Mark Cooper, ex-head of BBC Music and creator and producer of ‘Later…With Jools Holland’ is coming to Dimbola Museum and Galleries later this month.
Now, after leaving his job as head of music television, BBC Studios in 2020, where Mark exec produced more than 250 music documentaries and led BBC TV’s coverage of Glastonbury, he has written a book, ‘Later…with Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem’.
For 26 years, Mark attended every single recording of the show and its New Year’s Eve sister show, Jools’ Annual Hootenanny.
Mark Cooper and director Janet Fraser Crook came up with the idea for ‘Later… With Jools Holland’ with, back in 1992 – a ground-breaking concept at the time. Filmed ‘in the round’, the studio was full of different musical artists on different stages with the action switching from one to another – a revolution then, and probably still now!
Dr Brian Hinton, Chair of Dimbola, will be interviewing Mark on the evening:
“Mark Cooper pioneered how to capture the flash and crash of a live gig onto film, and forever,”
“Mark will be giving his talk in the Experience the Isle of Wight Festival 2002 to 2023 exhibition – many artists who’ve played the IW Festival, including those on the walls, have appeared on Later…With Jools Holland.
“Later…with Jools champions all kinds of music as did the Isle of Wight festivals I attended in 1969 and 1970,”
Article continues below this advertisement “I look forward to returning to the island to share stories about everyone from Leonard Cohen to Jay-Z and from Seasick Steve to Christine and the Queens as they seized their moment in the gladiator’s ring of the Later…studio.”
Tickets for Mark’s talk are £9, or if you are a Friend of Dimbola, just £7, with doors at 18:30 for a 19:00 start.
There will be a cash bar and an interval. All profits will go to the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust to keep Dimbola open for all of us to enjoy.
