Now according to my television planner, last night’s closing
ceremony was supposed to be done and dusted by 11.30pm. Yet at 12.10am the
fireworks hadn’t even started – oops!
I have to say by 11.30 I’d honestly had enough, but I’d felt
that I’d already invested two and half hours of my life so I was adamant that I
was going to see it through. I also did really want to see Take That, and I was
eventually disappointed that they only did one song. Although possibly for the
best – was Jason Orange feeling okay? He seemed to acting very odd and not in
line with what the other three were doing. Or maybe he was just doing a little
bit of show boating, a quip there for anyone who was tuned into channel four
for the evening and was watching the Wedding Crashers!
Okay, so the closing ceremony. This morning I’m trying to be
objective. I’ve had the night to sleep on it and this morning I’m trying to
evaluate it fairly.
Overall I think it was fun, a little weird in places, too
long, and once again quintessentially British. Although I was absolutely
dumbfounded when McCartney wasn’t rolled out at the end, isn’t that what we do?
Perhaps not, perhaps Queen were wrong and the show can’t always go! At some
point it does have to come to an end, and perhaps Seb Coe was worried that if the
closing ceremony went on any longer Boris Johnson would pull the plug siting
the boroughs noise restriction hours.
A couple of my favourite parts of the closing ceremony came
from two of our musical best who are no longer with us; the great John Lennon
and the brilliant Freddy Mercury. How awesome (please when you read the word
awesome can you imagine David Hasselhoff – aka the Hoff, on America’s Got
Talent saying awesome, as American’s just say it so much better than us Brits,)
was it when the audience participated with the recordings of Freddy Mercury?
I personally thought it was amazing! Actually, I thought it
was even better than that. The man was truly something else and is a legend.
Brian May and Roger Taylor were also pretty cool, but I don’t think they needed
Jesse J. We will Rock You is so iconic that I thought she brought nothing to
the stage, apart from in my opinion a huge fashion faux par.
I thought that The Who did well closing out the closing
ceremony, but I can’t help feeling the McCartney will be feeling disgruntled
about that! I thought that the Spice Girls were okay, although I feared a
little for their safety when their taxi’s started belting them around the
stadium. I mean come on fellas, these ladies are now in their late thirties
early forties and most of them are mums! Yet credit where it’s due, I thought
Victoria Beckham looked very good. As for that matter did Kate Moss. In fact
Kate Moss has now looked that good since, well, actually pretty much since I
can remember and I’m starting to find that annoying in a ‘does she have special
genes’ kind of way?
What else? Oh, the Pet Shop Boys! That part of the evening
mixed in with Madness’s performance made me feel like that moment when you wake
up and you can hear your alarm going off but you can’t quite place where you
are! That goes in my ‘a little weird in places’ category, as does Annie
Lennox’s performance, but I doubt that will surprise many people reading this.
One Direction made me want to vomit. They are just so sickly sweet it actually
hurts my teeth, but in fairness I suppose that might be how my age group felt
when Take That were big the first time around!
George Michael, Fat Boy Slim, Eric Idle, and Russell Brand
I’m putting into quintessentially British, with a slight cross over into a
little weird. Ray Davies though, I’m not sure what to say. I love the Kinks,
but I think his day as lead vocalist may have come and gone.
So that’s it on my summary and opinion of the closing
ceremony. It was not all bad, but not all good. I’m so British! And on that
I’ll just quickly add that at least it didn’t rain, but it is awfully close
today that I think we could do with a shower.
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