Once again, the BBC's wall-to-wall coverage of the Glastonbury Festival brought the mud, music and mayhem of Worthy Farm's annual hoedown to our front rooms. Fans of Neil Young, Blur and the law-breaking Bruce Springsteen couldn't fail to be disappointed with the extended highlighs of their respective headlining sets, while live performances from Lily Allen, Lady Ga Ga and Jack Penate offered the nation's yoof an alternative to hoary old rockers.
The problem with the Beeb's Glastonbury love-in, and one that has been an issue for a number of years, is the choice of presenters assigned to be our festival guides throughout the weekend. Apart from Mark Radcliffe and Lauren Laverne, the rest of the team - Jo Whiley, Edith 'indie starfucker Bowman, Reggie Yates and Zane Lowe - are allowed far too much airtime to look smug and self-satisfied while sporting the latest festival chic and saying absolutely nothing of interest as they attempt to fill time while waiting for The Wombats to take to the stage (note to Jo Whiley: you have four children and are the wrong side of 40 - hotpants are not a good look. Grow up!).
Take Friday night for example. Twenty minutes into the BBC's first broadcast of the weekend, we had managed to see some brief highlights from Lily Allen's set, a roving reporter speaking to a guy with a loud hailer and Reggie Yates telling us how fucking excited he was to be at Glastonbury! Now I'm not sure how much the BBC spend on having the likes of Whiley and Lowe holed up in their 'treehouse' throughout the weekend, but surely the money would be better spent having more cameras around the festival to record some of the action at the lesser known areas such as the Park Stage. With over twenty stages in operation at the festival, surely it's not beyond the BBC to be able flit from one to another, and therefore avoid having to return to Bowman and her pink Hunter wellies every ten minutes.
My only other gripe about this year's Glastonbury? The flags! Enough already!
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Good man Tommo I despise Wiley the pontoon eyed twat that she is.They make it almost unwatchable and the the way she's been talking about the blur re-union as if it's the most exciting thing the world has ever seen is ludicrous.Still always great to hear Zane telling us which track we have to like 'cos he does.Still don't know why blur let that bloke from eastenders ruin parklife though?
ReplyDeleteHow the fuck did that scottish slapper ever, ever get to present anything that is broadcast in the public domain.... Edith Bowman it's time the BBC admitted that they got it wrong.
ReplyDeleteI am afriad I disagree with the Jo W comments. She is the queen of the airwaves, she is Radio Ga Ga - when, the sexy undertones of whiley would make even bob geldof sing... actually mondays aren't so bad after all. And lets face it if edith and jo were nealt infront of you asking you if you would like a small sexual favour and you had to choose, it'd be a cheap day return back to the loch for bowman...
I rest my case