If this works, here’s a screen grab of last week’s Midsomer Murders*.
It’s from a folk gig in Lower Crosby village hall, a venue with an audience capacity of about 50.
Just out of shot are a pair of 18″ subs, below the stacked pair of Marshall 4×12 cabs pictured. And that’s per side, on a stage about 15 feet wide.
Don’t these TV people know anything?
* My wife watches it. And I was on sedatives following a surgical procedure. Otherwise I’d have left the room, obviously.
I feel your pain, Steve. I know rather more than my friends consider reasonable about aircraft and military vehicles. I get very distressed about documentaries which show random clips of the US Navy in the Pacific, when they are talking about the bombing of Germany, or the RAF in North Africa when the subject is the Battle of Britain.
Indeed. Howling continuity and/or factual and/or “just plain wrong” errors in films/TV programmes are many and varied if you heave the specialist knowledge.
My favourite is any programme on killer whales or penguins. The shows are made from many, many clips of many, many animals, stitched together with a “narrative”. It’s not a single cameraman following a single penguin, and if you look even vaguely hard, you can tell.
Similarly, killer whale footage can go from 10 seconds of an Atlantic “race” to 10 seconds of an Antarctic “race” to 10 seconds of a Pacific “race” in 30 seconds. It’s all about the eye patch, if you know what to look for.
And finally, David Tennant, on a BBC wildlife documentary last year called a Bryde’s whale a “brides” whale, when anyone who knows anything about whales knows it’s named after a Norwegian whose surname is pronounced “brooders”.
Rant over, as you were.
You’re right, that picture is wrong for a folk festival.
How can he stick his finger in his ear when there’s that bloody bluetooth thing in it?
I’m pleased it’s not just me. Mrs F didn’t seem at all bothered when I pointed it out.
Spoiler alert: the whole lot came down on top of him and crushed him to death later on. That’s retribution for using guitar amps for FOH PA duty. To be fair, I left the room shortly after that so might have missed Motorhead’s headline slot.
Letter in this week’s radio times about it. ‘ festivals are always full’
I thought it was the most sparsely attended festival i had ever seen ( couldn’t they have got more extras ). It can’t have been making a profit
Which brings us neatly to The Archers. Why would The Pet Shop Boys play at an unknown, first time event run with no other name acts on the bill?
Watching ‘Midsomer Murders’ while on sedatives may put you at risk of an overdose…