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melv16 | 21:12 Tue 12th May 2015 | Music
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This show gets duller by the week!
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Radio or TV?

I quite like his radio show (other than the daft format of pretending to go down into the vaults of the building).

I only occasionally catch his TV programme and I admit that it can be a bit 'hit or miss' for me, although I still regard his Hootenanny as the best programme of the year!
He is one of the few people left to champion new talent so I have to admire him for that, but I can't stand his need to turn everything into boogie woogie.
>>>I can't stand his need to turn everything into boogie woogie

My complaint, on the other hand, would be that we don't enough of JH himself (or with his Big Band). He's a far better musician than many of his guests!
He is certainly a brilliant pianist.
I know my Maths is a bit ropey, but a fortnight ago you gave it five dulls. You're still tuning in though, melv...
I liked him best in Squeeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-6yVF8tGs
He seems to be a very nice man. I've seen him live but I don't like his music, so I don't watch.
He usually has some great guests on his new year hootenanny.
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He promotes new talent of the dullard variety. All the acts last night were playing stuff I've heard a 100 times before. His show is getting like daytime radio 2....middle of the road yawnfest...
One of the few TV programmes that I watch, Melv. And it really is tired. Not the format, just the acts.

A lot of derivative thrash bands that can't get anywhere near people like The Foo Fighters, for instance. Oh, and my least favourite genre ........... so many "earnest" singer/songwriter troubadors.

I thought it was quite telling recently when Blur came back to show how to write good Pop, and how to put a set together.

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