Anyway, for once KATE WOOD was not as garrulous as she normally was....she told us nervously, before the concert:

"It isn't...you know...well, bad - you know...."

When asked to explain what she meant...she went red and then walked off....

It was as BAD AS YOU CAN GET, KATE and not just the singing and accompaniment....for a start off:

STING's rendition of his song, had much more of a Celtic feel to it than anything we heard at that open-air concert evening....AND he could do QUARTER NOTES which give a beautiful 'edge' to his song...which isn't present, in those 'I can only do piano notes' woman's voice, as if she were singing in the local school choir....that was RACHEL DAVIES - wasn't it?...the video has a different 'lead' but she is still pretty much of the same 'standard'....and SMITH plonking on the keys like GILL doing CHOPSTICKS at that SOLIHULL SCHOOL 'recital'....didn't help...nor did his 'virtuso over the top performance'...

DAVID BOWIE was livid...so was I...particularly as SC had made a snide remark about the 'lead' looking a bit like LOUISE to GILL...upon which I retorted that the 'lead' had a much better voice...I should have phrased that one better....and simply said - she's crap....etc etc...so on the whole - a really, really bad evening....