Folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords (aka Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie) will be returning to the UK next year

The “Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords Tour” is their first UK and Irish headlining tour in more than seven years.

Jemaine and Bret will showcase new material at these shows.

The arena and theatre tour will be making a stop at Birmingham's Genting Arena on March 22.

In 2005, Bret and Jemaine received an invitation to perform at the Aspen Comedy Festival, in Colorado, USA.

Against tradition they left New Zealand’s summer to go to the northern hemisphere’s winter and were shocked by the snow when they stepped off the plane in t-shirts and jandles.

The HBO executives liked their act and asked them to film a half hour performance for a stand-up comedy show called One Night Stand.

Over the next four years they made a TV pilot, a sitcom, released an EP (The Distant Future) and a full-length album (self-titled LP), toured North America, made a sandwich, filmed a second season of the sitcom, toured North America again, released a second album (I Told You I Was Freaky), and went back to New Zealand.

The HBO sitcom became a hit.

This, along with the praise for the subsequent album releases (on Sub Pop Records) and the duo’s live show, was the comedic hat trick that catapulted Flight of the Conchords to international sensations.

The Conchords would also see major success individually.

Tickets for the Genting Arena date are on general sale from 10am on October 27 from theticketfactory.com or by calling 0844 33 88 222.

Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company's access charge.

Tickets cost from £29.15 (includes admin fees and 90p facility fee) plus £2.55 fulfilment fee per order.

For more information, visit gentingarena.co.uk.