Beyond terrible.

In danger of ruining the whole fecking thing (which I've loved).

Connects to nothing, artists that aren't there, people whose material is utter shatpank.

Which massive gormclops signed this utter face of a dogs egg off?

The ting Beatles have just come on, they won't be there either.

Utter sheeeitte, from a country I'm proud to belong to and has been brilliant up until now.

Elbow come on, totally change my mind.

Not like me that.

Totally like me.

Start a thread and kill yourself.

Beautiful.

Ugly.

Probably the latter.

The latter.

I agreed with your first post somewhat. However alittle of an exaggeration was your comment "in danger of ruining the whole thing".

I'm guessing that would be impossible now.

What a fantastic 2 weeks, get some fireworks into the sky, and then let the memories live on.

What a great games.

Nothing was going to beat that astounding, weird & wonderful opening ceremony - but yes, this has started very oddly and a little awkwardly. The rest of the world must just think we're fcking nuts.



Only real cock-up was misjudging the time it would take to get the athletes in place - hence repeating the opening music.

Anyway, it's barely got going! Might pull this out the bag yet.

Gutted the Olympics is finishing, what an epic 16 days. Exceeded everyone's expectations and then some.

This is terrible - Seems they've gone for the easy option of cheap, cheesy and camp.

I suppose it just highlights how fantastic Danny Boyle's opening effort truly was, because this is absolute rubbish in comparison.

In a continuation of ruining a thread that you've started...

Brilliant to celebrate the volunteers.

I was lucky enough to go to The Olympics twice, I'd been wanting to go since I was six in nineteen eighty, they made it. They were fantastic. Funny, helpful, witty, British, enthusiastic.

I was in Trafalgar Square a couple of weeks ago, just sat having a fag (default position) a woman approached a volunteer for a map, half a minute later the volunteer obviously thought : "I've got a better map!" and chased her half way across Trafalgar to give her the better map.

Awful at starting threads me, I try not to do it, for obvious reasons.

Always look on the bright side of life

What time does this "symphony of great British music" start ?

Hopefully Morrisey will pop up, if not, Lydon.

its ;like fcking karoake

I don't know why you're so upset about playing music from people who have died. I didn't see any objection to Jerusalem being sung in the opening ceremony.

Anything that has Wonderwall, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life and We Will Rock You on top of a massive great Union Jack will do alright for me

I've run out of tears.

A mixed bag. Has there ever been a memorable closing ceremony?

Still, a fantastic olympics. Loved the last couple of weeks. Shame its ending

Just watching this on repeat in Canada. Not entirely sure what to make of it.

My body clock is screwed. Apparently this is live!

i Thought it was dire.

The Eric Idle thing with the Indian dancers were cringeworthy. Unless people know about Monty Python you would think someone had just escaped from Bedlam and got on the stage,

I thought it was great, i thought Eric Idle was pretty simple to understand. Foreigners arent morons, just like when we watch other nations opening/closing ceremonies we arent running around screaming about the confusion, we just accept some things will resonate and some things wont.

For all i know that little Chinese girl in Beijing was singing an operatic version of The Life of Brian.

Plus, whatever Rio does, it cant finish with The Who

It got progressively better as it went on but it was never going to come close to the Opening Ceremony. Gutted it's all over now though.

Some miserable people around! Tonight was weird, wacky and wonderful all at the same time. Some parts were iffy but in the main it was bloody good, loved Eric Idol - and don't forget Monty Python was big round the world, people know who they are. My only complaint - too much Jessie J, a brief appearance was more than enough. But a great finale with The Who, and the lighting and effects were stunning.

Well done all concerned.

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.