American splendour ... Flight of the Conchords
The New York Times has gone wild for the Flight of the Conchords, splashing Bret and Jemaine over the front of their site today after the pair played two nights at the city's Town Hall (once host to the unforgettable Irving Steinbloom memorial concert).
The Conchords have their album coming out next week - with both sexy numbers like It's Business Time and the hard-hitting social commentary of Inner City Pressure included. But the question that seems to be raised by both the Times and Time Out NY's review of the gigs is whether "New Zealand's fourth-most popular folk-parody duo," (Paul Heaton should be talking to his lawyers) lose something in going big time.
It's kind of the same old story - do cult successes lose their way when exposed to a larger audience. But as Time Out points out, there's something about FOTC's bumbling intimacy that doesn't quite work when their female fans are screaming their heads off at the pair.
