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We were working with James Bobin on our TV show. We had our own dingy apartments in LA and our own TV show which was to be filmed in New York. We didn’t live in that dingy flat with eight others any more. The nervousness of being in front of a camera for the first time made us ham up our usually subdued performances. The two of us were so skinny, not from anything as chic as heroin, just the humdrum malnutrition of post-student poverty. We recorded it once for a local TV station in Wellington. We would even go to the effort of wearing very itchy but impressively sparkly tops just to sing it. Of course we knew we were just copying him. Yes, he wouldn’t be alone out there, he would be accompanied by a whole race of alien Mick Jaggers, friends (rumoured lovers) and collaborators.Īudiences thought that we, by imitating a genius, had achieved some kind of genius ourselves, even if the genius had to be divided by two. Danielle suggested we change “Afronauts” to “Mick Jaggernauts”. We played it to our flatmates, eight other Bowie fans who all threw in suggestions. Would people laugh if it wasn’t mean? We didn’t care if they didn’t laugh, we were obsessed. We had never heard a parody song like this before, that fawned over the artist instead of mocking them. David Bowie performs his final concert as Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in 1973. In our minds it was a Bowie-style epic where he was the main character(s). The major section chord coming back in as Bowie spreads across the universe. Had we lost communication with Bowie? Then changing to half time as we receive a transmission from Bowie again, floating in a beautiful unknown section of the cosmos. A major chord march signaling the joy of finding out Bowie was alive, communicating back from space – my wise terrestrial ‘Modern Love’-era Bowie communicating with Bret’s androgynous Ziggy Stardust Bowie.Ī minor change signaling the sadness of discovering Bowie was drifting alone out there. A slow, floaty part as our questions to Bowie drifted unanswered through the universe.
Two people working together, trying to imitate the creativity of one.
We were calling from London 30 years in the past with that somehow posh, somehow common Bowie accent. We weren’t two guys from Masterton and Wellington. Still not breaking our twin Bowie characters, we called the prize line. One of us had what was thought of as a novel instrument of space technology at the time, a cellphone. Are you in Spaaaace Bow-eeeh? Is it freak-eh Bowie? The car stereo informed us that the student radio station was running a competition where you could win a bottle of wine. Do you read me Boweeeh!? Did you ever end up going to Mars, Bow-way? Was there life on it?Īfter tragedy struck and one of us broke a guitar string, we drove around that day in 1999 in Bret’s mum’s car mimicking Bowie, asking him more questions from our Honda space capsule. We started by asking him questions and referencing his lyrics as if we were sending transmissions to our hero through space.
#Jemaine flight of the conchords series
From the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement in the suit he had to be cut out of Watching documentaries about his albums and groundbreaking recording techniques with other brilliant artists and producers.
#Jemaine flight of the conchords movie
Seeing him on music videos in the ’80s and of course, the movie Labyrinth, then later going back through his catalogue. Despite being technically unable to carry off the originals, we would create our own David Bowie song.īoth born in the ’70s, we hadn’t witnessed a world without Bowie. We would make up our own Bowie song and play it in our stupid hobby band that had a gig every second Thursday in Wellington. We continued to play our guitars, imitating him anyway. He’d made pop songs into mini operas but without showing off about it.
We sat around defeated by our hero’s chord book but admiring him more.
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