Its not a theatrical production, it wasnt supposed to be. You werent supposed to be critiquing a performance or story.



It was, pretty simply, a bit of party, showcasing british music and culture of all types.



If you could find nothing in it you liked, then yes, you probably are a miserable f*cker

To be fair to to the organisers a lot of the acts they probably wanted were unavailable. Adele is 7months pregnant, Noel Gallagher allegedly said he has enough fame and money and didn't want to, Coldplay are on tour in America, The Rolling Stones are only just getting back together for a tour and thought it'd be too soon...and that's before we get to the fact the half the Beatles are dead, Freddie Mercury is dead...and no doubt many more turned them down.

It does seems to be the case in your house, yes.

Of course it was a theatrical production (of sorts). If it was just 'a party', it wouldn't have been broadcast to a worldwide audience. And of course people will critique something (anything) of that nature. I'm not saying there wasn't a single thing I would have enjoyed, but the 45 minutes or so I sat through convinced me that it wasn't worth sticking with in case there was a three or four minute spell that was enjoyable.



If you enjoyed it, you must be a happy clappy tard with no taste. See, lazy stereotyping is dead easy.

Coldplay, radiohead, rolling stones, pj harvey, roxy music, rod stewart, ash. elvis costello, human league, dire straits, pulp, travis, snow patrol, keane, florence.



and that is off the top of my head. i just think that having videos of dead simngers or of singers who were not there just smacked a bit of desparation. There are loads of good singers out there who could have all done a turn and being there in the flesh. Should have shocased some other areas oif the country as well. Would have been nice to have even had the proclaimers or someone from N. Ireland or wales. Tom jones

I loved it



yes some of the music wasn't to my taste but as an event I thought the closing ceremony was great

No it wasnt, it was a party, it was advertised as a party, the director of the closing ceremony said they aimed to make it a party, it was a celebration of british music and culture of all types, there was some new, some old, some pop, a bit of rap and R&B, some dance music.



Maybe it didnt meet your high-standards with your esoteric and thoughtful high-brow musical palette but i saw my niece go crazy for one direction and jessie j, my mum loved Take That and I saw the Who, and rather than sit there wondering why it wasnt tailored to my taste and why i was sitting through Annie Lennox I thought shouldnt we be proud that this little island can cater for so many people at such a high level, we went from rock royalty to kids pop, from Shakespeare to Kate Moss from Gothic to Psychedelic, thats what the director was trying to achieve, not some critical acclaim for its artistic depth and in that respect it was a roaring success.



And yes, if that you cant actually see past your cynicism to see that, its probably because you are a miserable f*cker

At no point last night did I think, you know what this party is crying out for, Coldplay, radiohead, Snow Patrol and Keane, nobody knows how to get a party started like coldplay, radiohead, snow patrol and keane.

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Well yes, since that's what you asked for.





Surely, a candidate for silliest question of all time. And for a spell of course The Who [iwere[/i indisputably top dogs anyway.





I didn't miss anything, where did I claim I was providing a complete and exhaustive list? But, if you want to contradict your own argument for me, feel free to throw in a few more.



Have you tried any of my list on your offspring yet, and are you ready to concede the point?

No, Durham Giant is right, they should have made the closing ceremony run for about 16 weeks and played every fekkin song of any note since records began. The best way to do it was get everyone in the country to send in a list of 50 suggestions and then just work your way through all 3 billion, that way our Olympics wouldn't actually finish till the year 3844 but it would be quite a show, apart from the final audience bitterly complaining they hadn't played a single tune from the last 18 centuries.

The Who were the top UK band of their era? Really? I would imagine that there were several other contenders - including The Dave Clarks Five, The Troggs and The Small Faces who would argue with that, and that's without including The Beatles. The difference is that The Who are still around (after a fashion), and that is the important part.



Overall I thought the night was as good as you'd expect. They were never going to match the opening ceremony, and it would have been wrong to have tried. They got a pretty good cross section of UK musical taste from the last 50 years or so involved (although by now someone must realise that singers from the 60s need to retire) and there were one or two inspirational moments.





I'd like to apologise for the scooter riders though, they in no way reflect the mainstream of scooter culture, and were on the whole what is known as 'comedy mods'.