ALL that glisters is not gold ...
and not every spectacular needs to be glitzy. The organisers of the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony have avoided gimmicks, superficial glamour and star names and are to shine the spotlight where it belongs, on the people of Glasgow.
The budget of £21m, which also covers the closing ceremony, is, naturally enough, dwarfed by the £27m lavished on Danny Boyle's curtain-raiser for the London Olympics 2012, but the event looks likely to be a winner all the same.
It will celebrate Glasgow's "gallus" personality in a spectacular performance by 2000 local volunteer performers before 40,000 spectators and an estimated one billion television viewers across the globe
Choreographer Rocky Smith said: "We were looking to see what makes Glasgow shine and found to our delight that people radiated that through dancing skills or through a cracking personality."
Anyone who knows the city and its citizens will not be in the least surprised. We look forward to July 23 with keen anticipation. Let the people of Glasgow flourish.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article