tartofmidlothian Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Will it be a load of tartan shite or will they pull something fantastic out of the bag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambos_1874 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm going to be optimistic and say brilliant. Unless it makes any reference to the Old Firm that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I know a few folk who've seen the rehearsals and all have said it's enjoyable. Funny and poignant. Not sure i'll bother watching to be honest though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaap's Sigh Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Hope it's decent. I have tickets for me and the wife. Heading out for dinner at Chaophraya first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooperstar Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Borthers was at the dress rehearsal the other night and reckoned it would be quite entertaining, according to his Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Order Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I just love the fact that Celtic Park has a Royal Box built for the Queen. Think the Green Brigade will be spewing much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 When is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Have to say I'm no fan of opening ceremonies at sports events. Watch a bit of the World Cup OC with the wee fella. After about 30 seconds he was like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasavallan Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I just love the fact that Celtic Park has a Royal Box built for the Queen. Think the Green Brigade will be spewing much? I just cannot get my head around this. Her Majesty at IRA Central. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Maroonblood Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I just love the fact that Celtic Park has a Royal Box built for the Queen. Think the Green Brigade will be spewing much? I'm surprised that they have allowed their stadium to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Have to say I'm no fan of opening ceremonies at sports events. Watch a bit of the World Cup OC with the wee fella. After about 30 seconds he was like Have to see the opening ceremony to the WC was total pants! It will be hard to do a worse OC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Have to say I'm no fan of opening ceremonies at sports events. Watch a bit of the World Cup OC with the wee fella. After about 30 seconds he was like The Olympics one was superb though. Even the worst bits weren't dreadful, and it all had a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm surprised that they have allowed their stadium to be used. I'm not. They'll be awash with Commie Games money because of it, plus it's all about the East End and they're right over from the Chris Hoy Arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micole Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Going over two France on Monday for two weeks, will miss most of it thankfully, Glasgow is a feckin nightmare to get around, roads blocked etc, baa Humbug!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Tucker Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I don't know how anyone could expect the opening ceremony of an event such as this in Scotland not to have some tartan/stereotypes in it. I went to the dress rehearsal on Monday night, it's all done in a good tone - light-hearted, not taking itself too seriously but with some poignancy behind it as well. The chip-on-the-shoulder brigade who despise Glasgow probably won't enjoy segments of it, but that's their problem. I was pleasantly surprised by it, and Celtic Park is an ideal venue I must say. The way the stadium is lends itself to it perfectly with the 3 big stands looking down on the wee stand where the screen/stage is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homme Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The Olympics one was superb though. Even the worst bits weren't dreadful, and it all had a point. That had Danny Boyle's mastermind behind it though. You are right - it was superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I don't know how anyone could expect the opening ceremony of an event such as this in Scotland not to have some tartan/stereotypes in it. I went to the dress rehearsal on Monday night, it's all done in a good tone - light-hearted, not taking itself too seriously but with some poignancy behind it as well. The chip-on-the-shoulder brigade who despise Glasgow probably won't enjoy segments of it, but that's their problem. I was pleasantly surprised by it, and Celtic Park is an ideal venue I must say. The way the stadium is lends itself to it perfectly with the 3 big stands looking down on the wee stand where the screen/stage is. Glasgow can be quite crass and smug when i comes to promoting itself, and i say that working in the culture and tourism sector, but it plays on the tartan and shortbread schtick a lot less than any other major city in Scotland. Edinburgh is by far and away the worst for twee crap. But that's fine. Tourists want twee crap and Edinburgh is a huge tourist venue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del1812 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Borthers was at the dress rehearsal the other night and reckoned it would be quite entertaining, according to his Twitter. One thing I would say is that there's a huge difference between taking something like that in when you're in attendance - what with all the lights, colour, noise etc - and watching it on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETTY29 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I don't know how anyone could expect the opening ceremony of an event such as this in Scotland not to have some tartan/stereotypes in it. I went to the dress rehearsal on Monday night, it's all done in a good tone - light-hearted, not taking itself too seriously but with some poignancy behind it as well. The chip-on-the-shoulder brigade who despise Glasgow probably won't enjoy segments of it, but that's their problem. I was pleasantly surprised by it, and Celtic Park is an ideal venue I must say. The way the stadium is lends itself to it perfectly with the 3 big stands looking down on the wee stand where the screen/stage is. Is it just Glasgow based, primarily Glasgow, with a bit of Scotland, or all Scotland encompassing. I'm with you, of course there will be some stereotypes and hopefully they are done with banter - tartan, whisky, c u jimmy hats, haggis, irn bru (if advertising is allowed). From Jamie Borthwick's tweet picture looked like some nessie too. I see the programme on BBC is 3 hours long so hopefully there is enough time to get a load of Scotland's achievements in there too. Roads, bicycles, tyres, canals, coal gas lighting, steamboats, television, electric clock, flush toilet telephone, ATMs, prudent banking (haha); penicillon; Barrie, Stevenson, Scott, Burns.... And that's not looked at sporting achievdements, starting with golf. Music and so on and so on One final thing I'd love to see ut doubt it would happen and that would be for the final scene / song to be 'A man's a man for a' that' Probably get Susan boyle singing the slosh. PS - Sporting Heroes just finishing on SS2 with Alan Wells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chat Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToYouToMe Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Bollocks. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm personally not into Glasgow. But I've never lived there so I wouldn't know the ins and outs of the place. Can I ask though; does Glasgow get a fair percentage of tourists? Outside events like this I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beats Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 This is going to be absolute pish. Probably on a par with that shite at the castle the other night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm personally not into Glasgow. But I've never lived there so I wouldn't know the ins and outs of the place. Can I ask though; does Glasgow get a fair percentage of tourists? Outside events like this I mean. It's quite difficult to tell "tourist" numbers - it depends on your definition of tourist/visitors. It gets lots of conferences - are the delegates counted as "tourists" or "visitors" - the same with people staying over if they're seeing someone at the Hydro for example. When the Burrell opened and when Krlvingrove reopened they had over a million visitors in their first year, displacing Edinburgh Castle as the most visited attraction. Most of these visitors were local though and in the following years numbers eased off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyRightPeg Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 My coach went to see the dress rehearsal, said it's a drag, boring, fireworks are bang average, the full shebang really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Tate Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Went to rehearsal, it's not that bad but wouldn't cancel other plans to stay in and watch it (it was also quite hard to judge as a number of the celebs weren't there). Not helped by a truly awful opening number. After that it improves and although not on a par with London its about as good as could be expected so if you like these sorts of things sit tight. They've done well to make it generically Scotland rather than just Glasgow in jokes. Apparently the fireworks were impressive from outside but they were underwhelming from inside. Had to chuckle at the singing of God save the Queen and also a giant red hand getting plastered on the screen, there will be a few outraged tims I'm sure which should keep social media entertained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 It's quite difficult to tell "tourist" numbers - it depends on your definition of tourist/visitors. It gets lots of conferences - are the delegates counted as "tourists" or "visitors" - the same with people staying over if they're seeing someone at the Hydro for example. When the Burrell opened and when Krlvingrove reopened they had over a million visitors in their first year, displacing Edinburgh Castle as the most visited attraction. Most of these visitors were local though and in the following years numbers eased off. You're right that huge numbers of visitors were local. Kelvingrove is also free, whereas the castle is fairly pricey. Edinburgh is the second most 'visited' city in the UK, with around 1.3mil visitors annually. Glasgow is 6th with around half a million, but is pretty close to the likes of manchester and liverpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpyjambo Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Think I will clean my sewers tonight instead of watching that pish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Haggis Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 From my post on the Commie Games thread.... Rod Stewart and Susan Boyle duet of 'I am Sailing' while riding a giant Mars bar on a sea of Iron Brew - the Mars bars then heads into the opening ceremony centre piece of a deep fat fryer - which turns said Mars bars into deep fried wonder and hopefully scalds to death Rod and Suz just as they kick into 'Do you think Im sexy..'. Great. Also the planned (then cancelled) demolition of high rises tied into the opening ceremony - lets bring that back..and put RunRig, Wet Wet Wet and Deacon Blue upon each tower receptively then blow them to pieces in some kind of musical synchronised shit Scottish band explosion. With the Proclaimers milling about somewhere at the bottom of the high rises just before demolition. Now thats a show. Can I also add in The Bay City Rollers doing 'Shang-a-lang' dressed in the Scotland team tartan horrendous outfits - perfect. And Nessie - yes who could forget the Loch Ness Monster herself - get a Nessie eating Susan Boyle sequence, what entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micole Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thankfully will miss the opening ceremony, got band rehearsal tonight, the joy of a sweaty studio is better than watching that load of tosh, baa Humbug!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redm Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 It's depressingly predictable that some will go out of their way to bang on about how much they despise it. It's just the way of things at the moment, even moreso than usual. Personally, I'm looking forward to it very much. I have a pal who is in it and they've been rehearsing their socks off for weeks, it really was a big commitment time-wise and I'm excited for them. People have put a lot of work into it and that is to be applauded. That said, I can have fun pretty much anywhere so this sort of thing appeals to me anyway. Jazz hands FTW, love a good old fashioned (or modern) show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
systemx Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Looking forward to Lulu who,when being interviewed on the Beeb,was happy being back in her 'hood with her tribe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 We're just always cringey when we do stuff like this. Hopefully we can do something half decent tonight. The uniforms are hardly filling me with confidence on that mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Bishop Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Wonder what odds are on the queen being booed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpyjambo Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Wonder what odds are on the queen being booed!! or God Save the Queen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Camryn Young ?@camryn_rfc 15m The royal box for the commonwealth games when being installed at parkhead get it up yiis https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtP2fp4IIAAt-6j.jpg:large Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego10 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Anything decent is very much the exception to these things. Just look at the absolute drivel served up in Rio last month. Think it'll be no bad, with certain points where I'll be covering my eyes, cringing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasavallan Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Five minutes of. The One Show convinced me that the opening ceremony is not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leginten Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Five minutes of. The One Show convinced me that the opening ceremony is not for me. Five minutes of The One Show could convince anyone that the very idea of television is a bad one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartsfc_fan Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Still not sure why they are using Celtic Park for the opening ceremony (and that's it - no events there). The Olympic stadium in London was used for the Opening and closing ceremony plus the track and field. I hope they belt out God Save The Queen tonight to noise up the Tims Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Benoit Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Barry McGuigan getting right into it on the One Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Did i hear that right? Over a billion people will tune in to watch the commonwealth games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Benoit Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Still not sure why they are using Celtic Park for the opening ceremony (and that's it - no events there). The Olympic stadium in London was used for the Opening and closing ceremony plus the track and field. I hope they belt out God Save The Queen tonight to noise up the Tims Remember it was a good few days after the opening ceremony that they could use the stadium. That's not an option here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm going to be optimistic and say brilliant. Unless it makes any reference to the Old Firm that is. Took about 90 seconds...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooperstar Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Odds of I Wish I Was In Glasgow featuring at some point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavrentiy Beria Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 It will be crap ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling Archer Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 :pinilla: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartsfc_fan Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Remember it was a good few days after the opening ceremony that they could use the stadium. That's not an option here. Fair point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Going to go against the grain here, but Rebecca Adlington is quite tidy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooperstar Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Going to go against the grain here, but Rebecca Adlington is quite tidy Was about to post that the first person who tries to claim she is tidy should be shot. She is a dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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