The best thing to come out of Western Australia since Bondy's America's Cup team, Eskimo Joe have been a consistent favourite on Australian radio since the late '90s, and on high rotation on my iPod for at least a decade. You might recognise their bigger hit songs Sweater or From the Sea. And if you don't, well, you're probably reading this section of the paper by mistake. Welcome.

So imagine my level of excitement to find out about Flix in the Stix coming to the lawns of the Australian National Botanic Gardens on February 6 - movies on the Eucalypt Lawns, with wine, and Eskimo Joe on the bill.

Sound awesome?

How about Axis of Awesome awesome?

Axis of Awesome are a musical comedy trio from Sydney who had something of an internet hit with their Four Chords Song song, racking up an impressive 60 million views on YouTube - figures way too high to just be friends and family.

Self-described as ''The World's Most Awesomest Comedy Band'' the three-piece band came together originally as an improv act and went on to play multiple Melbourne Comedy Festivals, the Edinburgh Fringe and Adelaide's Fringe and Cabaret festivals.

I spoke with adorable lead singer-slash-funnyman Lee Naimo and ruined any journalistic integrity I had by opening with how adorable I thought he was.

"For three unique men such as we are, in our early 30s, I'd have to say that word is long overdue," Naimo says.

"It wasn't until a little while into our life as a band that we began to own how different we all look and use that as the basis of a lot of our comedy.''

Naimo shares the stage with friends Jordan Raskopoulos and Benny Davis, who share writing credit on songs with titles such as The Glorious Epic of Three Men Who Are Awesome, Harry Potter and the Drunk Teenage Animals Escaping from Zoos and Can You Hear the F--king Music Coming Out of My Car?

"We get a lot of time while we're touring to come up with song ideas and work on them," Naimo says.

"Sometimes I'll come up with an idea or Jordan will, we'll talk about what direction we want it to take and write the lyrics then usually we'll give it to Benny who does things to it with beats and music.''

Naimo says he's excited about working on Flix in the Stix.

"Australia is so big and spread out and this is taking us to places you don't usually get to travel to," he says. The Stix line-up includes Orange, Bowral, Mudgee, Dubbo and Griffith.

"Regional audiences are usually the best," he says.

One of the thrills of staging a national tour out in the open is the thrill of the weather interfering with your performance and I ask if the boys have a wet-weather contingency.

"I have a skull cap with an umbrella built into it," Naimo says, "and a big plastic case for the instruments.

"We haven't figured out how to play them in the big plastic case, but it does keep them protected from the elements."

Naimo says life in a band is tough.

"We spend way too much time together to be comfortable," he jokes, "and we share one private life between the three of us."

For a group who have found a modicum of success on the internet, they have fans the world over which, Naimo says, means operating in new and different ways to those expected from bands.

"People can buy our music on iTunes, they can buy our merchandise online, which means random deposits from Apple in your bank account," he says. "But at a live show people still want that experience of taking something home with them and so we're still manning our merchandise stall at a show, but mainly so we have money to spend on alcohol afterwards."

The film component of Flix in the Stix has been curated by comedy queen Julia Morris, chosen from an international pool of films for their high laugh quota.

Tickets for Flix in the Stix (available from Ticketek) start at $49.90 for adults, $44.90 for students or pensioners and $14.90 for juniors. Gates open from 6.30pm, Axis of Awesome appear at 7.50pm followed by the film program at 8.45pm. Eskimo Joe from 10.10pm.

When: Saturday, February 1 from 6.30pm.

Tickets: $49.90 (adult) from ticketek.com.au.