Band Reunion

Thank you
Thanks, London
Now you see the lights have come
Up a bit, you see it is us
And you probably noticed
That we're a bit older
Than, uh...
Than we were formally
We're not ill
We've been trying to stay young
We're trying to preserve ourselves
Like those sexy man-boys
That you saw
Ten years ago on the TV
Um... -'Cause we know that
People don't like characters
That they know
From television to get older
I think, to them, it's disturbing
I mean, it's difficult for us to see
You 'cause you're older as well
But the lights are quite dark, so
It's quite flattering on you guys
Yeah, but us being up here
And we remind you of your own
I guess, your own mortality
Sorry about that
Having said that, let's enjoy...
The fleeting moment. Yes!
The time we have left
Let's try and have a good time
Yeah
Anyway, you see how fast it's going
Yeah, it's gone. It's great
To be here in London
This is a bit of
A reunion gig for us
Uh, we haven't played
Since last night, and...
It's just great to have
The whole band here
Um... -We don't know if
You've heard these jokes
You might be exactly
The same people
We're one of the biggest
Bands in New Zealand now
Uh...
In terms of the number of members
Yeah
Yeah
We're a two-person band
Most bands in New Zealand
Are one-person bands
Um, you've probably heard of John
Jemaine: Rob
Bret: Lucy
Lucy's great
Yeah, yeah, brilliant
It's a very good band
Even our national orchestra's
A one-man band. It's very...
When we combined, we formed
The super group
Bret used to be
In a band, didn't you?
My old band was called "The Bret."
And...
Yeah
And Jemaine was-- Your band was
Called, what, The Jemaine and...?
No, it was "Jemaine and the No
One Else."
That's right, yeah
How we got together was
We were billed on the same night
At the same time by accident
And most of our songs have
The same chords anyway
So we just sang at the same time, and
That's how we wrote a lot of our songs
Yeah, and that's how
This electricity got started
Bret: Yeah, yeah
That's right
We're gonna do some songs
This next one is, uh...
It's another du-et
Um, and...
It... it's kind of
Groundbreaking for us
Um, because we're really challenging
The gender stereotypes that exist
Uh, within the band. And...
And for those of you
Who know some of our songs
I often play the ladies
In our songs
And...
And you do it well, Bret
You do it well
Thank you
Uh, but this next song, we're doing
A gender reversal reversal
So, what we usually do is we gender
Reverse it, so Bret's the lady
But we've reversed it
Back on itself
Full 360 till he's back to a man
Yeah
Yeah, he's very excited
To be playing the very macho
Ian. A guy called Ian
A British
A very, um...
It's a very macho name
He's a very macho, sexual British guy
Mm
And Jemaine takes
The role of Deanna
Yeah
Uh, it's an office place romance
And she's a very complex character
A lot of layers that
You've put in there
Yeah, I've put in two layers
I've added another dimension
To what I usually do
To make a fully
Two-dimensional character
Yeah
Uh, I've really embraced the role
I've studied a woman
That's right
And I just watched
Little things she did
It's like this kind of thing
You'll see that come
You'll see it
I won't do it now
Save it, save it
I'll save it for the performance
When you see me become Deanna
You'll see it
Oh, it's a transformation
Yeah
Thank you!
Thank you
But one last detail
Um, before we do play
The song, it's just
You know, I think we want to
Point out that we are aware
That comedy is a very
Male-dominated industry
Unfortunately
You know, we're writing the roles
For women, but, um...
The problem is the band
Itself is very male-dominated
And...
It's systemic
Yeah, it's
It's systemic, a systemic problem
It's the fucking patriarchy
That's what it is
Yeah, so we're sorry about that
But we're trying
We're trying, yeah, yeah
What? Too fast?
What do you think?
Probably too rocking for us
Tone it down a little bit
People are moshing at the front