[quote name='tauzero' post='170085' date='Apr 5 2008, 12:35 AM']What I don't understand with all this going on about his chops is that no-one seems to have noticed that the songs were utter, utter sh*te. What f***ing depressingly bad music there was for almost the entirety of the Friday night programme. James Taylor - great. Mike Trovey (?) - didn't know when to stop developing a theme and move on to the next one. Only Ones - crap performance of pretty decent material (the guitarist was particularly bad). Black Kids were like Waterboys colliding with Human League rather messily. Adele - Vicki Pollard. Estelle - anonymous formulaic crap.[/quote]
I agree wholeheartedly. Generic, manufactured tripe and embarassing, tragic old sods. Wish I'd watched the Tuesday show, it would have been over quicker (but I was rehearsing! ).
It's funny, but I suppose understandable, that on a muso forum like this one, the interest & debate concerns the [i]playing[/i] rather than the [i]music[/i] - which to my ears was slop-shovelling tedium from all concerned. Most of the last series of [i]Later[/i] struck me this way, & it's sad that this seems to be the series' blueprint - a few flavour-of-the-moment chart botherers & NME darlings, a "heritage" act & one of Jools' R&B mates for him to jam with.
I expect I'll still watch it every week anyway, tho.
Jon.