It WAS a weak gala. Which is odd considering that when I was flyering the Gala audience as they were coming out of the theatre everyone said it was one of the best ever.
I'm curious as to why some of those acts stayed in the broadcast as long as they did whilst others were cut out completely. Yes, obviously due to lack of time. But I had at least 5 people tell me on the night that the best act there was Justin Hamilton, yet he was edited out entirely from the tv screening?!?!?! We Are Klang didn't make the cut either (I assume it was the nudity on the night, but then, Spy Monkey aired on the Gala last year?), nor Akmal, Meshel Laurie and Lawrence Mooney.
I'd like to see the edited acts at least placed on the festival website as video downloads so we could see what we missed out on.
So very disappointed. |