Is there really a need for commentators at all, apart from the odd health and safety blurb and perhaps introducing the acts, I see no need for them. If you require facts and figures read the programme. It’s like going to the cinema with someone who’s seen the film and tells you everything that’s going to happen, dammed annoying. Many of the commentators just remind me of the bores you come across in pubs; every pub has one, if the rotund bearded one at Shuttleworth says “climbs like a homesick angel” one more time, I will not be responsible for my actions.
I see an air display like a piece of theatre, a display of sight and sound, it does not require someone wittering on constantly. The only commentator that I think did a good job sadly I don’t know his name was at Old Warden a few years ago, he only spoke when the aircraft was carrying out its turn in the distance before coming in for another run, and only gave a short piece of information then stopped for the aircraft to make its flypast, a perfect example of commentator, aircraft, and audience in perfect harmony…. god now I’m starting to rant like one of those pub bores.
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