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