Mike Oldfield and other prog in Olympics

Oh And another complaint, after the first few bands had played, the athletes obviously took longer to come in than planned for, so they just played the sound track again - given that they got the athletes to enter through the crowd (good idea) they could have guessed that this might happen and find something else to play in between.  GB is not lacking in other music after all.

Snow Dog wrote: Impossibly attractive? Some of them  weren't attractive at all  so don't worry

 

Snow Dog wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Impossibly attractive? Some of them  weren't attractive at all  so don't worry   Well, maybe they weren't , but my badly made point still stands.  So I will continue to worry thank very much    don't see the problem really. It was celebrating British fashion I presume. It exists. It's  fine. Athletes  and  models can coexist in one world.

 

akamaisondufromage wrote: Snow Dog wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Impossibly attractive? Some of them  weren't attractive at all  so don't worry   Well, maybe they weren't , but my badly made point still stands.  So I will continue to worry thank very much    don't see the problem really. It was celebrating British fashion I presume. It exists. It's  fine. Athletes  and  models can coexist in one world.   Yes of course they can and sometimes  (Queen Victoria) on the same bicycle.   It was a bit lazy too, I can imagine the 'creatives' sitting around and going through the David Bowie songs they knew and .....'I know!'...'  They could have at least got the Models to do something (No not that) instead of just an open the curtains and 'Whoo gasp!  a famous (I assume) model.  I expect it was the other Victoria's idea.

^ a week (4th August)

In the closing ceremony, I personally thought Brian May's guitar abuse ("Brighton Rock") was unbearable, and Muse were pathetic. (Do they always put on this kind of over-the-top show?)

From a (ahem!) historical point of view, the most fascinating bit was all those super models appearing to the tones of Bowie's "Fashion". Hell, I remember when SCARY MONSTERS came out and this was considered cutting-edge music... You mustn't forget Bowie's lyrics are deeply cynical and Fripp's solos are among his most discordant. (As radical as anything he did on EXPOSURE.) There are lots of countries in the world where all the popular music 99.9% of the people ever listen to is SOFT POP, so to many of the athletes who were present in the stadium (and who are presumably unfamiliar with Bowie's collected works) this must have sounded like an INCREDIBLE cacophony! (They all had to keep standing up as well.) One nation's cultural standards (if you call them that; most of the closing ceremony was PAP) are definitely not everyone else's.

I also tried to picture ye olde Fripp watching from his Devonshire living-room (or wherever he resides nowadays), grumpily waiting for his solo to resound in the Olympic stadium. (Someone must have TOLD him it was getting played, no?) "Would you like another cup of tea, dear?"

I would have thought CHARIOTS OF FIRE would have been a more logical choice. Vangelis's music goes so well with track and field.

^I  loved that.

Mr Bean (aka Rowan Atkinson) was hilarious. When its started it seemed it was going to be very serious and that was of course the thing that made it so funny. Highlight of the opening ceremony for sure.