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Fielding’s Favourites on 6 Music

2 Jun

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Noel Fielding will be guesting on Nemone’s show next week on BBC 6 Music.

Noel will be sharing the first half of his Most Played playlist with Nemone (suggesting that there will be a second part to come at a later date). The programme airs 7-10am next Saturday, 9th June.  Also appearing on the show is DJ, Bestival founder and musicologist, Rob Da Bank.

We’ll add the iPlayer link here as soon as it’s available. And if we hear anything about part 2 of Noel’s Most Played playlist, we’ll be sure to let you know.

Meet Neil Cole

9 May

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The beauty of Booshdom is that it reaches far and wide, though sometimes that reach is so wide that its easy to miss names staring you in the face.

Neil Cole is a new name to The Velvet Onion, but his name has been circling around Booshdom for many years and we thought it was about time you met him, ahead of his latest collaboration.

Neil will be appearing with Rich Fulcher in Rich Fulcher and His Fucked Up Friends, at The Vandella on Thursday 10th May, but this is not his first time on stage with members of The Mighty Boosh.  They worked together in 1998 in Edinburgh when Noel, Julian and Rich were guests on Psycho Vertigo Disco.

Remaining a close friend of the Boosh boys, all these years later, his 2011 Edinburgh show Neil By Mouth was co-directed by none other than Dave Brown, who shot the promotional images for the tour like the one seen here.

Other comedy work includes being a founder member of The Pros From Dover, who he still occasionally performs with.  As well as Richard Glover, he has previously collaborated with the likes of Tom Meeten, Steve Oram, James Bachman, Barunka O’Shaughnessy, Waen Shepherd and The Actor Kevin Eldon, has opened for Russell Brand on tour, and his former comedy partner Tom Hillenbrand appeared in AD/BC.  Truly, a layer of onion worth peeling!

As well as stand up, Neil has wide experience of radio and tv work and has presented many extreme sports programmes, he has even met The Hairy Bikers! In 2009 he interviewed Noel, Dave and Mike at the NME Awards for NME Radio.

There is an interview with Neil at thehumourdor.co.uk where you can find out more about him and his work, and you can also catch up with him on  Facebook, Twitter and on his YouTube channel.  We’ll be speaking to Neil ourselves as soon as we can, so stay peeled – and if you’re off to see him perform with Fulcher this Thursday, tell him t’Onion sent you…

Noel Fielding, Creative British Icon

8 May

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The British Council (the UK’s international cultural relations body) has launched a new campaign to promote collaboration between creative industries in the UK and Australia. What’s more, it features Noel Fielding as part of a very select group of creative Brits!

The campaign uses cartoon imagery and iconic British creative figures, including Noel, Vivienne Westwood and Stephen Fry, to symbolise creativity in Britain. It’s part of the British Council’s long-running Realise Your Dreams competition, aimed at “emerging leaders working in the creative industries, primarily aged 18 to 35″ (according to them).

The winners of this Australian competition will be awarded a return trip to the UK, $10,000 and a professional development program which includes introductions to creative leaders in the UK.

You can take a look at the viral video by clicking here. For more information and to enter the competition check out the campaign site.

Nonsense

7 May

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Edward Lear, the poet and illustrator who wrote The Pobble Who has no Toes and The Owl and The Pussycat and many more, was born 200 years ago this week.

David Quantick has written an article for The Independent to celebrate the occasion and to explore how he has been an influence on today’s comedians, including brief references to The Mighty Boosh and Noel Fielding.

David Quantick has been a writer or script editor for many influential comedy series including The Day Today, Brass Eye, Asylum, The Fast Show and Harry Hill’s TV Burp among many others.

To read the article in full go to the Independent website.

For more information on Edward Lear, try this site.

Luxury Costume Designer, Ooh Yeah!

6 May

Independent magazine Lip has interviewed Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy costume designer Bella Gray.

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In the interview, Fantasy Man: One Woman’s Experience Working with Noel Fielding, Gray describes her upbringings in Melbourne as well as how she came to be involved with Luxury Comedy.

She says she still considers the experience on the Luxury Comedy set a “surreal dream”, and claimed that after working with Noel, “I have a feeling nothing will be quite the same.”

To read more about this interesting perspective into the making of Luxury Comedy, click here!

Noel & Tony Nominated

2 May

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Noel Fielding is in the running to win Comedian of the Year at the Kerrang! Awards 2012, and Game of Thrones, featuring the lovely Tony Way is nominated for Best TV Show, so plenty of TVO interest there.

Click here to see the rest of the nominees and to cast your votes. You have to register to vote, but you and a friend could win tickets to the awards.

Come On & See Eileen

13 Apr

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Come on Eileen, the independent film directed by Finola Geraghty featuring Noel Fielding and Julia Davis, is being screened tomorrow (14th April) at the London Independent Film Festival. There is also a cameo appearance by TVO favourites Robots in Disguise, who also feature on the soundtrack of the film.

If you haven’t heard about the film or have forgotten what it’s about have a look at our review, or you can watch the trailer below.

If you can’t make it to London the DVD is available from the TVO store.

Fielding’s Perspectives on Spike

7 Apr

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Noel Fielding is set to appear this Sunday on the ITV1 series Perspectives, in an episode devoted to Spike Milligan.

John Sergeant will host the documentary, which coincides with the tenth anniversary of comedy forefather Milligan’s death.

In telling the tale of how Milligan came to define alternative British comedy, Sergeant visits spots said to have impacted on Milligan at some point in his life – including the pub above which The Goon Show was born.

Sergeant also chats to people who’ve been influenced or touched by Milligan’s work, one of whom is Noel.

Episode 3 of Perspectives airs on Sunday, April 8 at 10.15pm on ITV1.

Art By Fielding

3 Apr

It’s been a good week for anyone with a keen interest in both art and Noel Fielding.

© Noel Fielding @ Hooligan Art Dealer

Noel’s art dealer, Hooligan Art Dealer, has made available a new selection of his work on her website. There are 26 new pieces in all, including a series of studies of Elvis, and a new painting of the rampant Chlamydia Tiger, made famous in series 1 of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy.  All the art is signed by Noel with prices available on request. To view the full collection check out Hooligan Art Dealer’s website.

As most of you will know by now, Noel also featured in last night’s Damien Hirst special on Channel 4. Yesterday’s evening of special programming about Hirst is timed to coincide with his new show at Tate Modern in London. Noel can be seen interviewing him in The First Look, which is available to view for 28 days on 4od by clicking here. Remember that UK dwellers can also experience a 360-degree tour of Hirst’s exhibition with Noel as your tour guide here.

Twitter fans will probably be aware that Noel’s appearance on the show provoked a spot of snobbery from the Times art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, causing a somewhat enthusiastically barbed response from Noel’s followers.  The reaction caused Noel to trend on Twitter… and you can see the results on his Twitter page here.

Editors note: Whilst we at TVO will always support Noel, we are remaining on the outside of this one!

Signed Scribblings For Sumatra

26 Mar

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The Sumatran Orangutan Society are offering a chance to win a couple of Scribblings… related rarities in their latest charity auction.

As part of their latest campaign, The Jungle VIP Auction, the prize lot of a copy of the limited edition run of Scribblings of A Madcap Shambleton signed by Noel Fielding and Dave Brown – plus a large t-shirt signed by Dave to go with it!

To bid on this unique collection, CLICK HERE NOW!

The charity is dedicated to the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and their forest home, working with local communities living alongside orangutan habitat. The t-shirt design which Dave has signed demonstrates the enormous impact on what is at stake here – as humans and orangutan’s share 96.4% of the same DNA.

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Brown has worked with the charity previously – appearing on a star-studded bill for Orangaid at The Lyceum Theatre back in 2008, he even managed to rope in Bollo for a duet with Bill Bailey!

Others working with the S.O.S. for this auction include Tim Minchin, Chris Evans, Jane Asher and Nicola Roberts, and a range of merchandise to support the charity is available on their website, where you can also make a donation to this amazing cause.

Luxury Comedy Reaches Australia

25 Mar

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Australian Peelers will soon be able to watch Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy on their own televisions!

The first episode airs on Thursday 5th April on ABC2 at 10.30pm, and is repeated later in the week.

If you have somehow missed out on hearing about Luxury Comedy, you can pop over to the E4 site to catch up on the characters and episodes or browse TVO!

To find out more about the show in Australia click here.

Never Mind The Sport Relief

24 Mar

Generally speaking, we at The Velvet Onion are on top of things. But very occasionally we’re caught napping…and yesterday evening was one such occasion.

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BBC2 last night featured in a bite-size epiosde of Never Mind the Buzzcocks in aid of Sport Relief, featuring Noel Fielding as team captain.

The show was a blink-and-you-miss-it six minutes long, but well worth a watch for Fielding fans – and, of course, because it’s for a great cause.

The show is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for 7 days here. Buzzcocks starts at 02:56.

It’s also available as part of a Sport Relief Comedy Collection to download on iTunes for £1.89 here.

To find out more about the great work that Sport Relief does or to donate money visit the charity’s website.

NME Does Barratt

23 Mar

Following in the wake of Julian Barratt‘s pop promo directorial debut is an interview with the man himself in this week’s NME.

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Pushing to one side the eyebrow-raising title of the interview, much of the article focuses on Julian’s involvement in producing the video for Tanlines’ new single. He explains his vision for the film: “I just wanted a lot of odd people basically. I didn’t want to be in a time or place. So they’re dressed slightly 1950s, but it looks like the 70s. And then I don’t want it to look as if it’s in any particular place, even though they’re singing in English. I want it to look like it might be being filmed in East Germany in 1981. Maybe.”

He also talks the new projects he has in the pipeline, including writing a film with Simon Farnaby (not “Barnaby” as NME seems to think he’s called!) and a TV project that he describes as “a sort of science fiction thing.” He also adds, “I suppose Noel and I will do something again at some point. We’ll just choose a time when we’re both ready.”

Julian also goes on to praise Luxury Comedy for its uniqueness and uncompromising quality, but admits it’s a little weird to see the other half of his double act go off and do something else. He describes their relationship as, “Like brothers. We have our differences but we’ve been through so much.”

To read the interview in full pick up a copy of this week’s NME. Or the hi-tech amongst you can buy it online by clicking here.

Tour The Tate With Fielding

22 Mar

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Noel Fielding will feature as the online guide for a groundbreaking interactive exhibition for London’s Tate Modern art gallery.

Online access to Damian Hirst’s new show at Tate Modern starts on 2nd April and runs for one week on channel4.com/hirst. It will allow internet users from across Britain (apologies again to those of you overseas) to take a private, interactive tour around highlights of the exhibition before it opens to visitors in the real world. Noel will act as your guide on the virtual tour.

The online experience uses innovative yellowBird technology which allows web users to move around the exhibition using their mouse or touch pad to view 360°  video footage in all directions. The interactive video tour can be paused at any point, while the user explores 360° stills of the exhibition space. The stills will carry hotspots that will trigger additional video content for a number of key artworks.

To coincide with the launch of this online experience Channel 4 will screen two documentaries about Hirst. Noel also features in one of these: In The Damien Hirst Show Hirst takes fellow artist Noel on an exclusive walk through his new show at Tate Modern, providing a behind-the-scenes look the exhibition and his work. Along the way, they chat about Hirst’s career highs and lows.

The documentary is scheduled to air on 2nd April at 8pm on Channel 4, with the interactive exhibition launching online from 8.45pm on the same evening.

The Damien Hirst exhibition will be at Tate Modern from 4th April to 9th September. For more information and to book tickets click here.

Loose Tapestries Goes Old Skool

20 Mar

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Regular peelers will be aware that the Loose Tapestries (the band behind the music in Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy) have an album out; indeed, many of you will already have the download.

But what about having that album on glorious, glossy, crackly, old skool vinyl? Yes please.

500 copies of the Loose Tapestries album, featuring music by Noel Fielding and Serge Pizzorno, are being released as a limited edition set in honour of Record Store Day on 21st April 2012. Record Store Day is a celebration of local record shops, with a series of happenings taking place around the UK in honour of the humble record store. This year a number of limited edition vinyl releases will be on sale  - of which the Loose Tapestries album is one.

To find out if your local record shop is participating click here. And if you want to see what other limited edition releases will be marking the occasion have a gander at this.

Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Elin Cath for this information.

Come On, New York

17 Mar

New Yorkers can catch Come On Eileen this weekend as the film makes its North American premiere!

From March 23 to March 29, Come On Eileen will be shown at Brooklyn’s Rerun Gastropub Theater. And that’s not all! Filmmaker Finola Geraghty, along with other special guests from the film, will be making appearances at the 7pm and 10pm showings on both Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24.

If you’ve not yet seen the trailer for the film, watch it here:

In addition to Noel Fielding, Come On Eileen also co-stars Julia Davis and features a cameo from Robots in Disguise, so the Booshniverse is well represented!

Howl with Fielding

14 Mar

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Meet The Howling (if you haven’t done so already). 

Though this British rock band has yet to grace the oniony pages of TVO, they’re no strangers to the Booshdom.

The band consists of Paul Moule-Mayers, aka ‘The Rev’- formerly of The Prodigy and Towers of London. He’s previously been seen in The Mighty Boosh series 3 episode, Journey to the Centre of the Punk, as a member of Vince’s punk-outlet Terminal Margaret. Joining him is frontman James Black- the eponymous King Tutta, causing Noel some trouble in episode 3 of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy. Rounding off the band are guitarist Chappell, drummer Billy James Mitchell, and bassist Dan Pinnock.

In honour of The Howling’s recently-finished tour, CGFilm has put together a film documenting the rockers’ journey.

They’ve just released a teaser trailer of the boys on the road and it features none other than Mr Noel Fielding. Take a look:

According to The Howling themselves, there’s loads more to come, so watch this space! If you’d like to find out more about the band – including live dates, new tracks, album info, exclusive interviews, and more – check out their official website, like them on Facebook, and follow them on Twitter.

Noel Fielding’s Fruit Cake Comedy

13 Mar

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E4 has posted some luxurious interviews with Noel Fielding on their website!

Have you ever wondered what’s so luxury about Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy? Wonder no more! This is one of the questions that E4 asked Noel as they sat down with him for a luxury chat. They covered everything from Noel’s favourite character to the music in Luxury Comedy and excitingly enough – discussed what we can expect from series 2!

If you want to know more about The Human Mistake, Raul the Burger Clown and find out why Noel thinks the show is “dense like fruit cake”, just head on over to E4′s luxury site now.

You can re-watch all your favourite Luxury Comedy episodes on 4oD and you can also pre-order the first series on DVD in our Amazon Store.

If you’ve somehow missed our Luxury Comedy fan art gallery make sure to pop by because there is some very impressive art featured there.

Thanks to @stoopidarseJess for alerting us to this.

Luxury Gallery, Oooh Yeah

9 Mar

This week saw Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy draw to a close, and to commemorate the end of the first series we asked you to send us your fan art.

Well… you really are an arty lot, aren’t you? We’ve had an astounding quantity of entries for our gallery, and given the amount of inspiration you’ve had over the series it’s not surprising!  Intricate illustrations; exceptional paintings; character jewelery; masks; wall decorations…the list of creative nuggets you have surprised us with could go on and on. And it does in the gallery below!

If yours isn’t up here, it doesn’t mean we didn’t love it! With such a vast amount of entries, a decision was made to keep the gallery strictly for artwork that was explicitly relevant to Luxury Comedy.  There are to be no prizes, we’re afraid – except for the pride that you can have in your work being featured on THE site for all your Luxury… and Booshdom needs!

Congratuwelldone to you all, and thank you to everyone who submitted!   Same time next year?

Just click on the thumbnails for larger images.

Copywrite of all images remains with the respective owners. For safety reasons, some names have not been shown.

Fantasy Man Let Loose!

8 Mar

Sony Music Entertainment have released the video of Loose Tapestries performing The Decision on YouTube.

Don’t forget it’s the last episode of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy tonight at 10pm on E4. It’s your last chance to see Fantasy Man and friends until the next series is aired.

And remember the gallery of Peelers’ Luxury Comedy inspired art will be on the site tomorrow. There have been some fantastic contributions so you’re in for a treat!

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