Questions For Mike Fielding (Naboo From The Mighty Boosh)

So it looks like I have the interview with Mike Fielding, unless something drastically changes within the next day...which it hopefully won't !

But because I like getting people involved and I know there is a lot of people who are fans of The Mighty Boosh out there, I am giving you lot the chance to submit questions to the man himself, if it's good enough it may get used and you're name will be mentioned. As the interview is being filmed , you will be able to see his reply! How cool will that be? Extremely ;D

So if you would like to ask a question, please leave it below with your name and then come back onto the blog sometime on Saturday and you'll be able to see the finished product. There is no excuse to not ask a question as you do not have to register to comment! So yea, get thinking of questions, Deadline is : Tomorrow (Thursday 29th October) at 10.00pm

Tom
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MUSIC: Mr Hudson - Nottingham Rock City : 25/10/09 (Live)

Hands down, Mr Hudson is cool. He looks cool, he acts cool and he has cool celebrity friends. But with many of his latest album reviews not in his favour, how does he bode live?

From the moment his band start playing, you are lost in a frenzy of kids vibrating under the drum beat. His new album has only been out for a week, yet a large amount of the audience were singing along to his new songs. Seeing as he is only the support act on the bill this evening, you wouldn’t expect the response he got. His interaction with the crowd was impeccable, thanking them for making him feel less like the ‘mardy bum’ he had felt like in the afternoon, the crowd were going wild for him and you could see his happiness – after waiting since 2005, his music was getting the attention he wanted and deservedly so.

Whilst in the past Mr Hudson has failed to gain wide exposure, Kanye West has made him popular with one of the songs of the summer but his amazing live rendition of ‘Supernova’ minus the Kanye West vocals shows he doesn’t need Kanye or others involved vocally, Mr Hudson has finally arrived and is hopefully here to stay.

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MOVIES: Horsemen [18]

Horsemen revolves around Aidan Breslin, a detective played by Dennis Quaid who is called in to investigate a murder in which all the victims teeth were left at the crime scene with the sentence ‘Come and See’ written around the area four times. This leads inevitably to a series of murders connected with the story of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the bible.

This is a film that seemingly can’t decide what genre it fits into, whilst it starts off looking promising as a general thriller, the extreme violence and torture scenes soon switches it to a gorefest. A particular scene involving a homosexual killing himself with a saw is particularly gruesome and offensive. The movie wasn’t even backed up by a good script with many inconsistencies throughout.

However, within the dark were lights shining, such as Ziyi Zhang who plays Kristin, the supposed grieving daughter of a victim with such flare and passion but she could not bring this movie back. The final straw was how Horsemen climaxed, it ends so abruptly with no adequate conclusion that you’re left confused about what has just happened.

Horsemen is a film that had all likelihood that it would be good, with big name actors being involved and a good synopsis, but it proved that without a well thought out script a film is nothing.

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There is a reason the Paolo Nutini and Enter Shikari reviews were a bit delayed, I went to Cornwall fully intending to still publish the reviews but not realising that Sennen Cove doesn't seem to have any access to the internet at all =/ It was quite good though, especially finding the sourest sweet I have ever tasted literally burning your tongue as soon as it touched!

However, I am now back and ready for business, hopefully this very evening there will be two more reviews: Horsemen (the movie) and Mr Hudson live. If one or both aren't on tonight, feel free to slap me and then wait, they'll definately be on in the next two days! Then before Halloween, I'm doing a comparison of two of the UK's scariest attractions! That's when I finish this backcatalogue of reviews that seem to have gathered up with me writing them all as fast as I can.

Once that happens, I look to the future, I'm in talks to review Soft Toy Emergency, Frankmusik and also interview Mike Fielding (Naboo from The Mighty Boosh), all these COULD be coming up, no guarantees but we'll see!

Over and out,
Tom Price
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MUSIC: Enter Shikari : Camden Roundhouse - 10/10/09 (Live)

For those of you who may not have been to a gig, it starts off with one or two support bands playing before the main act. Whilst at most gigs, crowds grin and bite their tongue if a support band isn’t to their taste, Enter Shikari fans haven’t got that ability within them apparently. True Tiger were the victim of an onslaught that came from the crowd. Glowsticks were encouraged to be thrown, but as the crowd began jeering and demanding the next support act whilst sticking their fingers up at the band, you couldn’t help but feel sorry for True Tiger – my hat goes off to them for sticking it out and finishing their set, yet this incident left me a bit apprehensive for how the night would turn out.

It turns out I needn’t have worried, the crowd was relatively calm, which was unusual as they should have been going mental! The music is untouchable and Enter Shikari have a fantastic ability to perform perfectly live, however the live presence just didn’t seem to be there. Some would say this is due to their new album ‘Common Dreads’ which seems to be stepping away from the Metalcore of their ‘Take to the Skies’ debut, however the new songs slide in perfectly adjacent with the old songs, especially Zzzonked which was astounding. It’s also unfair to say that the band aren’t trying, they put their all into playing their songs live as they obviously did when writing them, with the band being political in their messages. There just didn’t seem to be anything particularly special about the performance.

I was quite happy later on then to be informed by a fan that this wasn’t one of their best gigs, she in fact put it that this was one of the worst out of the tens of times she has seen them. Maybe they had a bad night in Camden, maybe this could have been due to the fact they’re friends with True Tiger who the crowd had thrown so much abuse at. Hopefully opportunity will rise for me to see Enter Shikari again and see them do as good as I’ve been told they can, I will just have to wait until then.

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MUSIC: Paolo Nutini : Nottingham Rock City - 28/09/09 (Live)

Paolo Nutini is only at the tender age of 22, yet when he walks casually onto the stage as his band The Vipers play there is no fragility showing, just pure love. Love for music.

There is something strange about his persona, he does not seem to be the most confident person in music – hardly talking to the audience at all within the hour and a half set, yet on the other hand when he’s singing, confidence seems to ooze out of him leaving the audience mesmerized. His pure passion for what he is doing is contagious; people who may not have been the greatest fan of Paolo before the gig were leaving as in love with his music as he is.

His show itself would not be out of place in a jazz club, playing mainly songs off his latest album ‘Sunny Side Up’ or classic tracks reworked to sound like his new album, the rhythm is intensely catchy. You can see his appeal as the audience are embraced by the songs but the thing that is most fascinating as you look around the audience is the total variety of people. You have people from all works of life, young and old, those that listen to Radio One and those that listen to Radio Two – all coming together because Paolo’s songs cannot fail to connect with you; they preach messages of love and happiness which touches everyone who listens to the lyrics.

As his hand moves along with the music and Paolo crouches over the microphone, you can see he is in his own little world, and with a live performance like this - what a nice little world it must be.

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COMEDY: Rhod Gilbert - And The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst : Loughborough Town Hall : 05/10/09 (Live)

To write a review of Rhod Gilbert, who within 10 minutes of his set had launched his anger straight towards the press and their reviews of his personality, is somewhat unnerving. Should I take it as a reason to lay into him and his anger problems which are a main theme to his new show or do I do the opposite, being unordinarily nice to him which would make me one of the only ones who is ‘on his side’ as he so pleadingly puts it during the show.

Loughborough gave Rhod not one but two warm welcomes after one man in the audience felt that the welcome had not been good or personal enough, so Rhod came out again making the audience address him personally. In fact the audience were as much a part of the show as he was. One mention of swine flu came up with a series of pig jokes from the crowd with the jokes not fading out for at least twenty minutes, leaving Rhod to jokingly suggest he ‘might as well go’.

However, Rhod did have a show to do and a beautifully structured one at that. Whilst his rants and ravings at the newest models of Hoovers, washing machines and a certain brand of smoothies may have seemed ridiculous – his anger towards these things was hilarious, especially an anecdote about being kicked out of ‘Fruit Towers’ after claiming the packaging invited him to have a look round. From these rants though, came a much more intense climax towards the end which many probably did not expect, however the climax left the crowd laughing so hard their jaws ached and left them begging for more, which they received with a video excerpt from Rhod’s radio show.

Much of the crowd had only seen Rhod before from his various television appearances, especially the variety performance which he himself mentioned, yet I can’t help feeling there will now be many who want to see him live again as soon as possible as this is the environment where Rhod really surpasses himself.

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