Hank on Jools Holland Later

[dave robinson]

Great news, looking forward to that. Best thing to do is record it and filter out the rubbish and the usual suspects that can neither play or sing. He does have some tripe on there.

[Paul Childs]

Great news, looking forward to that. Best thing to do is record it and filter out the rubbish and the usual suspects that can neither play or sing. He does have some tripe on there.

Well said Dave, that is what I always do to filter out all the rubbish on there.
I haven't bothered watching since Brian Wilson was on there and I filtered out everything else then.

[JimN]

Just a point - though the show is broadcast twice and is slightly different each time, I have an idea that they are just differently edited versions of the same thing.

[anniv 63]

Last Fridays edition really scraped the bottom of the barrel.
There was a girl singer/guitarist(ahem) from some indie band, who at the end of one number , removed
her guitar then rolled down plinth steps and stuck her legs up in the air pretending to be dead!!!
The look on Holland's face said it all, he didn't look amused at the end!!
Certainly even he would not have wanted to book this rubbish so who does?

Mike

[dave robinson]

Last Fridays edition really scraped the bottom of the barrel.
There was a girl singer/guitarist(ahem) from some indie band, who at the end of one number , removed
her guitar then rolled down plinth steps and stuck her legs up in the air pretending to be dead!!!
The look on Holland's face said it all, he didn't look amused at the end!!
Certainly even he would not have wanted to book this rubbish so who does?

Mike

Our licence money pays for it !

[Paul Childs]

From what I've read on Facebook in the past, a lot of people filter out the rubbish so it is common practice with the Jools Holland program.

[Moderne]

Although Hank is listed as a 'performer', I would guess that he might just be featured chatting to Jools at the piano. Duane Eddy was a guest around the time of his Festival Hall show a few years ago but apart from twanging the intro to Peter Gunn he never got to play anything. It would be amazing if Hank played a tune or three but my guess is that even after 54 years, today's TV producers would not contemplate featuring a twangy guitarist from the 60s actually performing anything on national evening telly.

I hope I'm wrong!

[dave robinson]

I hope you're wrong too Clive, he did allow Dave Edmunds to play Sabre Dance on new years eve a couple of years back - we live in hope. He might just feel it's necessary to remind people what guitars are for i.e. playing with passion and skill - now on that programme wouldn't that be a novelty . . . .

[AlanMcKillop]

If you read the first post, Howard states that Hank will play live.

[MartcasterJunior]

Well if the Beeb ever wanted to resurrect Grumpy Old Men on the cheap, all they'd have to do is get actors to read out the contents of this thread.

Say what you like about other acts featured on Later... but at least they put out albums of original material.