Reminder: Melissa/ Radiohead on BBC 2/ Later

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'later...' is not safe.

― piscesboy, Monday, 9 June 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link

what's odd abt later is that i don't think it is "safe" especially in its choice of who's on, more that something about its format homogenises a fairly wide range of musics...for the duration of the programme all participants are saying "our aesthetic principles don't matter" => for the duration their music stops mattering and melts dully into itself)

I think what happens is it enforces Jools Holland's view of music as a craft and all musicians having that in common regardless of genre. So respect for musicianship, and music as a 'common language'. That's the central aesthetic/tenet and artists appearing choose (or are forced) to conceal any dislike they may have for other musics. Actually Holland's view is fairly common among musicians so it's pretty much voluntary I'd say. It's like when Pete Townshend's father (big band musician Cliff Townshend) took him to see Bill Haley & the Comets and remarked to his son 'hmm..not bad...'

― David (David), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

like Geir the only electronica act Jools seems to really like is Orbital!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

david, i'm sure it's voluntary: i totally believe — not least cz once long ago i interviewed him — that jools is charming amusing company w.no attitude or agenda, basically a good person: what interests me is that this seemingly positive attitude (what's so bad about a musician having respect for makers of a music he himself wouldn't choose to make?) contributes to the gummy worthiness of this programme, making it seem more homogenous in fact than it would on paper

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

>can't believe i was moaning about music shows on TV as 4 Music
>last night had The Streets, DJ Shadow and Lemon D & Dillinja all
>being interviewed

the key phrase here is 'all being interviewed'. was disappointed by the lack of music by the above-mentioned although the talk of the valve sound system was interesting. maybe if these things were 30 minutes long rather than just 10...

andy

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

The White Room still stands miles above any other music show on telly, even though the only thing i can remember of it is iggy pop and his trousers.

Another good show a while back (just for the bands they covered) was that Barfly thing on Channel 4. Actually what's happened to 4 music now? there doesn't seem to be anything decent on wednesday nights.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

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