Later 250… with Jools Holland (2010-09-17) (2010-09-17)

Joining Jools on the first show of the series are Manic Street Preachers, who are no strangers to the show, performing tracks from their brand new album Postcards From A Young Man along with a special guest performer.

London-based Klaxons, who themselves made their TV debut on Later in 2007, are performing songs from their new Surfing The Void album; the very legendary Herb Alpert, whose career spans over 50 years as multi-million selling musician, producer and co-founder of A&M Records, is in the studio to discuss his career; and having helped out many a Later favourite with their albums, producer/man about town Mark Ronson and The Business International is playing a couple of tunes from his upcoming Record Collection set, where he too is joined by a couple of special guest vocalists.

Also in the studio, originally from Houston, Texas and now living in California, Queen Emily, who always knew she would be a singer from the age of six and finally at the age of forty achieved a Top 5 place on America's Got Talent, and subsequently a record deal with Tommy Couch's soul label Malaco.