Later Live, Jools Holland (new series) BBC2, Tues 13th April 10:00pm

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Short 30 min show tonight with Paul Weller, Paul "All Right Now" Rodgers, Villigers (Dublin), Marina and the Diamonds and presumably loads of auld guff from the gaffer.

Set the Sky yokes, Betamax thingies, alarm clocks or interwebs for series as I will not be repeating myself; I said I will not be repeating myself ...
 
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Well I shouldn't have missed it, but I did.

Can't believe this show just keeps on going. I mean oul' Jools with his part circus ringmaster, part news location reporter style really isn't too enticing. He's a pretty poor interviewer too.

Just as well the music is so surprising and eclectic then!
 
You're not gonna believe this, but I missed it as well and never set a record thing!!! My excuse is I'm an eejit, suffering the occasional senior moment. Anyway, repeated in extended form 11:45pm BBC2 Friday April 16th.

I enjoy Jools. Yeah, he's a bit chaotic and frenetic and his interview style lacks journalistic polish, but he's a genuinely talented muso who gets down and jams with the best of them and for that I can forgive him anything.

There's a real connection between Jools and his guests, even the drunken ones [New Year's Eve Live, some English comedian locked??] , that is rare. His interviews IMHO are free of the fawning, sycophantic talk-show BS that turns some other shows into extended back-to-back ads. Sure the CD, gig, tour, book, come-back gets plugged, but Jools displays it to camera back-to-front, drops it, gets the dates / venues wrong and just ploughs ahead in his inimitable style - "And now, joining us on a stop-off from their world-wide tour of Ballivor and Carndonagh we have the enormous, the original, the exciting, the one, the only South African céilí band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo!"
 
mathepac said:
I enjoy Jools. Yeah, he's a bit chaotic and frenetic and his interview style lacks journalistic polish, but he's a genuinely talented muso who gets down and jams with the best of them and for that I can forgive him anything.
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Yes, I agree too.

There's a real connection between Jools and his guests, even the drunken ones [New Year's Eve Live, some English comedian locked??] , that is rare. His interviews IMHO are free of the fawning, sycophantic talk-show BS that turns some other shows into extended back-to-back ads. Sure the CD, gig, tour, book, come-back gets plugged, but Jools displays it to camera back-to-front, drops it, gets the dates / venues wrong and just ploughs ahead in his inimitable style - "And now, joining us on a stop-off from their world-wide tour of Ballivor and Carndonagh we have the enormous, the original, the exciting, the one, the only South African céilí band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo!"
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Ha ha - true! he seems almost sceptical even of the very biggest stars. Noticed this with Bowie a few years ago. He only really ever gets all coy with the legendary blues people.
 
Later with Jools and Other Voices on RTE2 are the best music shows on the box.... From an old dude like me who was reared on Whispering Bob on the Old Grey Whistle Test.
 
Good old Bob Harris. Others I remember were Anne Nightingale and Andy Kershaw. Anne did the Lennon memorial programme after his murder in 1980. A few of us who'd gigged together during school-days and for a while after met up and did the ultra uncool crying thing during the programme. There was only one female present (since dead of cancer, RIP) and she dished out the tissues. Some of the programmes were available on DVD but that was a while ago.
 
The one song performed by Conor / The Villagers was really good imo. I despise Weller and entertained myself during his first perfomance wondering if his hair was white with age or merely badly bleached with lack of style(council). They will probably show the longer version on Friday night, this was the first of 10 weeks....roll on the good performers.
 
Tomorrow night could work out well - a bit of a Nick Drake night on BBC4 which hopefully won't clash with Jools.

For those who don't know it, Drake's music was wonderful: fragile, complex, dreamy acoustic slices of melancholy. Terrible waste.
 
mathepac said:
Good old Bob Harris. Others I remember were Anne Nightingale and Andy Kershaw. Anne did the Lennon memorial programme after his murder in 1980. A few of us who'd gigged together during school-days and for a while after met up and did the ultra uncool crying thing during the programme. There was only one female present (since dead of cancer, RIP) and she dished out the tissues. Some of the programmes were available on DVD but that was a while ago.
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The two Old Grey Whistle Test DVDs featuring 70 odd performances over the lifetime of the show were recently available in Tower records at a ludicrously low price.

Some great performances from the likes of Nils Lofgren , The Pogues , The Undertones , Argent , Bruuuuuce , Rory Gallagher , the brilliant Dr. Feelgood and my personal favourites Little Feat with a quite amazing version of Rock and Roll Doctor.

Something for everyone really
 
carpedeum said:
Later with Jools and Other Voices on RTE2 are the best music shows on the box.... From an old dude like me who was reared on Whispering Bob on the Old Grey Whistle Test.
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I was really impressed with "Transatlantic Sessions" which went out on RTE2 and BBC earlier this year. Format was particularly good looked impromtu (although I'm sure it wasn't) like a good session with Musicians locked up in a cottage over the weekend to play together.
 
TheBlock said:
I was really impressed with "Transatlantic Sessions" which went out on RTE2 and BBC earlier this year. Format was particularly good looked impromtu (although I'm sure it wasn't) like a good session with Musicians locked up in a cottage over the weekend to play together.
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yup with ye on that TheBlock, really enjoyed it.
 
TheBlock said:
I was really impressed with "Transatlantic Sessions" which went out on RTE2 and BBC earlier this year. Format was particularly good looked impromtu (although I'm sure it wasn't) like a good session with Musicians locked up in a cottage over the weekend to play together.
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Yes, totally agree. Some great music and guests. I got the CD in Celtic Note and discovered a number of earlier CD's too with Maura O'Connell etc. RTE can put on great stuff when they put their mind to it.
 
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