I thought it was ok, but it looked as though it could have done with another full rehearsal or two (I appreciate that the Closing Ceremony team get minimal rehearsal time in the stadium compared to the Opening Ceremony)



Didn't quite get why we had to see Emilie Sande (who I find Ok but not fantastic) twice though, nor did I understand why we had to hear the same songs (Blur, Madness One Direction) while the Athletes entered the stadium, when we had only heard the performances minutes earlier. It was like the DJ left the CD on while he went to the loo!



got better as it went on though, and credit to Gary Barlow for his professionalism in turning up to do his job and not let his bandmates down after such an awful week.

I would think there are tribes in Borneo that haven't heard of Python but I would guess the rest of the world has.

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.

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.

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



All in all, typically British.

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.

Peter Hitchens hates it. Therefore it was fantastic.

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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.

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.

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.

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.