In July 1998, as part of the "Short BAC and Sides" season at the Battersea Arts Centre in London,we joined a handful of others in being the first audience to see the Dan Antapolski-less final preview version of The Mighty Boosh. We sat, literally in floods of tears, unable to breathe in the front few rows and as we tried to regain our composure we knew were seeing something special. Especially when I was dragged up on stage for Smoothie Time to bear witness to Mr. Susan. The next night, instead of seeing Graham Fellowes' brilliant character creation, Brian Appleton, in the main theatre, the two of us bought tickets to see The Mighty Boosh again, and this time my friend was picked as the subject of Julian's misguided affections. The previous year, already fans of Barratt & Fielding from watching "Gas" on C4 and "Comedy Network" on Channel 5 we were thrilled to see their cameos in Stewart Lee's new Edinburgh stand-up show, "King Dong V Moby Dick".

This website came into being during the hot summer of 1998. Having recently graduated from University and become a temp working in a boring office, I trawled the internet for information on the Boosh and found nothing. It took me three separate attempts to master the language of HTML but I persisted and decided not to write a site about myself but about the Boosh who had been criminally ignored by the internet up until that point. The original site was crudely basic but over the weeks as I had more spare time on my hands and became more accomplished, the site flourished into something slightly more impressive. In September 1998 I discovered that the Boosh had started a residency at a theatre called The Hen and Chickens. Thrilled at the prospect of seeing the most exciting and funny comedy show I had seen in a long time, I enlisted a different friend to go along every week until a few months later there was a dedicated set of Booshers - Susan, Sharon, Laura, Sandra, Ian, Chloe, Amy, Vicky, Julie, Karl and Andrew, as well as others who would come along more often than not. All of them left-brained freaks in a right-brained world. Such was the level of dedication of the early Boosh fans that Sharon would travel for hours from Dublin to London, Vicky, Julie and Karl would come down from Manchester and Amy and Chloe came down from High Wycombe - just to be there for the Hen and Chickens shows and most stayed with other Boosh fans who were initially relative strangers but ended up more of an extended family. The wesbite existed mainly for our benefit as suggestions for different levels of pain, quotes and other ideas for the site flooded in. The Booshers became firm friends and journeyed all over the country to witness the spectacle of the Boosh - Brighton, Warwick, Winchester, Manchester, Nottingham - the list goes on.

And now we reach a point more than five and a half years later where www.themightyboosh.co.uk is accepted by the Boosh, their management, BabyCow, the BBC, and fans as being the unofficial official home of the Boosh. It's where you'll find exclusive ticket offers, news and a comprehensive compendium of anything related to the Boosh. Ask us a question and we will almost certainly know the answer, or know someone else who does.