Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem

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Cooper co-created Later… with director Janet Fraser Crook, whose idea it was to film the show in the round, itself something of a revolution in studio craft. “Ultimately, TV is what you do with it. It’s a tool – the studio, the cameras, the lights. What really matters is what you want to say with them… From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada: Brand new artist Olivia Dean, who grew up in East London, makes her TV debut on the show with her song Dive, taken from her forthcoming album Messy. She also joins Jools at the piano to discuss her favourite Carole King tune.

Completing the line-up, Jools chats to Madness frontman Suggs about the band’s first new album in seven years called Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie. It sees Madness reunited, re-energised and reinvigorated, resulting in their most harmonious recording experience to date. It doesn’t try to be too cool for school and isn’t a trend show or a generational show and isn’t aimed at a particular demographic. Mark is the co-creator and founding producer of the show and of the annual Hootenanny, booking and shaping both for 26 years without missing a single recording. So we hear all about it’s creation to it’s build into a musical and TV institution…. and so many stories of appearances and collaborations from our podcast subject – Paul Weller…Plus, three artists make their Later… debut. The first is the chart-topping, award winning singer-songwriter Tom Walker, who performs a couple of songs, including his latest single, Burn. Burn is taken from Tom’s upcoming second album, due to be released in 2024, which follows his 2019 breakthrough that featured the global hit Leave A Light On. As a Foo Fighters fan, I found chapter 12 rather poignant. The book was being finished off in May 2022 (as you find out in the very last part), and it did make me pause for a moment to read the mention of "the late Taylor Hawkins", then shortly afterwards to see his signature printed alongside (most of) his bandmates beneath the piece written by Dave Grohl. It does explain that the autographs at the end of artist testimonies are taken from the show's guest book, but that did put a lump in my throat. That and seeing him and Dave sat next to each other in the photo of the 25th anniversary line-up, with Taylor looking a bit like he's sitting for a school photo, hands neatly on his knees, even as he's distracted, looking off to the side. Bless him. Lastly three-piece PVA whose sound is described as being “made from a formula of acid, disco, blistering synths, the release of the dancefloor and queer-coded sprechgesang post-punk”. In some ways, it’s more BBC than the BBC. As Jools says in the forward to the book, Later… informs, educates and entertains. Those values are at the heart of Later…. The show brings out the best in musicians, where they feel they’ve escaped… the genre they started in. American musicians feel this particularly.

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Making their debut, Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations are a group led by the prolific and revered producer, who has worked with the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse and Jessie Ware and previously fronted The Invisible (nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2009). His latest critically-acclaimed album I Came From Love sees him collaborate with the likes of Grace Jones, Kwabs and ESKA, who performs with him tonight. To what, then, does Cooper ascribe Later’s longevity? “The secret of the show is its aesthetic. It found – and finds – a way to bring out the best in musicians on TV.Jools doesn’t do that. He’s quite bumbly, often very funny, and sometimes a bit awkward. He humanises that environment, which I think is well suited to a music show.”