Tuesday 13/5
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
- Sharleen Spiteri - All The Times I Cried
- The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
- Mary Wilson (Chat with JH)
- Chatham County Line - Country Boy City Boy
- Mick Hucknall (Chat with JH)
- Glasvegas - Geraldine
- Mick Hucknall with Jools - Farther Up The Road
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Today’s Lesson
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
- The Raconteurs - Consoler Of The Lonely
- Sharleen Spiteri - All The Times I Cried
- Mary Wilson (Chat with JH)
- Glasvegas - Geraldine
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Of The Moon
- Bon Iver - Skinny Love
- The Raconteurs - Old Enough
- Sharleen Spiteri (Chat with JH)
- Chatham County Line - The Carolinian
- Mick Hucknall (Chat with JH)
- Glasvegas - Daddy’s Gone
- Mick Hucknall with Jools - Farther Up The Road
- The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
- Sharleen Spiteri - It Was You
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Midnight Man
Also excellent are The Raconteurs. Jack White and Brendan Benson have created a wonderful musical machine in this band and their new stuff is better than the debut album. The intense Salute Your Solution lead by White and his guitar was the high point. As was Consoler Of The Lonely with Benson taking lead vocals before JW mixes it up. They also performed the weaker but equally engaging Old Enough with a great vocal arrangement at the end.
Sharleen Spiteri, still of Texas (we are informed on the show) but solo currently, had a chat with Jools about rediscovering being scared and wanting to make her fantasy album. Influenced by Nancy Sinatra, you can hear what she is trying to do and good luck to her. In the days of prominent female singers like Winehouse, Duffy and Adele, the timing is not good and the competition is as strong as ever. She performs the soulful All The Times I Tried and the more seductive It Was You, complete with brass section. It sort of works if you like her voice.
A great new band continued the Scottish influence, Glasvegas. They performed Geraldine (both shows) and Daddy’s Gone, new tracks from their debut album. The sound the band produce is amazing, augmented by simple drums and wall-of-sound guitars, and very distinct vocals.
Jools’ special guest this week was Mary Wilson from The Supremes, just in for a chat and to tell us about a new exhibition. They even played some Supremes songs and got the audience to sing along. Instead we are treated to Mick Hucknall (of Simply Red fame) who is on a one man mission to tell the world about Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland. Ok, it’s easy to be cynical here but I think he has genuine affection for the music and good intentions, even if he is plugging an album (like everyone else who appears). Farther Up The Road was typical Jools and guest fare but entertaining enough.
The remaining two spaces were taken up by bluegrass quartet Chatham County Line and the little known Bon Iver. Chatham County Line, playing and singing around a single microphone, are very good even if they lack excitement. They got a song on each show, the old-worldly Country Boy City Boy and The Carolinian. It was great watching them as they moved back and forth to get the right sound. Bon Iver was less than impressive with his falsetto bog-standard Skinny Love. It was nothing new.
So a good show but again an interview which had nothing to do with the music. It was good to hear from Spiteri and Hucknall. There is still too much repetition across the two shows - not the music, you expect that, but the stuff in-between. Anyway the music was great and that is the main thing…
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