The Church at Commonwealth Games
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Topic: The Church at Commonwealth Games
Posted By: valravennz
Subject: The Church at Commonwealth Games
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:09
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Hi all, I have just finished watching the Opening Ceremony of the 18th British Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Very spectacular for those who have not seen it. A surprise highlight was seeing The Church, an Australian Prog-Related group, take center stage and play their most well known piece "Under The Milky Way" in front of a stadium crowd of 80,000 and to an estimated world-wide television viewing audience of 1Biillion people. What fantastic exposure for this group which has been playing together and has produced many quality albums over the last 3 decades. Their performance was excellent and integrated seemlessly into the Opening Ceremony proceedings. It was great to see a Prog Group up in the limelight of this great sporting event. -------------  "Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
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Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 11:45
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That's pretty cool. A lot of people here don't think the Church are proggy. I think they are wrong. But I'm a Church fan. ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 17:17
| I followed the Church since the Starfish album they are indeed a great band and deserve more recognition . |