Showing posts with label Mike Fielding. Show all posts
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Sunday, 6 July 2008

The Mighty Boosh Festival a.k.a the Best Day of My Life: Part III

And now for the main event....THE MIGHTY BOOSH BAND!!! It was the best thing I've ever seen and sooooo funny!!

First the Moon came out and said he was gonna lead everyone in a countdown to the Boosh Band. Which went something like this "10, 9, Some Numbers, 5, 7, ummm..., 3, 2, 1...THE MIGHTY BOOSH!!!". It was really funny, especially because everyone was doing the normal countdown and the moon threw everyone off.





After that Noel & Julian (in character as Vince and Howard) made their grand entrance...In true Boosh style Noel rode out on a GIANT silvery ship (The HMS Mighty Boosh) while Julian was in an inflatable dinghy that he had to blow up himself.







After that they went into "Future Sailors."









They then got into an argument and said hello to the crowd:



Noel talking about Gary Numan segued neatly into "Electro Boy." After that, Noel did "I Did A Shit On Your Mum!"



Which Julian followed with a Jazz Version, including some scatting.




Lester Corncrake (Rich Fulcher) then joined him onstage for a hilariously bad jazz duet.



After that, OLD GREGG (!!!) sneaked up on Howard and had a long (and hilarious!) conversation.







He then brought the Funk out so that he could sing a funk song with Howard...



...and the funk squirted him in the face with his Funk Juice.



They then began to sing the Old Greg/Mangina song, which sounds like this:










Old Gregg came into area in front of the stage to pass out his watercolors, and I didn't get one but he came within a few feet of me...(Even as Old Gregg he's GORGEOUS!).



Of course he then could get back up on the stage, and had to be lifted in a rather hilarious manner by a security guard.



After that they played "Mutants" (with a giant squid onstage, of course!).



...After which the Funk was reveale to be Bob Fossil in costume, and Fossil did his rap and had a dance-off with Har Mar Superstar.





After that, Howard and Vince came back on stage and Howard told Vince that he got a telegram informing him that Naboo had fallen into an ostrich pit and been killed.





So they started singing Naboolio (with Bollo) in tribute:








At a pause in the song, Naboo came in riding an ostrich. (Apparently they got on really well).



So they finished off the song in a celebratory manner, adding bits of "Bouncy Bouncy" and "Soup" into it.



The ostrich then thought that Vince was an ostrich because of his feathery cape and tried to get off with him.



After that, everyone left the stage and the Moon did a song. Basically it was a variation on his song from the show, but then he rotated around and when he came back he had sunglasses on, and he started singing "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, which was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. He changed some of the lyrics as well. ("I Got 99 Problems...4 of them are catering...WHOOOAAAAHH Be Ba Ba Ba!!!")



Julian then came on as Rudi, and sang "The New Sound" and "Isolation." At one point his fake teeth fell out and he worked it into the song before picking them up and putting them back in.





Then out came his arch nemesis, THE HITCHER!!!

He sang "Eels" of course, complete with a conga-eel-line, pyro and a large inflatable eel (which Noel slipped off of and hurt himself slightly).











After that, they left the stage and Rich Fulcher came out in character to lead a Bingo Game (like in the episode "Nanageddon"). After several other numbers, he called out "6-6-6...thats all the sixes!!!" and Noel and Julian came out dressed as old women to sing "Nanageddon" and "Charlie".









At this point there was even more pyro and they even had confetti, streamers and FIREWORKS!!! It was incredible.





So after all that, it took forever to figure out exactly where (and in which car park) my parents were waiting for me. When I finally did get to the car, there were two English guys from Essex who wanted to know if we could give them a ride home to Maidstone, which was on our way. So they piled into the back of the car, and then of course we got lost several times on our way there because there were hardly any road signs for Maidstone. It ended up being quite an adventure!

Saturday was the most amazing day and I wish every day could be like that. The Boosh make me very, very happy. :O)

The Mighty Boosh Festival a.k.a the Best Day of My Life: Part I

So yesterday was pretty much the best day of my life. I went to the Mighty Boosh Festival at the Hop Farm in Kent, which is about 30 minutes from where I'm staying if you don't get lost.

I've got so much to say that I'm gonna do this post in several parts :O)

I will post some pictures and videos throughout this post, but you can see all of my pictures here:

Mighty Boosh Fest Pictures


Because we got a little lost on the way there, I didn't get to the box office until around 12:30pm, and I picked up my ticket. Unfortunately, they don't let you keep your ticket, but I got many other things to remember the day by, so I'll be fine.

On the way to the box office I bought an official program, which was really cheap at only 5 quid and was really cool. It came on a lanyard and had lots of Boosh Art on it.





Once I got inside, I immediately went to the Nabootique and bought myself some official merchandise. I got 3 things:

1)A green shirt with a drawing of the Hitcher on the front and "Eels Up Inside Ya! Findin' an Entrance Where They Can" written on the back.





2)A blue Festival shirt which has some silhouetted trees on the bottom and a starry sky with a "constellation" of the Boosh Monkey Logo on it and the lineup written on the back.





3)A Mighty Boosh Bag that has a drawing of the Boosh Monkey Logo on one side and "Nabootique" written on the other.





I then bought a pint of cider and some roasted nuts and sat on the grass while Polar Bear played.









After that, I went up to the stage and got as close as possible (about 2nd row at that point) to watch Robots In Disguise's set. Eleanor (played by Rich Fulcher) introduced them while also officially opening the festival with one of her trademark "Hellooooooooos!".



RiD were really great and fun and got everyone into a great mood. I can't wait to see them in Camden next week!







After that there was a DJ set by DJ Midfield General, which was very good. He played several tracks that had Noel Fielding's stand-up routines over them, which were hilarious.








Next up, Eleanor introduced White Denim, which is a really great band from Texas. My favorite song by them is "Shake Shake Shake":








By this point, a couple people had left so I ended up in the front row, right against the railing, and a little bit off to the left. After White Denim, The Kills played. I had heard really great things about them and I wasn't disappointed. They were one of my favorite parts of the day. Plus I thought they looked really cool, which is why I took a bunch of pictures of them.









My favorite song by the Kills is "Cheap & Cheerful":






From where I was standing, I could see Noel Fielding watching the Kills from the wings, which needless to say was very distracting.





***Coming Up in Part 2: Robots In Disguise DJ Set, Gary Numan, Random Matt Berry sighting, Jarvis Cocker DJ Set, The Charlatans, Har Mar Superstar, Peaches DJ Set.

***Coming Up in Part 3: THE MIGHTY BOOSH & the ride home