The Frontier Touring Company is thrilled to announce a third FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS show for Perthians that missed out on tickets to the duo’s two sold out Perth shows. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement will take the stage at […]

Zach Galifianakis is attached to star as Ignatius J Reilly in an upcoming film adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces Vulture reports James Bobin co-creator of Flight of the Conchords and director of The Muppets and producer Scott Rudin are reportedly in talks with Paramount Pictures over bringing John Kennedy...

After years of false starts, it appears as if John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces will finally get the film adaptation it deserves. Vulture has reported that The Muppets director and Flight of the Conchords co-creator James Bobin is in talks with Paramount Pictures to get the movie produced. Cedar Rapids writer Phil Johnston would adapt a screenplay, and Zach Galifianakis has been pegged to star as the iconic Ignatius J. Reilly....

Guitarist and co-singer-songwriter Nick Finch talks to DOUG WALLEN about his obsession with death, balancing humour and horror and the hammer-and-chain as a “viable, actual instrument”. Live photo by ROBERT CARBONE . One of the more head-turning success stories in recent Australian music, Melbourne six-piece Graveyard Train have parlayed a brash live show and gravelly songs about monsters into unlikely national stardom. Piling on four singers and instruments like washboard and, um, hammer and chain, the band are at the front of a fertile crop of dark, country-inspired Melbourne acts. Following 2009’s The Serpent & The Crow and 2010’s The Drink The Devil & The Dance , their third album Hollow wrestles with the biggest monster of all: death. If certain song titles don’t tip you off, there are confronting lyrics like, “One day your eyes will see blackness for eternity”, and “No one has a soul/There is no great unknown.” And yet these timeless-minded songs are somehow empowering and fun. You have quite a few songs about death. Was there a point when you realised, “Hey, this is something we can write about”? I guess so. When we first started, we wanted to make it a horror country band. [But] we can make that whatever we want: we can do death or we can do monsters. It’s just gotta be dark, and we’ve gotta somehow make it horror. But as the years went on, we used up all the big monsters and all the schlocky stuff. All the Universal Horror monsters? Yeah. So the songs on this new album are definitely much more focused on death itself. Because I guess that’s the most horrific thing I can think of. [ Laughs ] It’s just like, straight-up, “Do we have a soul? No, we don’t. That is horrific. Let’s write a song about it.” Do people ever bristle at that? When I saw you guys live, one of you said, “You’re all gonna die!” I’m okay with hearing that at a gig, but some people might not be. That was me saying that. [ Laughs ] That’s one of my favourite songs to sing. People generally don’t seem to mind it. We played some festivals up in Canada, and I noticed a few people looking at each other a bit strangely and maybe not enjoying the points of the song. [ Laughs ] And what song is it? It’s called ‘All Will Be Gone’. Appropriate. Yeah, yeah. We’ve never actually recorded that song. We were thinking about doing it for this album, but it’s a real kind of live, interactive song. I really work off the audience and whoever I’m looking at. It’s a bit of a shame because it’s a really cool song. I don’t know, I’m just obsessed with death. Not like a goth or anything; I’m just constantly worried about ...

With the first annual Great GoogaMooga just a week and a half or so away, fest organizers have revealed the daily schedule of music, comedy and food and beverage-centric panels that will take place over the course of the two days. Of particular note on Saturday is comedian Marc Maron hosting a WTF Podcast, Noshing With… Ruth Reichl, David Chang, Aziz Ansari and James Murphy, and Beer vs Wine with Garret Oliver and Alan Benton. While we’ve got the New Orleans Brass Brunch with the Dozen Brass Band">Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Liquid Brunch: The Art of Daytime Drinking ...

Apparently it was Spielberg’s 'Jaws' in the summer of 1975 that coerced cinema audiences to use the term ‘summer blockbuster’ and the rest, they say , is history. Year after year summer gets longer: nothing to do with fabulous weather but due to the release of a number of highly anticipated films . Here are the big ten to look out for. PROMETHEUS June 1st Originally conceived as the prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, through time and development it is now not directly connected to the Alien franchise. However Scott himself has said the film shares “strands of ...

The Flight of the Conchords are off to Australia - to apologise. They say they are sorry for mocking the Ockers for all these years in their hit television show.Americans, Canadians, Indians and Kiwis - many nationalities come in...

The fans have spoken! *The Frontier Touring Company and Flight Of The Conchords* are thrilled to announce new shows for Melbourne and Sydney fans! Tickets to the first shows in these cities sold out within minutes with fans eager to see their favourite Kiwi comedians perform masterpieces like...

After going on sale earlier this week, New Zealand's best-loved musical comedy duo Flight Of The Conchords added a second Perth show after the first sold out in minutes. After an initial delay for extra Melbourne and Sydney shows, the band have...

Flight of the Conchords have added two big stadium shows to their upcoming Australian tour.

UPDATE: New Sydney and Melbourne arena shows added due to popular demand, get your details below! ------- The Flight Of The Conchords are ...

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THEY'VE gathered a global cult following, but Flight of the Conchords are only just getting around to their first headline tour of Australia.

Time to relieve some of that inner city pressure — in what is possibly the best news since baby animals, Flight of the Conchords will be touring Australia as headliners for the first time in July. After doing their rounds on the stand-up comedy scene, Flight of the Conchords created a radio series for BBC [...]

The Flight of The Conchords are finally coming to Australia! Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have just announced their long-awaited and highly anticipated tour. Jemaine said of the announcement; "We are finally returning to Australia. Mostly to...