There is clearly no satisfying the Mail and its dubiously talented array of whingeing pundits when it
comes to anything touched by the hated BBC. The complaints have now been
directed at Monday’s concert, which was so horrendously unpopular that around
17 million viewers tuned in. That kind of number would have not disgraced
pre-digital age chart toppers like Morecambe and Wise.
But this mere popularity is no barrier to the legendarily
foul mouthed Paul Dacre and his obedient hackery, especially not career
Miserable Git (tm) Stephen Glover, who
at least apologises first as he tells “Sorry
to be grumpy”. You’re excused, miserable whinger. Now what’s the beef? It’s
the usual starter: “many aspects of the
national celebrations were pretty dumbed down”.
What a happy soul. Do carry on. “Even more disquieting for me was the concert in front of Buckingham
Palace on Monday evening”. Shine a light, if that worries you then it’s
time to get help. Disquieting? “The crowd
seemed to have a very good time” he then admits. But Glover is concerned
about who benefited from the bash, even though “I am not anti-pop and enjoyed some of the tunes”.
Maybe the subs removed the follow-up about “popular beat combos”, but they let this
through: “was the concert staged for the
benefit of the Queen, whose 60 years on the throne we were supposed to be
celebrating, or was it, in fact, put on so that celebrity performers could
strut their wares and promote themselves? I fear the latter is much closer to
the truth”. Oh dear.
Is Mr Happy trying to suggest that Macca, Kylie, Robbie
Williams, Sir Stiff, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder and Fat Reg From Pinner are in
need of further promotion, that someone out there may not yet have heard of them
and their offerings? Pull the other one. Oh, he then does just that, telling
that Lang Lang and Alfie Boe were “virtually
drowned out” by the rest. No they weren’t.
And the Glover happy alternative? “I’m not suggesting a full-scale symphony, but Handel’s Music For The
Royal Fireworks, for example, would have been appropriate and uplifting”.
Not all of it, it wouldn’t. Handel wrote it to serve as background music, which
it was when used as accompaniment to a firework display for the Golden Jubilee
of 2002. Those after the concert wouldn’t have lasted the Ouverture.
At least Glover doesn’t descend to the
tackiness of right wing rent-a-mouth Donal Blaney, who wants Gary Barlow to
be given a knighthood and suggests that now is the time for the BBC to be
privatised. Very good Donal, the current charter and license fee agreement does
not expire until 2016. It’s always a good idea when rehashing old chestnuts to
make sure they haven’t gone soft in the meantime.
But the objective is met and the BBC kicked again, so that’s all right, then.
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