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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | Rock Till We Drop: a talent show for the over-64s? It's a miraculous feelgood smash | | by Stuart Heritage Mar 1, 2022 | | Nonagenarian drummers, seasoned leather-clad singers and a seventysomething who’s a monster on the bass … older people form rival bands in this new reality show – and nothing could be more uplifting BBC Two’s new reality show Rock Till We Drop doesn’t have the most compelling of premises. A search to find new musical acts, with all the members aged 64 or over, on paper it has the uncomfortable tang of everything that has gone before it. X Factor. Britain’s Got Talent. That thing where Gene Simmons paid a cursory amount of attention to some schoolkids. These are all shows that used real people as fodder for hard-edged entertainment. Doing the same with older people would be an absurdly bad look. And yet, despite all this, Rock Till We Drop turns out to be one of the most life-affirming things I have watched in years. The series sets out to form two new bands, then train them up to perform a set at the Isle of Wight festival. Tonally, it’s a minefield. Too hard-edged and it would have been cruel. Too easy on the contestants and it would have been saccharine. Too lax with Covid protocols and it would have been a disaster. There are a thousand ways to get a show like this wrong, and only one way to get it right. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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