Who Are They? Who Were They? And Who Do They Hope To Be?

[dance2trance]

I refer to BBC Music Awards.

In my view the most perfect example of incompetence (in terms of hosting and providing commentary) since the wonderful debacle of Mick and Samantha on the Brits all those years ago. (Ref many clips and progs on TV/YouTube).

Yet each and all of us is funding this incompetence!! Yes we fund it via the licence fee. This low level thickie presentation! It is awful. There are no redeeming features to the commentary. It is low low low level.

A sneer and two fingers up by the BBC to the high standards and competence and dedication and love by al the hard working brilliant music artists who bring us so much joy. To be interviewed by self evident banality must be mortifying to the wonderful musicians! Thank God for Robbie Williams' attitude to the self evident vacuity and banality of this dog's dinner.

[shoota]

Quite.

[Zacs-Master]

Just say if you don't like it.

[gingejbee]

...didn't like it then? I have no reply to your comments as I avoided the programme...

[Zacs-Master]

I agree with you tho. Fawning and gushing dumbed down air head cobblers.

[scorpiojo]

Still watching?

[douglas9401]

Is Ms Cotton involved? She must be close to kicking that schtick to death by now.

[Mamyalynne]

I'd ask for today's 40 pence back.

[vernonk]

Pretentious cobblers, meaningless banal interviews, everybody trying hard to appear cool by saying things like "par-e" instead of "party". Cringe cringe cringe

[Zacs-Master]

I like the lead singer of the 1975. He used the word intrinsic.

[andy-hughes]

It's for these reasons that I avoid all awards shows like the plague.

The difficulties with this type of show - as cruelly evidenced by the Fleetwood/Fox debacle, is that there are masses of convoluted strands theoretically being brought together into a seamless whole.

The difficulties occur when you are working with often overly-refreshed musicians - always a disaster potential - and presenters who may not be up to the task of sudden instant changes being advised to them.

The skill of talking smoothly to a camera while a floor manager is shrieking into your ear piece advising that the next link has gone belly-up and you need to 'fill' for thirty seconds is a specific one, not granted to all who work in the media.

This can account for sudden glassy-eyed stares and gabbled gibberish which often punctuates this kind of show.

They really are best avoided. The notion of an 'award' is arbitrary at best, and the most sensible thing for recipients to do is to maintain dignity from a distance by not turning up, and sending a message - as Adele did.