SPOILER ALERT
Here’s a tweet from Laura Doggett revealing what song she’ll be singing when it’s her turn to sing a song.
Tomorrow I'm playing #Moonshine live from Jools Holland's piano on @BBCLater - Can't quite believe this is happening pic.twitter.com/j3Zutslpor
— Laura Doggett (@LauraDoggett) November 3, 2014
And she gets to use Jools’ piano!
WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE
BRYAN FERRY!
Former Marks & Spencer model and sometime frontman of Roxy Music (they seem to have broken up again actually), Bryan Ferry will release his fourteenth (!) solo album later this month and the name of said album is Avonmore.
PAUL RODGERS!
Former frontman of Free, Bad Company, The Firm, The Law and a pre-Adam Lambert Queen, Rodgers released an album of covers in February so I guess he’ll be doing some of those, but this is live TV so he might just hum Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off and sit on the floor.
THE WAR ON DRUGS!
Anyone doubting the influence of positive album reviews on sales needs to look at the fact that War On Drugs’ critically adored recent album, Lost In Dream, peaked at 18 in the UK. Their previous chart high? 2011’s Slave Ambient peaked at 127.
FUSE ODG!
Afrobeat pioneer Fuse ODG has already had three UK top 10 singles, including recent hit T.I.N.A. (which stands for This Is New Africa, do keep up), but still hasn’t topped the brilliantly bonkers dance craze-friendly, Azonto.
SEINABO SEY!
Swedish, yes, but Seinabo Sey makes a slightly off-kilter variant on the effortless pop that wafts deliciously over whichever sea is between them and the UK.
LAURA DOGGETT!
The adjectives used to describe Laura Doggett’s music include “immersive”, “quietly intense” and “slow-burning”, which makes it sound like a scented candle.
INTRO
Welcome once more to the comfortable environs of the Later... liveblog, brought to you from Maidstone via the TV to London and then via however the internet works. Over the last eight weeks my esteemed colleague Paul Lester and I have guided you through a myriad of magical musical moments. Who can forget that time FKA twigs sang a song? Or that night Bono wore some glasses? Or when Jools spoke awkwardly to someone? No, but seriously, can anyone remember those moments? What happened?
I jest of course, they’re all etched on my mind and will be forever. Tonight’s lineup is an interesting mix of old and indeed new so let’s see what happens. I reckon Twitter will have some opinions on it all, but let’s not second guess anything just yet.
We’re in the eighth week of this now so you should know what’s coming by now. Let’s kick this whole shebang off properly with a graphic detailing who’s singing some songs. As per, this has been taken from the Later... Twitter account and most definitely wasn’t anything to do with me.
Tune in tonight at 10pm on @BBCTwo for the last live show of the series! #laterjools pic.twitter.com/xKpSOsEWrc
— Later... on BBC Two (@BBCLater) November 4, 2014
Lovely stuff. As you can hopefully see there’s some chat too of course and that’s with Pink Floyd’s very own Dave Gilmour, so set a little alert for that one.
