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Jeremy

Jeremy

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Wilhelm Wrote:

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> Nice of George Michael to mime his lousy new

> single before he heads off to his U2 fancy dress

> party.


I was thinking the same thing. Nobody wanted to hear that shitty song in the first place, and he couldn't even be bothered to sing it live. He looked like your fat boss dancing at the office party. What a shambles.


Ray Davies... good song, but he struggled with it.


Kaiser Chiefs did a surprisingly passable version of Pinball Wizard.

El Pibe

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I happily gave up on it after the milling about section.


Funnily enough after the collective WTF from the rest of the world about the rather good, if self indulgent, opening ceremony, this time the world seems to have gone "spice girls, monty python and queen, brillliannnnnnt".


Whizzing through FB this morning it seems to be about half and half between make-it-stop and it-keeps-getting-better, though the latter seems to be weighted heavily toward old school friend types I last saw bopping to Adamski at the Hermitage Ballroom in a bygone life.

Ted Max

Ted Max

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Imagine how it felt for the athletes: you've made your plans, you've got the Ukrainian 4x100m squad firmly in your sights for a bit of the old cross-cultural exchange, and suddenly you're being kettled into a pen with the spoddy Taiwanese archers, some stern-looking Kazakh wrestlers and 250 squeaking Orange-coloured TEAMBG morons.
Ted Max

Ted Max

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You have to act the giddy goat with Mo Farah, who's up past 9pm for the first time in 15 years, every time the camera sweeps down. Meanwhile, over in the "cool" section you're pretty sure the Brazilian volleyballers are re-enacting the entire archive of YouPorn with the Canadian swimming squad.


Your breath tastes of WKD and your new red trousers are itching like f*ck. Here's Annie Lennox in a ghost pirate ship. Only two more hours to go.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that the CC was like someone had invited their old mates round for a sing song - and even resurrected some for the occasion. And far too much guitar. I think it was geared to someone's particular taste in music and wasn't representative enough. I enjoyed the Brazil show more.
Jeremy

Jeremy

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Far too much guitar? No. Emeli Sande, Pet Shop Boys, Jessie J, Fatboy Slim, Tinie Tempa, Taio Cruz, Spice Girls, One Direction, Take That... all guitar-free as far as I could tell. I'm not saying it was a complete cross-section of musical styles, but neither was it heavily weighted towards guitar music.
Katy Tonbridge

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If you didn't hear Lynn Truss' verdict on the Today programme this morning (at about 7:45am) take a listen, it summed up the closing ceremony perfectly. http://bbc.in/MVowcr My favourite bit was when she said that the reason she'd loved the Olympics was for all the surprises from people who were unexpectedly talented. The closing ceremony, in stark contrast, was full of utterly familiar material from people who were there mainly for being famous.
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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Far too much guitar? No. Emeli Sande, Pet Shop

> Boys, Jessie J, Fatboy Slim, Tinie Tempa, Taio

> Cruz, Spice Girls, One Direction, Take That... all

> guitar-free as far as I could tell. I'm not saying

> it was a complete cross-section of musical styles,

> but neither was it heavily weighted towards guitar

> music.


I didn't really analyse it in that detail. I just remember thinking 'not more guitar' and then another 3 acts one after the other came on with a guitar. I have nothing against guitar but it just seemed too much of the same old same. I suppose they chose acts that would be popular with an international audience, hence the resurrection of the Spice Girls rather than Best of British.

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