[Kosh]

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:14 am  

Cronus wrote:

:thumb:

Some miserable people around! Tonight was weird, wacky and wonderful all at the same time. Some parts were iffy but in the main it was bloody good, loved Eric Idol - and don't forget Monty Python was big round the world, people know who they are. My only complaint - too much Jessie J, a brief appearance was more than enough. But a great finale with The Who, and the lighting and effects were stunning.

Well done all concerned.

This. Some folk need to chill out and cheer up.

Thoroughly enjoyable if not quite up to the exceptionally high standard of the opening ceremony.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:39 am  

Only real drag was the turd Brand being involved. Otherwise, it was great stuff. Some of the music wasn't to my taste, but that's what diversity is all about.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:46 am  

Alternately brilliant, cheesy, stunning, camp and downright wierd.

All in all, typically British.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:08 am  

The only flat bit is when the Brazilians came on, which sort of shows where we're going in four years time, look past the samba, frilly shirts and dancing like your drunk uncle at a wedding and you're done.

A bit of a faux-pas not having any other music in reserve for the athletes walk-in though, if they'd taken any longer we'd have had Madness for the third time in twenty minutes, other than that, just fine frippary and sufficiently daft to tell the world what our idea of entertainment is all about.

[John_D]

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:54 am  

Peter Hitchens hates it. Therefore it was fantastic.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:16 am  

JerryChicken wrote: The only flat bit is when the Brazilians came on, which sort of shows where we're going in four years time, look past the samba, frilly shirts and dancing like your drunk uncle at a wedding and you're done. Or Boris even? http://www.sabotagetimes.com/wp-content ... /bKCUN.gif If you must post a 2meg gif then link to it.

JerryChicken wrote: The only flat bit is when the Brazilians came on, which sort of shows where we're going in four years time, look past the samba, frilly shirts and dancing like your drunk uncle at a wedding and you're done. Or Boris even? http://www.sabotagetimes.com/wp-content ... /bKCUN.gif If you must post a 2meg gif then link to it.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:45 am  

Kosh wrote:

This. Some folk need to chill out and cheer up.

Thoroughly enjoyable if not quite up to the exceptionally high standard of the opening ceremony.

I thought it was cack. I've thoroughly enjoyed the event in general, but the closing ceremony did nowt for me. It's the first time I've watched either a closing or opening ceremony to any games, and it'll probably be the last. Think I'll just stick with the sport.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:23 pm  

I've been around 50 years & am pretty sure the Rolling Stones have been fairly significant within British culture during that period. Far more so than Jessie J or Russell Brand. Otherwise it was ok.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:53 pm  

It was falling flat until Eric Idle perked it up. The best two acts of the night were Idle and the video of Freddie Mercury - who even in 2D was more charismatic that the the rest the "great" British musical talent on show. The lighting, etc saved the day. In fact, after the two I've mentioned the Spice Girls were probably the next most entertaining act - which sums up how awful most of the others were. After putting Macca on after the cauldron lighting at the opening ceremony you'd have thought they's have learned a lesson - but once again we had the has beens - The Who. I suppose there was some sense in that - the uplifting two weeks were over and I suppose they symbolised the decay and lack of hope in an everday Britain living off past glories.

Re: Closing ceremony. : Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:01 pm  

Loved the games, but decide not to watch the closing ceremony when I heard those two awful words uttered, 'spice girls'. Completely put me off, closing a games full of great talented athletes with a bunch of talentless drips.