Here’s who’s playing Jools Holland’s Hootenanny 2024

The line-up for Jools Holland‘s traditional New Year’s Eve show has been announced.

Jools’ Annual Hootenanny will see the likes of The Boomtown Rats, CMAT, Jungle, Marc Almond, Queen‘s Roger Taylor, Ruby Turner, Toby Lee, and The Dead South bringing in the year 2025.

Other guests include Jade, Kathy Sledge and Paul Carrack. Details of which songs the artists will perform on the night are yet to be announced

The show will go out at 11.30pm GMT on BBC2 and BBC iPlayer tomorrow (December 31). You can watch it here.

Holland’s last New Years’ Eve show included appearances from Rod Stewart, Joss Stone, Olivia Dean, Paul Jones, P.P. Arnold, RAYE, Sugababes and The Mary Wallopers.

Meanwhile, Holland was branded the “worst contestant” by viewers after he appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? last night (December 29) for this year’s celebrity special.

Fans had high hopes for Holland but he struggled to reach the £1,000 mark, calling in his ask-the-audience and phone-a-friend lifelines for his fourth and fifth questions.

“Wow. It’s a good job Jools can play the piano well because he’s bloody useless at this….,” wrote one viewer.

When he was asked to draw on his film knowledge for a question on the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho, Holland called a friend, who pushed him towards the correct answer.

This led one viewer to write: “I love Jools Holland but frickin eck , if you have to call a friend to answer the question about what Psycho is about, Who wants to be a millionaire is not for you.”

Elsewhere, the musician struggled to guess which member of the Spice Girls shared a maiden name with two former US Presidents.

This surprised many viewers after he previously appeared in the 1997 Spice Girls movie Spice World as a musical director.