The initial list of names included Roxygen Supply, Albatrocity, and Tanfastic. On the afternoon of the gig they realised they needed a band name. After several weeks they knew four chords and Jemaine got them a gig to perform at the Thursday night Comedy Club. They performed their one song at the Wellington Fringe Festival late night club and members of the audience were said to have been “mildly impressed” by the act.Īfter the encouraging feedback the pair continued to write songs in their living room, subjecting their six flatmates to relentless three chord jams. The four piece band had Bret on casio-tone, Jemaine on guitar, and their friends Toby Laing and Tim Jaray on trumpet and double bass. The first song was Foux Du FaFa, (two chords) and they called themselves Moustache. With a combined knowledge of three chords on the guitar they set about jamming out. In 1998 Bret and Jemaine decided to start a band. Unfortunately the Australians didn’t appreciate the show like they had in New Zealand and the season was cancelled after one week. The group couldn’t believe they were being paid to perform and Bret blew his entire first pay cheque on a pair of leather pants.
They flew to Australia for a one month season at a Melbourne’s comedy club called The Last Laugh. They performed to sell out audiences in Wellington and Auckland, and were then invited to perform at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. From that short vignette the group of five developed another pseudo nude show called So, You’re A Man.
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