It's the awesome Florence on now. The Machine are wearing Fred Perry shirts.

interviewed. All pretending it's not October. Now it's Boy George. My wife says Florence and the Machine were lacking a bass drum and that Boy George "looks ridiculous". She's off to her WI meet in a minute, though.

Does she do that to distract the casual viewer from the bland noises emanating from the other end? I've really taken against her - I'd like to like old Flo - but the two occasions I've heard her singing live - one of which was earlier tonight on ToTP she has been bad in a really ordinary dull, tuneless sort of way.

playing guitar very fast. Didn't catch their names, but something foreign. Al Murray is in the background, come incognito with a beard, the twat.

Rodriguez and Gabriella I think....

or if you are Spanish

Rodriguez y Gabriella........

I enjoyed Flo,quite like the flaky cut of her gib.
Was Paolo singing in a cod West Indian accent and is that acceptable these days.
Also enjoyed the two guitarists

been on Hootenanny every year or am I in a timewarp

Pass the bottle....

Yes Roland is one of the annual BBC Freeloaders sent to bore us at this time of year

My wife says, "Strange how men go through a hairy period. You've been through a few hairy periods, haven't you?"

I remain silent and sip my wine.

....havent turned it on yet but if Lenny Henry is on there yet again getting pissed and being unfunny, let me know before 11.55 and i'll watch something else at midnight.

The whole 'Jools showbiz mates' thing is very dull and annoying.

I've just arrived in and switched it on. I must admit to a fondness for Kasabian. They're a fine example of a band who have grown with each album.

She says it was a great experience and she absolutely loved it. Not sure what she's referring to.

2009 was not her Annus Horibilis then??

....Great pins, and a really great song. What more etc...etc....

Brilliant! Its 1982!!!!

is murdering Church of the Poison Mind.

I've been drinking.

I like this fella he's not afraid to be a bit of a showman

How can you not like this!

...but it is looking a bit under-budget. Still has Seth Lakeman, so reserve judgement.

On the other hand, I am vair vair drunk.

Enough of Jools cronies... the kids want to see the firworks...
Oh Dear not Mylene Klass again!!!!

Happy New Year you old duffers , by the way that Dave Edmunds can still cut it.

Cheers all. Now, where's me Cava?

can fuck off.

Sorry Welshers, but he can.

Have a Great Twenty Ten everyone!!!!

We switched on with Ruby Turner squawking something about a train. I reached for the mute button. It wasn't until four or five songs later tha we managed to get through a whole song, and that was dizzee Rascal, always good value. Boy George was tragically bad, Kasabian were - and always are - irredeemably dull; Tom J and Kelly J were dull; Rowland Rivron is simply inexplicable. Dizzee is on again now, excellent stuff. Paloma Faith looks agreeably bonkers, I like the cut of her jib. Ok, what fresh hell is this? Oh gawd, it's Man George with his non-existent voice again...

Best Wishes..
My wife has gone to bed now but I am left with my over-excited 9 year old... Wish I had his energy!

to Boy George's voice? It's painful to watch.

again. This has disgusted my wife who has stormed out in protest; she wants to see Florence.

As she left she was muttering something about wanting the toffee but only getting the coffee creams.

Typical woman, relating everything to Revels.

Again.

Oh fuck off, philanderer.

Singalong everyone..."The green x 2 grass of home...."
Never mind Bill Bailey's now on MORE 4.

Granted Tom Jones is advancing in years but is that a natural grey look to go with his cuprinol features

It's Jo Brand again.

Is he always this Tesco friendly?

Florence Welch has the most horrible voice of anyone on the programme this evening (Boy George doesn't count as he doesn't have a voice). In fact she has one of the most horrible voices I've ever heard. Her appeal is a complete mystery to me.

A young Elsie Tanner doing the Mikado

...on to Maddie on Sky 1. Sticky & Sweet, apparently.

I thought Florence did a belter of a job on "My Baby Just Cares For Me".

None of her songs have impressed me - I liked Siouxsie and The Banshees too, but she seems to have based her career to date on that - but she sang it really well.

I may re-convert in the morning, as I note that I appear to have worked my way through the best part of the bottle of Bruichladdich that I had put aside for the festivities. As any fule kno, that is the liquid part.

But holy f**k Someone send Boy George some of the stuff Johnny Lydon was gargling with at the PiL gigs. To quote Spinal Tap.."His Larynx is getting fat".

Just reliving the wonderful weekend of Glastonbury and marvelling in the fact that I standby everything I wrote here way back then.
Surely the clip of the year?

Does Tin Says

Have to say Dizee Rascal is destined for at least his fifteen minutes, probably much, much more.

Okay.

Spending NYE on my own. Couldn't be arsed to go out anywhere so opened the bottle of so-so champers that's been taking up space in the fridge for the last couple of years. Result! It's still extemely drinkable so I did. All of it.

Jools + champers + bacon sarnies is a jolly nice way to spend NYE.

Nobody exceptional on "Hootenanny!!!!!" but WTF, I enjoyed it. Even the stuff I don't really like, which was most of it.

Paolo Nuttini was a highlight in my drunken state. I like twitching my body (feebly) to that old R'n'B stuff, especially with a big band giving lots of horn action.

I've noticed some of you Word list denizens have trouble cutting loose and getting down with their bad selves. Wot a shame but... tuff.

Given the right time and the right chemical balance I'll enjoy the crap along with the diamonds, with no shame whatsoever.

Followed the champers and bacon sarnies with some vodka 'n' bull substitute (Sainsbury's) and some calvados.

By then the Hootenanny!!! had finished and it was "Best of Glastonbury '09" on the sainted iPlayer.

Yet again there was plenty I enjoyed in my "relaxed" state that I would not normally tolerate. If I could only "loosen up" like this without next-day-hangovers more often...

My nephew, who of course is in a band, was there for his first time ever and (of course) pronounced it "Great".
I of course told him that I used to go every year as an excuse to meet up with my friends I didn't see the rest of the year and to smoke drugs.
I had a wonderful time every time until the unfortunate year when one of said friends' stepdaughter (a really lovely girl whose name I'm ashamed to admit I can't recall in my drunken state) was killed in a car crash on the M4 coming home from Glasto, at which point it all sort of went a bit sour. Of course I didn't want to spoil his high by telling him about this, so I didn't.

Anyway. The last decade was The Noughties, and nothing particularly good (or interesting) came of it, seems to me. Boy George declared 2010 was the year of love. He's a twat (really) but we could certainly do with some lurve right now. What's this next decade gonna be called?

on Quest and retired to bed after a very nice bottle of Lindemans and an M&S Lemon Chicken, can't stand the Hootenany, Holland or his showbiz chums

Al Murray's behaviour was shocking. He made Rivron seem charming and erudite. Jools himself appeared to be half asleep during his own band's numbers, and how come everything they played seemed to be ska-based?

was indeed excruciatingly bad and exactly the same as he was last year.
A hoot it was not.

I walked out of the room when he came on. When he's on his own (without Mortimer), his comic wit appears to resort to forced surrealism. A reference to a pidgeon carrying a lego helmet made out of meat, that kind of thing. It never gets a laugh and I die inside every time he tries it.

New Years Eve Telly since Clive James and the inimitable Margerita Pracatan packed it in!

What a joyless thread this is. We had Jools on with people over here in europe land and they loved it. Who cares about Boy George's voice? It was fun, a well timed couple of classic pop slices and as someone further up said, let go, you don't have to judge everything all the time. Have a drink and a dance, you might enjoy it. Failing that put something on you do like.

.. but it's Jools grinning inanely as he tickles the boogie woogie ivories over any genre of music and his excruciatingly bad interviews that are the problem. He's probably past his sell-by date by now but is sadly probably too entrenched for anything to change.

Maybe it needs other guest presenter(s) to take over for a time to freshen up the programme as has happened with HIGNFY and others.

Who would the Massive suggest might make a good fist of that? Would have to be a muso with some degree of cred.

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