What surprised me a bit is that Berry did the music for the show, which varies quite a bit but does tend to swing between funk and progressive rock at times. His album "Opium" has the feel of a "200 Motels" era Frank Zappa without (oddly, perhaps) the smirkiness. He switches between the voice we typically associate with him for spoken word portions, and a few sung pieces, to a less recognizable near-falsetto. When I first heard the theme to Snuffbox I was not aware it was Berry singing.
A somewhat recurring sketch from Snuffbox is the fake 1970s rock show:
Also, the mystery room in the corridor appears several times:
A scene from Snuffbox with awesome actor Alan Ford ("Brick Top" from Snatch) as well as Fulcher. Language is rather NSFW:
2 comments:
I love the Snuff Box theme. After hearing it, I went to find it and learned it was by my main man, Berry. Cool points earned.
Not a huge fan of Fulcher. Don't get why he keeps popping up in all these great British TV shows (Boosh, Snuffbox, etc.) as the lone American representative. I get the doofus shtick, but he's just not funny. At all.
I hope "Garth Marenghi's Dark Place" comes to Netflix soon. Seen one episode and loved it - Berry is awesome as usual.
The Snuffbox theme is a bit of a variation on "Love is a Fool" from Opium, which is a rather interesting album. It is really hard to imagine that it is Berry's voice.
Fulcher doesn't do it for me. A few minutes every other episode would be fine, but too much is rather annoying. I think I liked him better in this than Boosh though.
I really want to see Dark Place as well.
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