We were up in the second balcony/gallery of the Hall, but it being Massey the sound was still good. There was a fairly tall gentleman sitting in front of me, but I was still able to see for the most part what was happening on stage.
The opening act was the guy who plays Eugene the landlord on the Conchords TV show, who is actually named Eugene. I think it may have been the first time I've ever seen a stand-up open for a musical group, but it fit really well and he had moments where he was really funny. He had a bunch of bits, though, that involved reading off of or showing printouts from the internet, which seemed kind of like the sort of avant-garde-performance-art-comedy thing that I only really previously experience in people parodying it.
Conchords themselves were hilarious. I knew the songs were going to be really good, but the between-song banter was really funny as well. They for some reason seemed to think that anyone yelling from the crowd was heckling them. I don't know if that was a New York thing, or a comedian thing, but it was funny seeing them react to it. The live show really served to remind you, as well, that they really are talented musicians who use comedy as part of their music, rather than just comedians who use music as a gimmick.
The setlist for the show included, but was not limited to:
I'd have to say Hurt Feelings, Bowie, and Jenny were the highlights of the evening. The other stuff was all good, but some of it, like Ex-Girlfriends of the Past and Mutha Uckas, work much better as skits in a TV show than they do as songs in a concert setting.
We were up in the second balcony/gallery of the Hall, but it being Massey the sound was still good. There was a fairly tall gentleman sitting in front of me, but I was still able to see for the most part what was happening on stage.
The opening act was the guy who plays Eugene the landlord on the Conchords TV show, who is actually named Eugene. I think it may have been the first time I've ever seen a stand-up open for a musical group, but it fit really well and he had moments where he was really funny. He had a bunch of bits, though, that involved reading off of or showing printouts from the internet, which seemed kind of like the sort of avant-garde-performance-art-comedy thing that I only really previously experience in people parodying it.
Conchords themselves were hilarious. I knew the songs were going to be really good, but the between-song banter was really funny as well. They for some reason seemed to think that anyone yelling from the crowd was heckling them. I don't know if that was a New York thing, or a comedian thing, but it was funny seeing them react to it. The live show really served to remind you, as well, that they really are talented musicians who use comedy as part of their music, rather than just comedians who use music as a gimmick.
The setlist for the show included, but was not limited to:
- If You're Into It
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room
- Foux Du Fafa
- Mutha Uckas
- Bowie
- Sugalumps
- Too Many Dicks (On The Dancefloor)
- Hurt Feelings
- We're Both In Love (With A Sexy Lady)
- Demon Woman
- I Told You I Was Freaky
- Freebird (Yes. Freebird. The same one you're thinking of. Someone shouted out a request for it. They didn't do the entire song, but enough of it to please everyone who would be pleased by that sort of thing, myself included.)
- Epileptic Dogs (with remix version)
- Pencils In The Wind
- Jenny*
- Stana*
- Awkward Bus Tour*
I'd have to say Hurt Feelings, Bowie, and Jenny were the highlights of the evening. The other stuff was all good, but some of it, like Ex-Girlfriends of the Past and Mutha Uckas, work much better as skits in a TV show than they do as songs in a concert setting.