Prologue 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
scene before ceremony commenced, representing rural britain
at 20:12 (8:12 pm) red arrows performed flypast on olympic stadium , on concert in hyde park. concert featured artists selected represent 4 nations of united kingdom: duran duran, stereophonics, snow patrol , paolo nutini.
at beginning stadium contained rural scene including model of glastonbury tor, model village , water wheel, replete live animals (removed shortly before ceremony began), , actors portraying working villagers, football , cricket players.
frank turner performed 3 songs ( sailor s boots , wessex boy , still believe ) on model of glastonbury tor, joined emily barker, ben marwood , jim lockey, regular backing band sleeping souls. lso on track (an orchestra of 80 young musicians ten east london boroughs 20 lso members) performed edward elgar s nimrod enigma variations, accompanied extracts bbc radio shipping forecast, , maritime images on big screens, while audience held blue sheeting simulate sight of ocean. performance celebrated britain s maritime heritage , geographical isles status.
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