Dave Brown
Noel Fielding isn’t the only member of the Boosh family who’s been focusing his attention on food and cooking (well, baking); Dave Brown has been working on a book about Peruvian cookery. The beautiful new cookbook, Andina: The Heart of Peruvian Food, has been designed by Dave and
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September 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
Today marks five years since The Velvet Onion Live, and as luck would have it, we recently managed to salvage some footage previously thought lost forever from the star-studded one-off live event. On 31st May 2012, we packed 21 Velvet Onion regulars, and the disembodied voice of one other, into
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May 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
Dave Brown will be one of the guest speakers at the forthcoming creative inspiration Ears & Eyes event at The Beacon in Hastings, this Saturday. Designer, photographer, charity supporter, all round good guy, and Boosh family member, Dave, will be talking about his work at the evening, which is
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April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: an earlier version of this article announced that Dave Brown would be guesting at Comic Con in Burton on Trent. Regrettably Dave has had to pull out. An edited version of the article remains below. Mike Fielding will be guests at the forthcoming Comic Con in Burton on Trent. The
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January 25, 2017 // 2 Comments
The Ghoul and Trespass Against Us are to screen across the UK as part of the BIFI Independents season. For the uninitiated The Ghoul is the directorial debut by Gareth Tunley and stars a bevy of TVO regulars including Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Dan Skinner, Geoffrey McGivern and Rufus
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January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
A collection of Dave Brown‘s photographs of The Mighty Boosh are currently on display at The Book Club in Shoreditch. Mog headed down to the exhibition on our behalf when it first opened; here’s her report… There’s something special about photographs of people taken by
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November 20, 2016 // 4 Comments
Starting later this month the Book Club in Shoreditch will be hosting a series of Mighty Boosh themed events and an exhibition of Dave Brown’s photography and Boosh-related artworks. The exhibition focuses on the Boosh live in its various forms, something very dear to our hearts at TVO,
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October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments
As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader of The Velvet Onion, The Book Club in Shoreditch is hosting a photography exhibition and a series of events in celebration of The Mighty Boosh. Dave Brown, famous for sweating his way through three TV series and two live tours in a hairy
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October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments
Some of you will be familiar with the Geek Chic podcasts by Lliana Bird and neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis (if not, you can read all about it here). Well now the two of them have taken their oddball scientific stories concept and transferred it into book format. The Mice Who Sing For Sex examines
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September 29, 2016 // 0 Comments
From 20th October this year until January 2017, The Book Club in Shoreditch will become ‘The Boosh Club’ hosting an exhibition and a series of events to celebrate ten years since The Mighty Boosh‘s 2006 tour. The exhibition – curated by Liat Chen – will feature
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July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion is saddened to report on the death of journalist, author, historian, radio producer and comedy executive John Pidgeon, following a long illness. A celebrated critic whose work in the 1970s included collaborations with The Faces, Slade and Eric Clapton, John moved into radio in
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July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments
Boosh fans were sent into a frenzy last week, when the online version of Radio Times claimed The Mighty Boosh were to reunite for a new project. The article centred around comments made by Julian Barratt during promotion for his role in the new Channel 4 sitcom Flowers (get the lowdown
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April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments
If you missed them on Twitter recently, Dave Brown has taken a series of comedy portraits in support of the Sumatran Orang-utan Society’s #APEril campaign. The portraits, which feature Tom Meeten and Tony Law amongst others, are a reminder that orang-utan’s share 96.4% of their DNA with humans,
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April 12, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion is proud to bring you an updated version of our TVO IS FIVE video for your perusal, featuring a cavalcade of comedy legends wishing us a very happy birthday. Some of you may remember at the end of January, The Velvet Onion marked its official fifth anniversary with a string of
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March 15, 2015 // 0 Comments
Hello, dear Peelers, and welcome to The Velvet Onion! For your regular news updates you used to find on our home page, click here. But below, here’s what Dolly would say is sooo hot right now this week in Onion Land. HOUSE OF FOOLS SERIES 2 STARTS FILMING! The beginning of our week
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October 27, 2014 // 0 Comments
Science is great! It gives your brain a work-out and explains how everything in the world works. It’s a shame about the boring bits though. Imagine, however, if you could remove all the dull bits and dial up the volume on the really interesting, weird parts of science? Well, imagine no
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September 28, 2014 // 1 Comment
Some of you will be lucky enough to be seeing Noel Fielding live at the Pleasance Theatre this weekend, as he performs two work-in-progress shows in preparation for his forthcoming UK tour. Anyhows, we reckoned the rest of you might need a bit of cheering up… Here, then – for your
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September 27, 2014 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion would like to extend our sympathies to the family of Robin Williams, who died yesterday. Williams was a legend of comedy, first rising to fame in 1978 as the friendly alien Mork in Mork and Mindy, a spin-off from a guest appearance in Happy Days that went on to run for four
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August 12, 2014 // 2 Comments
Suck my beans! Luxury Comedy officially launched last night, and with Episode Two now on 4oD, there’s still lots we have to share with you as the series progresses. For starters, there’s our making of featurette: a rough-n-ready rumble-tumble through the madness of filming Luxury
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August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments
As we excitedly skip towards the official launch of the new series of Luxury Comedy, we’ve come over all nostalgic at TVO and we thought it might be nice to have a look back at some of the exclusive interviews, reviews and content that we created for your delectation for series 1. Here
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July 29, 2014 // 0 Comments
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