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Later with Jools Holland - your favourite ever performance
Posted by seanioio on 27 May 2010 - 8:08am.
As the 36th seres of Later with Jools Holland draws to a close, I was wondering which performances from this show have wowed the Word massive?
My favourite ever performance was Roddy Frame playing 'On The Avenue' which i remember just being sublime. I have been searching youtube for this but cant find it anywhere!
Some other favourites are;
The yeasayer one just blew me away! I also love the 'what the frig' expressions on the audiences faces.
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My personal favourite... Bobby Whitlock: Bell Bottom Blues
although, as a performance, THIS was pretty bloody good
guitar tuning issues aside :-)
Radiohead performing 'Weird Fishes / Arpeggi'...
just brilliant.
What pop music should look and feel like
When the BBC comes to its senses and lays on a weekly TV pop music show - so that their millions of radio listeners can see the hits they've been listening to all week being performed - this is what it should look and feel like.
This one sticks in the mind
Oh yes
I saw KD Lang perform this on her Hymns of the 49th Parallel tour.
Her rendition of this made me cry, it was so extraordinarily beautiful.
No other performer has ever done that to me.
Not seen that before
and it was wonderful. Thanks.
My wife loves this . . .
. . . but she did look over at the screen and ask "Doesn't she look like Frank Lampard?"
Well now that's coloured my view of KD Lang - shall we try and come up with a Rock lookalike England XI?
Beck - Devil's Haircut
my all-time favourite is Courtney Pine and Lynden David Hall blowing up a storm on Lady Day & John Coltrane. But I can't find the clip for it, so this is my second choice
Yeasayer's first performance was pretty special,
as was their second, just a couple of weeks ago - check out the change of look for the bass player [and check out his playing - from about 15 seconds - marvellous]
My own. Personal. Favourite.
The Darkness
We have a winner.
That was wonderful - made me sing along, play air guitar and have a stupid grin on my face. What more should music do?
AND a contender for the best rock and roll moustache on the bass player.
AND, in Justin Hawkins, the man having the most fun he can possibly cram into 3 minutes on live TV.
That clip has made my day :-)
I'm glad...
...you enjoyed it, Stimpy
And there was me thinking I was the only one
that would have chosen this. Love it. I recall Jools saying at the end (to Sam Brown) "Was that man bothering you?". Great choice.
Me Too - Thanks (Thought I was the only one)
My recollection was that the rest of the show was pretty bland. I got the impression that Justin Hawkins thought 'This is my moment and I'm going to grab it with both hands!'.
Hawkins has been much maligned. The fact that the performance is so OTT, camp(ish) and potentially risible is inconsequential. Just for this moment in time, this is just good old Rock N' Roll - unashamed and going for it.
Seeing Hawkins running round that stage
reminds me of the famous Springsteen film of Rosalita where, at one point - just after the girls have been dragged off him - he has the biggest grin on his face and is patently thinking "This is everything I ever dreamed of when I was a 12-year old practicing in my room"
I always love that moment when a musician lets the 'front' drop for a few seconds and just honestly and shamelessly enjoys what's happening.
Playing music you love, in front of an adoring audience who are getting off on your playing is, let's face it, the single BEST thing in the world, there's really no need to look serious all the time!
Thank you, thank you, thank you
I've not seen that before. The music world needs The Darkness to remind us it's really all just a bit of fun. I demand they make another album immediately. Brilliant!!
Confession Time
When the Darkness played at the Big Day Out on the Gold Coast just after their first album came out it was the single most enjoyable gig I've ever seen (although the Flaming Lips gave them a close run later that night).
They were one of the first acts on, just after midday, and they sounded and looked incredible. Justin Hawkins was mesmerising and the other guys could have been butt naked for all I knew. The 45 minute festival timeslot was just perfect for them, as there was no time for them to get self-indulgent and boring. I remember that the Datsuns were on after them, and they had the impact of a wet stalk of celery in comparison: tinny sound, crap songs and no personality.
Darkness were the classic supernova band, producing one perfect album and then exploding (lets forget the second album shall we?). I'm a bit bemused that the English music press seems to have turned on them so quickly.
This was one of the best
And this was one of those surreal, pinch yourself moments
'Is this really The Blue Nile on Later?'
There are so many...
...but I feel that, in the spirit of this thread, I should go back a bit. The first time I ever saw Later was in 1992 when k d lang and Loudon Wainwright were on it: maybe the third episode or something.
No joy on YouTube for Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan doing Wilson Pickett's Three Time Loser, which would be my first choice. So I'll settle for this. I saw it when I was working in Sheffield in the autumn of 1998; I'd been away from my family for a few weeks, and I came in to my lonely digs one night after another visit to the pub and just turned on the TV. Many Charlie Rich songs have the power to reduce me to a jibbering wreck. This is one of the worst. Or best.
Gorgeous
Thanks Lucas, loved Bonnie & Trisha.
Not a fan, but I remember this
because there was a quick cut to Robbie Williams at the end. He had 'Christ, Ive got to follow this' written on his face.
Peformances like that make me realise that...
...no matter how much criticism Later gets and how much we all look back at OGWT with rose-tinted eyewear, even today the BBC are still building up that valuable archive of contemporary material.
Whether it was Judee Sill, Tim Buckley or At The Drive In - it's good to know someone out there is willing to give artists airtime and recording them for posterity because you can bet that ITV or Sky won't bother*.
Even now, we can look back at an archive of the last 50 years of popular music on TV and it's almost all thanks to the BBC.
* I'll give ITV RSG and So It Goes but that's about it isn't it?
New discoveries
It is hard to pick favourite performances from such an abundance of riches. I'll go for a couple featuring extraordinary artists I had never heard of at the time and - without Later - would probably still be unaware of now. The fact that they don't usually sing in English pretty much excludes them from radio play in this country.
agreed
Bought both of these albums "Fado en Mim" and "Le Fil" after hearing these tracks at different times. Camille is SO very very good. Mariza is good in a different way. The piano version of "O gente de minha terra" from the album is superb too.
Mariza had featured in a compilation
from the Cambridge Festival - so there had been some TV exposure before (maybe to a smaller audience on BBC3/4? - don't know what the comparative figures would be). Anyway she is a world-class talent and would rise to the top whatever.
And this
was great!
Good choice.
Ave an arrer.
How could I forget this
'Your skin is something that I stir into my tea'
Steve Winwood and Jools
This was a good show
Let's take a break for one of my favourite Viz Top Tips
BANDS: don't have a pianist? Get on 'Later With Jools Holland' and you'll have one play with you whether you want one or not.
Thank you. As you were...
haha
Brilliant! That is now one of my favourite top tips
There are not many...
...of the lady persuasion who can appreciate the glory of Viz. I bow down.
And that's a brilliant Top Tip.
I could pick so many
I couldn't find TV On The Radio's performances on youtube, which sprang straight to mind. I'd never heard of them at all. But then again I'd never heard of Amy Winehouse either, when this fresh-faced young woman blew me away with Stronger Than Me. It's actually quite poignant to me now, given where she seems to be heading...
I remember
watching one of the compilation shows - 'Jools Rocks Out' or some such - and they had Primal Scream doing some godawful post-rock noise freakout rubbish. And then they showed this beautiful noise:
I know poor old Jools gets some stick for his boogie-woogieing, but there has been a huge amount of great music and some fantastic performances on Later over the years hasn't there?
A couple spring to mind
One fairly old - one very new
A few faves
and, of course
But who
Was left on duty at the bus station that evening?
and someone
seems to have nicked Alex Higgins cue!
Still got this clip of Elvis and the Attractions on VHS
great to find it on youtube
watch right till the end for Elvis's "you want some?" stare.
how could i forget these....
This is my favourite...
carrying on the Radiohead theme
Their 2001 Special on Jools was superb. Loved every second of it.
Although, having said that, "Life In a Glasshouse" with the Humphrey Lyttleton group was a particular highlight. The song played out in its New Orleans funeral march glory.
Thankyou!
I've not seen hat many of Jools' shows, so this is a real treat. Faves so far: Solange, The Darkness, (Both great fun) Mariza, & The Blue Nile, both of whom I love to death.
C'mon Paul - time for another album or tour - or both!
The Scream Team
A Quiet Favourite
This introduced me to Westerberg. Superb.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Sweet & Sour - I love the way Jools doesn't know what's going on when Jon Spencer jumps up on the piano.
KT Tunstall.
Still my favourite 'Jools' performance in terms of the impact it made on me at the time.
Silence please
for PJ Harvey
wow
- that was brilliant. Thanks, Molesworth.
Eels - Dogfaced Boy
Oh yeah!
Hmm, this thread is going to take some time
A lot of great stuff there.
What about this one?
'How I love you baby...'
This still gets me
Christy
Bloody brilliant!
Stunning...
I think Christy Moore is the most "self-contained" musician I've ever seen, in the sense that he could just turn up anywhere with or without a guitar and have people hanging on his every word within seconds. He really is one of the greats...
Christy makes Van Morrison
seem like Mary Poppins though.
Rainer Ptacek
I've never forgotten this one either
This...
...made my jaw drop, and then buy "Funeral" at the earliest opportunity. No wonder that record obsessed me for about 4 years. Still gets regular outings.
Very fond of these
'Things are falling all over the place here, y'all'...
And another one I'm sure I must've posted in lots of places, lots of times....
Relax ladies, it's The Hives
All round Swedish madness with a proper ending - check the guitar slinging.
Love it
What a great performance.
How about these Swedish nutters as well, bugger "So you wanna be in a rock'n'roll band", who could improve on the singer and blond guitarist in this band:
I love this one too, the great vaudevillian Duke Special with one of best songs:
and this is one of Crowded House's quiet gems and one of Neil's finest moments with a wonderful cracked vocal, feel the pain:
and, finally, does it get any better than this?
Love the toy guitar!
Oh Mama!
Time for some foliage
As usual
the answer is...
Great version of "Rebel Rebel"
Jimmy Cliff
Rather powerful:
Radiohead
rarely less than stunning on 'Later...'
'Go To Sleep' notable for extended guitar high jinks from Johnny at end which they should have had on album version.
'The Bends' 1995.
another corker
Jools and Jewel
This was from the Hootenany, maybe 1999ish. Jools & his orchestra backing Jewel on St Louis Blues.
I'm not sure what I like best about it; whether it's that loooong opening "blues", the little squeaky "thank you" at the end, or just the fact that she looks so darned adorable throughout the whole thing...
Later with Jools Holland - favourite performances
2 that really stood out for me : interesting contrast between the 2...
2003 Jane's Addiction "Been Caught Stealing" -
and
2004 Counting Crows "Anna Begins" - unfortunately only link I could find starts at 00:58
enjoy..
I love "Anna Begins"...
...but why can't he just sing the melody in that performance? The recorded version is perfect - why monkey with it? There's pretty much nothing left of the original tune.
I heart the Counting Crows studio stuff
but can't handle how Adam Duritz arses around with the songs live.
Later with Jools Holland - favourite performances
2 that really stood out for me : interesting contrast between the 2...
2003 Jane's Addiction "Been Caught Stealing" -
and
2004 Counting Crows "Anna Begins" - unfortunately only link I could find starts at 00:58
enjoy..
I mainly wanted
the 2nd part of this clip - Break Your Heart, if only for Guy Barker's trumpet playing, but the performance of Kind and Generous is excellent too.