Al Green Performs “Let’s Stay Together” On Friday Night With Jonathan Ross | Video

Last night the legend that is (Reverend) Al Green appeared on the BBC’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, after an interview he delivered an amazing performance of his classic hit “Let’s Stay Together” accompanied by Dave Gilmore of Pink Floyd on Guitar & the amazing Jools Holland on Piano. Check out the performance below… Watch [...]

The Noisettes’ Shingai Shoniwa – “Don’t Upset The Rhythm” Live On Jools’ Annual Hootenanny (Video)

Check out this performance by The Noisettes‘ lead singer Shingai Shoniwa with a big band version of the group’s smash hit “Don’t Upset The Rhythm” [from sophomore album Wild Young Hearts], performed at Jools Holland‘s incredible 17th annual Hootenanny on New Years Eve’.

ROX: One-to-watch in 2010

Roxanne Tataei’s musical journey began in church, encouraged by the choirmaster (“He’d make me go at the forefront [to sing] every week and I’d be shaking… It was the best thing that he could have done”).  Primary school performances soon led to tours around England with the National Youth Music Theatre, which she describes as [...]

VIDEO: Corinne Bailey Rae – “I’d Do It All Again” (LIVE on Later…with Jools Holland)

Corinne Bailey Rae goes all Roberta Flack with a touch of Sade (think ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and ‘Love Is Stronger than Pride’) on this sublime live acoustic performance of ‘I’d Do It All Again’. The stripped-down arrangement gives it a pastoral feel, I think. Corinne said in a recent article [...]

ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Speak’ by MICHAEL OLATUJA featuring Various Artists.

I find it increasingly difficult to be impressed by new music these days. Even once fail-safe, automatically credible sub-genres such as Neo-Soul aren’t immune. They too seem to have been blighted by the same malaise of boredom that has been the bane of the mainstream for a good while. There are too many artists out [...]

VIDEO: Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind (Live on Jools Holland Later Nov 3 2009)

Jay-Z performs the New York anthem live on the prestigious Jools Holland show. Don’t crucify me… but I think I prefer Bridget Kelly’s vocals to Alicia Keys’. Just saying.

Paving The Way: Speech Debelle Interview

South London’s Speech Debelle snuck in the back door this year with alternative Hip Hop album Speech Therapy. This time last year, many of us had never heard of her. Then in September, having developing a media buzz surrounding the album’s June 1st release on Big Dada (British home to Hip Hop from the likes [...]