The Mighty Boosh headline festival

10:19pm Saturday 5th July 2008

Thousands of fans of TV comedy The Mighty Boosh will attend a music and comedy festival inspired by the show.

The one-day event at The Hop Farm, Tonbridge, Kent, is expected to attract up to 30,000 revellers, who will get the chance to witness the surreal comedy of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt (Howard Moon and Vince Noir) at first hand.

The festival is being headlined by The Boosh Band themselves, while acts such as The Charlatans, Jarvis Cocker and Gary Numan will also be performing on the main stage.

Meanwhile a second stage, devoted to comedy, is to be headlined by Ross Noble.

Billed as a "delectable day of comedy extravaganza and musical mayhem," the festival promises to be as wacky and surreal as the TV show, which has had a cult following since it first appeared on BBC Three in 2004.

Four years and three series' later, the duo have toured the country with their live show, and an album and another tour are also planned.

Speaking at the festival's launch, promoters Vince Power and Phil McIntyre said: "We thought long and hard about putting on a comedy festival and convinced The Mighty Boosh that they were the right choice for the first major open-air comedy festival of its kind."

Fielding added: "We've never played a music festival before."

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