The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72796   Message #1260551
Posted By: AggieD
31-Aug-04 - 06:35 AM
Thread Name: Sidmouth on BBC Four
Subject: RE: Sidmouth on BBC Four
Just come back & watched the video. I was very disappointed that there was so little variety of the main singers. It was, as I knew it would be, mainly about the 'big names' & really missed a lot of the whole point of this particular festival about the across the generations thing, where was all the 'Shooting Roots'. Despite loving KR & JM, they did rather get an unfortunate number of minutes. I would have loved to see more of the 'real' concerts in the Ham, Arts centre etc. as well as some of bands from the various dance tents, rather than crappy pictures of people playing bowls & croquet, who are probably the very people who want rid of the festival.

I hated that they put on so few Morris teams, & those they did put on were, as someone said, the ones that really did little to encourage new people to come into the tradition. Where was Morris Offspring? Or for that matter Great Western, & Hammersmith, although the shot of the Hammersmith man's legs as he snoozed was great. Despite being involved with an 'ageing' team, I didn't want to see us & those like us, but wanted to see the teams that can actually get off the ground when dancing & there were any number of them around.

Interestingly, talking to the compere of the Steeleye Span concert, the only bit they filmed was the warm up, they then packed up the camers & went off without filming the whole thing. Strange or what?