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More Thomas and Way

4 Feb

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Rhys Thomas and Tony Way have completed their 5th podcast.

In this one the boys talk about school, sex, Scotland and many other things. If you want to know what Rhys really thinks about Mark Lamarr, here’s your chance.

Their scariest moments in Edinburgh are recounted in graphic detail. Hear the latest on Game of Thrones and there’s even a mention of Noel Fielding!

To listen to this hour-long chat, that proves that women aren’t the only ones who like a natter, click here and if you missed any of the previous ones they are all still available on the site.

Just a little tip, don’t listen while you’re eating and make sure the kids and Grandma are out of hearing range!

Luxury Round-Up: The Final!

3 Feb

The last couple of weeks have been rich and giddy with Noel Fielding news, thanks to his high profile media presence for the launch of Luxury Comedy. We’ve endeavoured to keep you in the loop throughout with regular updates, and while the launch phase is now winding down there are still a few new snippets to share with you.

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First up is an interview from Thursday with Richard Bacon on BBC 5Live. In the interview Noel talks about Luxury Comedy and people’s reaction to it, his book The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton and why he and Julian always refused to compromise (amongst many other things!). You can listen to the show for a further 5 days on iPlayer; Noel appears at 0:40:49.

Noel also appeared on Lauren Laverne’s show on BBC 6Music on Thursday. He discusses the complexity of Luxury Comedy, his working relationship with Serge (Kasabian), and explains why he wants to crawl inside one of David Hockney’s paintings to sleep. The full interview is available as a free download here.

Then there’s a short section on Gemma Cairney’s show on BBC 1Xtra in which Noel talks about his favourite TV shows, past and present. You can listen to it by clicking here. Noel’s on at 1:11:40.

Finally, E4 are continuing to update their Luxury Comedy microsite and have just posted some fab behind-the-scenes photos from the show. Take a peek at them here.

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As you may have spotted, the public response to episode 2 of the show, which aired last night, has been tremendously positive, with both fans and those who were initially less sure agreeing that this week’s episode was a blinder. If  you haven’t watched it yet it’s available on 4oD here; take a look, and then try telling us it’s not awesome!

Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Svetlana Kazimova for notifying us about the interview on 6Music and the E4 site update, and to Natashaax for the 1Xtra piece. Cheers ladies x

Luxury Comedy: Have Your Say About Episode 2

2 Feb

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Last week’s launch post for Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy elicited more comments and more views than any other post we’ve published on The Velvet Onion. The views that were posted here were overwhelmingly positive, with a small smattering of negative comments to spice things up. Thanks to those of you who took the time to send us your reviews; they were appreciated by the team behind the show.

In the wider world beyond TVO Luxury Comedy provoked strong reactions of every type (surely better than no reaction!). So we thought it would be interesting to see how episode 2 stacks up for you lovely people. What did you think of the 2nd show in the series? Did it reinforce why you loved it or why you didn’t? How did it compare to episode 1? What were your favourite bits? Your favourite characters? Any that you missed this time around? We’d love to know what you think.

First though, some ground rules: It’s fine to not like something, but please keep your comments constructive. We won’t tolerate extreme personal attacks on the people behind Luxury Comedy, the fans of the show or the people who have taken the trouble to share their comments with us. Please respect this.

Incidentally, we won’t be doing this every week, but given how unique the show is we reckoned people might need at least a couple of episodes to figure things out – so we’re providing the opportunity for you to compare and contrast the first two.

So now it’s over to you. Let us know what you think about Luxury Comedy episode 2 in the Comments box below…

Luxury Returns

2 Feb

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As we begin to round up our Luxury Comedy Takeover week, and put the finishing touches to our behind the scenes documentary, the worst kept secret in all of Booshdom has finally popped out today – Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy is to return next year.

Following ratings success and the majority of critics loving the show’s surreal aesthetic, E4 have ordered a second run for Noel & Nigel Coan’s madcap sketch show.

News outlets have started to pick up on the story, most notably DigitalSpy, who quoted Noel’s hopes to make the second series “more like a Wednesday morning”.  We can’t wait.

Meanwhile you can continue to see the first run of episodes premièring on E4 every Thursday night at 10pm.

Luxury Creativity – Behind The Art

2 Feb

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One of the most notable aspects of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy is how visually stunning it looks. TVO’s very own art-school Velveteer, Lauren Taylor, has created a mini-guide to some of their artistic inspirations, should any peelers wish to investigate further…

Luxury Comedy is clearly a highly visual affair. Noel and Nigel’s art school background providing a brilliant source for the artistic references weaved into the fabric of the show. Here then, is TVO’s very own mini-guide to a few of the artistic inspirations behind Luxury Comedy, beginning with one of the most obvious references in the show: the pop-art pioneer, Andy Warhol.

Probably most famous for that soup tin, which elbowed his Marilyn Monroe piece into second place in the recognisable images chart, Warhol’s studio – The Factory – was decidedly the most creative place to be in 1960’s America. His visual work was heavily based around consumerism, and how certain branded products are the same regardless of your financial status.

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While screenprinting was his medium of choice, as an ideal way to remove evidence of the artist’s involvement, Warhol also had notable success with photography, drawing, sculpture and film.

Though the vibrancy of some of Warhol’s pieces are not a million miles away from the visual look of Luxury Comedy, prehaps a stronger correlation can be drawn between their respective creative environments. Warhol surrounded himself with a range of artists, musicians, writers, and other creatives. Encouraging a level of collaboration not dissimilar from the many levels of creative practice that have gone into Luxury Comedy – music, animation, comedy, illustration…. the list is almost endless.

If you’re in the far south of the UK and want to know more about the Pop Art pioneer, De La Warr Pavillion in East Sussex is hosting ARTIST ROOMS On Tour with the Art Fund’s exhibition – Warhol Is Here – until 26th Feb. For readers across the Atlantic, there’s the dedicated Andy Warhol Museum in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pensylvania.  (more…)

Luxury Siblings Tease

2 Feb

A week has passed since the premier of  Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy – which means a few things to us: One, our Luxury Takeover is still going strong and as you must have noticed, we’ve still got many treats coming your way! Two, Thursdays mean we can look forward to the second episode in the series tonight on E4 at 10pm! And three, we’re that much closer to being able to release our coverage from when Velveteers went on site!

You can expect our video release to be shortly after the airing of episode three and to keep your buds whetted until then, here’s our third teaser from our time with the talents from Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy!

Onion Talking: Dolly Wells

2 Feb

Actress Dolly Wells is a welcome new addition to The Velvet Onion family. Last Thursday she burst onto our TV screens as Noel’s enigmatic neighbour in his new series, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy. We had the good fortune of convincing Dolly to talk to us about her latest role and discuss what else she’s been up to. Velveteer Mog reports.

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Dolly Wells gives out the kind of infectious energy that makes you feel like you’re actually vibrating following a conversation with her. She’s blessed with a pair of endless pins that will make her as envied as she is adored by Fielding fans, and she sparkles with an easy sense of fun that can fool you into thinking you’ve known her for years.

Is she prepared to be the new poster girls for the Boosh generation? “I’m not prepared, but I’d be very happy, it would be fantastic!” She laughs. Dolly is just beginning to appreciate the intensity of Noel’s admirers; the number of people following her on twitter recently accelerated with the announcement of her involvement in Luxury Comedy, and she was immediately showered with tweets about working with Noel. “I made the mistake of not really understanding it and answering questions individually, and now I’ve realised that it might take up a few too many hours of the day!”

Her character in the show is a German trendy, loosely based on Nico (vocal collaborator with The Velvet Underground); however Noel insisted that she kept her real name, much to her consternation. “That is completely Noel’s fault,” she says, “I kept saying ‘Can’t I be called something like Jana or another German name?’ and he said ‘No, Dolly is better’ and he and Nigel (Coan, Luxury Comedy director and animator) were absolutely certain that I was going to be called Dolly. I got really self-conscious about it, and in the early days of filming Tom Meeten enjoyed putting my name in every single sentence because I was so embarrassed about it. Now I feel fine, I’m quite happy about it.”

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Great APE

1 Feb

Today Dave Brown tweeted that new new photos of the Luxury Comedy posters he created were available to view on his website APE. Indeed they are, but we reckon these latest additions to Dave’s portfolio of work provide the perfect opportunity for you to check out everything else he’s done.

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TVO readers will probably be most familiar with his creative output on Mighty Boosh projects, on which he often collaborated with Nigel Coan and Ivana Zorn of Nipple. This included the design work for The Boosh Live At Brixton DVD, The Future Sailors DVD and The Mighty Book of Boosh.

His more recent Booshniverse-related projects have included the photography and design work for Noel Fielding’s art book The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton and the omnipresent Luxury Comedy ad campaign. Of the latter, Dave explains on his site how the colourful designs of the posters and their media environment play off each other: “Just as the show stands out amongst a sea of colourless, bland, reality based programmes on television, we used the colourful, engaging and highly original imagery of the show to pop out of the wintery, grey, urban landscapes they inhabited.”

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Dave’s design work is distinguished by his bold use of colour and attention to detail, both of which make his designs ping out and poke you in the eye with their visual energy. Playful flavours of street art and childhood make him the perfect visualiser for the world of Boosh and everything that lies beyond it. We thoroughly recommend you take the time to take a look and see what else he’s been up to.

To read more about the talents that hide behind the gorilla mask, why not check out our interviews with Dave?  Here, here and here.

NME News Overload!

1 Feb

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This week there’s a weighty chunk of NME-related news to tell you about!

The nominations have now been confirmed for the 2012 NME Awards, and voting is open! The Booshniverse features in several categories this year:

Best TV Programme  -  Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Best Film  -  Submarine
Best Book  -  The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton
Hero of the Year  -  Noel Fielding

And if you include Kasabian as honorary Booshniverse members due to Serge Pizzorno’s involvement in Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, there are a few more!

To cast your vote visit NME’s awards site by clicking here.

What’s more, tickets for the awards show itself are now on sale. The event takes place on 29th February at the Brixton Academy in London; tickets are £22 plus booking fee, and are only open to over 18s. To book tickets visit See Tickets. And hurry, they’ll go quickly!

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Our final helping of NME news for this week is the appearance of Noel Fielding in the current issue. It features the Q&A with Noel that we mentioned a few weeks back (and which some of you have been lucky enough to get your questions into!), and is being billed as “His weirdest interview yet”.

If you can’t lay your hands on a paper copy, to purchase the issue digitally here’s where to go.

There’s also a short video of Noel’s latest NME cover shoot and an interview with the man himself on NME’s website, in which he talks about Luxury Comedy and what’s next for him and Julian. Click here to view it.

Enjoy!

Another Luxury Tease

29 Jan

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We’re still providing the goods in our Luxury Takeover.

Now we’ve had our first experience of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy and we’ve had so much feedback from all of you brilliant lot, here’s another teaser from our time on the set of the show – along with a glimpse of some characters to come who you may recognise from posters littering your streets!

It’s all bleedin’ comin’ together aint it?  Expect our feature very soon…

Post-Pay Day Pre-Order Frenzy!

29 Jan

Just been paid? We reckon the first pay-day of 2012 deserves a celebration! And what better way to celebrate than spending some of that pay cheque on yourself? If you’re after some inspiration, look no further than the Booshniverse-related DVDs that are due for release during 2012 and beyond.

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Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed techno-thriller trilogy Black Mirror is released on 27th February. The second part, entitled ’15 Million Merits’ features the wonderful Julia Davis in super-glam form. As yet there’s no news about DVD extras, but for more information about the release, to read reviews and to pre-order click here.

Life’s Too Short, the latest sitcom from the pens of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, about the exaggerated life of Warwick Davis – the world-famous cult actor with dwarfism, is released on DVD in October 2012. While it’s still some way off, you can pre-order it now by clicking here. The series features three Booshniverse-related artists: Matthew Holness, who plays Ian Wald – the lawyer in Warwick’s divorce case, and Steve Brody, who starred in Angelo‘s and Lifespam, plays Eric – the worst accountant in the world. The series also features cameos from Colin Hoult and Tony Way.

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Anonymous is a historical melodrama which offers a bosom-heaving alternative view of Shakespeare’s world. It also stars Edward Hogg (Bunny & The Bull) and Tony Way, so deserves a mention here. Anonymous is released on 5th March and you can pre-order it on DVD and Blu-ray at the Velvet Onion Amazon store by clicking on the relevant links.

You can also purchase a DVD of the Ab Fab three-part special which aired over Christmas. You’d better be patient though, because the release date is 13th August 2013! However, for all the Ab Fab obsessives out there you can pre-order the show that features Mongrels‘ Lucy Montgomery here.

Finally, for those of you who have already pre-ordered the DVD of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy (or for those of you who are planning to do so) please note that the release has moved back from its original optimistic date of 19th March 2012 to a more realistic 28th January 2013. Given the team are still finishing off the TV series this is hardly surprising, but it means we’ll have to be super-patient. You can pre-oder Luxury Comedy here.

We’ll be letting you know about further TVO-relevant DVD releases as they happen. Time to start counting the days until the second pay-day of 2012!…

A Post-Luxury News Round Up

27 Jan

The neon colours fizzing on our TV screens from last night’s inaugural episode of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy have barely faded away, and there’s already a ton of stuff to update you on:

As you’ll already know if you follow us, Noel appeared on two radio shows yesterday. To start with, he guested on Danny Wallace’s Xfm Breakfast Show in the morning. To hear the show click here; Noel appears at 1:13:48 (precisely). Then in the afternoon he was Steve Wright’s show on BBC Radio 2. You can hear this for 6 further days on iPlayer, and you’ll find Noel at around 1:33:55 (precisely…again!).

There’s also a short filmed interview with Noel on BBC Radio 1′s Newsbeat here, in which he talks about the show and working with Serge Pizzorno from Kasabian on the music.

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Next up is a competition that E4 is running – to win one of his much sought-after infamous painted plates; in fact to win one of the plates that features in the show, signed by the man himself! To enter the competition visit E4′s website here.

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And finally, what did people think – what did the real world make of Noel’s new creative baby?  The buzz on twitter pushed #luxurycomedy to a Worldwide trend, and the majority of that buzz was positive. The opinion in the wider world reflected the comments in our ‘How was It For You’ post below: there were a few hardcore Boosh fans who refused to accept Noel flying solo, and a few who decided it definitely wasn’t for them, but overall the response from those who watched it was very excited and positive. A typical quote from last night’s twitter feed read: Loved it! It was like a mash up of Button Moon, Mooncat and Banana Splits! Dondylion, hula hoops AND Dave Lee Roth….*win*

If you didn’t catch the show, or you reckon a second viewing might help make things a bit clearer, the first episode is now available to watch on 4oD by clicking here or on youtube here. Crazymad!

Luxury Comedy: How Was It For You?

26 Jan

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After months of eager anticipation, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy has just aired on E4. If you’ve seen it, we’d love to know what you think.

Given that a number of the people behind the show read The Velvet Onion we thought it’d be nice to offer ourselves up as a place where people could leave their comments about the show. So tell us, what did you think? What were your favourite bits? Your favourite characters? Which sketches are still making you giggle now?  Have you Series Linked Luxury Comedy for all eternity?

But what if some of it passed you by? While the majority of our readers are fans it doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to hold a negative opinion, so do tell us what you think. But please keep your comments constructive; remember, even if you don’t like something a lot of hard work and dedication has gone into making it so please respect  that.

To get things going, here’s what a couple of our Velveteers have to say about the show:

Paulyne
If any show deserves the word ‘Luxury’ in the title more than this one then I am yet to find it. It’s such a magnificent treat for your eyes it’ll leave you with an adrenaline crash a few hours later. Noel Fielding and Nigel Coan have taken the word ‘surreal’ – originally given to Boosh as a description – and turned it on its head, and added more colour and more jokes than you can imagine.

Noel exists in a tree house that looks like what I would imagine the world under a rainbow to look like. There are few and far comparisons between Fielding’s former show and I see this as his ‘Unleashed: for all the family’!

Each sketch is beautifully formed, making you look forward to each and every character’s return in the next episode. It feels like an honour to be able to take a glimpse into the minds of the creators and of course, the creators have minds to envy!  It’s a show takes everything comedy and luxury to new heights.

Mog
Several consistent themes weave through Noel Fielding’s creative output like golden threads; they’re what binds together his stand-up and his art, and what makes it recognisably and uniquely his: It’s daft and yet clever, imaginative and other-worldly, beautiful in both thought and image, and it packs a big comedy punch while offering up lovely little moments of whimsy. All of this is packed into Luxury Comedy.

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Whatever the doubters may say, there are several things that stop the show being a random hotch-potch of empty silliness: Firstly, there’s a delightfully clever logic at work here, much the same as you would find in the Boosh, only more submerged (but it’s there). Secondly, it’s simply stunning to look at; the care and attention that has gone into every detail is astonishing, and sets it apart from the tosh that’s currently cluttering up our screens. And thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, it’s a TV show with heart; it’s been created with love, care and joy – and it shows. At its core sits genuine warmth and human spirit. It’s not a show that’s up itself.

And now it’s over to you, dear Peelers. Let us know what you think about Luxury Comedy in the Comments box below…

A Luxury Lion Teases

26 Jan

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Our treats just keep coming for our launch week for Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy! Airing is less than an hour away and we’re now bringing you a sneaky peak from our time on set to whet your taste buds!

If you’re on the edge of your seats waiting to see what we got up to last summer with the LC lot, then don’t fret as our full version will be up in the next few weeks for your lovely peelers. So, for now here’s a brief snippet of what Noel had to say about his first solo project post-Boosh.

Enjoy! And keep peeling your heads off, because there’s still so much more to come during our Luxury Comedy Takeover!

Time For Another Luxury Comedy News Round-Up…

26 Jan

With less than 24 hours to go before Luxury Comedy hits the airwaves the coverage the show is getting is seriously starting to peak.  Here’s a quick round-up to help make sure you stay on top of what’s out there:

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First up is Noel Fielding‘s interview with Lorraine Kelly which ran this morning on ITV1. In the interview Lorraine talks about Luxury Comedy, and (of course!) the infamous Buzzcocks spanking incident. The full interview is now available to view online, and you can see it by simply clicking here.

Next up is a recent interview Noel did with Digital Spy. In the interview he talks about how the show’s name came about, what he hopes Boosh fans will make of it, and he explains why TV needs something like Luxury Comedy. Take a look here to read it in full.

Some of you may have spotted another interview in last weekend’s Telegraph. It’s finally been published online, so here the link to take you there. 

We’ve also spotted Noel in today’s Shortlist maagzine, interviewed by old friend Danny Wallace, and dressed up to resemble a Magritte painting.  The interview can be viewed here, but if you can get your hands on a paper copy you can also see him photographed as Salvador Dali.

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Don’t forget that Noel is also appearing on the radio twice tomorrow: firstly he’s scheduled to appear on Danny Wallace’s breakfast show on XFM; then in the afternoon he’ll be on Steve Wright’s show on BBC Radio 2.

Both programmes will be available to listen to afterwards for 7 days if you miss the live broadcasts.

Of course, we’ll be bringing you plenty more exciting TVO exclusives, so keep peeling! And if you really can’t wait until tomorrow at 10pm on E4, check out the channel’s dedicated website pages for Luxury Comedy and revel in the anticipatory experience…

Onion Talking: Nigel Coan

25 Jan

Right now there’s no shortage of information about Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy. Noel himself is currently in the midst of a pretty comprehensive TV, radio and press tour, providing further fascinating slices of insight in every interview. But what does the show look like to someone who sees it from a different angle? We were lucky enough to spend some time with Luxury Comedy director and animator, Nigel Coan, who gave us glimpse through a different window. Velveteer Mog reports:

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Talking to Nigel Coan about Luxury Comedy feels a bit like finding the missing piece of a jigsaw and finally being able to tell what the picture is. Nigel is the link between Noel Fielding and his Luxury Comedy, the one who made it possible. But what does that actually mean – how do they work together? “I guess I’m his interpreter in way,” Nigel explains. “The way Noel writes is like performance, so he’ll wander around and while he’s talking I’m visualising it, literally, as a real time image. Anything I can’t see in my head I can’t make; I have to be able to see it. It’s a very immediate process – although we haven’t really made it by the time we’ve finished writing it, it’s sort of already made in a way, because it’s already there, visually. Then the storyboard, filming and edit are all the same thing, in different forms.”

Nigel and Noel’s friendship was formed years ago when they met at art college. Later, he often accompanied Noel to his early stand-up shows when they would discuss his material on train journeys home. In fact, one of Nigel’s first forays into animation was for Noel’s Voodoo Hedgehog show. He explains, “I think it had the Jellyfox in it, and Noel said ‘Can we film it?’ but it would have looked rubbish because we would have been trying to do too much. So I said to him ‘Why don’t we try to animate it, sort of in the style of King Rollo? You do the paintings and I’ll animate them.’ It was the best solution for filming what Noel imagined in his head.”

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Luxury Comedy In A Bargain-Basement Age

24 Jan

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Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy is a show like no other you’ll see on television in 2012. It’s a show that has spent years gestating in the heads of its dual creators, Noel Fielding and Nigel Coan. It’s a show that combines live-action with animation in a crayola-drenched world filled with cartoon characatures that seem to have leapt straight out of the imagination of Fielding – as his longterm friend and colleague Dave Brown so eloquently put when talking to TVO last year – the show is a bit like downloading Noel’s brain.

More than a year in the actual, physical making, Luxury Comedy brings together a number of talents from that wider world of Booshdom we’ve been shouting about since our inception, and who we’ve all collectively been enjoying on stage and screen for the past fifteen years. Whilst its fair to say the show can never topple The Mighty Boosh in the hearts of many, the trick to watching Luxury Comedy is to block out all thoughts of that looming shadow of a cult classic and just enjoy the madness on its own terms.

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Take for example, the character of Dondelion, images of which have been released to the press. On the surface, a cynical viewer may suggest he is a cast-off from the Boosh – a lost side-project from the days of the Zooniverse.  They would be wrong. Dondelion, like every other character Noel and Nigel have created – and there are many – is a brand new beast, the only similarities being that he has come from the same brilliant mind that co-created all those Boosh characters of yesteryear.

We’ve been living with the pilot since the summer of last year now, when Noel and his team at Secret Peter kindly invited The Velvet Onion to visit the set and document our findings. It’s multi-coloured, surrealistic world admittedly took us all by surprise on first viewing, but whilst not everyone was immediately in hysterics, repeat viewings found the laughs increased and, amazingly, a whole new realm of quotes and catchphrases subconsciously crept into our everyday lexicon.  We’ve been yelling “Fish Finger For Later” at one another since then, and random injections of “Paulsaid”, “LEEEGGGGOOOOHHHHH!” and rambling speeches about bikes, Gary Glitter and single baked beans have interjected our daily thoughts to the point where we started to wonder if we had developed a new form of madness. The show may be like downloading Noel’s brain, but more specifically it seems, for diehard fans that download will embed itself into the infrastructure of your mind’s root folders like a particularly shiny virus.

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The Man Who Brings Noel’s Dreams to Life

23 Jan

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As we count down the days until Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy hits the telly waves we thought it was about time one of the more reticent stars of the show was introduced to the spotlight. Nigel Coan is the director and animator behind the series, and is therefore responsible for the unenviable task of bringing the dream world inside Noel Fielding’s head onto the small screen.  Ahead of our exclusive interview with the director later this week, for those of you who don’t know much about him, please permit us to fill in the gaps:

Trained in graphic design, Coan was on the same art course at Buckingham University as Noel Fielding and Dave Brown, and shared a student house with them. Since then he’s enjoyed a successful career as an animator, and is probably best known amongst Boosh fans for creating the endearing character of the Moon out of little more than a can of shaving foam (and a willing victim).

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Coan has been collaborating with his partner (and the inspiration for the voice of the Moon), Ivana Zorn, since 2000. After initial forays into animated work for corporate clients, the charm of their work trickled through to the television and music industries. In addition to animating the Moon on the Boosh, Coan and Zorn are also responsible for many of the animated sequences in the show, including the back stories for Charlie Bubblegum and the Crack Fox, amongst others. Their approach seems to sit well with the distinctive style of Noel’s character illustrations. They have also collaborated with Dave Brown to create the joyfully intricate menu screens on both the Future Sailors’ and the Series 3 DVDs.
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A Luxurious Takeover!

23 Jan

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This week sees the launch of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, and naturally, TVO wanted to mark this occasion with a bang.

We’ve already given you exclusive preview images of the show, but now we can confirm our Luxury Comedy Takeover is officially underway!

Over the coming days, we’ll be bringing you exclusive interviews with the people behind the show, profiles on familiar faces, a review of tonight’s exclusive press-screening and that all important first episode and much more.

The biggest news of all is the ultimate secret we’ve been keeping since the summer – when The Velvet Onion visited the set of Luxury Comedy for two days armed with a hi-def video camera, a microphone and the best intentions to bring you a unique peek behind the scenes on the show.

Naturally, the main drive of behind-the-scenes features belong to our friend, Joey Page, who has been crafting his own short for the dvd release of the show later this year – and we’ll be bringing you more on that in due time.  For now, though, we have our own exclusive and candid video interviews with Noel, Mike, Tom, Dave, Joey, Kim and Rich for you to savour – and whilst you wait for those to emerge in all their hi-def glory later this week, we’ll be whetting your appetites for the show itself every day until then.

So welcome to the takeover. The age of luxury is about to begin…

Noel Takes Over The Guardian!

21 Jan

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To celebrate the imminent arrival of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy to E4, The Guardian newspaper has allowed Noel Fielding to take over The Guide.

Rush out and get your own print copy or click on the link to discover Noel’s influences for Luxury Comedy, read his interview with Alice Cooper and feast your eyes on the comic created by Noel about The Adventures of Alice and Noel.

You can also meet all the new Luxury Comedy characters and find out who Loose Tapestries think are the bands to watch this year.

Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy starts on Thursday (26th Jan) at 10pm on E4,

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