Conchordographs!

gezyka wrote:

caiknbake wrote:and wow, taika's sig is crazy

as soon as we got up to them Jemaine goes....so what shall i write. (my heart starts pounding like crazy) and all that came out of my mouth was..."anything your heart desires" wtf??? i can't believe that came out but it did. haha

and of course that's what he wrote....clever. and then bret signed next. poor guy. he was so tired and downed 3 cokes to try and stay awake!

Bret McKenzie loves me, true story.

Brother works on a boat, Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords was on it, ethan asked for an autoograph! COOl!! what a great brother

Came home to this waiting on my doorstep. I sent a cheesy bit of fanmail to the venue they played at in Perth after our Melbourne show, and that was in… July? And I totally forgot I even sent it so, wow. Bret’s ‘I miss you’ is probably my favourite autograph I’ve got now. Just because it makes absolutely no sense but I really dig that it’s written there as if we have a connection. /delusional fangirl.

onlyalways wrote:I'm dying at Bret's "I miss you"

That's great that they sent something back.

Now I'm curious what she sent them!

Bret McKenzie’s autographed my The Muppets (2011) draft script (dated 10/30/2009)

Self-styled as New Zealand’s ‘fourth most popular guitar-based digital-bongo acapella- rap-funk-comedy-folk duo’, and ‘retired sex symbols’, Flight Of The Conchords, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are, by global consensus, one of the most successful musical comedy bands on the planet.

As fellow Kiwis… actually as a members of the human race we had to see them perform live, the first time in eight years in the UK. We managed to get tickets to see them at London’s O2. However their big comeback, sold-out arena tour was postponed after a couple of dates, when Bret fell down a flight of stairs, breaking two bones in his hand, “a very rock ‘n’ roll injury” he wrote on his Instagram post.

Bones fixed, the bona fide rock stars rescheduled, adding extra shows. We finally got to the O2 gig on 22 June. “Sorry we’re three months late,” they said in typical Conchordian laid back schtick. Jemaine also apologised for looking ‘older and dustier’, but Bret pointed out that the audience have also put on some years since they last toured “So we’re even.” In London, they did three sell-out shows at the O2 and four at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.

The O2’s a fortress and nigh impossible to meet the artists let alone get stuff signed. The Apollo isn’t much better, with a reinforced gate protecting the lane to the stage door, but it has an opening. I had also heard that sometimes barriers are erected for after show signing and selfie sessions. I decided to go with an entry rather than exit option and quickly did this sketch, arriving at the said gate just as it was closing after Bret and Jemaine had passed through in a big black van and down to the stage door.

However, while I was muttering the typical antipodean expletive, ‘bugger’ or something stronger, a very accommodating gentleman with a lanyard approached me and asked if he could help. I explained the situation and he promised to pass it on. A month passed, nothing returned. Then yesterday this arrived back in the post. Apologies for thinking the worse of said accommodating gentleman with lanyard… in fact ‘thanks.’

This is a great time to share the time I met @AJemaineClement

It was at the backstage door after a FOTC concert in my sophomore year of college. Instead of getting a photo, he drew the two of us on the back of my ticket stub.

That's me on the left. It is a prized possession.