Andrew Marr and the jazz audience


Andrew Marr had Gwilym Simcock playing out his Sunday morning TV show yesterday, but couldn't resist a cheap, outdated jibe against the British jazz audience:

"Gwilym, you have had a huge success with your first album, a lot of people have been following you up and down the country for your concerts. But one thing about jazz [...] is that abroad out of this country, you get quite a lot of you know kind of twenty something people coming to jazz concerts. In this country without being unkind it tends to be, sort of, OLDER FAT BLOKES."

HERE'S THE LINK TO BBC iPLAYER: The exchange, followed by a brief performance, comes after 54:30