Love Games - Radio 1 Live Lounge

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

On Radio One today, Jo Whiley's Live Lounge, Noel and Julian sung some of their songs live in the studio (with Dave Brown/Bollo on bongos). There should be photos and Listen Again up on the site soon.



My top moment: When they did their Love Games, and Howard sang to Old Gregg, "Suck me!"

Before that, they did Married on The Morn. They explained the song first. Noel: "It means a lot to us… we’d made love; the chemistry had gone wrong.”


I don’t think they’re ever going to stop the slash, are they?


Jo asked them about how they wrote. Julian: “We are physically in the room together.” Noel: “I’m in a little papoose on Julian’s back. He runs about with a typewriter strapped to his chest. Usually he’s dressed as Spartacus.”

About their celebrity crushes. Noel: ”I’m currently in love with Paul Weller. He keeps ringing me up, saying - alright boy, how’re you doing? We’re slightly in love. I’m his little Mod Child.” Bollo told how Phil Collins had caught his eye. Nice mental image there.

At one point Julian said, "We like sad monsters. Monsters that have fallen out of love."

As ever, bloody wonderful.



And here’s a Youtube video from their Colin Murray Radio 1 show before:

Comments

[wildebrian.livejournal.com]

Hee! That sounds so good. I wonder if anyone could get that up on the internet for us to steal?

[a-nyx.livejournal.com]

I hesitated to read this because I didn't really want to know anything slashy about Phil Collins. That's just wrong. Wrongwrongwrong.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! I know! It's all kinds of wrong. Did you see this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_SsPejeXAc) Bollo singing Phil Collins?

[amybugg.livejournal.com]

I wish I could listen without the music. =P

[amybugg.livejournal.com]

Oh God! Who the hell remade that 'What Hurts the Most' song?!?! It's terrible!

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

Huh. Looks like the mystery of The Boosh is solved as of those quotes. They were doing it, they're not anymore, and Noel wants to again, maybe just to be a shit-disturber. Simple. (Well, actually, complicated, but in a normal relationship kind of way.)

They sound fantastic live! Julian in particular can do any kind of voice. They should definitely get the musical act together and tour it.

[spiderweb-x.livejournal.com]

I know! Julian's voice suprised me, he's actually a really talented singer. And they actually managed to pull it off: live music!

And I think the whole Phil Collins thing was about the Cadbury's advert with the gorilla playing the drums to one of his songs. Because Bollo was on drums... Maybe... dunno.

And after today's numerous interviews I think we can safely conclude there is definately RPS happening.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

Did you see where Bollo did the audition for the drum solo? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_SsPejeXAc)

[planetbanjo.livejournal.com]

I think we can safely conclude there is definately RPS happening.

Careful. Don't forget that they delight in head-messing.

They mess with our minds, we mess with theirs. And vice-versa.

That's how it works at BSH. :)

[spiderweb-x.livejournal.com]

Probably right. And then they get on the internet and watch the results of their hint-dropping play out on the Haven.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

They were doing it, they're not anymore, and Noel wants to again

I disagree. They're comedians! We can't tell shit from this! No matter if they step up the camera and say, "WE ARE BIG GAY BUM PALS AND PUT TOOTHPASTE ON EACH OTHER'S BALLS TO MAKE THEM MINTY FRESH FOR OUR MUTUAL LICKIN' PLEASURE!," I would take it all with a pinch of salt. Or a pinch of toothpaste. Whichever.

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

Yep. And that's the other take on it. (Please take all of my RPS speculations with a grain of salt as well!) But I've just created a nice little angsty scenario for fic purposes, anyhow...!

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no problem. I just wanted to state the other side now and then, because when I first came across booshslashhaven I was so happy to find somewhere where the people were happy to fic the Booshslash and go totally crazy for all things Boosh.

But then I didn't join for ages, even though I thought it was a great comm, because of the comments that went, "Noel and Julian are so really doing it, all the time, before every interview and gig, and then after as well, and they're so a secret ghey couple and one day it will ALL COME OUT," which I find a bit offensive to their real partners. Especially now that Julia's just had the twins and all. Not to mention weird, that they would think being a gay couple was so bad they'd have to hide it for over a decade.

[planetbanjo.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

Especially on the 'why would they hide a gay relationship for a decade?' point.

We're all just fictionally teasing and playing with the Boosh, and they know that and that's why there's all this current winking back and forth between slashers and Noel.

I like to think that the Boosh know that none of us actually believe they are a gay couple, but they are quite happy to play on the teeny-tiny possibility that resides in the mind of all RPS slashers that they just might be... The 'not knowing' and the exploring or playing around with possibilities fuels the imagination, right?

To be honest, I'm beginning to wish they would rein the ghey teasing in a bit...it's messing with my slashy mojo.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm beginning to wish they would rein the ghey teasing in a bit...it's messing with my slashy mojo.

Ha ha yes! That's what the BSH filthy porn is for! Although.... I'm not really complaining.

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

This actually makes me want to re-tell the story I told you on one of our journals:

When I was married to a man who had a lifelong creative collaborative partner (it outlasted our marriage!), his own teenage daughter (who was obviously a bit of a fantasist) told me that she thought they were lovers. I wasn't offended, because a) I didn't think there was any way it was true, and b) because of the way I happen to see people, if it *had* been true I would have just thought it was interesting. So I asked him! He said nope. And that's the end of that story!

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

No, I hadn't heard that before. (I probably missed it before you made your font bigger!) Thanks for telling me. ♥

[planetbanjo.livejournal.com]

I think easilyled was referring to a comment on my LJ, m'dear. :)

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

I was actually trying to reply to planetbanjo - she's the one I told the story to before. But glad you liked! I think I would have had a more disappointed reaction to my husband's lack of sexual interest in his friend if their pairing had been hotter, lol.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

I was actually trying to reply to planetbanjo

Yes, I see now. I got all confused when I got that email response... Ah, technology.

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Naw, that's just dirty slashers having fun, haha. And I'm sure Noel and Julian's partners gives less than a toss what we talk about here. I do know what you mean, though - one of the many reasons we members-locked morrissey_slash is that one of the slashees has kids of the internetting age.

I do think there are other options besides being "a big ghey couple and hiding it" though. Like, people having complicated relationships and not wanting to go around and explain them to the press all the time. But that's just the way I look at people. Anything we see in the hints they (especially Noel) like to drop probably just reflects whatever we project! (And that's my Big Profound Thought for the day.)

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

I do think there are other options besides being "a big ghey couple and hiding it"

Oh, I agree. Yes.

one of the many reasons we members-locked morrissey_slash is that one of the slashees has kids of the internetting age.

I usually think that locking fic is a pity. Communities become closed and weird(er).

But still, Noel's described Dee as 'the most neurotic person I know', and although she's said to find the slash funny now, what if someone wrote fic dissing her as a RL person and she suddenly didn't like it any more? And when you're pregnant or newly sprogged, your hormones are all over the place. You could easily start to believe wierd stuff that some fan made up is really true. So what the guys have seen it and think it's funny - they also have grannies, uncles, nephews and nieces... That's why I don't write real person fic (publically, at least).

On the other hand, Noel and Julian kind of slash themselves. In the Boosh, the line between RPS and character fic is more than a bit blurred.

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's weird, I've tried writing a bit of Noelian RPS, but I'm getting qualms about posting it. I'm not even sure why. I started out writing RPS and never thought there was anything odd about it, but now that I've written some FPS for The Boosh, I'm getting squicky about RPS (writing it, anyway - I still read it if it's good).

Speaking of people slashing themselves, though, the question we *really* want to know the answer to is: are Sue and Dee doing it? Or Dueing it?

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

I started out writing RPS

You see, I just couldn't. Even when I used to do photography, I had real trouble taking pictures of other people without their consent or knowledge, and that's plain weird. Everyone takes pictures of people! It's perfectly normal!

now that I've written some FPS for The Boosh, I'm getting squicky about RPS

Perhaps because you're getting into their mindsets? And sympathising? Feeling protective?

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

I don't know... I mean, I started out writing Morrissey slash, and I certainly thought I was a big fan and had read all the interviews and "understood him" and all that fan-nonsense. But maybe it's because they're TV performers with such a crossover between their characters and selves. You get the illusion that you "know them" like friends - and then, yes, it feels weird to invade/speculate about their private lives. (In pornography form I mean.) Maybe it's just the difference between writing TV slash and band slash.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

You get the illusion that you "know them" like friends

I don't know about Morrissey, but in many ways Julian Barratt's a really shy person. Even more so recently. He's extremely careful to preserve his private life, and genuinely horrified by the thought of random exposure. If we were really his friends, surely we'd respect that? Noel's mates may post pictures of him 'partying' all over the net, but not Julian's.

No, we're not their friends. Friends wouldn't write porn about them and post it publically.

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, like I said, it's an illusion. The show has that kind of warmth about it. And yes, if they were really my friends, I probably wouldn't be writing porn about them, lol! I may be creepy, but I'm not that creepy.

It's annoying though, because it cramps my slash style! I still want to read the RPS - I'll read anything if it's good, and I may as well not deny my celebrity fantasies. But now I feel like a bit of a dirty perv about it. But oh well - I suppose that's how porn is supposed to make you feel, whatever your particular fancy is!

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

I take it you know of this article (http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/11/1204.cfm) in which Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand said about bandslash:

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says. "There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does. I think it gets dangerous when people start believing that those things are actually true, and I think for the obvious majority of people that that’s not going to be the case. There are a few people who get crazy obsessed and start imagining they’re having relationships with people that they don’t have relationships with. That sort of thing’s a little bit frightening, but I think that’s very rare. "It’s what we do in songs as well," he says. "I mean, we take characters who are around us and write stories, write songs about events that have happened in their lives. Of course, when you tell any story, you make it dramatic, you use the tools of drama to make an exciting story. All they’re doing is an extreme example of what we do."

If I was writing RPS about Alex, I think I'd feel absolutely safe in posting it online, as long as it had the proper disclaimers. He obviously sees nothing wrong with it. The Boosh haven't done that (yet).

now I feel like a bit of a dirty perv about it. But oh well - I suppose that's how porn is supposed to make you feel

:) Only if it's the really good stuff.

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

You don't think the way The Boosh have incorporated the slash idea this season (and in interviews) constitutes their tacit approval? Maybe not of a whole-hearted kind, but they certainly know about it and haven't said anything against it. And Noel did say he liked the Fountain of Youth story!

I didn't read the "Woman" interview where they discussed it, but I'm assuming that for Julian, being "disturbed" by something isn't a wholly negative thing. I mean, I'd be disturbed if I found out that strangers on the internet were writing pornography about me and my best friend (and/or lover!), but I'd also probably be fascinated by it - what it says about human nature, celebrity, sexuality, etc.

Personally as a reader and writer of fanfic though I'm not sure how much I care whether or not the fic subjects approve of it. I have a tendency to feel that in a strange way "it's not about them" - it's clearly a natural and sane (if strange) extension of the fan reaction. You can't control people's fantasies, and slash has been going on a long time now without anyone confusing fantasy and reality. The only serious ethical question for RPS, I think, concerns the potential reactions of girlfriends, wives, and especially children (which is why I'm all about members-locked comms... although only if I'm a maintainer - bigger responsibility etc.).

(Believe me I've thought about all this stuff and argued it out before... that's originally why I started a fanfic journal, so I could think and write about stuff like this, but now it's turned pretty random!)

Hey, what's up with me being added as a maintainer of the IJ Mighty Boosh comm? (Are you one of the maintainers?) I don't remember applying for that position... not that I mind!

[easilyled.livejournal.com]

Ooops... I didn't mean friend and/or lover there... I meant friend and *possibly* lover or both. There's a difference! Forgive me, I wuz a tired girl.

[leonleif.livejournal.com]

Julian sounded amazing!

If I could purr; I'd do it now!

[planetbanjo.livejournal.com]

"We like sad monsters. Monsters that have fallen out of love."

That's exactly what I enjoy about their 'evil' characters. You end up feeling sorry for them because you realise they probably just f*cked up at some point in their life and weren't always like that. Awww.

Haven't listened to this interview properly yet (damn being at work when all the fun stuff is happening) but, when JW asked them about celebrity crushes, didn't Julian struggle to answer and then say "Noel?"

I realise he was deflecting the question to Noel because he didn't want to answer/had no reply, but IN MY MIND he replied "NOEL". Yes he did.

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

when JW asked them about celebrity crushes, didn't Julian struggle to answer and then say "Noel?"

I really couldn't hear it. And after you said so, I went back and listened 4 times to make sure! He just went, "Uhhhhhhhhhhh..."

[planetbanjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he went "uuhhhhhhh...." and then went "Noel?"

CLEARLY THEY ARE DOING IT! ;) (*joke!*)

[accio-arse.livejournal.com]

I find Julian's occasional baffled inarticulacy in the face of small talk ridiculously endearing.

Plus he can make even, "Uhhhhhhhhh," sound sexy. Perhaps even especially, "Uhhhhhhhhhh."