Jools Holland Later tonight
Posted by: Diccus62 on 15 September 2009
Sounds like a great line up tonight with one of my faves Alela Diane, the wonderful Lyle Lovett, rock demi gods Muse, trendy fashionista Florence with her Machine, Jimmy Cobb (last remaining musician who played on Kind of Blue) and Beth Ditto's visually stunning Gossip
I wish it was on a bit earlier
Alela before her haircut
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by reubs1981
Just watched it on the iPlayer.
The Gossip were fantastic - much prefer listening to Beth Ditto than hearing Florence wailing...
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by reubs1981:
Just watched it on the iPlayer.
The Gossip were fantastic - much prefer listening to Beth Ditto than hearing Florence wailing...
Totally agree!
I thought it was a really good opening programme. Variety and everything was interesting. Even Stewart Copland plugging his book and show were ok, and nice to see the 'Rock Goes to College' clip, a series much loved of my teenage years.
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by Mike-B
Its repeated and with a longer fuller program on Friday nite.
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by scottyhammer
AND on bbc hd too!
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by nap-ster
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by Diccus62
Doh! think Alela must be on on Friday
Posted on: 16 September 2009 by steve watts
Glad that I watched it. Very good show.
Posted on: 18 September 2009 by JamieL_v2
Just two words - Jimmy Cobb.
Posted on: 19 September 2009 by Mike-B
Its a real shame BBC seem to have lost the skill or the will to get the sound right these days.
Its one thing having ear blasting rock with crap mix & levels, but the Jimmy Cob set up was way off. Piano sounded like it was in another room.
I then changed to the Choir prog on BBC-4, more educational than listening, but its seems the BEEB does have some sound mixing skills left.
Posted on: 19 September 2009 by nap-ster
quote:
Originally posted by Mike-B:
Its a real shame BBC seem to have lost the skill or the will to get the sound right these days.
Its one thing having ear blasting rock with crap mix & levels, but the Jimmy Cob set up was way off. Piano sounded like it was in another room.
I then changed to the Choir prog on BBC-4, more educational than listening, but its seems the BEEB does have some sound mixing skills left.
The sound quality/mix on the HD feed was very good I thought.
Posted on: 19 September 2009 by Diccus62
Alela and her dad were great
Posted on: 19 September 2009 by BigH47
quote:
Its one thing having ear blasting rock with crap mix & levels, but the Jimmy Cob set up was way off. Piano sounded like it was in another room.
Shame they weren't all in an other room, preferably one without mikes.
Posted on: 19 September 2009 by Lontano
You made me laugh Howard
Posted on: 22 September 2009 by nicnaim
Good to see the Gang of Four on tonight, better watch the extended version when it is on. Sorry but Dizzy does not really do it for me. My kids love Bonkers, which is ok, but the first track he played was crap.
Nic
Posted on: 23 September 2009 by Simon Drake
did none of you guys spot Yola from Phantom Limb nailing the backing vocals for Dizzie's first song last night?!
Posted on: 23 September 2009 by Simon Drake
nic, for the above reason, musically i am not commenting on dizzie in general
Posted on: 30 September 2009 by JamieL_v2
I caught a bit of last night's show.
Did anyone else hear a resemblance in the Shakira track 'She Wolf' to Talking Heads in the early 80's. I looked on the web, and the track is written by a couple of American Musicians John Hill, Sam Endicott who have been in the indie scene, so there is quite possibly some influence.
The rhythm guitar and synth lines felt Talking Heads to me, although the vocals were definitely not in the sardonic David Byrne style.
I won't rush out and buy the album, but I quite enjoyed the performance (somewhat to my grumpy old man surprise).
Posted on: 30 September 2009 by Simon Matthews
I think it helped me that she looked as sexy as hell!
I really liked the XX performance, Gladys Knight sounded in great form and I think Jonny Marr broke a string! A good show all round for me.
Posted on: 01 October 2009 by reubs1981
Shakira is too sexy - I don't think she has any bones in her body!
The XX were predictably great - hoping for another song on Friday night's show.
You can download their cover of 'You've got the love' from thefader.com They've turned it into a sort of UK Funky/2 step track and it's really good
Posted on: 01 October 2009 by Simon Matthews
Cheers for that. Have you heard the XX version of footsteps? Can't find it to purchase but would really like it.
Posted on: 02 October 2009 by reubs1981
Yeah, listened to Footsteps on youtube. It may surface somewhere. I'll keep checking out the singles to see if it's a B side
Posted on: 03 October 2009 by fatcat
After hearing Mika, I strongly suspect he is the musical genius behind Mr Hanky The Christmas Poo.
Posted on: 05 October 2009 by Jono 13
quote:
Originally posted by Simon Matthews:
Cheers for that. Have you heard the XX version of footsteps? Can't find it to purchase but would really like it.
It took my wife to spot the fact that it was a cover!
Really good band, lets hope that The Heavy pop up this series.
Jono
Posted on: 05 October 2009 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by JamieL_v2:
I caught a bit of last night's show.
I tuned in a bit after the start, and promptly switched off when the first band I saw were so obviously miming.
Posted on: 08 October 2009 by greeny
quote:
I tuned in a bit after the start, and promptly switched off when the first band I saw were so obviously miming.
Confused by this.
To my knowledge (and its possible there may be the odd exception) no bands mime on Later with Jools. I've certainly seen loopers being used to generate rhythms and fills, but I can never recall seeing any actual miming. Maybe the audio sync wasn't quite right on you feed that made it seem like that?
