Big Fat Oh Dear...

Well we feel we must say something about Sound. For the uninitiated, Sound is a programme on BBC Two which takes two presenters of the 'too-cool-for-school' variety (Nick Grimshaw of T4 fame and Annie Mac of latenight Radio 1 DJ fame) and lets them narrate a series of fairly banal 'adverts' for new artists' singles.

In other words it's half an hour of 'live performances' and 'interviews' with artists desperate to haul their songs into the top 10 of the singles charts. Last series round it was fairly bearable. The whole thing felt fairly upmarket and stylish with artists performing (with no audience, mind) under what looked like a giant abandoned motorway. The filming was moody, the music was generally quite good live (even when Ashlee Simpson performed... we know) and it worked somewhat, even if you had to skim through 5 minutes of interviews with indie bands you wanted nothing to do with.

This series, however, has obviously been 'hit by the credit crunch' and had to go on a budget diet because it now seems to take place in a room. The filming looks like it was done on someone's mobile and they seem to have adopted a strange pseudo-quiz-style format where artists sit on incredibly lo-fi furniture sets with the audience standing behind them (couldn't afford chairs obviously). There are also some terrible bits where they dissect 'comedy clips' from youtube and a bit where 'Grimshaw' (or 'Grimmie' as some call him) pretends to present the news. ABYSMAL.

In the current epilepsy (sorry... episode) Alesha sits on the sofa and laughs awkwardly but doesn't perform. The eternally-awful Pigeon Detectives turn up for absolutely NO reason at all other than to offend everyone with their combined ugliness and terrible music and Ladyhawke (whom we love forever) does a really boring live performance in Covent Garden with about 3 people watching. She looks pissed off, to say the least.

Also they do an 'up and coming artists' bit in which they mention Lady GaGa (although Annie Mac looks like she's forcing herselt not to be rude about her for some reason) and Florence and the Machine (who we'll probably get round to liking when we can be bothered).

And that's it.

Boring. No budget. Derivative. Unfunny.

That's the show in 5 words.

That'll be all.