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Exclusive: The Mighty Boosh's Bollo To Take On Honey Monster
02 June 2008

The Mighty Boosh are busy boys with a comedy show, a music festival, an album, a book and a film all in the works. Noel Fiedling dropped by Xfm to talk all things Boosh, including a planned fight with The Honey Monster!

Talking first about the inaugural Mighty Boosh Festival, Noel Fielding explained how they hastily put together the line-up - which features The Charlatans, Gary Numan, Jarvis Cocker (DJ), The Kills, White Denim, Peaches (DJ), Robots In Disguise, Har Mar Superstar and Polar Bear on the music stage:

"We wanted people that were connected to The Boosh so that it didn't feel like a really corporate festival. We wanted to make sure that everyone were even friends of The Boosh or starred in The Boosh or something.

"We're headlining with a music set and there'll be loads of Boosh characters, comedy bits, fireworks, plus I'm gonna release a hawk into the crowd... I'll dress it up as Suzy Quatro first!"

Fielding also revealed that they were thinking about bringing the Sugar Puffs Monster on stage at the festival (Sugar Puffs famously ripped off The Mighty Boosh's crimping style for a recent advert) to fight with the gorrilla Boosh character Bollo.

Turning next to progress on the rumoured Mighty Boosh album Fielding continued, "I know Mark Ronson was into producing it but then Nigel Godrich might be up for it too...we may just give it to a child to do.

"It will probably released after the tour which is happening September to January 2009, we want the music to stand up for itself but keep the comedy elements."

The Mighty Boosh Festival takes place on Hops Farm, Kent on July 5.

Watch the interview HERE.