The Mighty Boosh are this year’s Record Store Day UK ambassadors

With days until this year’s Record Store Day - Saturday 13th April, fans of shiny plastic discs - The Mighty Boosh have been announced as Record Store Day UK ambassadors.

The pair will also be releasing the complete Mighty Boosh radio series on vinyl, the first time it has been pressed on record.

“We are approaching singularity, when computers will overtake and replace us,” says Julian Barratt. “Therefore, it suddenly felt prescient to outwit them and somehow save our precious early recordings onto a format that the dawning artificial intelligences will not see as a threat. In the feint hope that one day, thousands of years from now, when the human race is decimated and bereft, its ephemeral digital archive wiped by the powerful shockwaves of the ‘magneto-pulse’, a solitary humanoid survivor, scavenging and in the dark tunnels beneath the humming glistening exo-skin of the earth… will discover this disc abandoned in a cave, and trace its long fingernail across the patterned surface only to drop in shock as it hears my rich and resonant voice echoing through the cave”

Noel Fielding adds: “People that work in record shops are often obsessed with vinyl and music and bands and can steer you in the right direction and tell you about things that you would never know about. Whereas you can’t do that on the internet. It’s not possible. You want some vinyl expert to tell you about a record you’ve never heard of. That’s the beauty of it.”

Resident Music owner Natasha Youngs said: “We are thrilled to have the untouchable Noel Fielding & Julian Barratt, aka The Mighty Boosh, as this year’s Record Store Day ambassadors. As a duo that have come up through grassroots venues, reliant on word of mouth and committed returning fans/customers, they understand the ethos of our establishments and the need to support independent businesses. They also handily really like music. And record shops. And buying music from record shops. So it’s all worked out really rather nicely. They even went and put out a record for the day. God bless them. A shamanic God obviously.”

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Photo: Joseph Lynn