'Twas nice to see channel 9 doing a hatchet job on the Concert for Diana on the TV last night - there was so many other performances they could have shown, but instead we got the crapola they dished up. You would never have known that Pharrell Williams was there, nor Lilly Allen, and that many of the acts played a few songs each.
Hell! Let's not take away too much CSI time from the baby boomers whom watch channel 9, eh?. I mean to say, this was never going to be a groundbreaking music event like channel 9 purported it to be, but I always get caught up in the atmosphere of such affairs, and as always, am bitterly disappointed by what free-to-air TV delivers. I hope this weekend's Live Earth coverage is different.
The only highlight on the TV last night, in my humble opinion, were Fergie's legs - they were special. But I digress, as I could wax lyrical about Fergie for a long time...
A quick peruse of YouTube, as always, reveals most of what we didn't see here, including the following clip. I can't wait for real broadband to hit this country, just so I can see all that advertising money leave commercial TV networks once & for all, as discerning viewers program their own evening's entertainment online. I'm truly sorry about the rant, but I'm just so sick of hearing that shit television is what Australians want to see. Ask anyone under 25 what they think - I'm sure they'll agree with me. It's not McLeaod's Daughters they want - that's for sure!
Anyway, Tom Jones has been a groover since before I was born, and throughout the late eighties & early nineties, he reinvented himself by performing great covers of contemporary hits. Channel 9 managed to squeeze in his performance of Prince's "Kiss", but failed to share the OTHER cover he played. This time around, he's covered the Arctic Monkey's hit(?) "I Bet You Look Pretty Good on the Dancefloor".
I don't have a lot of time for the Arctic Monkeys, and Tom Jones' reworking of this is a tad lumbering, but what it lacks in edge, it makes up for in style. And Tom managed to persuade Joe Perry from Aerosmith to play lead guitar for him as well.
Onya Tom, you are a true legend...
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I am hoping and praying that the Fergie's legs you are referring to are of the Black Eyed Pea variety and not the Duchess of York kind? Im sorry to say i missed the concert due to the limited tv stations we have here in the bush....next time you whinge about channel 9, spare a thought for those less fortunate (or more fortunate, less Ch 9 = less Eddie McGuire)
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