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posh spice - really her or stand-in??

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isitmidnightalready · 13/08/2012 01:44

Olympic closing ceremony - was it really posh spice and if so why did they hardly put her in shot. I thought it may be a double hence no close-ups. What do you reckon?

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WopBopALooBop · 13/08/2012 15:49

Yes. He was obviously not listening to his cues!

WopBopALooBop · 13/08/2012 15:52

Thanks flex :)

theliverpoolone · 13/08/2012 16:00

Aha! This thread's answered the debate my dm and I had - whether Liam was really him or just a lookalike/very bad soundalike. I really didnt think it was him! Whats happened to his voice, has he had too many illegal substances up his nose? Hmm

MaisyMooCow · 13/08/2012 16:04

I'm not a fan of VB but she did look terrified last night. But rightly so, the poor things hasn't performed for years and I doubt she wanted to last night. So she was a pop star once in a former life, she and us shouldn't have to pay the price again?

ObviouslyItsTheOlympics · 13/08/2012 16:10

Liam looked just like Paul Weller!

Fluffy1234 · 13/08/2012 17:40

No Robbie
No Prince William
Fake Oasis
Fake Posh Spice
I enjoyed it all but did think it a bit odd.

Frontpaw · 13/08/2012 17:43

I have to hand it to all of them - standing in heels on top of a moving cab! Unless they had magnetic shoes...

MrsJREwing · 13/08/2012 18:05

Vic looked terrified, anxious, cranky and uncomfortable as usual. I am grateful vics mic was turned off. I was shocked at liams voice, its deteriorating badly.

NPPF · 13/08/2012 18:09

Poor Liam! Maybe he had a sore throat. How can you all dis such a sound guy from Burnage?

Frontpaw · 13/08/2012 18:12

I never really likes Oasis - and whichever of the Gallacher ones that was was awful. Why didn't he just name his new band "eff-you Liam/Noel" and be done with it? Christmas at their mums house will be great this year:
"Pass the gravy please"
"Sod off, I didn't get to play at the Olymics, so I get all the gravy, ha!"

Whhhhhy didn't they have Feargal Sharkey? I love him! I still remember John Peel going on about Teenage Kicks being the best record ever and him reciting the lines 'teenage kicks, right through the night...'. Ahhhhhhhhh. I enjoyed fatboy slim.

Anyone know what the hell the pyramid of white boxes and dancing mummies was all about? Still grumbling about lack of space invaders and pacman.

HmmThinkingAboutIt · 13/08/2012 18:13

Definitely not a sore throat. I've seen Oasis enough times and long enough to know its down to the fact he's permanently damaged his voice through not taking advice on how to look after it, not to mention smoking and drinking too much. He's sounded like that for several years. I commented yesterday afternoon before the ceremony that how bad his voice was would be a talking point. Its actually a testament to his presence as a singer and the loyalty of fans than he's managed to keep going.

HmmThinkingAboutIt · 13/08/2012 18:14

303 boxes. one for each event.

No idea about the mummies though.

Frontpaw · 13/08/2012 18:15

Do you think Jessie J was doing a bit of a Lady Godiva? She looked very good though, and the girl can sing (little too many trills for my liking though)).

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 13/08/2012 18:29

VB looked like she hated every minute of it.

I was gutted that Jessie J was teamed up with Queen. A legendary band with a bloody upstart like her. Urgh! Don't like her at all.

Methe · 13/08/2012 18:54

I was totally gutted there wasn't more footage of Freddie, he would have total rocked it!

I'm not sure about Emili Sande at all. She sounded like she had a stinking cold for the opening ceremony and only marginally better last night. Who is she?

'Oasis' were crap

Spice Girls were ok. I thought they all looked lovely and VB looked positively healthy compared to her usually ribby state.

The Who were amazing!

Felt awful for Gary during TT performance. It must have been the absolute last thing in the world he wanted to do but he did it and did it bloody well. Consumate professional.

I couldn't work out the gender of one of the models. Was there one man or two?

Frontpaw · 13/08/2012 19:03

I think its a girl.

theinets · 13/08/2012 19:11

The white boxes thing messed up. It was supposed to have images of the most iconic moments from the Olympics projected onto the pyramid as it took shape.. the projection fucked up meaning effect was lost. A real shame as such a lot of hard work went into it. A video clip montage was run instead to try and cover up the mistake .

Frontpaw · 13/08/2012 19:14

What a shame! I thought they might project something onto it or at least Boris waving a flag would leap out of the top.

AmberLeaf · 13/08/2012 19:45

Didn't the white boxes end up being a 3D sort of jigsaw thingy of john lennons head? Or am I mixing that up with another part?

Moln · 13/08/2012 21:44

It's Fergal Sharkey's birthday today (born 1958) so the man on the radio told me as I read Frontpaw's post. Spooky!

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Moln · 13/08/2012 21:45

(her post that mentions Fergal - which might my post make sligtly more sense)

bisjolympics · 13/08/2012 21:52

Definitely VB

theinets · 13/08/2012 23:25

No that was another part with Lennon s head. Which actually worked brilliantly. Was designed by yoko IMO.

theinets · 13/08/2012 23:25

Ono I mean..

WopBopALooBop · 14/08/2012 09:17

Emeli Sande's voice was better on rehearsal, might have been nerves paired with tiredness as she's been back and forth from the states all week as she's currently touring with Coldplay and had to come back here for Olympic rehearsals.