It wasn't that there was a single band, nor even that it was Coldplay that caused me to switch off in a similar way to EG. It was that it was a single band that dominated the ceremony. It then became about them rather than the games. I thought the dancers, the vehicles, the flames, the lighting, the high wire stuff were excellent. But when a band uses it to do a sing-along to their greatest hits much as they might for any of their other stadium gigs, they steal 'our' games from us.
I've wanted to do a firebike (or a skeletandem) since for ever, I am so jealous!
Utterly not what I think!I know bog all about Coldplay, except that people like to diss them. I couldn't have identified or named one of their songs before last night, and I've pretty much forgotten them now. They were just background music for the cool stuff going on.As for 'using it', did they ask for the gig, or were they asked? Also, were the Paraorchestra 'using' it too, or is it alright because they are disabled?
I still want to know how on earth they found 20 aerial chicks** to nonchalantly step off the stadium roof, strapped to a bundle of pyrotechnic balloons and a single fucking* trapeze hoop.
The Coldplay comments above are interesting. From inside the stadium, it was impossible to see who was playing the music, unless you made a conscious effort to watch the big screens - and there was way, way too much going on to bother with a video screen. The music was just a background to the show... a soundtrack. The recorded bits of the TV show that I've seen today bear no resemblance whatsoever to the show we experienced as spectators (and, I assume, the athletes) in the stadium.
Kim, you are very bad!
Anyone else getting sick of the glorification of the LONDON Olympics/Paralympics?
Jurek - were you in the colsing ceremony?