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Instant Snuff

5 Feb

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Snuff Box has been added to Netflix Instant Play.

Currently only available to American Netflix subscribers, Snuff Box in its entirety is available in DVD form as well as in an instant stream.

The series, starring Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher as a hangman and his assistant, and featuring guest appearances from Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and more, has gained quite a cult following in the States. This latest addition follows Snuff Box’s initial launch in the U.S., which in addition to the U.S. DVD release included a promotional tour in Los Angeles and New York  late last year.

Of course, UK Peelers feeling left out can always pick up a copy for themselves at the TVO Amazon Store.

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.

Popcorn Fulcher

31 Jan

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Rich Fulcher is set to take part in popular comedy night Popcorn Comedy this Thursday!

Rich, who can currently be seen entertaining audiences in Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, is listed alongside both Holly Walsh and Cardinal Burns.

Popcorn Comedy is described as being a mix of comedy video installations from various filmmakers and live comedy. Previous acts have been the likes of Adam Buxton, even Graham Linehan and Popcorn has been seen as a popular evening  in London for most comedy fans!
Tickets are only £5 if you book in advance by clicking here.

If you’re looking for something to do in London this Thursday night, why not pop down to see Fulcher?

Fulcher’s Financials

29 Jan

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If you’re in need of financial advice in these difficult times, who better to turn to than TVO’s favourite financial expert, Rich Fulcher! He imparts his wisdom in a short Audio boo from Nemome’s Saturday morning show.

To hear his full interview with Nemone (starting at 2.11) click here.

If after all this you’re still in need of advice, try his Huffington Post article, although you might have to wait until next Christmas to try it out!

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…

Fond Farewell To Tiny Acts

22 Jan

Rich Fulcher wowed Soho audiences this week with Tiny Acts of Rebellion at London’s Soho Theatre, and Velveteer Ashley was there on Wednesday to capture the whole thing. We don’t yet know if the show will return, but if it doesn’t, you can read her review of its last stand below!

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The lights of the grandiose Soho Theatre dimmed as Rich Fulcher’s booming American voice overtook the room. Fulcher, as energetic as he’s come to be known, excitedly jumped onto the stage, ushering in the beginning of his Tiny Acts of Rebellion show.

Having only seen Edinburgh warm-up gigs in the summer of 2011, I went into the theatre unsure of what to expect from the Fulch. His turnout was impressive; in addition to what appeared to be an almost sold out theatre, TVO regulars Tony Way and Simon Farnaby were in attendance as well!

As the video installations commenced, Fulcher, addressing his Tiny Actors as such, explained his rebellious mantra. A Tiny Actor, one who actively commits Tiny Acts of Rebellion, needs little training to accrue such a title. “Protests take months”, Fulcher explained, “Whereas unbuckling your seatbelt on an aeroplane takes only a few seconds!” His enticing proposition appeals to the looming, underlying laziness within us all. (more…)

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,

A Cheeky Peek Behind The Scenes

20 Jan

Yesterday we promised you a Velvet Onion picture exclusive, in the form of behind-the-scenes photos from the filming of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy. Never let it be said that we’re ones to break a promise: here they are!

These images provide a wonderful insight into the series production process, allowing us a privileged peek at the characters in action before the animation was added:

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Mongrels Axed By BBC3

18 Jan

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It’s a sad day at TVO, as we join those mourning the loss of BBC Three’s Mongrels - which it was confirmed would not be returning today.

It’s creator, Adam Miller, took to the show’s official Twitter page to reveal the news to fans, stating that: “a decision that has been made based on the fact that apparently you need more than two people watching a programme to make it successful. Crazy talk.”

Speculation about the show’s future began due to a string of re-commissions made by controller Zai Bennett for the channel late last year, when Mongrels was not amongst them.  At the time, Bennett took to Points Of View, to suggest that the reason the show’s future had not yet been decided was because it was still airing, even though other programming then airing had been granted additional runs at the time.

Sadly, Mongrels has joined How Not To Live Your Life in the scrap-heap of a once great comedic stockpile from the channel which gave birth to The Mighty Boosh tv series, but has been faced with slashed budgets and an increasing reliance on imports, repeats and reality television.  We at TVO cannot say we’re surprised, but we’d be lying if we said we were understanding of the decision – especially now the show is reaching international audiences as well as gaining a healthy cult following in the UK.

The Mongrels team, many of whom we interviewed back in November, were a fine band of extremely talented men and women, including actors, puppeteers, writers, directors, producers and a strong technical crew who brought so many memorable characters to life over the course of sixteen episodes.  Going forward, TVO shall continue to try and cover the work of these talents in their new adventures in front of, and behind the cameras – and we would like to thank them all for their support of TVO as well as the fantastic comedy they created.  After all, breaking up is such a faff… and we’re sure whatever is on the horizon for the Mongrels team will be worth the wait.

Mongrels is dead.  Long live Mongrels.

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Ask NME About Luxury Comedy

13 Jan

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Like us, the NME appears to be getting more than a bit excited about the impending launch of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy.

Fast on the heels of their Christmas interview with Noel and Kasabian, this week’s issue of the magazine includes a feature about Luxury Comedy in which they provide a run-down of the main characters from the show.  This includes:

Noel: An extreme version of himself who sits at a desk in a jungle treehouse in the middle of a forest
Andy Warhol:  Noel’s cleaner, a naive robotic Warhol, played by Tom Meeten
Smooth: A cynical, deadpan anteater and Noel’s butler, played by Mike Fielding
Dolly: A fashionista Nico-type character who gets on Noel’s nerves but is also his best friend (described by Noel as “a bit like Vince”), played by Dolly Wells
The Audience: A strange character who processes mashed potato through his body into shapes, accompanied by narration from Doorag, his sidekick.
The Aliens: Two aliens who travel down to earth in a biscuit tin and play havoc in a suburban English garden.
Lysergic Casserole: A tripped out rock band who are stuck inside their guitar case. Played by Noel and Rich Fulcher, and from what we’ve seen very, very funny
Diamond Back: A country and Western singer from Putney who has a thousand eyes and blue skin.
Fantasy Man: Don Quixote in an electronic world. He’s always getting broken out of his fantasy world into reality
Dondylion: A Cockney spiv lion with a positive outlook on his less than positive situation
New York Cop: He has a knife wound and two bullet holes in his arm that talks to him like a partner

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In the article, Serge (Kasabian) also talks about some of the music on the show. He describes the theme tune as being inspired by Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and sounding, “like a kids’ theme tune…like Rainbow.” Other songs from the series are described by Serge as “a bit like Silver Apples and Suicide with a strange kind of folk vocal” (The Decision), “sort of Beefheartesque” (Swingball Blues) and “a bit like Prince and Barry White” (Strawberry Sunrise).

To purchase this week’s NME digitally you can click here.

And now NME needs YOU! Fans are invited to put a question to Noel and he’ll answer a selection of the best ones.  To ask Noel your question visit NME online here. Time to get asking…

Fulcher Rides Boris

13 Jan

Rich Fulcher & The Fix’s Harry Deansway have met up with some many friendly, familiar faces to bring a song highlighting the  diversity of London’s Boris Bikes!

Fulcher goes riding with Steve Oram, Richard Glover, The Brett Domino Trio, along with other great comics that we recognise from the the previous Fulchfest last Christmas!

Take a look at the video below and we hope it opens your eyes to the extent of the fun you can have with a Boris Bike!

Remember you also still have the chance to see Rich Fulcher’s Tiny Acts Of Rebellion show at the Soho Theatre until 21st January! Tickets right here!

Rich Fulcher Competition Winner!

12 Jan

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Thank you to everyone who entered our competition to win a pair of tickets to see Rich Fulcher live at the Soho Theatre next week.

In recognition of Rich’s Tiny Acts of Rebellion stage show, we asked you to suggest a tiny act of rebellion that you could carry out at the theatre. We had some cracking entries, but eventually we decided on our winner. Congratulations go to Simon Bell whose tiny act was to, “swap socks mid-performance.” It was so silly and random the judges were unanimous in awarding Simon the winning entry. Well done to Simon and we hope you enjoy the show!  You may even want to try out your tiny act of rebellion while you’re there…

If you weren’t lucky enough to win there’s no need to miss out completely; there are still a few tickets available for the show from the Soho Theatre Box Office. We’ll see you there!

2011 Pops Off With a Bang!

8 Jan

The final months of 2011 were an exciting time for the Booshniverse. Join us for now for the final instalment of our four-part retrospective as we relive it all over again. . .

October

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October began buzzing with Booshy delights. The month’s start saw previews for the upcoming 25th series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.  Meanwhile, Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher continued on their North American Snuff Box DVD tour in Canada, Los Angeles, and Fulcher in NYC.

While London Madcaps prepared to get their books scribbled by Noel Fielding and Dave Brown, the BBC were busy at work filming the Victorian spoof drama Bleak Old Shop of Stuff. The series, starring TVO regulars Katherine Parkinson and James Bachman, as well as Stephen Fry, is meant to start airing in the New Year. The Sightseers, the Alice Lowe/Steve Oram film collaboration was also underway by mid-October. For the nostalgic at heart, cult DJ extrodinaire Pogo released “Zoo Zoo”, a Mighty Boosh mash-up.

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The first of four TVO Scribblings wristband competitions was announced, with peelers in London, and soon thereafter Edinburgh vying for guaranteed admission to meet the Shambletons. Psycho Delia mixed some tunes, and IAMX fans were pleased to see the band’s triumphant return to a London stage in one hell of a show! Friend of TVO, Hayden Black, saw Goodnight Burbank, his series that started as webisodes with cameos from the likes of Rich Fulcher and John Barrowman, make its North American televisual debut. Familiar face Alan Partridge, the infamous alter ego of Steve Coogan, announced his returning to both radio and TV.

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Blackpool’s Comedy Carpet was unveiled, Booshy jaunts included! Lucky American peelers got the opportunity to catch the Matt Berry/Steve Agee film Angry White Men as it enjoyed a limited release in California and North Carolina. In yet another bout of nostalgia, Vlad the Impaler returned to the handlebars of Serge and the rest of Kasabian’s musical bicycle.

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Booshniverse At The BAFTAs – And Beyond

8 Jan

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The long list of films voted for by BAFTA members for entry in the 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards has been announced, and there are a few Booshniverse-relevant favourites in there!

Richard Ayoade‘s critically-acclaimed debut Submarine is in the list for Outstanding British Film; and Anonymous, featuring Tony Way and Bunny & The Bull‘s Edward Hogg, is included in the lists for Best Original Screenplay, Production Design, Make-up And Hair and Costume Design.

Arthur Christmas, featuring the vocal talents of Rich Fulcher and Julia Davis is entered for Best Animated Film and Best Original Screenplay, and the much-lauded Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, which features Tony Way as hacker Plague, is listed in thirteen categories! Tyrannosaur, a Warp Films production (and therefore dear to our hearts!) is also listed in five categories.

Nominations in all categories will be announced on 17th January, and the winners will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards on 12 February. For the full BAFTA long list click here.

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While we’re on the subject of film awards, the ‘Critics Circle’ nominations have also recently been announced, and once again, the Booshniverse has fared well: Ayoade is up for Breakthrough British Film-maker and both Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are nominated for Young British Performer of the Year – all for Submarine.

Modern horror, Kill List, directed by The Sightseers’ Ben Wheatley, and featuring TVO faces Gareth Tunley, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, also gains nominations for British Film and Supporting Actor of the Year. Tyrannosaur again features, with two nominations.

Click here for the full list of nominations for the Critics’ Circle awards. The awards ceremony takes place in London on 19th January.

Congratulations to all of the nominees. We’ll let you know how they all fair on the respective awards nights, so keep you fingers crossed!

Competition Time! Win Your Fill Of Fulcher

6 Jan

As we’ve mentioned previously Rich Fulcher is bringing his Edinburgh 2011 show Tiny Acts of Rebellion to the Soho Theatre in London for a short run, Monday 16th – Saturday 21st January.

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The show is based on Rich’s Tiny Acts of Rebellion book, which offers a host of bizarre and downright silly suggestions for how you can “stick it to the man!” If you haven’t read the book yet take a look at Rich’s TAR website to give you an idea of what it’s all about.  And then we recommend buying the book too.

If this on its own wasn’t awesome enough, those lovely people at the Soho Theatre have very kindly offered us a pair of tickets to see the show FOR FREE!

To win the tickets all you have to do is email us your suggestions for tiny acts of rebellion that you could carry out at the theatre (not the Soho Theatre, obviously!). Please email your entries to submit@thevelvetonion.com by 1pm GMT next Wednesday, 11th January. We’re looking for the funniest and most inventive suggestions, so get your creative crazy juices flowing!

There’s only one entry allowed per person; the winning entry will be selected and notified by 10am on 12th January. The winner MUST be able to provide their own transport to the show, and be 100% certain they can make it. For all the legal T&Cs, see below. Good luck!

If you’re not lucky enough to win our competition but you still fancy a seriously funny night out, you can book tickets to the show by clicking here.

This competition offers a pair of tickets to one of the performance of Rich Fulcher’s Tiny Acts of Rebellion at the Soho Theatre in London. Winners can select their preferred date (subject to availability) from 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21 January 2012 (show starts at 21:45). This competition is being run entirely by The Velvet Onion, with prizes organised and distributed by the Soho Theatre. One entry per person. Winners must be at least 18 years of age. Any entrants found making multiple entries from the same IP address will be disqualified, and banned from entering further competitions run by The Velvet Onion. Furthermore, any winning entrants who fail to turn up to the event without giving The Velvet Onion prior warning of at least 24 hours notice will be banned from entering further competitions run by The Velvet Onion. All entries must be received via submit@thevelvetonion.com by 1pm GMT on 11th January. The Velvet Onion will not accept entries as replies to our Facebook/Twitter pages, messages on our forum, comments to posts or emailed to any other email address. The judge’s decision is final. Name, email address and contact phone number will be required with your entry, and your email will not be passed on to a third party beyond the Soho Theatre. There is no monetary value to this competition and no cash alternative will be offered. The Velvet Onion and the Soho Theatre reserve the right to withdraw this competition if any overriding issues arise.

A Not-So-Summery 2011…But Here’s A Summary Of July-Sept

4 Jan

When you think of last summer, what do you think of? Rain? Rioting? Well don’t think about that – if your memory fails you, first have a look at our reviews of January to June, and then let’s take a look at what happened in the world of Booshdom from July to September, in Part 3 of our review of 2011...

JULY

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2011 may have been a dreary and somewhat brief summer, but July kicked off with some magic as Dynamo showed off his skills to Noel Fielding, stunning him with a rogue deck of cards right in the palm of his hand!

The comedy world also saw acts big and small peeking out into the non-sunlight as they prepared for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! It was a busy month for comics, including Rich Fulcher who arranged warm ups left right and centre. As they all profusely scribbled down their work in the build-up to the festival, the musical Booshdom also picked up its pace. Robots In Disguise released their fourth album (funded by their fans!) Happiness vs Sadness. We were eager to listen to it ourselves and bring you a song-by-song evaluation of it.

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IAMX were also in the midst of releasing their new single Bernadette and at the same time brought us two alternative versions of the music video – we would expect nothing less from perfectionist Chris Corner!

This summer was also a lucky time for the Velvet Onion in terms of tracking down some great talent. We attended a Q&A with the cast of How Not To Live Your Life, then Richard Ayoade also answered some of our questions following the release of Submarine. Then there was even more excitement with the release of our chat with the delectable Hot Brew!

Someone who’s also always up for a debate is Steve Coogan, who voiced his opinions on Newsnight this month regarding the recent closure of News Of The World!

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Spring Back In Time: A Look Back At April-June 2011

2 Jan

So far our review of 2011 has covered January to March. Today we bring you the sequel: April to June. Aaaah, Springtime…the time of fresh starts and new beginnings! And it turned out to be a very busy time in the Booshniverse too!

April

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April started with the news of Chris O’Dowd’s appearance in The Crimson Petal and The White, a Victorian drama adaptation miles away from The IT Crowd! It was a fantastic production with a great cast and Chris was excellent in it.

The London Comedy Writers Festival took place this month, with input from TVO favourites Alice Lowe, Jaqueline Wright and Colin Hoult. It was a very busy month for Alice, she starred in  Tap at the Window, appeared with Antony Elvin at Popcorn Comedy, and had the pilot  Alice’s Wunderland broadcast on BBC Radio 4. At the time we were lucky to bag an interview with her which you can read here. We also reviewed Jackal films 2010 calendar project.

Colin Hoult announced the second New Adventures show and Paul Foot was in Australia, tweeting as he went.

TVO enjoyed a bit of a spring clean itself in April with a revamp of the TVO Amazon store, making it even easier to cater for all your comedy needs!

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Luxury To Look Forwards To

2 Jan

If you’re a regular peeler of this here Onion it won’t have escaped your attention that we’re mere weeks away from a very exciting TV happening. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy hits our screens on 26th January on E4 – this month!

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For those of you who already know for certain that a tangible version of the show just has to grace your shelves you can pre-order the DVD now. It’s released on 19th March for £11.99, and you can pre-order it via The Velvet Onion’s Amazon store. As yet there’s no information about the Blu-ray release or the extras included on the DVD, but given Noel’s track record with Boosh DVD releases, it’s bound to be bursting with added bits & bobs.

Some of you may also have spotted that a series of brilliantly obtuse trailers advertising Luxury Comedy have started appearing on E4. As soon as we can get hold of official links to the trailers we’ll share them with you.

We’re already counting down the days to 26th!

Booshy Bits On Xfm.

31 Dec

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Lliana Bird has been keeping our ears happy this week with her afternoon show on Xfm.

Along with a collection of top tunes and a voice made of sunshine, Birdy’s shows have included seasonal messages from Noel Fielding, Rich Fulcher and Serge from Kasabian (an honorary TVO artist in the run-up to Luxury Comedy!).

Check out the Christmas Eve show to hear their Christmas messages, and Rich reading ‘Twas Night Before Christmas‘. Yesterday’s show (30th December) features their New Year’s resolutions.

You can find the broadcasts by clicking on this page on Xfm’s site. The shows are available for at least 1 week after their original transmission date. Happy listening!

 

The Velvet Onion Calendar 2012

29 Dec

The Velvet Onion are pleased to bring you our exclusive 2012 calendar!

We’ve been working with a number of our friends both in front of the camera and behind it, to bring you twelve great shots to print out and stick up on your wall between January 1st and December 31st.

With a fantastic new design from Velveteer Lauren “Lozzy” Taylor, inspired by the beautiful design work Peeler Kerrie Leisch provided for the site back in 2010, we really hope you like the results – which are available for a free download by clicking on the picture above!

Thank you to everyone involved, and to all of you – our dearest Peelers – for a truly fantastic 2011… here’s to another great year in the realm of the Onion!

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