to ask what's so awful about Jools Holland's Hootenanny?

[JosieRosie]

I've been reading (and starting!) some New Year's Eve threads and have seen quite a few comments about poor old JH and his Hootenanny - people saying it makes them feel depressed and want to gouge their own eyes out

I know it's hardly the TV event of the year and it's filmed mid-December and he does have some shit dodgy acts on sometimes but I find him quite sweet and mildly amusing and I don't mind watching it.

Genuinely curious why it gets up peoples' noses so much.....

Because if you're watching it, you're not at a party and you feel like a massive Billy No Mates.

in my experience

I detest Jools Holland, but I will watch if nowt else on...

Dd (4) likes the set Tom Jones did one Hootenanny a few years ago (found on you tube!!)

Well I fecking hate NY parties and I always have DP watching it with me, so at least I feel like Billy One Mate

I think Jools works really well actually live if you are there, or at one of his group gig type thingumy's.

I am a bit meh about it on tv. Probably more because I would rather be out than at home watching TV!

I can't ever watch the Hootenanny again. Partly because of the name (Hootenanny?! Argh! Make it stop!) and partly because it reminds me powerfully of a NYE I spent alone* at the age of twelve, - too old to go along to the party my parents were at, too young to be out on the town with my own friends. I had the most massive dose of FOMO you can imagine, - which then propelled me, in my teens, into ten years of the most extravagant NYE nights out possible.

*Well, I wasn't quite alone. I had the cat for company.

i find it depressing and old hat now, would prefer that bloke in the kilt tbh

Jools is on it. For hours.

HTH.

for tigermoll - that sounds rubbish

May I ask what's a FOMO though?

I do cringe when he makes the audience shout 'Hootenanny!' about five thousand times

Agreed - as summed up nicely by the 'New Year's Eve' Peep Show episode from last year:

[Mark has taken Zahra and Jeremy to the Live Action Role Players New Year's Eve party to see Dobby but they can't get in]
Zahra: Maybe we should just accept defeat, resign ourselves to a bit of Jools Holland?
Jeremy: No, not the Hootenanny. Never the Hootenanny. We're better than that. We are going to this party!

Sorry was agreeing with rockinastocking about the No Mates implications of the Hootenanny

FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out.

That nagging, depressing sensation you have that everyone else is having a far better time than you are. That you really OUGHT to go to that party you don't fancy, because everyone there will be having the most marvellous time, dancing, laughing, bonding in ways that will bring them closer and leave you forever on the sidelines. The world will forever be divided into 'people who were there and know what it was like' and 'people who weren't and will NEVER REALLY UNDERSTAND'.

This phenomenon can also be observed on works nights out (that you didn't attend because you hate your co-workers) sunny bank holidays (when everyone else is having a BBQ in the park and looking like a Marc Jacobs ad) and that time you went home from the pub early because you felt tired, and everyone else went on to a club and ended up walking home at daybreak, laughing, wearing cowboy hats and making plans for a road trip round America on which you will now not be invited.

'No, not the Hootenanny. Never the Hootenanny. We're better than that'

ROFL Thanks for reminding me OttoRose. I bloody love Peep Show, may watch the box sets on NYE instead of Hootenanny

'FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out'

Ah yes, I know it well! Thanks for your very vivid examples too

I havent been out on NYE for years, so always end up watching Jools and I do find it incredibly depressing, especially since I have a friend who works on the show and they record it weeks in advance. Makes it even more depressing knowing that it's not live and the artists (and Jools) are probably all out at fabulous NYE parties!

what rockinastocking said, basically.

If you are sat watching jools flippin holland and some random music acts on new years eve, it is because you are not at a party/pub/mates house nor do you have mates over. Nor are you having a romantic night in/out. You are sitting at home watching jools holland....nuff said?

Tigermoll I have that too, and for the exact same reasons. My parents went out and left me at home every Saturday night, Christmas Eve and NYE, and so did all my much older brothers and sisters. Hence the fact that although I hate parties, and would much rather be in my pjs on my fricking own, I never feel quite right about it.

Thank you for giving it a name.

I don't know why but there is something about his smug face that makes me want to puke. I also get very depressed at he thought of watching it, I don't know why though.

Tigermoll Work of genius.

You have nothing to fear but fear itself. Nowt wrong with Jools. I shall be watching Jools, and we can be there together. Start a Hootenanny Watchers' thread at 11 pm tomorrow and we can bond ;-)

It was that one the other year with Lenny Henry and that Al Murray bloke that did it for me, they got a bit too pissed and weren't very funny and the whole thing was utterly cringeworthy. Oh god and that year Kylie was draped all over the piano jools was drooling directly into his lap what with having no neck and all.

Was quite into Jools' taste for a few years and went to a few gigs off the back of some of the bands performances he featured. Then we realised that it was all eerily the 'same' kind of people that were also turning up to these gigs and it just got a bit spooky...

So no Jools this year cba

'jools was drooling directly into his lap what with having no neck and all> - pissing myself now - thanks for that!

The 'gouge my own eyes out' comment was mine on the other thread.

I would also cheerfully smack JH aside the chops with a baseball bat

uh oh, strikethrough fail

That's what talking about the hootenanny does to you

Why does he enrage you so MustControl?