Twats in the Park

This Saturday's Guardian reported the BBC had sent over 400 members of staff to cover the recent Glastonbury Festival, and just over 300 to cover this weekend's T in the Park held at Balado, Kinross-shire. Now you would think with all this personnel - along with the multi-channel options now available through digital TV - the Beeb could offer the viewer an opportunity to check out some of the smaller stages that host bands who have yet to make it onto the Radio One playlist or the front cover of Q magazine. Alas, BBC Three's coverage of this weekend's T in the Park concentrated on the two main stages and therefore brought us the likes of Blur, Franz Ferdinand, The Specials and Lily Allen, all of whom featured as part of the Glastonbury highlights only a fortnight ago. As suggested in a previous post, a quick money saving win for the BBC, would be to ditch the presenters who bring fuck all to the proceedings with their inane ramblings and sychophantic love-ins with their celebrity chums, and with the money saved from leaving Zane Lowe and Jo Whiley behind, they could increase their coverage of some of the smaller stages and introduce the armchair viewer to the likes of the fabulously named Danananakroyd and We Were Promised Jetpacks.

C'mon BBC, let the music play!