Nigel Coan
The Loose Tapestries, the psychedelic musical minstrel combo formed by Noel Fielding and Kasabian’s Sergio Pizzorno to create music for Luxury Comedy, have finally gone and released their long-anticipated Christmas single. There was a lot of buzz about the track, ‘Can’t Wait for
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December 4, 2015 // 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
Tonight sees the grand finale of Luxury Comedy 2: Tales From Painted Hawaii on E4 – and to celebrate, we’re bringing you exclusive behind the scenes photos taken during TVO’s on-set visit last summer. TVO were on hand for four days of filming madness, right at the peak of a very
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August 28, 2014 // 0 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
Last week we were lucky enough to get a sneaky peek at the new series of Luxury Comedy. So without giving away any spoilers, what can we expect when it finally hits our screens on 31st July? In interviews about the new series, Noel Fielding has been pretty open about his decision to move away
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July 24, 2014 // 0 Comments
In 2012 we were lucky enough to get the chance to chat to a few of the artists that we write about on these pages. So here’s a look back at some of the year’s interviews – and the fascinating, colourful and revealing comments that were shared. A big thank you to everyone who
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December 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
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
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March 25, 2012 // 1 Comment
We have reminded, teased and shouted about it enough and now the day has finally come – here is our exclusive documentary from set of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy. Velveteers took cameras, mics and their bodies over to the set and probed the cast & creators of the
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February 20, 2012 // 20 Comments
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
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January 25, 2012 // 1 Comment
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
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January 23, 2012 // 2 Comments
On Friday morning The Velvet Onion managed to talk to Noel Fielding, who was on his way to rehearsals for Let’s Dance. We’ve already posted the first part of our chat on Friday evening, in which Noel talked about his appearance on the Saturday’s show, but while we had the lovely
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February 27, 2011 // 24 Comments
The Velvet Onion 