Ouch, for that kind of money, you'd surely want to see a couple of centuries from the opening batsmen on cue, no rain delays and a couple pints of Guinness from the members bar. In my younger years, l was fortunate enough to see many a game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, including Lillee & Thompson at their best. The sound of the crowd chanting their names was something else. Here in Oz, we always celebrated the Queens birthday on the 11th of June for ever and a day, but the powers that be changed it recently and God knows when it is now. Individually different in each state. Disgraceful stuff by those who want to disengage from the British Empire.
When I used to go to Lord's as a kid, the Queen would attend the Saturday of the Test match and she'd be introduced to players on the pitch during the tea break. I wonder when they stopped doing that.
Wow. Are they premium seats, or is that just the going rate? That's completely out of reach of the average person. Probably a £400 day by the time travel, some food and a couple of beers are thrown in.
They're in the new Edrich stand, which is on the right in this pic... please log in to view this image Good seats, but not really premium. One small saving grace about Lord's though, is that you can bring your own food and booze in. The way I justify the price to myself is that, at £140, it works out at £20 per hour - the same as paying £30 for 90 minutes football. I'll be pretty pissed off if it rains, though.
Cheers. Didn't know that about the food and drink. I've never managed to make it to a test match, I really must. Probably not Lords at that rate though! Been to T20 finals day a few times, which is really good value and fun, but not quite as skillful as test cricket in my opinion. Hope the weather stays kind for you.
I was taken to Lords some years ago. All I can say is, you need a decent pair of binoculars to catch the action properly.
Working Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Family get together at daughter's on Sunday. Next week looking dodgy already with rail strike, always f*cks up traffic in town, not that it needs much f*cking up...
Doing nowt, glorious weather up here so just chilling in the garden. Jubilee stuff not really a big thing up here, certainly not seen much bunting around and I don't know of anyone who is having a specific "Jubilee" party, although with this weather there'll be plenty of pissed up folk around. They did light a beacon up on the behind my house last night though...
Thoroughly enjoyed the Jubilee concert last night. Queen, as usual, stole the show. Can't think of anyone who could have stood in for Freddie better than Adam Lambert, who has a sensational voice. Some great performances and visual effects. Shame Celeste managed to absolutely murder to death "What a Wonderful World". She was truly awful. A great show though and a fitting tribute to the Queen, who has been a fantastic Monarch. Our two greatest Monarchs have both been female and both called Elizabeth in my opinion.
Didn’t see all of it, but was a bit taken aback by Prince Charles being followed by a ‘give it up for Sigala and Ella Eyre!’ Who are hardly household names. Haven’t seen her for years but we used to know Ella Eyre’s mum (a friend of a friend) and the young Ella, probably about 4 at the time, tried to beat up our two year old son once. Failed. So that’s our claim to fame. Do you think Diana Ross, the smoothest skinned 78 year old in history, was actually singing? She looked a bit wobbly. The big scale, organised, side of this Jubilee looks huge, but it strikes me the more private, community organised bit, street parties etc, is much less prominent than previously, certainly than the Silver Jubilee in 77 which was remarkable. The other intervening ones I can’t remember anything of apart from that joke trip on the Thames. Apparently there were a grand total of 10 applications for road closures for street parties in the whole of Warwick District.
There was quite a mixture of culture and music, which was fitting imo. My top three performances were Queen, Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun Dorma and Sam Ryder. The sketch with Paddington Bear and the Queen was absolutely brilliant and the effects, apparently with drones, above the Palace were simply breathtaking. Yes, something strange was going on with Diana Ross. She was fiddling with her personal ear monitors at the start, so she possibly wasn't hearing everything correctly. She seemed to be miming at times, but I suspect she was singing over a soundtrack of her own voice. She didn't do a bad job. Poor old Rod struggled a bit and as I said, Celeste rather mutilated "What a wonderful World". Overall though, there were excellent performances from both old and new acts. It was a brilliant spectacle and whoever was responsible for the sound deserves a knighthood!
