The Mighty Boosh Aftershow Party - 7/10/08

For the total price of £9.00 ultimate fans of The Mighty Boosh boys (aka Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt and Michael Fielding) could go and party alongside them at Plug. The event advertised as ‘Outrage’, promised a live set from Robots in Disguise and then a DJ set from the Mighty Boosh gang. But was it all a little too good to be true?

Plug isn’t particularly full, but the people who are here you can tell are Mighty Boosh fans. There is a scattering of people in Old Greg costumes, a few Hitchers can be spotted and a curiously large number of people wearing something that sparkles or is sequined.

The night kicks off, as promised, to a live set from Robots in Disguise. Ultimately only famous because of singer Dee Plume’s associations with Boosh man Noel Fielding, they’re not a band to be taken too seriously. Heavily adorned in thick make-up and styled like harlequin clowns, their music is fun, glittery and they provide quite a good slice of electro to the crowd. Taken with a pinch of salt, their tongue in cheek lyrics like “The sex has made me stupid” might have you humming along but I can’t see them being able to release a second album. And when they ask “Are there any electro girls and boys in here?” and get fans to dance on the stage alongside them, I do have to grit my teeth a little and worry that Plug didn’t check people’s ID to see if they are of the legal age to actually be here.

Shortly afterwards in a flash of shiny black hair appears the God everyone is really here to worship - Noel Fielding. The whole population of Plug is suddenly flung towards the DJ booth in an attempt to catch a glimpse of their hero. He parades around the back of the DJ booth, only to disappear with minutes back to the VIP room. Out pops Michael Fielding (Naboo), who is the only one who actually DJ’s throughout the evening. Rich Fulcher (Bob Fossil) makes a brief appearance, and so does Julian Barratt but only for a few fleeting minutes. Rumours spread that the bouncers are giving out backstage passes to the VIP room, but as the room fills it seems these are only handed out to girls who are wearing less than the usual amount of clothes. The rest of the night involves everybody crowding around the DJ booth trying to get some sort of contact with the Mighty Boosh cast.

So all in all, I wouldn’t really describe the evening as an aftershow party, but more of a night spent in Plug with brief appearances of characters from a TV show, who shortly disappear only to look from the VIP room onto the great unwashed of the public. And a load of people huddled around a DJ booth in an attempt to catch a glance of celebrity.


Alexandra Rucki