Tag: Jools Holland

  • In The Audience of Later…with Jools Holland: The Iggy Pop Episode

    In The Audience of Later…with Jools Holland: The Iggy Pop Episode

       Iggy Pop was a force of nature on Later… with Jools Holland on Tuesday night, and I was fortunate enough to be there in the studio audience to witness Iggy lay waste to the cozy, boogie-woogie-piano-infested waters of Maidstone, Kent – where the show is filmed.  It was an evening of surprises.  With Josh…

  • “Later….With Jools Holland”: A Focus Group Shares Their Thoughts…

    “Later….With Jools Holland”: A Focus Group Shares Their Thoughts…

    When producers of Jools Holland’s long running TV show Later… were brainstorming a couple of years ago for fresh impetus and ideas, something appeared to go awry. TV Centre was closing, so the show required a vibrant new home. But where could they go that was fresh, buzzy and exciting? Hoxton perhaps? Shoreditch? Manchester? Nope.…

  • An Anniversary…

    An Anniversary…

    One year ago to the day, Every Record Tells A Story published its first post, an unassuming story about how I won my first ever record in a disco dancing competition when I was eleven years old. The record I won was by The Beatles and started me off on a voyage of musical discovery…

  • In the beginning…before Later with Jools Holland…there was The Tube…

    In the beginning…before Later with Jools Holland…there was The Tube…

    There was a time before Later…with Jools Holland. This was a time of The Tube… In 1986 it was still challenging to hear heavy metal on mainstream media. It would have been easier for Ghengis Khan to pass a CRB police check to help out at his local school than for the UK public to…