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Jools holland! Listen up...#prince wants to come on your show! Give him a call! @drfunkenberry @Willjhodgkinson @BBCLater

that would be amazing. he could do a whole show, Prince special

I would love to see Prince on the show, just to see Prince shake his head and throw shade at the other performers.

I so want Jooles to play piano with him on delirious!..he'd take it to another level!

funkyhead said:

It would be brilliant to see P on Jools Holland, (I was actually thinking about that the other day)

Maybe closer to the album release date

The fact that he's never done Jools is almost as frustrating to me as MTV unplugged never coming off.

could be interesting. prince will probably try to get an all purple cast on for the night.

i'm thinking Prince & 3rd Eye Girl, Prince & The NPG, Lianna LaHavas, Andy Allo etc..

IstenSzek said:

could be interesting. prince will probably try to get an all purple cast on for the night.

i'm thinking Prince & 3rd Eye Girl, Prince & The NPG, Lianna LaHavas, Andy Allo etc..

Ain't gonna happen. Later has a specific formula where genres are mixed. Specials centered around a single artist are exceptions and haven't happened in years.

Also, can someone buy Prince a calendar? Later is not on now, will probably return around April. Oh, and it is taped on Tuesday for a Friday broadcast (one hour long), and there's also a live broadcast (half hour long) after the Tuesday taping.

BartVanHemelen said:

naffi said:

funkyhead said:

I so want Jooles to play piano with him on delirious!..he'd take it to another level!

Yes!! That would be amazing!!!

No it would be shit coz Jools Holland is a massive wanker.

fuck me the guy has had some top draw SHIITE on his show, I hope Prince dos'nt bother.

funkyhead said:

I so want Jooles to play piano with him on delirious!..he'd take it to another level!

But Jools Holland is a one trick pony when it comes to the piano. Delirious would be forever spoilt.Amazes me how people like him can get so far as "pianists".

Of course, like all of you, I would LOVE to see Prince on his show though....

3rdeyeman said:

funkyhead said:

I so want Jooles to play piano with him on delirious!..he'd take it to another level!

But Jools Holland is a one trick pony when it comes to the piano. Delirious would be forever spoilt.Amazes me how people like him can get so far as "pianists".

What?? I thought 'pub boogie-woogie' went well with everything!

I also hope we see Prince on his show, though. And it'd be good to see him interviewed about his influences, experiences as a musician, etc, too; maybe even a little segment at the piano. I've heard Jools express great admiration for Prince before, and mention how he always wanted to get him to appear on The Tube in the 80s, so I'm pretty hopeful that it might happen now Prince has signalled his willingness.

3rdeyeman said:

funkyhead said:

I so want Jooles to play piano with him on delirious!..he'd take it to another level!

But Jools Holland is a one trick pony when it comes to the piano. Delirious would be forever spoilt.Amazes me how people like him can get so far as "pianists".

Agreed, PLEASE have a clause where Jools is NOT allowed to play with Prince, though would LOVE to see him on this show.

deebee said:

3rdeyeman said:

But Jools Holland is a one trick pony when it comes to the piano. Delirious would be forever spoilt.Amazes me how people like him can get so far as "pianists".

What?? I thought 'pub boogie-woogie' went well with everything!

Oh god yes you're absolutely right.

In fact perhaps they should get Chas n Dave on as well....now that would be a show!

3rdeyeman said:

funkyhead said:

I so want Jooles to play piano with him on delirious!..he'd take it to another level!

But Jools Holland is a one trick pony when it comes to the piano. Delirious would be forever spoilt.Amazes me how people like him can get so far as "pianists".

What?? I thought 'pub boogie-woogie' went well with everything!

I also hope we see Prince on his show, though. And it'd be good to see him interviewed about his influences, experiences as a musician, etc, too; maybe even a little segment at the piano. I've heard Jools express great admiration for Prince before, and mention how he always wanted to get him to appear on The Tube in the 80s, so I'm pretty hopeful that it might happen now Prince has signalled his willingness.

Why did Jools not like Prince?

thisisreece said:

Why did Jools not like Prince?

Because he's a 3rd rate Chas'n'Dave you're 'avin' a laaarf knees-up muvver brown jackass?

jcurley said:

Jh hated prince in the 80's. On the tube slagged him off

Might be because they could never get him on the show! They were all a bit 'too cool for school' at that time, so it wouldn't surprise me if he did slag him off. Nonetheless, I do recall him saying getting Sheila E on the show was part of a strategy to get P to come on (which he never did), so there must have been some interest.

I also remember seeing JH introducing a late night run of programmes on Channel 4 sometime in the mid/late-90s with Paula Yates, where they showed Sign O' the Times. After the movie finished, Yates said something like, "I know he's talented and everything, but don't you just hate him??" Jools completely deflected it and said something like, "Well, I think he's a great musician, great producer...", and it moved on.

Who knows? Maybe there was some animosity at one time, but I'd be surprised if the old 'tribal lines' from the 80s were still in effect today. Certainly, these days, JH seems to be pretty good at giving musicians their due. (That said, I'd smash his fingers if he even tried to sit in on the piano.)

JellyJam said:

callimnate said:

JellyJam said:

Because he's a 3rd rate Chas'n'Dave you're 'avin' a laaarf knees-up muvver brown jackass?

.......... With taste perhaps!?.

Having heard most of Squeeze's output I consider this unlikely. Also he seems to have no real taste in anything save for what might be in the spotlight given any particular week; he's basically a human manifestation of Q*.

*My American friends, this means he's essentially shit.

[Edited 3/1/14 10:42am]

JellyJam said:

he should let jools (by the way is a brilliant boogie woogie style pianist) play on 'gotta broken heart again' then metamorphosise into 'sign of the times' with a heavy rock beat (with all those flat cap wearing arsewipes stood in the background, looking like norman wisdom, going 'whaaa?') and finish with fixurlifeup.

yes, i should be the musical director of the show.