Mighty musings.

Currently playing: Team America.

Now that exams are over we have a little grace to relax and enjoy ourselves and last weekend a friend and I took full advantage of this. We made the long and arduous trek to Aberdeen (3 hours on the train and a further 3 on a bus) to see the last of the Mighty Boosh Live 2008 tour.

It. Was. Awesome!

I have tried to explain quite how awesome to many, but if you do not 'get' the Mighty Boosh it's very hard to explain. Possibly the best way I can express it is to take a frontier fashion dandy, heavily into hairdryers, add a fashion flop trumpeter, heavily into jazz and pencil cases, mix with a liberal amount of surrealism and a total disregard for the laws of physics, common sense or even good taste, and serve with a helping of crimp.

For a genius example, try here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KoxvI4ZzN2w

Combining two of my favourite things, comedy and pie, in a fresh and new way. Without the use of over sized shoes or slapstick. I have heard it described as "delightfully wierd" and I guess that comes close, but you really have to have the Boosh mindset to begin with.

Anyway, back to the show we saw. As I said it was the last of the tour and to be honest you could tell. They all seemed knackered, but happy it was over. Things kept going wrong (at one point Noel Fielding had to support his entire weight (such as it is) on his face. It was highly amusing.) but their reactions to the mishaps were, if anything, more funny than the scripted material. I enjoyed it immensely, but I think they were just so tired of doing the script that when they found something new to say it really shone out. We spent too much on merchandise and squealed like pigs when Noel Fielding came within 10 metres of us. It was an amazing gig and I'm quite hopeful that a) there will be another one and b) I'll get to go.

For now I am looking to go see another West End show. Get it sorted! You know who you are...