Following RockNess in Scotland at the beginning of June, the Isle Of Wight music festival was the first major music festival in England this summer, so it was with some excitement that I filled the fridge with beer and got myself ready to watch the festival highlights from the comfort of my living room.
In April ITV2 beat Channel 4 to the television rights to show this year’s Isle Of Wight musical festival. Channel 4 had previously shown the festival in the past four of its seven years, since the famous festival’s reincarnation.
But how disappointed I was to know ITV2 were only dedicating one hour per night! It would have been bad enough if they only showed one complete hour of performances, but it was much worse than that!
Take away the annoying Lauren Laverne’s rambling introductions and pointless interviews, the boring on-site adventures of the young festival-virgin presenter and a heaped spoonful of commercials and I was left with about six songs from a few bands.
On Friday and Saturday that included just the first two songs from headliners Kaiser Chiefs and The Sex Pistols. On Saturday night, No Fun was the only track shown by Iggy & The Stooges.
I was so pissed off with the coverage that I skipped Sunday night altogether.
It’s not as if ITV2 is crammed full of great programmes. If ITV2 want to show the festival then why not show the highlights for a two or three hours per night, at least?
Fortuntately, they have not wrestled the rights to show Glastonbury from the BBC, who I hope will this year once again show hours of live and recorded highlights over the whole weekend, across different BBC channels.
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