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Eleanor’s Latitude

22 Mar

© www.richfulcher.com

Rich Fulcher is to bring Eleanor The Tour Whore to this year’s Latitude Festival.

Rich is set to perform in the Cabaret Arena at the event, which takes place between 15th & 18th July 2010, at Henham Park, Southwold in Suffolk.

Also on the bill for the star-studded festival are bands Florence & The Machine, Vampire Weekend, The Horrors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and many more, while Latitude also offers a chance to see comedy greats Emo Phillips, Rich Hall and Richard Herring amongst others.

For more details, visit the Latitude Festival website.

The Search Is On… Line!

22 Mar

© Mark Buchanan / Phase VI

Matt Berry appears in a new short entitled The Search, with is viewable online via Vimeo.

In it, Berry he plays a man named Bootland, who’s working on a SETI research team that look for extraterrestrial life. During Bootland’s search for life outside universe he encounters a family in grief and unforeseen events take place.

Matt Berry, director Mark Buchanan and production company Phase VI have brought us a fantastic film and we assure you that it is well worth a view. What makes The Search even more impressive is that Buchanan apparently shot the whole film in three days and that it was self financed from beginning to end.

The Search is also first out as a part of a project called Cinematic Shrimp, ran by Ain’t It Cool News, which aims to find and present interesting short films, and increase the understanding of how these films were made by speaking directly to the film makers who made them. If you want to read more about Cinematic Shrimp or read an interview with Mark Buchanan, head to the AICN website right now!

Watch The Search on Vimeo now!

Peeling The Onion – Hayden Black

22 Mar
Hayden

© Hayden Black

Most of you won’t have heard of him – yet, but he has worked with Rich Fulcher and looks set to be a big name very soon.

As part of our occasional glance into the lesser known names of Booshdom, afroharold takes a look at writer, actor and internet star Hayden Black.

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Wrong Door, Right Disc

22 Mar

© BBC

2008 BBC3 sketch show The Wrong Door looks set for a DVD release.

The series, which featured a heavy use of CGI in most of its sketches, relied on a revolving door of performers, including the wonderful Matt Berry, Spaced star Mick Smiley, Torchwood‘s Tom Price, Myanna Burring, Pippa Haywood, Casualty star Will Sharpe, Simon Greenall and most memorably of all, Brian Blessed.

It premiered to mixed reviews and high ratings, but rapidly dwindling audiences led to its cancellation after just one series.  It’s delayed dvd release, scheduled for June 21st, is now up for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk

Visit The Velvet Onion store to pre-order The Wrong Door [DVD].

Dot Net

22 Mar

© www.thevelvetonion.net

A new Mighty Boosh fansite has been launched with a very familiar name.  www.thevelvetonion.net is now live, and looking very good indeed.

We wouldn’t usually post stories like this, but the history of the two Onions is somewhat convoluted and unspoken.  To clear the air and sense of confusion, allow me to explain the facts.

Both we at thevelvetonion.com and the two people running thevelvetonion.net had the bright idea of naming our different Boosh-related websites after the ultra-cool club featured in the third series of The Mighty Boosh.  As it happened, our site launched first and has grown rapidly in readership, receiving support from a number of those we’re promoting the work of.  Yesterday we reported our biggest daily readership to date, and with great (and top secret!) plans lined up for the future of The Velvet Onion, we’d like to thank you all for coming back to peel us on a daily basis.

The other Velvet Onion is taking a different slant to us, and does a few things we don’t.  It works as an invaluable guide to The Mighty Boosh’s exploits on television, and offers fans a chance to interact with unique galleries of fan-art, wallpapers, screencaptures – you name it.  The site looks great, and will no doubt grow and grow.

Whilst we here at thevelvetonion.com are not affiliated with the DotNet site, its owners Sarah and Sandra have been in contact with us, and we all share the same desire to give something back the people that have brought us all together.  We wish them the best of success with their endeavors. Go peel them too.

Easter Mixings

22 Mar

Adam Buxton’s Big Mix Tape pilot, which features Julian Barratt as his guest participant, will be broadcast on BBC 6 Music this Easter Sunday.

The BBC’s press release for the new 6 Music Sunday schedule suggests the pilot we told you about recently was not only successful, but has been picked up as a series.  The show will be broadcast at 12pm (mid-day) for two hours, as part of a star-studded lineup of DJ’s featuring Jarvis Cocker, Guy Garvey of Elbow and Cerys Matthews of Catatonia, amongst others.

Big Mix Tape will be available on the BBC’s iPlayer service for 7 days after broadcast.  We’ll provide you with links after transmission.

For more info, visit the BBC Press Office website.

Robots Taken On A Roller coaster!

22 Mar

Well,there we were at The Onion looking at the Robots in disguise Pledge stats and getting overly excited at the huge jump the pledges took, going from 45 to a shocking 96%!

My entry expressing my excitement was all ready to be posted as it went past 100% but then took the plunge back to 45 and has been yo-yoing for the past hour!

No one can say exactly what has been happening, maybe either Pledgemusic are having some technical difficulties or there are some fake pledgers with a horrid sense of humour. All we can say is that at this very moment the pledge stands at 71% and they now have a further 23 days to reach their target in – just enough time to allow pledges throughout their UK tour! {dates here}

Keep your eye’s on the stats people and keep pledging!

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