Brighton : the detailed version
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rosengirlSince I'm feeling less crap today I might as well do the Boosh weekend report now.
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ephyse and I came all the way from Paris to Brighton last friday to go to the Boosh live performance of that night and the book signing on saturday. All was supposed to be well and shiny with the world except that our eurostar was cancelled without warning and we ended up missing the first act of the show. We were gutted as hell, as you can imagine, but the rest of the weekend fortunately made up for that dreadful start.
For one, we arrived at the Brighton Center about 5 minutes before people came out for the break and had the merchandising table all to ourselves (the program is made of 57 flavours of win !). Then we went to find our seats and had the great surprise to find that we had *MUCH* better seats than we thought and had a perfect view of the stage, which was much more closer than expected !
We had no trouble following the second act since it's completely separated from the first and we loved it SO MUCH ! Of course I can only judge from half of it but as good as it was, I still prefer the first live show, mainly because it had structure. What they did here was also *really* good but it had less... Meaning ? I liked it more when it was one big adventure.
Anyway, it was made of awesome.
HOWARD'S PLAY WITH THE BEARS COMING FROM THE THAMES OMG SO MUCH LOVE <3333333333333333333333
Bonus points to Mike playing the blood thirsty bear XD
The costumes and sets were a-ma-zing ! Especially the costumes, THE COSTUMES WERE GENIUS (yes, I am saying that in a completely shallow way because everything that gives us almost an hour of Julian's northern pins on display is genius in my book.)
Of course Julian owned me the second he came in front of the curtain and made me hyperventilate as soon as he started singing. SO MUCH MANLY HOTNESS IN DA FLESH IT WAS ALMOST TOO MUCH TO BEAR.
Noel made me fall in love with him all over again. I was sadly seeing him as an attention whore only good to hang out with celebrities these days and I really rediscovered him as an awesome comedian who clearly still loves what he does as much as he did when he first started.
Also LOLOLOLOL Sunflash and his Chavese accent. CHAVESE. LOL. I laughed til I cried (Noel was completely owning the accent XD).
Sunflash and Booblay's Camden song was one of my favourite part, it was so MAGICAL.
I loved the new stuff and would love to have the new songs on my mp3 player so hard :/
Speaking of, NEW CRIMP OMG, brilliant crimp at that. That definitely was the best thing to witness live *heart*
Then Elanor came on stage to throw giant bingo balls in the audience and failed to throw the first one. So she said 'Elanor is a bit clumsy tonight'. OH RICH. You make the most awesome looking tranny ever <333333333333333
The Boosh band really left us impressed because they improved tremendously and sound extremely good now.
The new punked versions of Nanageddon, I did a Shit and Charlie were A-MA-ZING, we were dancing on our seats and singing out loud.
Oh and during Nanageddon, Dave started singing some bits WITH THE MOST AMAZING VOICE EVER. HE BLEW US AWAY BIG TIME.
They also did a most impressive medley of various songs like Bouncy and Naboolio and it sounded a-ma-zing (I am using this word way too much).
And of course, Julian looking fierce while playing the guitar will never not be turning me on, trufax.
The chemistry was stonger than ever and you could really tell that they were all enjoying themselves quite a lot ♥
It ended way too quickly (of course missing the first part didn't help). We went to the stage door afterwards and saw a bit of Rich molesting Noel against the dressing room window. Julian obviously never came to the window but we could see him and Noel through the curtains and we just stayed there, chatting excitingly about the show and staring dreamingly for several minutes. Noel came down still in his Nanageddon dress at some point, waved at us from behind the glass windows and asked something to the security guard before coming back upstairs. Now, the next day (yes, we also stalked the stage door on saturday *hides*) we heard a girl say that apparently, Noel was distracting the fans so that Julian could leave without being noticed. I don't know if it's true but if it is, let me flail into oblivion.
That night Mike passed right in front of us quickly (he really is ridiculously tiny) and came out on saturday night again.
Rich also made silly poses at the window on saturday night and only Julian and Noel came at the signing so this means that we never saw Dave ! We were quite sad about that fact.
Brighton is a lovely city full of cute little streets with shops, pubs and people everywhere. The weather was not particulary great but it didn't rain ! The sea was pretty and the city had an awesome retro-looking Pier with an amusement park at the end which made us imagine that we were in Blackpool XD
The hostel was also to die for ! We had an adorable room on the ground floor with a HUGE king-sized bed, a cute sofa, a fluffy carpet and a widescreen telly which was perfect for our Merlin watching on saturday evening. The bathroom had 7187373 towels, two bathrobes and a sink so awesome that we did consider stealing it. They served us the most delicious breakfast every morning in a very cute dining room. We told the owner that he would definitely see us again when we left on sunday.
The city never sleeps (at least on weekends) we went back to the hotel around 0.30 am on friday night and came back out at 5.15 am (yes, we *really* wanted to get those tickets for the signing) and there was as much people laughing and hanging out outside the pubs, it was like no time had passed at all.
The lady from City Books was a also a boosh fan so she was sweet enough to not make us wait for the store to open and discreetely gave us the tickets right away. We saw her again after the signing and could chat with her a bit more. She had her book signed as well.
The signing went really, really, REALLY well. We went to the queue around 12 pm and let our blood pressure rise til Julian and Noel's arrival.
Apart from some hysterical fans who deserved to be punched in the face, the wait went relatively well. The people around us seemed a bit taken aback by the fact that we were speaking french so it was quite for the lulz.
Noel and Julian arrived by cab right in front of the queue and we turned our heads toward them when we heard all the mad screaming. It was hilarious because Noel came first (he had his long green leather coat with the fur at the collar <3) and waved at the queue with a blinding smile while Julian... Well Ju followed looking the opposite way as if he hadn't noticed the crowd screaming at him. LOL. His awkwardness is so very precious ♥
Then it all went down quickly since the security was oh so keen on making us moving along. I tried to take some pics without blinding them too much and eph told me afterwards that Noel was taking the pose and smiling for me everytime I was looking down at my camera to see if the pic had been taken *facepalm*
I askedephyse to go before me because I knew she would be more able to say something not completely stupid and she told them that they had two french fans. They both looked up at us and said "wow thanks !" Noel asked us where we came from and we told him that we came from Paris. He looked at us with the sweetest dreamiest smile possible and said that he loved Paris. I had the time to tell him that it was a great city before the security moved us along and I heard them told us 'good luck' before we left.
Needless to say that we spend the afternoon randomly shouting 'WE SAW NOEL AND JULIAN !' and dying of a glee overdose.
BeautifulBlackpool Brighton !
Me andephyse in front of Da Sea
The Brighton Center in all its fugly glory
Coz the Boosh is loose and we're a little bit raaaaaw ♥
Noel's hair mostly
Noel and Julian's manly nose.
Noel and Ju ! So much hotter and sweeter in the flesh ♥
The awesome (not at all solid looking) pier. The amusement park was closed for added creepiness.
Us thinking we were chilling out on the Titanic's deck.
Albion Beach ! We lol'ed.
PLAYING WANKERS ONNA BEACH.
In unrelated news :
Or bigger here
WOW. I watched it 10 times already. I'm glad it's rated R and looking so damn gorgeous.
It really makes me want to read the comics.
Oh and there's also THIS which looks mighty fine, especially for teh slash.
EDIT : I also was too weak and took a look at the Doctor Who preview for the Christmas Special.
DAVID MORRISSEY FOR ELEVEN X ELEVENTY !!!!!11!!!!!!!!1!11!
I want it so hard now that I could cry, I know it's unlikely. But it took him two seconds to sold Eleven to me *___*
Just them standing next to each other made my knees go week, I CANNOT WAIT FOR ONE HOUR OF THIS.
The CiN Merlin was adorable and I was very pleased by Arthur's innapropriate stroking *grins*
I also loved the special for Ashes to Ashes even if Chris'highlights freaked me the hell out and made it hard to focus on the rest.
Oh and Simm is a tease. If he doesn't in the end, I will break something.
So
ephyse and I came all the way from Paris to Brighton last friday to go to the Boosh live performance of that night and the book signing on saturday. All was supposed to be well and shiny with the world except that our eurostar was cancelled without warning and we ended up missing the first act of the show. We were gutted as hell, as you can imagine, but the rest of the weekend fortunately made up for that dreadful start.For one, we arrived at the Brighton Center about 5 minutes before people came out for the break and had the merchandising table all to ourselves (the program is made of 57 flavours of win !). Then we went to find our seats and had the great surprise to find that we had *MUCH* better seats than we thought and had a perfect view of the stage, which was much more closer than expected !
We had no trouble following the second act since it's completely separated from the first and we loved it SO MUCH ! Of course I can only judge from half of it but as good as it was, I still prefer the first live show, mainly because it had structure. What they did here was also *really* good but it had less... Meaning ? I liked it more when it was one big adventure.
Anyway, it was made of awesome.
HOWARD'S PLAY WITH THE BEARS COMING FROM THE THAMES OMG SO MUCH LOVE <3333333333333333333333
Bonus points to Mike playing the blood thirsty bear XD
The costumes and sets were a-ma-zing ! Especially the costumes, THE COSTUMES WERE GENIUS (yes, I am saying that in a completely shallow way because everything that gives us almost an hour of Julian's northern pins on display is genius in my book.)
Of course Julian owned me the second he came in front of the curtain and made me hyperventilate as soon as he started singing. SO MUCH MANLY HOTNESS IN DA FLESH IT WAS ALMOST TOO MUCH TO BEAR.
Noel made me fall in love with him all over again. I was sadly seeing him as an attention whore only good to hang out with celebrities these days and I really rediscovered him as an awesome comedian who clearly still loves what he does as much as he did when he first started.
Also LOLOLOLOL Sunflash and his Chavese accent. CHAVESE. LOL. I laughed til I cried (Noel was completely owning the accent XD).
Sunflash and Booblay's Camden song was one of my favourite part, it was so MAGICAL.
I loved the new stuff and would love to have the new songs on my mp3 player so hard :/
Speaking of, NEW CRIMP OMG, brilliant crimp at that. That definitely was the best thing to witness live *heart*
Then Elanor came on stage to throw giant bingo balls in the audience and failed to throw the first one. So she said 'Elanor is a bit clumsy tonight'. OH RICH. You make the most awesome looking tranny ever <333333333333333
The Boosh band really left us impressed because they improved tremendously and sound extremely good now.
The new punked versions of Nanageddon, I did a Shit and Charlie were A-MA-ZING, we were dancing on our seats and singing out loud.
Oh and during Nanageddon, Dave started singing some bits WITH THE MOST AMAZING VOICE EVER. HE BLEW US AWAY BIG TIME.
They also did a most impressive medley of various songs like Bouncy and Naboolio and it sounded a-ma-zing (I am using this word way too much).
And of course, Julian looking fierce while playing the guitar will never not be turning me on, trufax.
The chemistry was stonger than ever and you could really tell that they were all enjoying themselves quite a lot ♥
It ended way too quickly (of course missing the first part didn't help). We went to the stage door afterwards and saw a bit of Rich molesting Noel against the dressing room window. Julian obviously never came to the window but we could see him and Noel through the curtains and we just stayed there, chatting excitingly about the show and staring dreamingly for several minutes. Noel came down still in his Nanageddon dress at some point, waved at us from behind the glass windows and asked something to the security guard before coming back upstairs. Now, the next day (yes, we also stalked the stage door on saturday *hides*) we heard a girl say that apparently, Noel was distracting the fans so that Julian could leave without being noticed. I don't know if it's true but if it is, let me flail into oblivion.
That night Mike passed right in front of us quickly (he really is ridiculously tiny) and came out on saturday night again.
Rich also made silly poses at the window on saturday night and only Julian and Noel came at the signing so this means that we never saw Dave ! We were quite sad about that fact.
Brighton is a lovely city full of cute little streets with shops, pubs and people everywhere. The weather was not particulary great but it didn't rain ! The sea was pretty and the city had an awesome retro-looking Pier with an amusement park at the end which made us imagine that we were in Blackpool XD
The hostel was also to die for ! We had an adorable room on the ground floor with a HUGE king-sized bed, a cute sofa, a fluffy carpet and a widescreen telly which was perfect for our Merlin watching on saturday evening. The bathroom had 7187373 towels, two bathrobes and a sink so awesome that we did consider stealing it. They served us the most delicious breakfast every morning in a very cute dining room. We told the owner that he would definitely see us again when we left on sunday.
The city never sleeps (at least on weekends) we went back to the hotel around 0.30 am on friday night and came back out at 5.15 am (yes, we *really* wanted to get those tickets for the signing) and there was as much people laughing and hanging out outside the pubs, it was like no time had passed at all.
The lady from City Books was a also a boosh fan so she was sweet enough to not make us wait for the store to open and discreetely gave us the tickets right away. We saw her again after the signing and could chat with her a bit more. She had her book signed as well.
The signing went really, really, REALLY well. We went to the queue around 12 pm and let our blood pressure rise til Julian and Noel's arrival.
Apart from some hysterical fans who deserved to be punched in the face, the wait went relatively well. The people around us seemed a bit taken aback by the fact that we were speaking french so it was quite for the lulz.
Noel and Julian arrived by cab right in front of the queue and we turned our heads toward them when we heard all the mad screaming. It was hilarious because Noel came first (he had his long green leather coat with the fur at the collar <3) and waved at the queue with a blinding smile while Julian... Well Ju followed looking the opposite way as if he hadn't noticed the crowd screaming at him. LOL. His awkwardness is so very precious ♥
Then it all went down quickly since the security was oh so keen on making us moving along. I tried to take some pics without blinding them too much and eph told me afterwards that Noel was taking the pose and smiling for me everytime I was looking down at my camera to see if the pic had been taken *facepalm*
I asked
ephyse to go before me because I knew she would be more able to say something not completely stupid and she told them that they had two french fans. They both looked up at us and said "wow thanks !" Noel asked us where we came from and we told him that we came from Paris. He looked at us with the sweetest dreamiest smile possible and said that he loved Paris. I had the time to tell him that it was a great city before the security moved us along and I heard them told us 'good luck' before we left. Needless to say that we spend the afternoon randomly shouting 'WE SAW NOEL AND JULIAN !' and dying of a glee overdose.
Beautiful
Me and
ephyse in front of Da Sea
The Brighton Center in all its fugly glory
Coz the Boosh is loose and we're a little bit raaaaaw ♥
Noel
Noel and Julian's manly nose.
Noel and Ju ! So much hotter and sweeter in the flesh ♥
The awesome (not at all solid looking) pier. The amusement park was closed for added creepiness.
Us thinking we were chilling out on the Titanic's deck.
Albion Beach ! We lol'ed.
PLAYING WANKERS ONNA BEACH.
In unrelated news :
Or bigger here
WOW. I watched it 10 times already. I'm glad it's rated R and looking so damn gorgeous.
It really makes me want to read the comics.
Oh and there's also THIS which looks mighty fine, especially for teh slash.
EDIT : I also was too weak and took a look at the Doctor Who preview for the Christmas Special.
DAVID MORRISSEY FOR ELEVEN X ELEVENTY !!!!!11!!!!!!!!1!11!
I want it so hard now that I could cry, I know it's unlikely. But it took him two seconds to sold Eleven to me *___*
Just them standing next to each other made my knees go week, I CANNOT WAIT FOR ONE HOUR OF THIS.
The CiN Merlin was adorable and I was very pleased by Arthur's innapropriate stroking *grins*
I also loved the special for Ashes to Ashes even if Chris'highlights freaked me the hell out and made it hard to focus on the rest.
Oh and Simm is a tease. If he doesn't in the end, I will break something.
