The London 2012 Olympics Goes Out With a BANG!

If we mention the Spice Girls, Take That, Pet Shop Boys, Fat Boy Slim, George Michel, Russell Brand and Eric Idle in the same breath, you will without doubt know we are talking about the 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony line up.

On Sunday, the stadium was electric as the crème de la crème of British Talent gathered together to perform the greatest show on earth.  Closing Ceremony director, Kim Gavin, made sure the Olympics left London with a bang. With his recent works including Concert for Diana in 2007 and That That’s latest stadium tour he was sure to impress.

Intertwining the best of British music, fashion and stage design, the ceremony showcased performances spanning from Liam Gallagher to One Direction, Madness to Jessie J and Pet Shop Boys to Eric Idle, alongside stage design by Damien Hirst which provided the perfect catwalk for top British models, Naomi Campbell, Lily Cole, Georgia May Jagger and Kate Moss as they flooded the enormous Union Jack catwalk.

Focal points of the ceremony included holograms of John Lennon and Freddie Mercury, a street party performance from Madness, Spice Girls arrival from iconic light up black cabs and ‘dad dancing’ from Boris Johnson.

The incredible event came to an end with the symbolic extinguishing of the Olympic flame as Big Ben struck midnight, with each nation to receive one of the caldrons 204 petals. The extinguishing was accompanied with a surprise arrival from Darcey Bussell and by far our favourite performance of the night of Take That’s hit single, Rule The World.

 If like us you were following the event Twitter trend, you will have seen the waterfall of tweets that flooded the Internet. Twitter revealed that the spectacle generated more than 116,000 tweets per minute, overtaking Usain Bolt’s 200m final win!

And incase you can’t get enough of Team GB, yesterday Adidas released this brilliant video of Team GB athletes celebrating their success with their own version of Queen’s ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’.