I also went to GFWE at Kemble earlier this year. IMHO the control at the PFA Rally was a lot better (particularly as this time I was not cleared to land on a runway that already had a departing aircraft sitting on it ready to roll)
It would be difficult for it to have been worse. I remember being 3 back from the 'grass' hold at GFWE, with an aircraft lined up on the hard, with queues of about 20 aeroplanes for each runway, and for several minutes absolutly NOTHING happening on RT. I think the lined-up guy got a stuck mike switch at one point (or pressed his xmit for the intercom). I heard:
"what the f---k's going on? I think the radio's bust. Maybe we should should just go?"
SSD