Which musician(s) will get to perform at the London Olympics?

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OK, so London's somehow managed to win the Olympic bid, but obviously this raises a far more important question.

Forget about the shortage of stadiums and other facilities, forget about the inadequate transport infrastructure, the burning question must surely be: Which musician(s) will get to perform at the London Olympics?

Kylie performed at Sydney in 2000; Bjork inexplicably represented the host nation Greece in Athens in 2004; who's going to represent the UK in 2012?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

I need to know because if it's Cliff Richard or Robbie Williams then I only have 7 years in which to emigrate and become a nationalised citizen somewhere else.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Mawell doing Summer 'Oliday

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Lady Sovereign

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

It'll be someone you haven't heard of yet as they are probably still in primary school.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Our Amber then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Mark, we've heard of her.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

The Clash

― matulageci (matulageci), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

With Roger Waters standing in for the sadly missed Joe Strummer.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Punk Floyd Clash

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I nominate Dizzee Rascal.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

the recently reformed Ugly Rumours

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Dido, Annie Lennox or some other dull chanteuse. Or Robbie. Doing Angels. Again...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Dame Ellen Macarthur doing the Sailor's hornpipe.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

A choir of five year old cloned John Lennon's performing an Imagine/Sweet Dreams/World In Motion Megamixx

"Due to popular demand, tonight's opening ceremony will never end."

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Beverley Knight. Inevitably.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Ricky Martin doing Livin' La Vida Loca.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Beverley Knight performed at the Wimbledon players' party the other week. She's that sort of girl.

(xp!)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Cliff Richard performed impromptu and gratis at Wimbledon when rain stopped play a few years back.... maybe the London Olympic Committee's contingency plan for what to do in the unlikely event of inclement weather at any time during the Games, is to give him free tickets for all the key events?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

is it true that pub rock will actually be an event at the London 2012?

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

No, but the committee are currently considering introducing a number of new events; including "The Lambeth Walk", winkle-picking, and a jellied eel eating contest; in the desperate hope that this will give us some sort of outside hope of maybe winning a couple of medals this time.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Dizzee, with a stadium sized skirt, just like Bjork..

― jk_ (jk@gabba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Jehst and The Departure.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

The obvious answer is Sir Pete Doherty, who will be given the gig in recognition of his tireless work rehabilitating young drug addicts through a course of exposure to shitty indie-pop. Tough but fair.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

pet shop boys singing "london" obv.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

let's do it.

let's break the law.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Gorillaz Juniorz feat. Brooklyn Beckham

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

li'l kim

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

It needs something synonimous with style, flair, ambition, the will to win, and, above all, speed.

Yup, Crazy Frog. Acapella.

(god, I'm so slow ~~today~~ yesterday)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 July 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

How about Crazy Frog in a duet with Elton John?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 July 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Crazy Frog and Elton John to do "Stan"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Followed by a medley of all your Chas 'n' Dave favourites.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 July 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Nice that someone's apparently decided to start bombing London so that we can effectively recreate the spirit of the blitz.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 July 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

By that point grime will have become the standard form for MOR pop, in the manner of hip hop in the States at the moment. Since grime derives from east London it'll probably be some horrible "back to the streets" thing with Dizzee, Wiley and Crazy Titch (who is from Stratford, right in the centre of the new Olympic village).

Alternatively, I look forward to a duet by rock's then golden couple: Lennon Gallagher and Francis Bean Cobain.

― D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

gotta be Madness

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

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