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I like Later With Jools Holland, I just wish it was on earlier
...............and with a different presenter.
Last week it came across really quite grim.
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I loved the one with Shane McGowan and the Popes where he laid into one of the band members during a song, then Radcliffe's link was something along the lines of "kids, that's what you do when you see a banjo player"
I remember one WR episode where Liam Gallagher turned up drunk so Noel sang the first couple of songs while Liam sat in an alcove looking up at the dancers. When he did get up to sing, it was basically what we now know as the sound of drunk people singing Oasis songs.
My favourite JH moment is when they had At the Drive-In on. I think Simon from Biffy Clyro later picked up on it in a Kerrang interview - they were on the same show as Robbie Williams. Simon said something like "when they started playing, you could see the fat, talentless f**k-nugget sh*t himself because of his complete irrelevance".
I'm sure Mr Williams doesn't mind really, though. The huge sales and popularity might help.
The things I like:
1. It doesn't editorialise.
2. It is respectful.
3. It has a huge variety.
4.It is live music.
5. Jools doesn't play half as much piano as people think.
Where else are you going to get that in an hour or so these days?
To be fair, some of the best moments on the show for me have been the left-field acts you'd never see anywhere else. They've had some incredible, jaw-dropping acts on from places I've never heard of, playing music I've never heard before.
It's just that recently they seem to have got in a bit of a rut and had some very average acts on from all over the world in between quite a few bands who seem to have become institutionalized on Later
The Tube had an edge to it which made it interesting, Later has become the polar opposite of the Tube. Later has had had some great performers over the years, but the format does not allow decent bands to stretch out. The interviews are wooden and cliquey with too many of his celb mates and hangers on. I also fucking detest his shitty plicky plonk piano which he thinks is an appropriate accompaniment to artists which are on a totally different level to Jools.
Kill it now and give the budget and airtime to someone with some ideas.