Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning folk and comedy band composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.

Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars to work the audience.

The band performed their first televised performances over four nights (May 3-6 2000) on Newtown Salad, a show on Wellington's short-lived local TV station "Channel 7" (later renamed "WTV"). The songs, in order, were Bowie in Space, Ladies of the World, Petrov, Yelyena and Me, and Hotties.

In 2002 and 2003 they performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They were nominated for the Perrier Award in 2003. And performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Won Best Newcomer Award.

In June 2007, the band performed on David Letterman's Late Show and were also interviewed by Terry Gross on the NPR radio show Fresh Air. The band appeared at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The EP The Distant Future was released. It was produced by Mickey Petralia and recorded in Los Angeles and New York by Petralia and engineer Matt Shane.

On May 28, 2008, Flight of the Conchords performed at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.

The band performed on the Main Stage of the Sasquatch! Music Festival on Monday 26 May 2008 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington State. The duo will also feature at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Festival on 12 and 13 July 2008 in Redmond, WA.

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