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CJJC Group: Members Posts: 210 Joined: Aug. 2010 Posted: Aug. 02 2012, 05:43 Much as I like that, if he were born in a hospital (rather than at home or in an emergency delivery somewhere out in public) in the UK it's highly unlikely that he would have been born in anything OTHER than an NHS hospital. I don't know anybody (born in the UK) who wasn't. -------------- IMHO Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Aug. 04 2012, 18:48 I don't know where to post this.... Tubular Bells @ The Ceremony: The whole piece was just remarkable and so special - I think all agree - made even more so by the fact the whole thing was an total surprise ( aren't good things always better when you don't know about them ) and I can honestly say this little 11 minutes or so is one of my very favourite things he has ever done. Of all time. The part I absolutely love is after the quiet gentle bit, around 4:33 the single, the solitary opening few notes of Tubular Bells just waiting to be answered.  It is a moment of absolute, perfect stillness...before it all gathers speed and we hear the bells.   It's almost like a voice saying hesitantly...remember me?  Then the bells answer so unmistakably positively "YES!!! It must be great to hit those bells and hear that sound! From the different views of the concert made available in a different thread elsewhere, (Thanks btw for them) you can see how the audience loved it. A real feel good moment for everyone. I am having a problem with Dizzee Rascal though...I keep trying but I just don't get it!! Bonkers...yeah...right -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

bob the screamer Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: Jan. 2011 Posted: Aug. 05 2012, 17:18 A bit late... but I just saw the performance on youtube for the first time now. I didn't expect much, but this was wonderful. Goosebumps all over, and the show was very suitable! -------------- New free album out: http://www.bobthescreamer.com/music/twinety-twine/ Back to top

Nacho Group: Members Posts: 230 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Aug. 05 2012, 18:48 Quote (CJJC @ Aug. 02 2012, 11:43) Much as I like that, if he were born in a hospital (rather than at home or in an emergency delivery somewhere out in public) in the UK it's highly unlikely that he would have been born in anything OTHER than an NHS hospital. I don't know anybody (born in the UK) who wasn't. Mike was born in Battle Hospital, Reading http://www.google.es/url?sa=....bxR2Hhg Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1353 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Aug. 07 2012, 04:02 What I find most amazing of all is, Mike Oldfield the man who has always had a great fear of performing live at all, who didn't really want to promote his first album by playing it live, has now just gone out and performed to over a Billion people!!!!!! I just find that amazing. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Aug. 07 2012, 04:25 Quote (qjamesfloyd @ Aug. 07 2012, 09:02) What I find most amazing of all is, Mike Oldfield the man who has always had a great fear of performing live at all, who didn't really want to promote his first album by playing it live, has now just gone out and performed to over a Billion people!!!!!! I just find that amazing. You've got the right point for the whole experience! I was really impressed when he accepted the challenge and did so amazingly great at the Olympics. All those years of psychotherapy/meditation/exegesis have been payed off after that - psychological resilience. It doesn't matter if bits and pieces were mimed,he was there facing more than million people's audience. At least for me,Mike's involvement with the Olympics has helped me at personal level.Such an inspiration -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

drorlast Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: July 2012 Posted: Aug. 14 2012, 11:19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257EDRKfQFk Back to top

simmo2005 Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Aug. 23 2012, 16:55 not sure if anyone saw this vid from before, but lots of close-up shots of the stage (incl the other musicians) taken from an audience member. Great to see the audience enjoying the music up close! SKIP TO 1: 20 ONWARDS... Clip Back to top

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