Adventures in Musica

Sky News are reporting that metal vetrans, Metallica are set to jam former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney and France's First Lady, Carla Bruni Sarkozy in what could quite possibly be the oddest musical collaboration since John Barnes waxed lyrical with New Order.

The performance forms part of an upcoming episode of 'Later...With Jools Holland', the revered British virtuoso typically opening his show on the piano with his guests jamming along.

Hetfield and Co. make their first appearance on Holland's show in twelve years, whilst Sarkozy drops by to plug her supposedly controversial new album, 'Comme Si De Rien N'Etait' and Sir Macca does his thing as part of The Fireman, a duo formed with producer, Martin Glover.

Though I'll probably always remember Jools Holland most fondly for his Bob Dylan cover in an episode of The Young Ones, these days I always seem to think of him as 'the respectable face of popular music'. Certainly 'Later...' is one of the more respected music shows on the telly and with band like Metallica to be making a second apppearence, it makes me wonder about the current crop of bands.

Can you ever see see a time when any of the musicians doing their thing today will ever reach that same respected platau? I know I can't.

In an age were everything is constantly chaning and evolving, new bands are just not getting the same opportunities to evolve beyond a bit of radio play and a few festivals and into legends like Metallica or Paul McCartney.

And that's a shame, because the world needs legends.

Speaking of Sir Paul, I recently logged into my Helium account for the first time in ages and attempted to once and for all settle the debate as to whether The Beatles really were 'bigger than jesus' with my own unique theory.