Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 25 May 2008
DOES THIS make Bic Runga New Zealand music's fifth most popular folk performer?
The Kiwi songstress told fans at an Auckland concert on Thursday she was off to Los Angeles to open for Flight of the Conchords.
"They're giving me my big break," she said of the comic duo who opened for her 2006 Birds tour and who have a running joke in their shows that they are New Zealand music's fourth most popular folk performers.
Now world-famous for their HBO hit series, the Conchords self-titled album recently debuted at number three in the United States.
Their upcoming LA gig May 30 and June 1 at The Orpheum has already sold out.
Runga, who performs independently in the city on June 17 and July 8, says her appearance is not set in concrete but when the pair heard she was going to be in Los Angeles, "they're like, get up, play some songs".
Runga invited the Conchords to tour with her two years ago, after seeing them perform in New York. "I just think they're genius."
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