‘Mark E Smith said the Fall would only come on if I didn’t play piano’: Jools Holland on making Later …

‘Mark E Smith said the Fall would only come on if I didn’t play piano’: Jools Holland on making Later …

‘I’ve been hosting the show for 31 years. That’s almost half my life. You don’t get that for armed robbery’We started with nothing. No sets, no audience, no budget. “Why don’t we put the camera in the middle,” said our director Janet Fraser-Crook, “then you can just walk around all the artists?” I’m comfortable moving about and making things up as I go. I’m a professional arser-about. At one point they were going to call it Jools Holland’s Circu…