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Noel Fielding was interviewed earlier today for Absolute Radio, as part of promotion for tonight’s Teenage Cancer Trust gig.
During the gloriously informative interview, Noel discussed a series of hot topics, including his status as an ambassador for TCT, his abandonment of Twitter, a denial of the rumour circulating around his alleged appearance in the forthcoming Paddington Bear movie, and, naturally, his new hairstyle!
The Twitter talk seems to confirm what we already suspected, with Fielding citing the strange and sometimes personal attacks on people around him as part of the reason he’s given up on it.
He told the interviewer he enjoyed using the social networking site but: “You have to be careful, because people on those things are quite mean, or they’re quite rude, or they’re quite personal, or they invade your space a bit. I tried to be quite enigmatic and have a little bit of a barrier but its quite difficult to do that. It’s not me so much. I don’t mind. I take it with a pinch of salt, but sometimes people write weird stuff on there that affects other people and you think: ‘Oh, what am I doing this for?’”
Regarding Boosh plans, he confirmed what we already knew – there’s no plans for a fourth series, but a film and an album are in the pipeline. Yet again the words “concept album” are bandied about, with extensions of current Boosh songs plus new tracks linked by some kind of narrative.
Talk of a second film, which began in recent interviews, is clarified somewhat in that they have two ideas in the pipeline, and when asked about a possible trilogy, Noel replied: “Hopefully we can just do lots!” Fielding also suggested one idea for the film(s) is a Rocky Horror style musical, which backs up rumours last year of a possible hook up with shock-rocker Alice Cooper. Here’s hoping!
You can see the full interview for yourself over at Absolute Radio’s website, or if you’ve clicked too many times as it is, you can see it right here.
I can’t wait for all the Boosh stuff thats happening really looking forward to the film been waiting so long for it, well i guess now we know the reason as to why he as left twitter and i really don’t blame him there are so many nasty people that will find any reason to bitch about you. All the people who sent nasty comments and messages to him and his girlfriend you all discuss me twitter is meant to be a site where you can make friends, follow your favorite artists/comedians etc.
i will always stand by him and i will always stick up for him and i really do not blame him for leaving, i would of done the same if that had happened to me.
Yeah, I thought he might be referring to Dee when he said “other people”.
Great interview! The Boosh album idea with the songs linked by a narrative sounds brilliant!
This is a really nice interview. Finally – an interviewer that asks the question that fans want to know the answer to.
This was a great interview, but i’m really not happy that they are not planning a 4th series of the Boosh. Thats the only thing really that’s got to me. I don’t blame him for leaving twitter, though i will miss his tweets.
he’s talking about his new girlfriend that twitter fans were being mean to. him and dee split up last year
I do find it strange that so-called fans find it acceptable to deliberately make the object of their fandom miserable.