Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20904 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-11-18
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Colour, Compilation, DVD-Video, Widescreen, Import, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, German, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 170 minutes

Video Description
DVD Special Features :

English
Introduction by Jools Holland
Play All
Select Songs
Programme your favorite 6 tracks
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Behind the Scenes
Interviews/ chats with Bjork, Mary J Blige, Moby, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, Michael Stipe, Robbie Williams
Tracklisting:

Contains 30 including:
The Verve
Portishead
Massive Attack
Blur
Oasis
PJ Harvey
Robbie Williams
Coldplay
Radio Head
Mary J Blige
Bjork
David Gray
Pulp
Orbital
Moby

Synopsis
November 2002 is the tenth anniversary of this long running and massively respected music show, presented by musician Jools Holland, which always features an eclectic mixture of bands giving exclusive performances. This disc features some of the greatest of those performances from the likes of Radiohead, Oasis, Robbie Williams, Morrissey, R.E.M, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and many many more. Also included are a behind the scenes look at the show and interviews with some of the featured artists.

Customer Reviews

Highlights the poverty of music on television
Later...with Jools Holland
10 years is very impressive for a man who has no dress sense, no interviewing technique and a sense of humour so incomprehensible his jokes leave his guests shuffling with embarassment. Nevertheless, the BBC have given him nearly twenty series of Later..., a sort of 'Top of the Pops with pubes' as Robbie Williams describes it in his interview on disc one. This three DVD series rightly celebrates what has become a rich catalogue of live music.

Disc one, '10 years later...with Jools Holland' is a retrospective, selecting 30 memorable performances and mixing them up with the occasional comment from the man in question, who leans on his piano and says things like 'music is of course the universal language.' Jools has, obviously, always been about the music, and the thirty cuts here do offer something for everyone. The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' with full orchestral accompaniment, a note perfect 'Glory Box' from Portishead, the majesty of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's 'The Star and the Wiseman'. If it were anyone else stepping about in their white shoes like a slow-motion haka it would be daft, but they look great. Psycho pixie Bjork licks her lips and sings 'The Hunter'. David Gray may wobble like a parcel shelf plastic dog, but he reminds us that he actually is quite good. Blur deliver possibly their best ever rendition of Parklife, Nick Cave's Bad Seeds gather round his piano and sip red wine while he muses about kittens in trees and women mayors in 'God is in the house'. The Blind Boys of Alabama sing 'run on', which will be familiar to fans of Moby's Play, and Jools justifies his job with an appearance with his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
You may raise an eyebrow at Norma Waterson's bluegrass or aging latino gentleman Ibrahim Ferrer, but when Baaba Maal follows Coldplay's predictably professional 'Yellow', it starkly highlights the poverty of our experience of music on television. For broadening our horizons and showcasing music we'd never otherwise hear, thank you Mr Holland, and here's to series 21.
5/5

brilliant
This is a fantastic DVD, and perfect representative of what has prooved to be the greatest music show of the past decade. This DVD contains performances from just about all of my favourite bands. There are some inevitable lesser-known performers, but this just goes to show the diversity of the show. The stand-out performances for me are Radiohead performing my favourite song ever, the six-minute "Paranoid Android" (surely one of the greatest performances by any band ever), the Verve`s "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and Massive Attack performing their brilliant, lesser-known song, "Karmacoma". Their are also performances from bands and singers before they became world-wide super stars, the highlights being Coldplay and, surprisingly, Robbie Williams, performing their break-through singles, Yellow and Angels respectively.
Buy this now and experience some of the greatest live performances you`ll ever see. Enjoy!

Mainstream artists - extraordinary performances
I agree that the list of contributors looks pretty mainstream and that one of the charms of Later is the exposure to the unexpected. What I found with the selection of performances that was shown on Channel Four is that they were all much beyond what I expected, and many of them gave me a new respect for the talent of people that I would normally have ignored. I'm not at all a Mary J blige fan, but found her performance electric and I also really admired the performance of Radiohead, a band which I had put to the back of the CD rack. Many of the tracks that were showcased were done in a much different way compared with the usual.

There were also lots of more unusual artists featured - the Fado singer from Portugal and the Alabama Blind Boys were both well out of the ordinary.

All in all I found the mix was much better than I expected, and I am ordering the DVD to get the all the bits they couldn't fit in on TV.