AIBU to think they are mostly excrutiating and have no place being on prime time radio?
Whoever is in charge of Radio 2 in recent years has lost the plot and should be moved on. They have an obsession with wanting to subject us to live music in the middle of the day. I'm sick of having to sit through performances that are adequate and boring at best, but frequently just.... horrible. Flat, out of tune, out of time caterwauling. There are a few notable exceptions but even the better ones just seem incongruous plonked into the middle a mainstream, daytime show.
Whenever they host a Proms in the Park or broadcast from Glastonbury they insist on replaying 'highlights' for weeks afterwards and honestly, some of these are SO BAD that I can't help but wonder if the schedulers have actually bothered to listen to them at all before choosing to replay them as so-called 'highlights'. Belinda Carlisle was one from last year, where I remember sitting in my car at traffic lights with my head in my hands thinking 'Why? Just WHY are you doing this to us? And to her for that matter? It's a performance she'd probably rather forget and yet here you are forcing us all to re-live the pain, three times in one week. Just put a record on will you? For crying out loud.'
The problem with live music is that it often doesn't translate particularly well to radio and TV. When you are caught up in the atmosphere of a big concert the odd bum note goes unnoticed but on the radio every flaw is amplified.
They should create a niche slot after 10pm for this stuff and you only need to tune in if you are genuinely interested in hearing it. Forcing it on us as part of a regular day's prime time radio just doesn't work.
I can't possibly be in the minority on this, can I? Increasingly I find I am switching stations because of this.