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

59 replies

JosieRosie · 30/12/2011 14:31

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 Grin

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..... Smile

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MustControlMincepieOfDeath · 30/12/2011 15:37

His irritating voice mainly.

But also his face.

Xmas Grin
JosieRosie · 30/12/2011 15:40

I see. He speaks very highly of you though Wink

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fairieswearboots · 30/12/2011 15:43

oh dear. Dh and I were just saying this morning how much we look forward to the hootenanny. In fact just yesterday I turned down an invitation to a party due to' already having plans ' , said plan being to watch the hootenanny by ourselves. Think we are officially getting on a bit you know

JosieRosie · 30/12/2011 15:44

Haha - welcome to the sad git Hootenanny bus fairieswearboots! Grin

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rockinastocking · 30/12/2011 15:44

But you don't suffer from FOMO, fairies, so you're fine.

fairieswearboots · 30/12/2011 15:48

Hehe thanks Josie see you on board!

And thanks rockinastocking!

musicposy · 30/12/2011 15:51

Now I know I officially have FOMO, I can address it and enjoy Jools! I don't mind his hootenanny at all once I deal with the FOMO (thank you, tigermoll!)

Friends are all staying in a hotel. I went the last 2 years and really didn't enjoy it much - well, not enough to justify the ££££. So this year I said No. I've done the right thing (boring old fart emote) but I still have this FOMO.

Anyone old enough to remember the Wimpy ad from must have been late 70s early 80s? All these teens singing "Come on over, we're having a Wimpy"? I grew up thinking everyone was partying over at everyone else's houses having a Wimpy except me. It gave me the most horrendous FOMO. Maybe now I can face the fear and be free! Grin

rockinastocking · 30/12/2011 15:54

hehehe at Wimpy angst.

Yep.

rockinastocking · 30/12/2011 15:54

Am properly lolling at that.

I remember the smug grinning twat.

falalalalagirl · 30/12/2011 16:00

Ugh, Jools is such a smug no necked little prick. And he has squinty little murderer's eyes. I hate NYE and have given up going out to get crushed in a bar whilst waiting two hours for a pint but I would rather go to bed on my own than watch him.

JosieRosie · 30/12/2011 16:25

Grin at falalalalagirl - thanks to you I'll be too blinkin' scared to watch him this year!

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FreudianSlipper · 30/12/2011 16:43

i am happy to watch it. have ds and a friend will be nice rather than wild fun ok with me

alistron1 · 30/12/2011 16:46

I once put the hootenanny on AT a NYE party Blush

I love it, it's my NYE tradition.

catgirl1976 · 30/12/2011 16:46

we used to watch it but only found out this year it isn't live (i know - i am waaay behind) so now its ruined and i can't watch it. dont know what i will watch this year as we have a 6 week old baby so wont be going out

GentleOtter · 30/12/2011 16:48

Hootenanny is far better than BBC Scotland with Jackie Bird.

DancesWithWolves · 30/12/2011 16:50

Oooh - I enjoy a bit of Jools Holland. And he has some great acts on. And I don't want to go to a party thank you very much.

rogersmellyonthetelly · 30/12/2011 16:52

Problems with it are, well everything. It's the same shit every year wth the same annoying bloke presenting. Oh, and the name is just silly.

HumanFly · 30/12/2011 16:52

Oh, oh, I love it! DH and I watch it every year, mainly because we're lazy and CBA to go out, and more generally - we're not hugely into NYE anyway.

DH got me into Jools Holland because he was learning to play rhythm and blues piano just like JH does. Watching the acts - remembering years past like when Amy Winehouse was on it, and Lily Allen going on after a sensational set from AW. At that time (2006/2007 I think?) Lily was being a massive bitch to most of her peers and she took the piss out of Amy's coltish, leg-sticky-outy dance thing she did. DH and I were shouting insults at Lily through the TV, and Back to Black was such a profound, seminal album, and I dunno...it's memories :)

Last year Adele performed Someone Like You and it was a hundred times better than the studio recorded version she released a little later on the radio - for someone who only really listens to random songs, and never the full album and has very little interest in live music, I suddenly turn into a right old appreciator-of-music for one night only.

Much, much love for JH on New Year's Eve. I love how over-excited he gets, and it's all just such good memories, where everything is mixed in together. Watching Jools every year, so many NYE's past, listening to DH learning to play rhythm and blues, the various artists - I guess it's become a tradition of ours.

Insomnia11 · 30/12/2011 16:54

I quite like it, or at least the artists performing are often rather good. Not so much the celeb chat love-in parts. We watch it a bit in between games of Articulate and Pictionary.

RedBlanket · 30/12/2011 16:59

Im watching it and I REFUSE to believe it's not live.

Why would I pay to go into bars that I can go into for free every other weekend, wait for ages to get served and then walk miles in the rain because I can't get a taxi, when I could home, champagne on tap watching Seasick Steve.

miSaltireandwine · 30/12/2011 17:05

I agree with Gentleotter - Jools (anyone in fact) is better than the pish that is Jackie Burd and Aly Bain on BBC Scotland. She murdered sang Caledonia one year, it was awful, sounded like pipes being tuned

On the plus side it is often preceded by Still Game.

rockinastocking · 30/12/2011 19:26

Lol at Seasick Steve.

Every bastarding year...

piprobincomesbobbobbobbinalong · 30/12/2011 19:45

I don't enjoy the JH thing, don't loathe it either, jut a bit mehhh really.

But I definitely hate it a lot less than i loathe the steady stream of pants party/missing taxi/falling on arse in heels while walking home/freezing tits off evenings which I have had the misfortune to endure over the years.

So I will be staying home and moaning about the fireworks waking up the DCs.

Jbck · 30/12/2011 20:10

Look just who you'll be missing if you don't do it www.joolsholland.com/ Grin

SuePurblybilt · 30/12/2011 20:14

Hah, couldn't miss that line-up Hmm

How many chins does ol' Jollsy have now? Is it one for each Hootenanny? He's not fat but he does have mennymenny chins.