Thanks to compiler Mike Ollier
Friday/Saturday/Sunday on BBC2/BBC3/BBC4 at various times
* Glastonbury Festival
Well, glad I'm not there… crack a warm can open (preferably Fosters or some other equally pissy 'beer'), sit in the shower with a gro-bag, invite a burglar into your home, drop an E or two and have some felafel. Watch on TV. Ah, the festival experience in your own home, and a handy, safe toilet. There, I've saved you a few hundred quid and you haven't contracted trench foot.
You'll have to check times yourself, cos it's on all weekend across three channels (and some radio coverage), but on Friday you'd be a fool to miss Arcade Fire. Amy Winehouse is promised and some loud wannabes. Probably. John Fogerty and Iggy Pop are promised on Saturday.
However, you'll also have to put up with a bunch of entirely unnecessary celebrity presenters, who just get in the way of the music. One can only hope that professional good egg Mark Radcliffe is introducing/interviewing the more watchable performers.
Friday BBC1 22.35 ~ 23.35
* Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Arcade Fire play live tonight. Knowing the Beeb it will probably clash with their appearance at Glastonbury on one of their other channels. Tape Wossy (Pete Doherty is also a guest tonight… oh good), miss out all the crap (most of the show) and see the last 10 minutes. How can Ross be so awful on TV but present a corker of a radio show on a Saturday?
Saturday BBC2 21.300 ~ 22.30
* Seven Ages Of Rock: Left Of The Dial ~ American Alternative Rock
REM, Nirvana, Pixies et al… fast/slow quiet/loud ad nauseam. I do hope that nice Courtney Love is on.
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