176-493: Noel Fielding ( / ˈ n ə ʊ ə l / ; born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian and actor. He was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off since 2017. He is known for his dark and surreal comedic style. Fielding began performing stand up comedy when he graduated from art school in 1995 and in 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Julian Barratt when they both appeared on
352-743: A band like Play Dead, who I really like, Joy Division played similar music to Play Dead." By the mid-1980s, bands began proliferating and became increasingly popular, including the Sisters of Mercy , the Mission , Alien Sex Fiend , the March Violets , Xmal Deutschland , the Membranes , and Fields of the Nephilim . Record labels like Factory , 4AD and Beggars Banquet released much of this music in Europe, and through
528-477: A bit". Fielding also made drawings that formed a basis for the characters costumes and make-up in the Mighty boosh TV show. Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade , Matt Berry and Ivanna Zorn. In 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in
704-516: A brief appearance as Vlad in the video for another Kasabian song, " Re-Wired ", riding a five-seater bicycle with the band, and appears as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in "You're In Love With a Psycho", in which he re-enacts the broken mirror routine from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup with Pizzorno and Tom Meighan. He has also appeared in Kate Bush 's music video " Deeper Understanding " as
880-426: A brief case and not tell anyone. But then I sought of thought maybe I should do stand up." At the age of 15, Fielding became a goth and had goth girlfriends. At this time he first tried using makeup and said he loved being dressed up by his girlfriends. On his time as an art student Fielding has commented "I did a foundation course at Croydon Art College in fine art. It was actually my teacher, Dextor Dalwood, who
1056-724: A character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – 'because we always liked the Arctic'." It was also commented that the Mighty Boosh "... almost didn't make it to television. Around 2000, Barratt and Fielding disappeared into development hell. They had done a sketch show for Radio 4, but no one was sure how to translate their act on to TV. That's until Steve Coogan, who had seen them in Edinburgh in 1999 when they were performing as Arctic Boosh, moved things along. His production company... ...sold
1232-412: A drawer." and in 2014 it was commented that "The pair have written two film scripts in the past, though neither made it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing," according to Fielding, in which Barratt played a character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – 'because we always liked the Arctic'." The first 8-part series
1408-671: A few episodes of the animated TV show South Park portray or parody the goth subculture. In South Park , several of the fictional schoolchildren are depicted as goths. The goth kids on the show are depicted as finding it annoying to be confused with the Hot Topic " vampire " kids from the episode " The Ungroundable " in season 12, and even more frustrating to be compared with emo kids. The goth kids are usually depicted listening to gothic music, writing or reading Gothic poetry, drinking coffee, flipping their hair, and smoking. Morticia Addams from The Addams Family created by Charles Addams
1584-435: A film was something he talked about writing with Barratt and he also commented in 2013 that "I would love to do a Boosh film I really would. I hope we do cos I feel like thats what we started out wanting to do. We really wanted to do a film, really,... ...we wanted to do a film, and then we thought alright we'll do a live show. We didn't really know how to do a live show we thought we'd just learn, and then we sort of... ...we did
1760-413: A film, really,... ...we wanted to do a film, and then we thought alright we'll do a live show. We didn't really know how to do a live show we thought we'd just learn, and then we sort of... ...we did a radio show, we did a TV show, we never quite got around to doing a film..." In 2008 Fielding commented that "A film is the first thing we ever wanted to do, so we've always come up with ideas and stuck them in
1936-515: A former tutor of his from the Croydon School of Art and Fielding has also cited Salvador Dalí as an inspiration. A second exhibition of his paintings entitled Bryan Ferry vs the Jelly Fox also took place at Maison Bertaux, from 5 July 2010 through to 5 January 2011. On 6 September 2011, Fielding received an honorary master's degree from Buckinghamshire New University for his ongoing interest in
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#17329348248712112-558: A foundation of modern goth style and music. Some people credit the band Bauhaus' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released in August 1979, with the start of goth subculture. In the early 90s, Jack Off Jill , fronted by vocalist Jessicka , pioneered the 'Riot Goth' sound, combining elements of the goth and riot grrrl genres. Through their lyrics, the band tackled issues such as misogyny and racism, giving them significant underground appeal. The British sitcom The IT Crowd featured
2288-564: A giant penis and a whale respectively. In 1998, they took The Mighty Boosh to the Edinburgh Festival , recruiting fellow comedian Rich Fulcher, whom the pair had met while working on Unnatural Acts . The show won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. During their residency at North London's Hen and Chickens Theatre the following year, they built up a cult following, introducing new characters whilst developing old ones. In 1999,
2464-509: A gig at Hen and Chickens...". Dave Brown commented further on their time at the Hen and Chickens, a theatre bar in Islington, London, "They would use the Hen and Chickens as this kind of... place to, a platform to just try stuff out and it was just a great little place they could do a regular spot... ...where they would probably write and have ideas in the week, try stuff out for half of that and then for
2640-623: A gorilla living at the "Zooniverse". This series had an even looser setting as the four characters leave the confines of the flat in every episode, travelling in their van to a variety of surrealistic environments, including Naboo's home planet "Xooberon". Series three started in November 2007, still set in Dalston, but this time the foursome are selling 'Bits & Bobs' in their shop, the Nabootique. Their adventures and outings in this series focused more on
2816-552: A goth aesthetic. Some of the early gothic rock and deathrock artists adopted traditional horror film images and drew on horror film soundtracks for inspiration. Their audience responded by adopting appropriate dress and props. Use of standard horror film props such as swirling smoke, rubber bats, and cobwebs featured as gothic club décor from the beginning in The Batcave. Such references in bands' music and images were originally tongue-in-cheek , but as time went on, bands and members of
2992-486: A lake." Barrett has further commented that after he left the venue "...the manager came out after me and said: 'Get back in there, it’s going well.' So I went back. I suppose that was a big turning point for me." Barratt and Fielding have commented on the beginning of the Mighty boosh, with Barratt commenting that "We performed together for the first time in... ... was it in that show by Stuart Lee?", with Fielding replying "yeah, Stuart Lees show, Moby Dick and King Dong (At
3168-475: A live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in the first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . The Mighty Boosh won the Shockwaves NME Best TV Award three times in 2007, 2008 and 2010. The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe
3344-663: A lot of respect for, saying "My grandma is really strong. I like strong women. That's what I respond to." His father and stepmother Diane would later become more involved in parenting during Fielding's mother's illness in the 1980s. His mother had two more children before dying in 1990 aged 37 years old, from complications caused by liver damage. Michael Fielding , his younger paternal half-brother, later played various characters in The Mighty Boosh TV show and live stage shows as well as Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . His father Ray Fielding as well as his stepmother both appeared in
3520-502: A magic forest..." In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live, later transferring to BBC radio 4 and Barratt has humorously commented that "...so we did a radio show, we did, we sort of recorded it in a sort of old railway sort of arch...", with Fielding adding "in Shoreditch..." with Barratt continuing "....built our studio out of weird... ...little children's toys...". Barratt and Fielding have also commented on
3696-694: A means of thanks for the Let's Dance For Comic Relief performance. Fielding paired up with Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian) to form a band, Loose Tapestries , and released two albums and a Christmas single. He held his first exhibition of his paintings, entitled Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox , in a gallery above the patisserie Maison Bertaux , in Greek Street , Soho in December 2007. There Fielding listed some of his inspirations as Henri Rousseau , René Magritte , Willem de Kooning , Roy Lichtenstein , Dexter Dalwood ,
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#17329348248713872-465: A new documentary and 6 of Barratt and Fielding's favourite episodes from all 3 series. J. G. Quintel has said that The Mighty Boosh was a large influence on his animated series Regular Show . In June 2013, it was confirmed that The Mighty Boosh would reunite for a US festival called Festival Supreme in October 2013. On 1 January 2020, Fielding posted an image of himself and Barratt on Instagram with
4048-418: A nightclub. Tim Burton created a storybook atmosphere filled with darkness and shadow in some of his films like Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992) and the stop motion films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which was produced/co-written by Burton, and Corpse Bride (2005), which he co-produced. The Nickelodeon cartoon Invader Zim
4224-463: A number of styles such as gothic rock, death rock , cold wave , dark wave and ethereal wave . The Gothic fashion style draws influences from punk , new wave, New Romantic fashion and the dressing styles of earlier periods such as the Victorian , Edwardian and Belle Époque eras. The style most often includes dark (usually solid black) attire, dark makeup and black hair. The term gothic rock
4400-492: A paperback version was released under the name The Pocket Book of Boosh . Particularly popular among followers of the indie and electro music genres catered to by NME magazine, The Mighty Boosh has been recipient of the Shockwaves NME Awards Best TV Show for three consecutive years, even though there were no new episodes broadcast for the latter two of the three years. Goth subculture Goth
4576-400: A ping-pong ball to make an eye patch. The pair soon found that they shared common interests in music and comedy which included Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and it was also commented that "Both wanted to get their material heard; neither had found anyone to work with who remotely understood what was going on in their head. It was a huge relief when they chanced upon one another and decided to be
4752-637: A ping-pong ball to make an eye patch. Fielding has commented on their shared interest in music that "I was sort of a bit more rock n roll and pop and he [Julian Barratt] was a bit more jazz but then we sort of met in the middle with electro... but Julian was... I think he left university to join a band, we were both in bands before we were in the Boosh, so we sort of came from that background. Lot of our friends were in bands." It has also been commented that Barratt "...had dropped out of an American studies course at Reading University" and Barratt has also commented that when he
4928-447: A radio show, we did a TV show, we never quite got around to doing a film..." In 2008 it was also commented that "A film is the first thing we ever wanted to do, so we've always come up with ideas and stuck them in a drawer." and in 2014 it was commented that "The pair have written two film scripts in the past, though neither made it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing", according to Fielding, in which Barratt played
5104-407: A recurring goth character named Richmond Avenal , played by Noel Fielding . Fielding said in an interview that he himself had been a goth at age fifteen and that he had a series of goth girlfriends. This was the first time he dabbled in makeup. Fielding said that he loved his girlfriends dressing him up. The game Visigoths vs. Mall Goths (2020) by Lucian Kahn is about "two versions of Goths –
5280-416: A series of sketches for Paramount Comedy ’s Unnatural Acts with Barratt commenting that "Early on we had Rich Fulcher, we were working on a sketch show...". Nigle Coan has commented further on them developing the Mighty boosh "...They thought lets do a show, an Edinburgh show. I think they started to think about doing that. So they got a gig at Hen and Chickens...". Dave Brown who also collaborated on
5456-477: A significant influence on the movement also represent a diverse canon. They include Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), John William Polidori (1795–1821), Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), Anne Rice (1941–2021), William Gibson (1948–present), Ian McEwan (1948–present), Storm Constantine (1956–2021), and Poppy Z. Brite (1967–present). Gothic literature
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5632-562: A six-episode radio series , it has since spanned a total of 20 television episodes for BBC Three which aired from 2004 to 2007, and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the United States. The first television series is set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat and the third in a secondhand shop in Dalston called Nabootique. The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh
5808-433: A six-part radio series for the Boosh. In October 2001 The Boosh radio series, produced by Danny Wallace , was broadcast on BBC London Live, then BBC Radio 4, and later on BBC 7 . The show focuses on the adventures of a pair of zookeepers at "Bob Fossil's Funworld": socially awkward, jazz enthusiast Howard TJ Moon, and ultra-vain, fashion-obsessed Vince Noir. This also included voices from Lee Mack, playing such characters as
5984-490: A song about a mammoth that he wanted to sing to a girl in the audience, and I had a few ideas for some weird sketches... ...We started working on our ideas together... ...We were zookeepers and we got sucked through our bosses’ eyes and into a magic forest..." Michael Fielding and Richard Ayoade both performed with the Mighty Boosh in 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot. Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in
6160-425: A stage doing these phenomenal routines. And I could see how you could do it. So I started doing it myself, and I was so shocked when it worked. I remember one time I completely forgot what I was about to say, and I just ran out of the venue." It has also been commented that this occurred "...during his first standup sketch at Reading University..." and that he "...ran through the back door mid-act and through fields to
6336-451: A stage show and they said how is this going to work on TV cos it is ridiculous. So we wrote, we did a stage show and then they said how's that going to work on TV because its really good live, so, perhaps we should've done it inside a television set." In 2004 it became an 8 part TV show which aired on BBC Three with a second series airing in 2005 and a third airing in 2007 with there being 20 episodes created over three series. In each series
6512-435: A stage show and they said how is this going to work on TV cos it is ridiculous. So we wrote, we did a stage show and then they said hows that going to work on TV because its really good live, so, perhaps we should've done it inside a television set." In 2013 Fielding has also commented that "I would love to do a Boosh film I really would. I hope we do cos I feel like thats what we started out wanting to do. We really wanted to do
6688-735: A unique piece inspired by The Beatles for Liverpool Love at the Museum of Liverpool . In March 2015, his exhibition He Wore Dreams Around Unkind Faces was shown at the Royal Albert Hall . In January 2021, the luxury fashion house Fendi unveiled a collection featuring abstract takes on the brand's logo, created by Fielding. Fielding was formerly in a relationship with Robots in Disguise lead vocalist Dee Plume, who made minor appearances in The Mighty Boosh and in its live adaptations. In 2007, it
6864-604: A vibrant import music market in the US, the subculture grew, especially in New York and Los Angeles, California , where many nightclubs featured "gothic/industrial" nights and bands like Black Tape for a Blue Girl , Theatre of Ice , Human Drama and The Wake became key figures for the genre to expand on an nationwide level. The popularity of 4AD bands resulted in the creation of similar US labels, such as Wax Trax! Records and Projekt . The 1990s saw further growth for some 1980s bands and
7040-431: A week to travel and we were playing arenas and we partied every single night and we got up for sound check at six o'clock. So we were like Dracula. I was like Dracula. So I'd wake up at six, do a sound check, wake up, do the show, go to a party, stay up till five in the morning, sleep all day, every day for a hundred... ." Fielding has further commented about the Mighty Boosh that "It was crazy cos we were just going.... ...it
7216-406: A weird shambles of stuff." Fielding commented in 2015 that whilst creating Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy that "Originally I used to do all the paintings for the animations. This meant that I was filming in the day and staying up until 5 am painting. After three weeks of this I started to feel unusual so Ivana Zorn, who is Nigel Coan's partner, now does a majority of the painting and I just design
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7392-467: A year in the life of a household of 20-somethings in Brisbane , Australia. The central characters are deeply entrenched in the local gothic subculture, with the book exploring themes relevant to the characters, notably unemployment, mental health, politics, and relationships. In 2023, several books about the music genre and the subculture, were released. John Robb 's The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth
7568-415: Is Boredom! — an eye brimming with an involuntary tear, He dreams of the gallows while smoking his water-pipe. You know him, reader, this delicate monster, —Hypocrite reader,—my twin,—my brother! The gothic subculture has influenced different artists—not only musicians—but also painters and photographers. In particular their work is based on mystic, morbid and romantic motifs. In photography and painting
7744-558: Is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of gothic rock , an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. Post-punk artists who anticipated the gothic rock genre and helped develop and shape the subculture include Siouxsie and the Banshees , Bauhaus , the Cure and Joy Division . The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of
7920-506: Is a fictional character and the mother in the Addams Family. Morticia was played by Carolyn Jones in the 1964 television show The Addams Family and by Anjelica Huston in the 1991 version , and voiced by Charlize Theron in 2019 animated film . A recurring sketch in the 1990s on NBC's Saturday Night Live was Goth Talk , in which a public access channel broadcast hosted by unpopular young goths would continually be interrupted by
8096-501: Is a genre of fiction that combines romance and dark elements to produce mystery, suspense, terror, horror and the supernatural. According to David H. Richter, settings were framed to take place at "...ruinous castles, gloomy churchyards, claustrophobic monasteries, and lonely mountain roads". Typical characters consisted of the cruel parent, sinister priest, courageous victor, and the helpless heroine, along with supernatural figures such as demons , vampires , ghosts , and monsters . Often,
8272-454: Is also based on the goth subculture. As the subculture became well-established, the connection between goth and horror fiction became almost a cliché, with goths quite likely to appear as characters in horror novels and film. For example, The Craft , The Crow , The Matrix and Underworld film series drew directly on goth music and style. The dark comedies Beetlejuice , The Faculty , American Beauty , Wedding Crashers , and
8448-597: Is great' we weren't ever sort of planning it. Like... ..we didn't even know if we could make a living from it." Fielding has commented further that “We always thought we'd make one show and that'd be the end of it. But after we won the Perrier, everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to Melbourne and won the Barry, and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award. We won loads. It
8624-474: Is named after a childhood hairstyle of co-star Michael Fielding . Noel Fielding first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Dave Brown whilst Fielding was studying a foundation course in fine arts at the Croydon School of Art . Then from 1992 to 1995 Fielding studied Graphic Design and Advertising at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education and whilst there both Dave Brown and Nigel Coan were studying
8800-413: Is not unique to women in the goth scene, it remains an important part of many goth women's experience: The scene's "celebration of active sexuality" enables goth women to "resist mainstream notions of passive femininity". They have an "active sexuality" approach which creates "gender egalitarianism" within the scene, as it "allows them to engage in sexual play with multiple partners while sidestepping most of
8976-413: Is often described as being surreal , as well as being escapist and new wave comedy. Various members of The Mighty Boosh have appeared in a number of different comedy series including Nathan Barley , Snuff Box and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry . The troupe
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#17329348248719152-821: Is often described as gothic. British artist Anne Sudworth published a book on gothic art in 2007. There are large annual goth-themed festivals in Germany , including Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig and M'era Luna in Hildesheim , both annually attracting tens of thousands of people. Castle Party is the biggest goth festival in Poland. In the 1980s, goths decorated their walls and ceilings with black fabrics and accessories like rosaries, crosses and plastic roses. Black furniture and cemetery-related objects such as candlesticks, death lanterns and skulls were also part of their interior design. In
9328-446: Is quite hard... ...In the boosh tour we did a 100 day tour and we had one day off a week to travel and we were playing arenas and we partied every single night and we got up for sound check at six o'clock. So we were like Dracula. I was like Dracula. So I'd wake up at six, do a sound check, wake up, do the show, go to a party, stay up till five in the morning, sleep all day, every day for a hundred... ." Fielding has further commented about
9504-596: Is sort of in Chinatown in London, and ah, which was ridiculous, I mean it was really, like, ridiculous costumes and um, they didn't know what... they really [didn't] know what they were doing... ...It was very raw, but it was, it was hilarious..." After Barratt and Fielding's first performance together at Oranje Boom Boom at bar De Hems, in London in April 1998, they developed their zookeeper characters, Howard Moon and Vince Noir , in
9680-543: The BBC Two comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks , originally from 2009 to 2015, and again since 2021, and as a guest on Richard Ayoade 's Travel Man series. Fielding has also exhibited his paintings in London and collaborated with Fendi for their autumn/winter 2021 menswear collection. Fielding along with Sergio Pizzorno from the band Kasabian formed the band Loose Tapestries as an alternative music project that
9856-545: The Batcave style. Nick Cave was dubbed as "the grand lord of gothic lushness". One female role model is Theda Bara , the 1910s femme fatale known for her dark eyeshadow. In 1977, Karl Lagerfeld hosted the Soirée Moratoire Noir party, specifying "tenue tragique noire absolument obligatoire" (black tragic dress absolutely required). The event included elements associated with leatherman style. Siouxsie Sioux
10032-632: The Edinburgh Fringe and with the success of Autoboosh , a radio series was commissioned by the BBC . Produced by Danny Wallace , The Boosh radio show was a six-part series that was first broadcast in 2001 on BBC London Live , later transferring to BBC Radio 4 , and Barratt has humorously commented that "...so we did a radio show, we did, we sort of recorded it in a sort of old railway sort of arch... [with Fielding adding] in Shoreditch... ....built our studio out of weird... little childrens toys...". From
10208-621: The Headless Horseman , immortalized in " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " (published in 1820) by Washington Irving , marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic storytelling. The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley , New York . The story would be adapted to film in 1922 , in 1949 as
10384-581: The Kasabian video "Vlad the Impaler", in which he plays the titular character, and reprised the role at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival . The music video was directed by Richard Ayoade . He was referenced in Kasabian's "La Fée Verte", a track on their Velociraptor! album (his friend Sergio Pizzorno said "The line, 'I met Dalí in the street.' Dalí is Noel Fielding. And he is the modern-day Dalí"). Fielding also makes
10560-705: The LARP -based Victorian and Elizabethan pomposity of the 2000s, the more Romantic side of 1980s trad-goth—mainly represented by women—was characterized by new wave/post-punk-oriented hairstyles (both long and short, partly shaved and teased) and street-compliant clothing, including black frill blouses, midi dresses or tea-length skirts, and floral lace tights, Dr. Martens , spike heels (pumps), and pointed toe buckle boots ( winklepickers ), sometimes supplemented with accessories such as bracelets, chokers and bib necklaces. This style, retroactively referred to as Ethergoth , took its inspiration from Siouxsie Sioux and mid-1980s musicians from
10736-581: The Mighty Boosh TV show with his father Ray Fielding having several cameos as Chris de Burgh. Julian Barrat's father also made an appearance in the first series of the Mighty Boosh TV show and both his parents appeared in the second series. Julian Barratt has described Fielding's upbringing as "feral" with Fielding also commenting that "I was like a feral child. I was like 'I'm not eating dinner.' 'Yeah whatever cook your own at midnight.' 'Mum it's midnight should i go to bed?' 'Wa, whatever you want to do.' It
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#173293482487110912-549: The NME in a special issue with a front cover in early 1983. The term Batcaver was then used to describe old-school goths. Outside the British scene, deathrock developed in California during the late 1970s and early 1980s as a distinct branch of American punk rock , with acts such as Christian Death , Kommunity FK and 45 Grave at the forefront. The bands that defined and embraced
11088-457: The Victorian and Elizabethan periods. It also frequently expresses pagan, occult or other religious imagery . Gothic fashion and styling may also feature silver jewelry and piercings. Ted Polhemus described goth fashion as a "profusion of black velvets, lace, fishnets and leather tinged with scarlet or purple, accessorized with tightly laced corsets, gloves, precarious stilettos and silver jewelry depicting religious or occult themes". Of
11264-420: The 1990s saw a surge of US-based gothic fashion designers, many of whom continue to evolve the style to the present day. Style magazines such as Gothic Beauty have given repeat features to a select few gothic fashion designers who began their labels in the 1990s, such as Kambriel, Rose Mortem , and Tyler Ondine of Heavy Red. American model Gabbriette who has been known for her goth aesthetic, has been at
11440-441: The 1990s, the interior design approach of the 1980s was replaced by a less macabre style. Since the late 1970s, the UK goth scene refused "traditional standards of sexual propriety" and accepted and celebrated "unusual, bizarre or deviant sexual practices". In the 2000s, many members "claim overlapping memberships in the queer , polyamorous , bondage-discipline/sadomasochism , and pagan communities". Though sexual empowerment
11616-401: The 2000s, Fielding also had smaller roles in a number of comedy shows for Channel 4 including Nathan Barley , The IT Crowd , AD/BC: A Rock Opera , and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace . After The Mighty Boosh , he wrote and starred in two series of a solo show for Channel 4 called Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy , which ran between 2012 and 2014. He has also appeared as a team captain on
11792-406: The 4AD roster like Elizabeth Fraser and Lisa Gerrard . The New York Times noted: "The costumes and ornaments are a glamorous cover for the genre's somber themes. In the world of Goth, nature itself lurks as a malign protagonist, causing flesh to rot, rivers to flood, monuments to crumble and women to turn into slatterns, their hair streaming and lipstick askew". Cintra Wilson declares that
11968-564: The BBC and they'd go: 'Great, we'll put these on telly.' But I gradually realised that you either had to go to university and join a club, or do standup. I ended up doing both. My first gigs were at university...". Fielding has further commented that "I used to write sketches and hide them, you know, ...like written sketches and stuff. I started writing sketches when I was like 12... ...I wanted to write for like Fry and Laurie or something like that, Fry and Laurie style sketches, and then hide them all away in
12144-614: The BBC simply by saying: 'If we were young, we'd want to be them.'" From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the Mighty Boosh . After two years away from television, the Boosh returned in November 2007. Set in Naboo's second-hand shop below the flat, the third series drew approximately 1 million viewers with its first episode, and in light of its success, BBC Three broadcast an entire night of The Mighty Boosh on 22 March 2008, which included
12320-645: The Barry, and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award. We won loads. It was manic. We always thought we’d do a couple of years together and go our separate ways. We went from stages to the radio show to television to live shows. It went on and on.” Barratt has also commented that “Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us!... ...Luckily, we were together so we could laugh about it..." Fielding commented in 2015 that whilst creating Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy that "Originally I used to do all
12496-605: The Boosh returned to the Edinburgh Festival with a new show, Arctic Boosh , with Dave Brown acting as choreographer and photographer, as well as playing a variety of characters. Arctic Boosh sold out every night and was nominated for the Perrier Award . The show was directed by Stewart Lee . In 2000, the Boosh premiered their third stage show, Autoboosh , at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, adding Fielding's younger brother Michael to
12672-625: The Boosh, so we sort of came from that background. Lot of our friends were in bands." It has also been commented that Barratt "...had dropped out of an American studies course at Reading University" and Barratt has also commented that when he was seventeen "We went to stay with a friend of a friend’s uncle but we came back after three days. We thought we’d make inroads into the jazz scene in London – we’d read biographies about guys who got gigs at Ronnie Scott’s and got spotted and immediately taken into someone’s band. So we told our parents we were leaving home. They gave us two days and we lasted three...". It
12848-749: The DVDs were only released in Region 2 but as a result of a growing fan base in the U.S., the BBC rereleased in Region 1 , Series 1–3 individually on 21 July 2009, and a Special Edition Series 1–3 Boxset on 13 October 2009. On 18 September 2008, Canongate Books published The Mighty Book of Boosh , designed and compiled by Dave Brown and written by Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown, Richard Ayoade and Michael Fielding. The book includes original stories, crimps , concept art, behind-the-scenes photography, comics, and various other things, featuring old and new Mighty Boosh characters. On 1 October 2009,
13024-512: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1997)... ...Julian played King Dong's penis...", with Barratt replying "...an enormous penis...", and then with Fielding replying "...a perfect King Dong... ...then we thought lets do a show together." Sometime in around 1998 they then put on their first comedy show and it was commented by Nigel Coan with whom they collaborated with on Mighty Boosh that "They did their first gig at Oranje Boom Boom which
13200-616: The Hellfire Comedy nights next to the Wycombe Swan Theatre in High Wycombe , which is where Noel first met future Boosh co-creator, Julian Barratt". Whilst Barratt and Fielding were on The Jonathan Ross Show, Ross asked them "And did you perform as solo acts ever, did you do like stand up..." with Barratt responding "yeah, yeah, that's how we sort of met really on the circuit, doing stand up, yeah.", with Ross responding "But, but
13376-494: The Hen and Chickens, with Fielding commenting that "...cos it'd be stand up and people would come on and do straight stand up. And then we used to put potted plants all around the gig and music on... ...to try and make it into a sort of play... people couldn't believe the audacity. It got some sort of reputation as being sort of enigmatic but we're just really unprofessional. We didn't know anything about theatre or what you did." with Barratt responding to Fielding "Speak for yourself, I
13552-403: The Mighty Boosh "... almost didn't make it to television. Around 2000, Barratt and Fielding disappeared into development hell. They had done a sketch show for Radio 4, but no one was sure how to translate their act on to TV. That's until Steve Coogan, who had seen them in Edinburgh in 1999 when they were performing as Arctic Boosh, moved things along. His production company... ...sold the concept to
13728-585: The Mighty Boosh TV show, An evening with Noel Fielding and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Coan also directed Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy as well as helping to write it along with Fielding. Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the Mighty Boosh Live 2006 stage show. Brown also "...designed and compiled The Mighty Book of Boosh ..." as well as all
13904-421: The Mighty Boosh became a Television show The Mighty Boosh , which ran for three series on BBC Three from 2004 to 2007. The show generated a cult following and won awards. From February to April 2006 they went on tour around the UK with the stage show The Mighty Boosh Live and then toured the UK for a second time from September 2008 to January 2009 with The Mighty Boosh Live: Future Sailors Tour . During
14080-400: The Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the Mighty Boosh Live 2006 stage show. Brown also "...designed and compiled The Mighty Book of Boosh ..." as well as all the publishing output for the Mighty Boosh. It has been commented that Barratt "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh." with Barratt also commenting that "I write the music, eh, but we both sort of write, we both write
14256-445: The Mighty Boosh that "It was crazy cos we were just going.... ...it was never mean't to be, we were never mean't to be playing the O2 and Wembley and being on the cover of Time Out and... ...being on Jonathan Ross I dont think we ever thought that would happen... ...We always sort of just made it in our bedroom and then brought it out and stuff happened. We were as surprised as anyone when we won
14432-402: The Mighty Boosh with them commented further on their time at the Hen and chickens which is a theatre bar in Islington, London, "They would use the Hen and Chickens as this kind of... place to, a platform to just try stuff out and it was just a great little place they could do a regular spot... ...where they would probably write and have ideas in the week, try stuff out for half of that and then for
14608-481: The Noughties in which he and other British comedians discussed the comedy highlights of the noughties. Fielding produced his first solo series for Channel 4 network's E4 channel in 2011, as the broadcaster invested an additional £5 million in its comedy budget following the cancellation of reality show Big Brother . Fielding said of the project, tentatively titled Noel Fielding: Boopus : "I want to make something in
14784-429: The Perrier and we were surprised when it got put on telly. We were like 'Wow this is great' we weren't ever sort of planning it. Like... ..we didn't even know if we could make a living from it." Fielding has commented further that “We always thought we’d make one show and that’d be the end of it. But after we won the Perrier, everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to Melbourne and won
14960-516: The Plumber or the Gardener. The Mighty Boosh returned to radio on 22 October 2004, in a one-off comedy special for The Breezeblock , a show on BBC Radio 1 . Instead of the plot driven nature of their own series, this show featured improvised conversational comedy with Barratt, Fielding and Fulcher, combined with the show's usual mix of electronic music. On 15 November 2007, as part of the publicity for
15136-460: The UK and Ireland for a second time from September 2008 to February 2009. The show featured characters from all three series as well as the Boosh Band. They made appearances throughout the UK after their live shows, at after-parties held in different places in each city. The events were called "Outrage", after the catchphrase by Tony Harrison . From the success of Autoboosh , the BBC commissioned
15312-450: The ancient Roman peoples and the black-clad teenagers" and is set in LA in the 1990s. Goth icons include several bandleaders: Siouxsie Sioux , of Siouxsie and the Banshees; Robert Smith , of the Cure; Peter Murphy , of Bauhaus; Dave Vanian , of The Damned; Rozz Williams , of Christian Death; Olli Wisdom, leader of the band Specimen and keyboardist Jonathan Melton aka Jonny Slut, who evolved
15488-404: The animated The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad , and again in 1999. Throughout the evolution of the goth subculture, classic Romantic, Gothic and horror literature has played a significant role. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), and other tragic and Romantic writers have become as emblematic of
15664-466: The animation for the animated sequences that occurred in the show. Montreal 's Just For Laughs comedy festival had to be moved online, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. On 20 October 2020 Fielding and Jimmy Carr live streamed a conversation from their respective homes. Barratt and Fielding have commented on the beginning of the Mighty Boosh, with Barratt commenting that "We performed together for
15840-419: The bodies of their sleeping friends en route to breakfast." Fielding has also commented on interests he had when he was younger "Growing up I was quite funny, like a cheeky scamp. But I had no interest in being funny. I wanted to be an artist. When our teacher left, she wrote a poem about all her students and she said, 'Noel is really funny and can make the class laugh.' And then she said that my best friend Paul
16016-577: The caption, "There really wasn't enough Boosh this decade ! let's try and rectify that in the next one ;) x". The cast members also play smaller roles throughout the series, the roles listed above are their most frequently appearing characters. For a full list of characters, see the List of The Mighty Boosh characters . The Boosh, then consisting of only Barratt and Fielding, conceived The Mighty Boosh whilst working on Stewart Lee 's Edinburgh Festival show King Dong vs. Moby Dick in which they played
16192-458: The cast. Autoboosh won the festival's Barry Award . The Boosh returned to the stage in 2006, touring the UK for the first time. Though drawing heavily from their earlier material, the main story combined these elements into a new narrative. A recording of this show at the Brixton Academy was later released on DVD, before being broadcast on BBC Three on Boxing Day , 2007. The Boosh toured
16368-496: The characters torment themselves, but they also depicted a surreal world that focused on uncovering its splendour. These Chronicles assumed goth attitudes, but they were not intentionally created to represent the gothic subculture. Their romance, beauty, and erotic appeal attracted many goth readers, making her works popular from the 1980s through the 1990s. While Goth has embraced Vampire literature both in its 19th century form and in its later incarnations, Rice's postmodern take on
16544-569: The circuit, doing stand up, yeah.", with Ross responding "But, but was it similar to the Boosh stuff, 'cos the Boosh stuff it seems to be so much of a partnership I can't imagine it being taken apart and being served up separately.", with Barratt responding that "We were both doing quite surreal stuff, eh...", with Fielding adding "It was quite weird wasn't it, alot weirder than the show in a way...", with Barratt continuing "...but we sort of, when we first met we kind of liked each other's comedy but we didn't know that it would work, we didn't know whether it
16720-608: The coming of Punk Gothique? With Bauhaus flying in on similar wings could it be the next big thing?" The F Club night in Leeds in Northern England, which had opened in 1977 firstly as a punk club, became instrumental to the development of the goth subculture in the 1980s. In July 1982, the opening of the Batcave in London 's Soho provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which would be briefly labelled "positive punk" by
16896-489: The concept to the BBC simply by saying: 'If we were young, we'd want to be them.'" The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh is often described as being surreal , as well as being escapist and new wave comedy. Fielding has further commented that "I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... ...eccentric... ...and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation... ...It's such
17072-431: The emergence of many new acts, as well as new goth-centric US record labels such as Cleopatra Records , among others. According to Dave Simpson of The Guardian , "[I]n the 90s, goths all but disappeared as dance music became the dominant youth cult". As a result, the goth movement went underground and fractured into cyber goth , shock rock , industrial metal , gothic metal , and Medieval folk metal. Marilyn Manson
17248-668: The entire series 3 as well as a broadcast of The Mighty Boosh Live . On 8 February 2012, whilst sledging, Noel Fielding said that he and Barratt had discussed plans to make a Mighty Boosh film. On 5 July 2008, the Boosh held their own festival in the Hop Farm in Kent. It featured musical acts, Robots in Disguise , The Charlatans , The Kills , Gary Numan , and The Mighty Boosh Band, as well as comedy acts Frankie Boyle and Ross Noble . According to an official MySpace page for PieFace Records (the fictitious music label mentioned throughout
17424-461: The fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly "lack[ing] a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor (like Anne Rice's protagonists) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts", many of these so-called "human counterparts" identified with
17600-649: The first television series of The Mighty Boosh for BBC Three, before it moved to BBC Two in November that same year. Though each episode invariably starts and ends in Dixon Bainbridge's dilapidated zoo, the "Zooniverse", the characters of Vince and Howard often depart for other locations, such as the Arctic tundra and limbo . A second series, shown in July 2005, saw Howard and Vince sharing Naboo's flat in Dalston with previously minor characters Naboo and his familiar , Bollo,
17776-419: The first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . Fielding has further commented that "'I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... ...eccentric... ...and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation... ...It's such a weird shambles of stuff.'" It was also commented that
17952-446: The first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . Ayoade returned in the second and third series as a belligerent shaman named Saboo . The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child. All three of the Mighty Boosh stage shows – The Mighty Boosh (1998), Arctic Boosh (1999) and Autoboosh (2000) – were taken to
18128-441: The first time in... ... was it in that show by Stuart Lee?", with Fielding replying "yeah, Stuart Lees show, Moby Dick and King Dong (At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1997)... ...Julian played King Dong's penis...", with Barratt replying "...an enormous penis...", and then with Fielding replying "...a perfect King Dong... ...then we thought lets do a show together." Sometime around 1998 they then put on their first comedy show and it
18304-543: The forefront of what has been dubbed the "Succubus Chic" trend of 2023. Gothic fashion is marked by conspicuously dark, antiquated, and homogeneous features. It is stereotyped as eerie, mysterious, complex, and exotic. A dark, sometimes morbid fashion and style of dress , typical gothic fashion includes colored black hair and black period-styled clothing. Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernail polish, most especially black. Styles are often borrowed from punk fashion and—more currently—from
18480-480: The gig and music on... ...to try and make it into a sort of play... people couldn't believe the audacity. It got some sort of reputation as being sort of enigmatic but we're just really unprofessional. We didn't know anything about theatre or what you did." with Barratt responding to Fielding "Speak for yourself, I was in a Sartre play at university I'll have you know. Huis Clos ." Fielding has commented further on their first live show, The Mighty Boosh , “Julian had
18656-714: The gothic rock genre included Bauhaus, early Adam and the Ants , the Cure , the Birthday Party , Southern Death Cult , Specimen , Sex Gang Children , UK Decay , Virgin Prunes , Killing Joke , and the Damned . Near the peak of this first generation of the gothic scene in 1983, The Face 's Paul Rambali recalled "several strong Gothic characteristics" in the music of Joy Division. In 1984, Joy Division's bassist Peter Hook named Play Dead as one of their heirs: "If you listen to
18832-464: The graphics area and support for many art organisations. In October 2011, Fielding released an art book called Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton , which he produced along with The Mighty Boosh cast member Dave Brown . It features many of his old and new paintings, drawings and photography. Fielding's video installation of The Jelly Fox was shown at the Saatchi Gallery, and in 2012 he created
19008-471: The hair that Michael had as a child. From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the Mighty Boosh . At Bill Bailey 's request, Fielding stood in as a team captain for three episodes during series 21 of Never Mind the Buzzcocks . He also achieved a record for the highest team score ever on the show. When Bailey returned, presenter Simon Amstell made various jokes about Fielding's departure. In 2009, Bailey left
19184-548: The involvement of new characters (e.g. Sammy the Crab, or Lester Corncrake etc.) rather than just the two of them. Although BBC America originally aired only series 1 in the U.S (all episodes in their entirety), The Mighty Boosh began airing in North America on Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim block (with up to 6 minutes cut from each episode), starting 29 March 2009 with the third series. In February 2016 series 1 of The Mighty Boosh
19360-474: The links between blackness and the gothic; themes and images of "premonitions, curses, prophecies, spells, veils, demonic possessions, graves, skeletons" are present, suggesting gothic influence. Other classic themes of the gothic are present in the novel, such as transgression and unstable identities of race, class, gender, and nationality. The re-imagining of the vampire continued with the release of Poppy Z. Brite 's book Lost Souls in October 1992. Despite
19536-489: The lyrics, and we, I do the music mostly..." with Fielding replying to Barratt that "I have a go at the melodies then he goes away and makes it..." and then with Barratt replying "...tweaks, tweaks it a bit". Fielding also made drawings that formed a basis for the characters costumes and make-up in the Mighty boosh TV show. Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade , Matt Berry and Ivanna Zorn. In 2002 during
19712-446: The main characters. Nigel animates everything like a futuristic goose." Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions" with Nigel Coan who, along with Fielding and Zorn, helped to animate series 1 and 2 of the Mighty Boosh TV show, An evening with Noel Fielding and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Coan also directed Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy as well as helping to write it along with Fielding. Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for
19888-550: The male "goth look", goth historian Pete Scathe draws a distinction between the Sid Vicious archetype of black spiky hair and black leather jacket in contrast to the gender ambiguous individuals wearing makeup. The first is the early goth gig-going look, which was essentially punk, whereas the second evolved into the Batcave nightclub look. Early goth gigs were often very hectic affairs, and the audience dressed accordingly. In contrast to
20064-484: The modern state of the goth scene around the world, including South America , Japan , and mainland Asia . His previous 1997 release, Hex Files: The Goth Bible , similarly took an international look at the subculture. In the US, Propaganda was a gothic subculture magazine founded in 1982. In Italy, Ver Sacrum covers the Italian goth scene, including fashion, sexuality, music, art and literature. Some magazines, such as
20240-414: The more "normal" kids in school. The sketch featured series regulars Will Ferrell , Molly Shannon , and Chris Kattan . A prominent American literary influence on the gothic scene was provided by Anne Rice 's re-imagining of the vampire in 1976. In The Vampire Chronicles , Rice's characters were depicted as self-tormentors who struggled with alienation, loneliness, and the human condition. Not only did
20416-577: The mythologies that proved influential in Goth were Celtic mythology , Christian mythology , Egyptian mythology , and various traditions of Paganism . The figures that the movement counted among its historic canon of ancestors were equally diverse. They included the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980). Writers that have had
20592-436: The new Goodies ... ...What they take from the classic Seventies series is more the spirit of... ...silly and surreal comedy." Fielding has commented on their shared interest in music that "I was sort of a bit more rock n roll and pop and he [Julian Barratt] was a bit more jazz but then we sort of met in the middle with electro... but Julian was... I think he left univeristy to join a band, we were both in bands before we were in
20768-580: The now-defunct Dark Realms and Goth Is Dead included goth fiction and poetry. Other magazines cover fashion (e.g., Gothic Beauty ); music (e.g., Severance ) or culture and lifestyle (e.g., Althaus e-zine). On 31 October 2011, ECW Press published the Encyclopedia Gothica written by author and poet Liisa Ladouceur with illustrations done by Gary Pullin. This non-fiction book describes over 600 words and phrases relevant to Goth subculture. Brian Craddock's 2017 novel Eucalyptus Goth charts
20944-540: The origins of the dark romantic style are found in the " Victorian cult of mourning". Valerie Steele is an expert in the history of the style. Goth fashion has a reciprocal relationship with the fashion world. In the later part of the first decade of the 21st century, designers such as Alexander McQueen , Anna Sui , Rick Owens , Gareth Pugh , Ann Demeulemeester , Philipp Plein , Hedi Slimane , John Richmond , John Galliano , Olivier Theyskens and Yohji Yamamoto brought elements of goth to runways. This
21120-468: The paintings for the animations. This meant that I was filming in the day and staying up untill 5 am painting. After three weeks of this I started to feel unusual so Ivana Zorn, who is Nigel Coan's partner, now does a majority of the painting and I just design the main characters. Nigel animates everything like a futuristic goose." Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions" with Nigel Coan who, along with Fielding and Zorn, helped to animate series 1 and 2 of
21296-475: The plot focused on characters ill-fated, internally conflicted, and innocently victimized by harassing malicious figures. In addition to the dismal plot focuses, the literary tradition of the gothic was to also focus on individual characters that were gradually going insane. English author Horace Walpole , with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre. The American Revolutionary War -era "American Gothic" story of
21472-469: The premier of their third series the same day, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding returned to Radio 1, this time on Jo Whiley 's Live Lounge . On 9 April 2019, it was announced that The Mighty Boosh will be the UK ambassadors for the Record Store Day at 13 April 2019, a show on BBC Radio 1 . In May 2004, after the success of the Boosh pilot, Steve Coogan 's company, Baby Cow Productions , produced
21648-537: The process of moving the show from the stage to TV, with Barratt commenting "...we wanted to get on TV but it'd been a lot of trouble because they thought it was eh, the scripts we sort of gave them were sort of like massive epic adventures that sounded like it would cost them a million pounds to make so they said this isn't, I don't know how this is going to work on stage, well actually what happened is...' with Fielding adding "...'We wrote it for Channel 4 originally'" and Barratt replying "[we spoke to them]...before we'd done
21824-433: The publishing output for the Mighty Boosh. It has been commented that Barratt "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh." with Barratt also commenting that "I write the music, eh, but we both sort of write, we both write the lyrics, and we, I do the music mostly..." with Fielding replying to Barratt that "I have a go at the melodies then he goes away and makes it..." and then with Barratt replying "...tweaks, tweaks it
22000-585: The radio show Fielding and Barratt were given a half-hour television pilot of the same name, and Barratt has commented that "...we wanted to get on TV but it'd been a lot of trouble because they thought it was eh, the scripts we sort of gave them were sort of like massive epic adeventures that sounded like it would cost them a million pounds to make so they said this isn't, I dont know how this is going to work on stage, well actually what happened is...", with Fielding adding "We wrote it for Channel 4 originally...", and Barratt replying "[we spoke to them]...before we'd done
22176-428: The rest of it, it would just be improv and mucking about. Then they took the, um, took The Mighty Boosh up to Edinburgh and then two more shows Arctic Boosh (1999) , Autoboosh (2000) ...". Fielding and Barratt commented on their time at the Hen and Chickens, with Fielding commenting that "...cos it'd be stand up and people would come on and do straight stand up. And then we used to put potted plants all around
22352-426: The rest of it, it would just be improv and mucking about. Then they took the, um, took The Mighty Boosh up to Edinburgh and then two more shows Arctic Boosh (1999) , Autoboosh (2000) ...". Both Michael Fielding and Richard Ayoade appeared in a performance of the Mighty Boosh at the Hen and Chickens in 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot. Fielding and Barratt have commented on their time at
22528-453: The same bill together. I was on first and usually you can only have about one weird comedian on a line-up. He’d been doing it a bit longer than me... [Barratt was like]'...Let’s write together'. I’ve been stuck with him ever since and that was about eight years ago or something." It has also been commented that whilst Fielding and Dave Brown were both art students at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education "They were both regular visitors to
22704-480: The same comedy bill at a pub in north London. Around 1998, they performed their first comedy show together in London which was a mix of stand up and sketch comedy, then later in 1998 they took the show, The Mighty Boosh , to the Edinburgh fringe festival and returned again in 1999 with Arctic Boosh and in 2000 with Autoboosh . In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live , called The Boosh later transferring to BBC radio 4. In 2004,
22880-615: The same comedy bill at a pub in north London. In 2006 Fielding commented that "We were doing stand-up and were on the same bill together. I was on first and usually you can only have about one weird comedian on a line-up. He'd been doing it a bit longer than me... [Barratt was like] '...Let's write together'. I've been stuck with him ever since and that was about eight years ago or something." Whilst Barratt and Fielding were on The Jonathan Ross Show, Ross asked them "And did you perform as solo acts ever, did you do like stand up..." with Barratt responding "yeah, yeah, that's how we sort of met really on
23056-484: The same course as Fielding and all three shared a student house together. After they had lived together in student housing, Fielding, Brown and Coan then later lived together in a flat in Hackney in London. It has been commented that Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt first met when in 1997 they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London. In 2006 Fielding commented that "We were doing stand-up and were on
23232-478: The same course as Fielding and all three shared a student house together. Nigel Coan also collaborated with Fielding on the Mighty Boosh. After they had lived together in student housing whilst at Buckinghamshire College, Fielding, Brown and Coan also later lived together in a flat in Hackney, London. Fielding began performing comedy while at university and he began performing stand up when he graduated in 1995. In 2013 he commented "I went to art school and stuff and by
23408-474: The same era, and has continued to diversify and spread throughout the world. Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from 19th-century Gothic fiction and from horror films . The scene is centered on music festivals, nightclubs, and organized meetings, especially in Western Europe . The subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics and fashion. The music preferred by goths includes
23584-494: The series), Barratt and Fielding are to release an album of music from the show, "along with extras, versions, remixes and rare unreleased stuff all to be released later in the year on their own label—this one". In interviews since, The Mighty Boosh have confirmed they will be releasing an album of their music. On 21 October 2013 episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks , Fielding stated that the Boosh have recorded an album, but don't know when it will be released. Previously most of
23760-419: The setting changes, with the first series set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat and the third in a secondhand shop in Dalston called Nabootique. In 2006 Fielding and Barratt went on tour with a new theatre show The Mighty Boosh Live . Fielding has commented in relation to touring that "The touring lifestyle is quite hard... ...In the boosh tour we did a 100 day tour and we had one day off
23936-713: The show and Fielding became one of the regular team captains. Between 2006 to 2017 Fielding appeared thirteen times on the quiz show The Big Fat Quiz of the Year as well as its spin-off shows The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz , The Big Fat Quiz of the Decade and the The Big Fat Quiz of Everything . He appeared on the quiz show three times with Russell Brand , nine times with Richard Ayoade and once with Eddie Izzard. In 2011, he took part in Catherine Tate 's TV movie Laughing at
24112-410: The spectrum varies from erotic artwork to romantic images of vampires or ghosts. There is a marked preference for dark colours and sentiments, similar to Gothic fiction. At the end of the 19th century, painters like John Everett Millais and John Ruskin invented a new kind of Gothic. Some people credit Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins , perhaps best known for his 1956 song " I Put A Spell on You ", as
24288-584: The spirit of Spike Milligan or the Kenny Everett Show but using modern techniques. Blending filmed comedy with animation. Television needs a madman! I want the show to be psychedelic and beautiful but have charm and personality. If Dalí made a show hopefully it would look like this." The show began broadcasting in January 2012, titled Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . The show's second series, titled Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2: Tales From Painted Hawaii ,
24464-416: The subculture as the use of dark eyeliner or dressing in black. Baudelaire, in fact, in his preface to Les Fleurs du mal ( Flowers of Evil ) penned lines that could serve as a sort of goth malediction: C'est l'Ennui! —l'œil chargé d'un pleur involontaire, Il rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka. Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat, —Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère! It
24640-418: The subculture took the connection more seriously. As a result, morbid, supernatural and occult themes became more noticeably serious in the subculture. The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by The Hunger , a 1983 vampire film starring David Bowie , Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon . The film featured gothic rock group Bauhaus performing Bela Lugosi's Dead in
24816-478: The teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print. Upon release of a special 10th anniversary edition of Lost Souls , Publishers Weekly —the same periodical that criticized the novel's "amorality" a decade prior—deemed it a "modern horror classic" and acknowledged that Brite established a "cult audience". The 2002 release 21st Century Goth by Mick Mercer , an author, noted music journalist and leading historian of gothic rock, explored
24992-498: The time I came out I started doing stand up. I spose I've probably been doing this now for about 17 years, 18 years... ...I've been doing it for a long time, me and Julian [Julian Barratt] were talking about it, it's weird. That's why it's sort of hilarious when, you know in a funny kind of way, you know, you spend twenty years of your life trying to make people laugh and it's quite a hard thing to do." In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Julian Barratt when they both appeared on
25168-424: The time. They just let me eat when I wanted. I didn't have to eat at the table." and further that "I think they had a lot of parties when i was a kid.... ...I remember my mum and dad having parties where you know someone would turn up and bring the taxi driver in and he would stay for two days.... ...on the sofa." It was also commented that "...they would party through the night and he [Fielding] would have to step over
25344-575: The upcoming series of The Great British Bake Off alongside Sandi Toksvig . Fielding appeared as a contestant on Series 4 of the Dave comedy panel game Taskmaster in 2017, hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne : he was the overall series winner. In January 2018, he was a panellist on QI alongside Russell Brand and Aisling Bea . In 2024, Fielding played Dick Turpin in an Apple TV+ comedy series, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin . According to Neil Gaiman 's blog , Fielding
25520-475: The vampire mythos has had a "special resonance" in the subculture. Her vampire novels feature intense emotions, period clothing, and "cultured decadence". Her vampires are socially alienated monsters, but they are also stunningly attractive. Rice's goth readers tend to envision themselves in much the same terms and view characters like Lestat de Lioncourt as role models . Richard Wright 's novel Native Son contains gothic imagery and themes that demonstrate
25696-490: The wake of Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees". Bauhaus's first single issued in 1979, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", is generally credited as the starting point of the gothic rock genre. In 1979, Sounds described Joy Division as "Gothic" and "theatrical". In February 1980, Melody Maker qualified the same band as "masters of this Gothic gloom". Critic Jon Savage would later say that their singer Ian Curtis wrote "the definitive Northern Gothic statement". However, it
25872-494: Was "a new austere sense of authority" in the music, with a "dank neo-Gothic sound". Later that year, the term was also used by Joy Division's manager, Tony Wilson on 15 September in an interview for the BBC TV programme's Something Else . Wilson described Joy Division as "gothic" compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band. The term was later applied to "newer bands such as Bauhaus who had arrived in
26048-429: Was 10 he was only 28, 29, so, thats mind blowing. When i was 20 he was only in his late 30s, he was my age now, so I've sort of had some brilliant years out of my mum and dad you know like, and also they were quite young and tolerant and easy going and up for doing stuff." When Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Fielding was mostly raised by his grandmother. He describes his grandmother as someone he had
26224-407: Was a good artist... ...When you're a kid the idea that you're funny means nothing to you. You're like 'What's that, what am I going to use that for?'... ...I wanted to be Picasso." At the age of 13 Fielding began writing comedy sketches and he has commented that "I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you could just send sketches to
26400-530: Was also commented that "...both [Fielding and Barratt] had fathers who loved Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, and who encouraged their sons to avoid getting proper jobs." On his beginnings in stand up Barratt has commented that "I was never like Noel [Fielding] or Lee Mack, who are just funny all the time. No one ever said to me, you should be a comedian mate. But I watched a lot of stand-up at uni – people like Mark Lamarr, Sean Hughes, Eddie Izzard, just standing on
26576-574: Was coined by music critic John Stickney in 1967 to describe a meeting he had with Jim Morrison in a dimly lit wine-cellar, which he called "the perfect room to honor the Gothic rock of the Doors ". That same year, the Velvet Underground song " All Tomorrow's Parties " created a kind of "mesmerizing gothic-rock masterpiece" according to music historian Kurt Loder . In the late 1970s, the gothic adjective
26752-429: Was commented that "They did their first gig at Oranje Boom Boom which is sort of in Chinatown in London, and ah, which was ridiculous, I mean it was really, like, ridiculous costumes and um, they didn't know what... they really [didn't] know what they were doing... ...It was very raw, but it was, it was hilarious... ...They thought lets do a show, an Edinburgh show. I think they started to think about doing that. So they got
26928-539: Was described as "Haute Goth" by Cintra Wilson in the New York Times . Thierry Mugler , Claude Montana , Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix have also been associated with the fashion trend. In Spring 2004, Riccardo Tisci , Jean Paul Gaultier, Raf Simons and Stefano Pilati dressed their models as "glamorous ghouls dressed in form-fitting suits and coal-tinted cocktail dresses". Swedish designer Helena Horstedt and jewelry artist Hanna Hedman also practice
27104-509: Was directed by Edgar Wright and served as the inspiration for the opening sequence of his film Baby Driver (2017). He also made a brief appearance in the video for Razorlight 's " In the Morning ". He appeared in music videos for the Robots in Disguise songs "Girl" (alongside Chris Corner who was, at the time, boyfriend to Sue Denim ), "The Tears", and "Turn It Up". In 2009, Noel was involved in
27280-447: Was first broadcast on E4 in 2014. Also in 2011, Fielding performed Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" dance routine for Series 3 of Let's Dance for Comic Relief , and reached the grand final. In 2010 and 2014, he took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala , a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital . In March 2017, it was revealed that Fielding would co-host
27456-510: Was followed by six of Barratt and Fielding's favourite episodes from the three series: " Party ", " The Power of the Crimp ", " The Nightmare of Milky Joe ", " The Priest and the Beast ", " The Legend of Old Gregg ", and " Tundra ". The pair also appeared in live links throughout the night, in a similar style to the openings of Series 1 episodes. On 23 December 2008, BBC3 held a Merry Booshmas Party featuring
27632-583: Was formed in 2012 to provide music for the TV Show Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Fielding was born in the Westminster area of London on 21 May 1973, the son of Royal Mail manager Ray Fielding (born 1953) and Yvonne Fagan. He is of French descent through his grandmother. He grew up in Mitcham , Southwest London and on his upbringing Fielding commented in 2013 that "My dad was so young, you know when I
27808-463: Was gonna cancel each other out and make....", with Fielding responding "Yeah, too weird to make sort of, straight...", with Barratt continuing "...might just become geography or something else or... this sort of thing, but it worked for some reason...", with Fielding adding "We had quite a good chemistry straight away." On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler whilst Fielding used
27984-460: Was gonna cancel each other out and make....", with Fielding responding "Yeah, too weird to make sort of, straight...", with Barratt continuing "...might just become geography or something else or... this sort of thing, but it worked for some reason...", with Fielding adding "We had quite a good chemistry straight away." On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler while Fielding used
28160-691: Was hailed in The Times as a "new magestrial survey", and Cathi Unsworth 's Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth was praised in Mojo as a "superb history of the dark and all its risings". Visual contemporary graphic artists with this aesthetic include Gerald Brom , Dave McKean , and Trevor Brown as well as illustrators Edward Gorey , Charles Addams , Lorin Morgan-Richards , and James O'Barr . The artwork of Polish surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński
28336-402: Was in a Sartre play at university I'll have you know. Huis Clos ." Fielding has commented further on their first live show, The Mighty Boosh , “Julian had a song about a mammoth that he wanted to sing to a girl in the audience, and I had a few ideas for some weird sketches... ...We started working on our ideas together... ...We were zookeepers and we got sucked through our bosses' eyes and into
28512-501: Was it similar to the Boosh stuff, 'cos the Boosh stuff it seems to be so much of a partnership I can't imagine it being taken apart and being served up separately.", with Barratt responding that "We were both doing quite surreal stuff, eh...", with Fielding adding "It was quite weird wasn't it, a lot weirder than the show in a way...", with Barratt continuing "...but we sort of, when we first met we kind of liked each others comedy but we didn't know that it would work, we didn't know whether it
28688-463: Was made available to watch via the online service BBC iPlayer for six weeks; this included every episode minus the final episode of the first series 'Hitcher'. On 22 March 2008, BBC Three broadcast a whole night of The Mighty Boosh from 9:05 pm, starting with a new documentary titled The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time and Space , documenting the history of the Boosh from their first amateur performances to their then-upcoming 2008 tour. This
28864-467: Was manic. We always thought we'd do a couple of years together and go our separate ways. We went from stages to the radio show to television to live shows. It went on and on.” Barratt has also commented that “Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us!... ...Luckily, we were together so we could laugh about it..." Fielding commented in 2015 that
29040-415: Was never mean't to be, we were never mean't to be playing the O2 and Wembley and being on the cover of Time Out and... ...being on Jonathan Ross I don't think we ever thought that would happen... ...We always sort of just made it in our bedroom and then brought it out and stuff happened. We were as surprised as anyone when we won the Perrier and we were surprised when it got put on telly. We were like 'Wow this
29216-418: Was not until the early 1980s that gothic rock became a coherent music subgenre within post-punk, and followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognizable movement. They may have taken the "goth" mantle from a 1981 article published in UK rock weekly Sounds : "The face of Punk Gothique", written by Steve Keaton. In a text about the audience of UK Decay , Keaton asked: "Could this be
29392-630: Was particularly influential on the dress style of the gothic rock scene; Paul Morley of NME described Siouxsie and the Banshees ' 1980 gig at Futurama: "[Siouxsie was] modeling her newest outfit, the one that will influence how all the girls dress over the next few months. About half the girls at Leeds had used Sioux as a basis for their appearance, hair to ankle". Robert Smith , Musidora , Bela Lugosi , Bettie Page , Vampira , Morticia Addams , Nico , Rozz Williams , David Bowie and Lux Interior are also style icons. The 1980s established designers such as Drew Bernstein of Lip Service , and
29568-444: Was quite bohemian... ...I think with my brother they were like... '...we probably shouldn't let him cook his own dinner of mash potato on toast at four in the morning. He's like six.'... ...Yeah my mum 'n' dad were pretty liberal about stuff." Fielding has also commented that "My parents had lots of parties... ...They were hopelessly bohemian. ...They were just 18 when they had me... ...they let me stay up. They had their mates there all
29744-565: Was reported that Fielding, then 33 and a close friend of Russell Brand , had been seen in nightclubs, kissing the then-16 Pixie Geldof after reportedly dating her year-older sister the year prior. The next month, Plume ended the relationship as a result of the coverage of his relationship with the schoolgirl.. The Mighty Boosh The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding . Developed from three stage shows, The Mighty Boosh , Arctic Boosh (1999) and Autoboosh (2000) as well as
29920-429: Was scheduled to appear in the film Stardust , but had to drop out due to ill health. In November 2007, Fielding starred in five episodes of BBC Radio 2 show Vic Reeves' House Arrest as a local vagrant who knocks on Reeves' door once a week to ask for work. Fielding has appeared in several music videos, including Mint Royale 's "Blue Song", alongside Julian Barratt , Nick Frost and Michael Smiley . The video
30096-502: Was seen as a "goth-shock icon" by Spin . The Goth subculture of the 1980s drew inspiration from a variety of sources. Some of them were modern or contemporary, others were centuries-old or ancient. Michael Bibby and Lauren M. E. Goodlad liken the subculture to a bricolage . Among the music-subcultures that influenced it were punk , new wave , and glam . But it also drew inspiration from B-movies , Gothic literature , horror films , vampire cults and traditional mythology . Among
30272-676: Was seventeen "We went to stay with a friend of a friend's uncle but we came back after three days. We thought we'd make inroads into the jazz scene in London – we'd read biographies about guys who got gigs at Ronnie Scott's and got spotted and immediately taken into someone's band. So we told our parents we were leaving home. They gave us two days and we lasted three...". It has also been commented that "...both [Fielding and Barratt] had fathers who loved Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, and who encouraged their sons to avoid getting proper jobs." They also found they both shared common interests in comedy including Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. In 2010, Fielding
30448-571: Was supposed to perform a solo tour across the country. It was cancelled so he could concentrate on writing The Mighty Boosh film with Julian Barratt and creating an album. Fielding announced via Twitter that he was too busy to do the tour. From 2014 to 2015 Fielding toured the UK and Australia with a new comedy show An Evening With Noel Fielding that included both stand up comedy and sketch comedy and along with Fielding included performances from his brother Michael Fielding and long term collaborator Tom Meeten. Mighty Boosh collaborator Nigel Coan created
30624-653: Was the one who told me I should go into comedy. I was 19 when I was studying there, I had quite a good time actually... ." Whilst studying at Croydon Art College Fielding met Mighty Boosh collaborator Dave Brown . Then from 1992 to 1995 Fielding studied for a BA in Graphic Design and Advertising at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education in High Wycombe , graduating in 1995. In 2011 Fielding received an honorary master's from Buckinghamshire College now known as Buckinghamshire New University . Whilst at Buckinghamshire College both Dave Brown and Nigel Coan were studying
30800-501: Was then commissioned for BBC Three, directed by Paul King and broadcast in 2004, with a second series of 6 episodes the next year. The second series moved away from the zoo setting to show Howard , Vince , Naboo the shaman and Bollo the talking ape living in a flat in Dalston . In 2006, the Boosh returned to theatre with The Mighty Boosh Live , which featured a new story entitled "The Ruby of Kukundu". Fielding has commented in relation to touring that "The touring lifestyle
30976-480: Was used to describe the atmosphere of post-punk bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees , Magazine , and Joy Division . In a live review about a Siouxsie and the Banshees' concert in July 1978, critic Nick Kent wrote, concerning their music, "[P]arallels and comparisons can now be drawn with gothic rock architects like the Doors and, certainly, early Velvet Underground". In March 1979, in his review of Magazine's second album Secondhand Daylight , Kent noted there
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