Personal Life
Barratt is an accomplished musician and spans many genres, he is known as the genre spanner; he played guitar for Little Chief during their European tour, and claiming to be a jazz fusion fanatic, he started a band as a teenager known as Satan's Hoof, which never really took off. He was in a band called Groove Solution in the early 90s with Dave Westlake. He has also played with Chris Corner in IAMX. He composes all of the music for The Mighty Boosh. The music included in the series is a variety of genres including rap, heavy metal and psychedelic rock. Because of this, he has been called "the Genre Spanner".
Barratt is known to be shy, often quiet and self-deprecating. Unlike his comedy partner Noel Fielding, he prefers not to appear in television comedy quiz shows saying he would 'rather be at home with a book.' He enjoys dog racing and online snooker. He is in a relationship with comedienne Julia Davis. On 25 June 2007, the couple became parents to twins, Arthur and Walter. They live in North London.
He adopted his middle name, Barratt, as his professional last name to distinguish himself from an already well known reporter named Julian Pettifer.
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