8th May It all went a bit Pete Tong

Originally billed as a concert that would astonish the world with it's line up, last nights event at Windsor turned out to be more garden party than Glastonbury. After one then another artist (Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sir Paul McCartney even the Spice Girls) pulled out for a variety of reasons, we ended up with a line up that made the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations look like real rock Royalty.

Whilst one couldn't fault the staging or setting, on stage well it was another matter, as too many mis matched ingredients from all over the Commonwealth simply thrown into a melting pot with very mixed results.  I sat wondering in bewilderment what on earth was Paloma Faith wearing until Katy Perry appeared on stage dressed as a giant Quality Street.  Nicole Sherzinger sang a song she had never sung before and which I suspect no one knew. Even Lang Lang was upstaged by the blind pianst from the TV show The Piano. And who knew that King Charles was such a fan of Ibiza dance classics!!

Actors and celebrities read stilled, emotionless, woke soundbites as if they had never read in public before and as for drones, well when you've seen one light show in the sky I suspect you have seen enough. Throw in two of the world's greatest classical opera strangling a football anthem and it was all beginning to make Oli Murs look and sound like a world beater.

It really was difficult to actually rank which was the worse performance of the night but I thInk Lionel Ritchie doing a very bad inpression of a Lionel Ritchie tribute act must come top of the list. Thank God he didn't go all night long. Two songs was more then enough.

At the end of the day it was left to the boys from up North to bring the whole shebang to an end but even three crowd pleasing sing a longs from Barlow's boys struggled to set the night alight even with the campest of marching bands. And to think people had queued for hours and hours to watch it.

At the end of the day it was little Prince Harry who got the best deal out of the whole night. He was lucky enough not to have to go.