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[WEBBERdrum]

isle of wight festival being shown on Sky Arts 1 now, and 10 till midnight tomorrow and sunday too. for anyone hoping to get into the festy mood. that said it hasnt been great coverage so far.

thread running here: http://www.efestival...howtopic=162731

[drewsstrat]

Not that we want to see someone tell us they have 95 food stalls!

I notice they have the 'pussy parlour' rebadged as the last chance saloon!

kaiser chiefs were good, although rickys voice straining in patches

but delighted to see Mike Peters and Big Country - saw them recently in April and they deserve a little tv coverage

Edited by drewsstrat, 10 June 2011 - 10:08 PM.

[Brewster1980]

Boy from the courteeners is out his egg!!

[WEBBERdrum]

i dont think the sound mix is helping really, the courteeners sounded bloody awful. like i said on the other thread, sky arts made an absolute pigs ear of cropredy festival last year sound wise. shame, as its a great channel.

whats with the interviews every 5 minutes too? its more of a chat show!

Edited by WEBBERdrum, 10 June 2011 - 10:15 PM.

[NeilVJ]

Liked the presenters, huge improvement of Fearne and Reggie but it was too short of a show and too many interviews. Quite like the look of IOW as a festival though

[Aragorn]

use somebody by kol was fab !!!!

[ian_sw]

Just got in and watching it on sky+ ..... really getting me in the mood less than 2 weeks to go and it can not come soon enough !!!

Think the Isle of Wight maybe my Glastonbury sub next year !

[mblackhouse]

Just catching up on sky +. The courteeners guy cannot sing live for shit

[Couchy]

Is there anyway of watching highlights later online? I'm in the sticks this weekend & they only have bog standard terrestrial... but I do have the interweb!

[mooro]

Liam from the Courteneers has the worst voice of any front man I have ever heard on the basis of that broadcast....

[Bradders]

Everything about that program was terrible. I could tell the interviews were trying to head for higher ground but it didn't work. Altough in their support Isle of Wight seems like an awful, lazily curated festival riding on it's loosely related history anyway.

Edited to add: I once met Liam Fray from the Courteeners. I didn't realise who he was but his mate was talking about what a genius he was. I called him the dirty C-word. He sulked away. I still fill with pride every time he's mentioned.

Edited by Bradders, 11 June 2011 - 12:15 AM.

[Feststation]

Shame cus always too short these festival highlights. Sky Arts invest in the red and blue buttons pleeease.

Will be tuning into this lot tomorrow tho on the ol wireless.

Live music from Isle of Wight Saturday 11 June on Absolute Radio extra
2200 - 2300 Kaiser Chiefs (from Friday night)
2300 - 2340 Kings of Leon (from Friday night)*
2340 - 0000 Foo Fighters LIVE

Also:-

Sunday 12 June on Absolute Radio extra
2010 – 2110 Beady Eye LIVE
2110 – 2140 Courteeners (from Friday night)
2140 – 2225 Kasabian LIVE

[LondonTom]

All i thought while watch that is, thank f**k for the BBC covering 3 of the major festvials!!

2 Hours is way to short if they wanna put the interview crap in, no red button to something you like. Presenters slightly better than ferne, reggie and zane.

Then again IoW looks like a terrible festival to be fair!

That said better than ITV and they had a decent enough direction if it was to be longer and show few more acts/longer sets

Edited by LondonTom, 11 June 2011 - 12:48 AM.

[Bobs]

Liam looked Rusty saying that, they haven't played live together for 6 months, obvs the mechanics would be wrong... better performance in 3 weeks and it's good for me

[Craigston]

LondonTom, on 11 June 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

Then again IoW looks like a terrible festival to be fair!

You're just too used to glasto! Nothing else comes close.

What WAS Kate moss thinking when she chose the venue for her hen do?!

[Craigston]

OoPs, double post...

Edited by Craigston, 11 June 2011 - 05:35 AM.

[nicktrow]

Also, Rockness is on BBC Alba tonight at 9pm and tomorrow at 10pm. It's also repeated next weekend if you miss it. BBC Alba also stream live online: http://www.bbc.co.uk..._alba/watchlive

[ghandi]

I watched some of it last night and thought it was kack!Bad singing live, makes me think twice about going to see Kaiser Chiefs , although to be fair this is only because my crew want to stick together on the last night and two of them actually like the Kaiser chiefs! I hope to be at the back and hopefully it won't sound as bad, i be topping up for the finally of Kool and the Gang

[AdamSheff]

Aragorn, on 10 June 2011 - 10:58 PM, said:

use somebody by kol was fab !!!!

I hate that song. Knocked up brought back good memories

[Gnomicide]

It's all very well showing people doing cover versions in the studio but there had been a full day's festival to choose from which I'm sure most people would rather see.

No matter how interesting they're trying to make the interviews, there are only so many answers to "Have you been to the IOW before?" and "Do you like playing festivals?".

Then again, I've just looked at the line up and to be fair there wasn't a lot more to choose from that they didn't show at least one song from. I'd have liked to have seen some Band of Horses and Joan Jett though.