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Articles, blogs and accounts by and about participants - overwhelmingly volunteers - in the "Green and Pleasant Land" and "Pandemonium" (Industrial Revolution) sections of the Isles of Wonder opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games, 27 July 2012.

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Compiled February 2013

FOP = field of play, the infield.

"Green and Pleasant Land" villagers

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Green bibs with MED. More than 500 volunteer performers, including 34 animal handlers.[1] 300[2] or 350 in this section.[3]

  • Alma, Alex[4][5] From Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire; senior sales assistant; female; 54
  • Anderson, Valerie Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Bennett, Julie[2] On Maypole West (ie in Hampshire), with schoolchildren from Nightingale Primary School. 'My group was made up of people from as far away as Newcastle (she commuted to London each time taking a night coach leaving at 2am) and Cardiff but also a couple from Dagenham and Chelmsford. There was a great range of people.' From Dulwich, London; female
  • Durant, Michelle Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6][7]
  • Ferguson, Suzan Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Hall, Henry Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Henderson, Joyce Charging rambler.[6]
  • Instrell, Kay[8][9] In County Cornwall section, watching the children at the east maypole, which represented Wales (daffodils on top). A Maypoler East. 'I have a fused ankle after an industrial injury many years ago and I walk with a limp. Due to this and the audition being based on following a dance routine, (which I couldn’t do) I never expected to get a part. There were other people with disabilities ( did you notice Nadia the guide dog?) and I was told that we represented a normal population.' 'We will hear more from Kay Shortly' on myceremony.co.uk website.
  • Jayakumar, Pavithra[10] Cricket match audience (ie in Berkshire). London; student at UCL; female.
  • Jefferson, Louise[11] One of the twelve 'Inner Family' group featured inside the house in the 'Thanks Tim' section (filmed in advance): all twelve formed a picnic group in the Green and Pleasant Land section so that they could actually take part live in the ceremony. From Australia, female.
  • Joyce, Kelly Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Lovett, Jonathan[6][12] A rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group, featured in close-up on the tv coverage gawping at the Industrialists. From Barnet; former newspaper arts editor; male.
  • Mackay, Nick Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Medeiros, Chris Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Moon, Russell[13][3] A footballer. From Ipswich; consultant headteacher; male. Wrote a book, Days of Wonders: Inside the 2012 Opening Ceremony.
  • Moore, Kate[14][15] Dressed as a teacher looking after children in the field. From Belper, Derbyshire; a nurse; female; 49
  • Otley, Noel[6][16][17] A rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group, standing on a bridge watching the cricket match. From Brentwood, Essex; college principal; male; 61.
  • Ryan, Tim[18] A cricketer (ie in Berkshire). From Melbourne, Australia; IT and insurance professional; male; 30
  • Scott, Chris Cricketer[19]
  • Stasyuk, Oksana Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Travellato, Gabriel Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • Vaughan-Ohagan, Non Rambler in the 12-person Stasyuk group.[6]
  • (surname not given), Udara[20] A cricketer (ie in Berkshire), From Sri Lanka; male.
  • 25 children from Nightingale Primary School[21] 'We found out early on that we would be dancing around the Hampshire maypole, in front of the royal box ... Early on, we met and worked with the adult volunteers, four of whom (Julie, Annetta, Alice and Audrey) were assigned to walk onto the Field of Play with us. In the end, Ms Coupe and Ali came too.'

[22] [23] [24]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Industrialists

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Known as 'The Brunels'. 50 of them. Black bibs with BRU.

  • Chamberlain, Rikki[26] "I was one of the ‘Brunel’s’ comprising 10 professionals and 40 volunteers who, as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, were the architects of the ‘pandemonium’ section of the show. Kenneth Branagh was the head Brunel who gave the speech to start the show." A professional actor; male.
  • Frances, Phil[27][28] From Harlow, Essex; electrical engineer and karate teacher ; male; 50.
  • Smith, Adam[29]

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Drummers

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Also marshalled the athletes during the parade. Green bibs with MAR.

Key team

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  • Dolbear, Mike[33] One of the three key team who auditioned and trained the drummers (helped by 21 drum captains)

Drummers

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  • Ashcroft, Tom[34]
  • Aversano, Dan[19]
  • Bird, James[35]
  • Bond, Helen[36] MAR 296
  • Brown, Kat[37][38] MAR 734, Group 27
  • Cave, Louise[39]
  • Cook, Stephen[40][41][42] The 1,000 Pandemonium drummers were split into 50 teams of 20 drummers. Cook was in Group 49.
  • Cowie, Janine[43]
  • Farmiloe, Margaret[44]
  • Gentle, Cally[5]
  • Hollands, Laura'[45]
  • JK[46]
  • Kwan, Emily[47]
  • Langston, Danny[48]
  • Menon, Seema[49]
  • Olabre, Patricia Mesina[50][51][52] Group 51.
  • Port, Louise[53]
  • Richardson, Julie[54]
  • Santos, Christine Nimfa Josef[50]
  • Sargent, Claire[55]
  • Searle, Lewis[56]
  • Thompson, Steve[57] His group was in Block 127 of the stadium
  • Walsh, Peter[58]
  • Watkins, John[55]
  • (surname not given), Ray[59][60] MAR 306
  • '(surname not given), Russ[61]

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Working men and women

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Blue bibs with WMW. Mill workers etc. Helped by the Warriors (pink bibs with CRW).

Ayrshire

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Berkshire

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Area of the FOP with the cricket pitch; a chimney and a beam engine there later in the sequence.[65]

  • Lewis, Travers[65] Highams Park, London; performing arts technician; male
  • Singer, Anja[66] Comment in comments section

Cornwall

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39 people in Cornwall, 'led by our dance captain and unofficial ‘Mayor’, Ben'[67] WMWs in low 90s - 110s, 120s.

  • Drum, Kathleen[67] One of six turf movers - other five were men. 'The other members of our group had hedges to move, or were smelters, forgers or weavers; we had Astroturf and lots of it!'
  • Hepburn, Brad American male, uploaded several videos to YouTube as user drbjsh, giving name and county. WMW 112.[68]
  • surname unknown, Dan Hidden camera WMW (male), uploads to YouTube as OlympicHiddenCamera, film shows him de-turfing the inside of the Ring. He is the front man on the second roll of turf out of the Ring. Name Dan from comment in comments field made by another County Cornwaller, Brad (drbjsh) at [69]

Devon

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Essex

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Area with sheep and a maypole.[71] Dance Captain Polly Bennett.[72] Essex one of the largest groups.[73]

  • Freeman, Bill WMW 368 [74]
  • Hughes, Keith[73][75]
  • Palmer, Trevor[76][77] WMW 388
  • Ryan, Christopher[72]
  • Sheahan, Phillip[78] WMW 367
  • West, Mel[79] Female drama teacher, rehearsed in a group of 190 under mass movement coordinators, Mez and Claira, and dance captain Polly.
  • Wong, Andrew[80][81]
  • (Surname not given), Bill[78]
  • (Surname not given), Sabrina[78] WMW 365

Fife

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  • Hall, Thomas[82] "Fife looked after a large section, which had the crucible, the waterwheel, two chimneys and a section of the smelting trough in, we had to take off a mixture of turf, grass, fences, hedges, handrails and gates." "[Fife was] expertly marshalled by Katie (Mass movement), Diane (Choreography), Helen and Pete (Stage Management)."
  • Hampson-Ghani, David[83] Comments on a YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/user/anorakman10 commenting on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhOIMPBy9Iw) that he was WMW 509 in Fife County.
  • Voakes, Brian[84]

Gloucestershire

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  • McManus, Sean[85] County G. Gloucestershire's area included the waterwheel and its stream. Smallest team 20, largest 190.

Hampshire

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  • Gummer, Louise[86] Covers up to but not including the performance itself. WMW 600.

Isle of Wight

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Jersey

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Bib Name Misc
Nathan Wright MASS Team
Shelle Conroy MASS Team
Laura Cubitt Dance Captain
Dominique Pierre-Louis Stage Management
Bryn Walters MASS Team
WMW 791 Graham Frosdick
WMW 792 Robert Walsh
WMW 793 Mary
WMW 794 Sue McKenzie
WMW 795 Gerry Tissier
WMW 796 Kulvinder Johal
WMW 797 Manjula Nalkunan
WMW 798 Simon Stephens
WMW 799 Richard Evans
WMW 800 Dave Cammock
WMW 801
WMW 802 Vasili
WMW 803 Alex
WMW 804
WMW 805 Richard Ryde
WMW 806
WMW 807 Daniel Keen
WMW 808
WMW 809 Amanda
WMW 810 Angela
WMW 811 Pauline King
WMW 812 Pierluigi Vullo
WMW 813 Clare Bradley
WMW 814 Matt Laycock
WMW 815 Catherine Roulston
WMW 816
WMW 817 Stephen Byrd
WMW 818
WMW 819
WMW 820 Elliott C Swatton
WMW 821 Rachel Phillips
WMW 822 Phil O'Flaherty
WMW 823 Brett Lucas
WMW 824 Beverley Drain
WMW 825 Stephen Harrison
WMW 826 Tariq Khan
WMW 827 Christine Daniels
WMW 828 Ben
WMW 829
WMW 830 James Gribble
WMW 831 Tim
WMW 832 Roger Tedder
WMW 833 Mike
WMW 834 John Hail
WMW 835 Annabel Mansell
WMW 836
WMW 837 Shane Enright
WMW 838 Alan Guest
WMW 839 Tim Hunt
WMW 840 Andy Lockett
WMW 841 Jill Davies
WMW 842
WMW 843 Chris Gilchrist
WMW 844 Kate Middleton
WMW 845
WMW 846
WMW 847
WMW 848
WMW 849 Anne Clark
WMW 850 Hershema
WMW 851 Carol
WMW 852 Konrad Bishop
WMW 853 Michael Casey
WMW 854 David Gethin
WMW 855 Nisha Natalia
WMW 856 Onkar Singh
WMW 857 Raymond Corder
WMW 858 Sibhan O'Shea
WMW 859 Mark
WMW 860 Richard Stephens
WMW 861 David
WMW 862 -- M.I.A --
WMW 863 Joseph Cohen
WMW 864 Karen Wainwright
WMW 865 Michael Reeve
WMW 866 Elizabeth Blackburn
WMW 867 Sarah Scott
WMW 868 Ben Carpenter
WMW 869 Deryl Walsh
WMW 870 Annette Patricia
WMW 871 Jamie Harvey
WMW 872
WMW 873 Atsushiro Noguchi
WMW 874 Colin Johnston
WMW 875
WMW 876
WMW 877 Alexandra Kessie
WMW 878
WMW 879
WMW 880 Janine Goldblatt
WMW 881 Sulesh
WMW 882 Matt Frye
WMW 883 Rachel Phillips
WMW 884 Poushali Ganguli
WMW 885 James Sciberras
WMW 886 Maria Goodall
WMW 887 Joyce
WMW 888 Mike Stickland
WMW 889 Paul Blakemore
WMW 890 Tao Yang
WMW 891
WMW 892 Aubrey James
WMW 893
WMW 894
WMW 895 Carlos Torres
WMW 896 Neil Prior
WMW 897 Alex Moreau
WMW 898 Isabel (Issi) Twail
WMW 899 Mike McCoy
WMW 900 David Moore
WMW 901
WMW 902
WMW 903
WMW 904
WMW 905
WMW 906
WMW 907
WMW 908
WMW 909 Jennifer Gaye Emerson
WMW 910
WMW 911 Sally Manderson
WMW 912
WMW 913 Jim Costello
WMW 914
WMW 915 Christopher Lee
WMW 916 Tim Baros
WMW 917
WMW 918
WMW 919
WMW 920
WMW 921
WMW 922
WMW 923
WMW 924
  • See Anonymous in Forgers and Smelters section

Kent

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  • Cooke, Declan[89][90] WMW 957. 50 in Kent.
  • See Offord, Olly in Soldiers section
  • Risley, David[90][91] WMW 952
  • Willars, Dean[90]
  • Anonymous[92] In the same county as Declan Cooke

Lancashire

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Unspecified county

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  • See Arestis, Stefan in Forgers and Smelters section
  • Badal, Jimmy[93]
  • Bain, Alasdair[94][95]
  • Bell, Martin[96] Peasant 783
  • Cox, Daniel[97]
  • Duncan, Fiona[98] A weaver
  • See Goodrick-Clarke, Peter in Forgers and Smelters section
  • Hameed, Muj[99]
  • Jackson, Annette[100] From Wapping, London; female.
  • Locke, Christopher Two YouTube films/stills by him, uploaded by Simon March: WMWs in his group 231-376 that I can see; 'The Beam Team'. Locke is from the Falkland Islands, commuted 4 times from there to rehearsals.[101]
  • See Lovejoy, Jeffery in Forgers and Smelters section
  • See MacMorland, Matthew in Soldiers section
  • See O'Neale, David in Forgers and Smelters section
  • Scott, Vanessa[81]
  • Shafi, Mohammed[102]
  • Shannon, Colin[103][104] WMW 253. Possibly a miner?
  • Smallman, Etan[105]
  • Smith, Neil[106][107]
  • Thomas, David[108][109]
  • Winchester, Deb[110]
  • Youngs, John[111]
  • (surname not given), Chris[112] "In my little group there were people from Mexico, Taiwan, New Zealand, Trinidad, Jamaica and South Africa. The Brits among us were also travelling long distances to be there; one was coming from Liverpool and paying the train fares and hotel costs from his own pocket just to be a part of it. My little group contained a travel agent, an accountant, someone who works for the government on environmental issues, an ex-Royal Air Force pilot, a glass artist, a fraud investigator and an immigration officer. And what a terrific group of people they are. I will miss them all."

Warriors

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Pink bibs with CRW. Nicknamed 'Warriors', (also known as miners) some 200 men brought in at a later date to help with heavy turf and structures, who came out of the Tor.[86][113]

  • Archer, Alan[114] A warrior, "We met Danny Boyle who was the director of the show, and he introduced us to Vicki Igbokwe (mass cast coordinator) and Carla Trim-Vamben (mass cast assistant), who were going to be working with my group containing 200 people."
  • Baros, Tim[115][116][117] A miner. WMW 917.
  • Carandang, Benedict[118][119][50][120] A "warrior"; miner. 200 coal miners; came out of the Tor; numbers in low 100s (111-129 visible, pink bibs).
  • Creswell, Nicholas[121][113] A "warrior", one of 200, in group A2. (pink bib 001-200ish) Came up through the Tor
  • Dean, Charles[122] A miner.
  • Robertson, Stephen[81] "a "warrior" - one of 200 labourers scuttling out of the mocked-up Glastonbury Tor".
  • Walmsley, Thomas[123] "We were in the group of men who came out of the hill and pulled up the grass and made it into the industrial revolution wasteland."

Forgers and smelters

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The smelters had the wooden 'hoes' for scraping the impurities off the top of the steel as it flowed along the channel; the forgers were those with hoods, goggles and a sledgehammer who surrounded the ring channel and stood under the pyrotechnics.

  • Arestis, Stefan[124] A forger. Moved some turf (ie was also a WMW), before changing costume and becoming one of 25 forgers; stood under the central ring as it rained fireworks.
  • Goodrick-Clarke, Peter[125] A smelter, also earlier a WMW
  • Holmes, Alex[126][127] A forger. 'I had to go to the centre to forge the Olympic rings as pyrotechnics exploded all round us. It was pretty cool (although obviously quite hot): we had to wear fireproof overalls and leather face masks ... You will always remember being there in the middle and hearing the applause – not being an individual, but just being part of it.'Forger', Alex Holmes, 24 ... I'm part of the industrial revolution section and about 15 minutes am one of the forges making the rings as this amazing pyrotechnic display goes on above our heads. The best bit is that Danny Boyle has told us that this is going to be the image that people will see beamed around the world, the one they will remember." Heading wrongly states the words are by "Forger" Matthew Copeland, accountant, from Bognor Regis.
  • Lovejoy, Jeffery[128] A smelter. Also a 'worker in the farming segment' ie a WMW (Dirty face make-up means he can't have been a Green and Pleasant Land villager fast-changeing to a smelter)
  • O'Neale, David[129][130]. A smelter. Moved some turf (ie was also a WMW).

Soldiers

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  • Offord, Olly[90][131][132] A WMW in Kent. "I got to stand beneath the Olympic rings as they were forged together" is rather ambiguous - might suggest he was a forger too, but that would mean two costume changes on stage - no-one else had three parts. Website links to further information don't work.
  • MacMorland, Matthew[133] A WMW, then a soldier.
  • Anonymous[134] A WMW in County Jersey, then a soldier, one of 22. Parts 2 and 3, 'Rehearsal' and 'The Big Night' marked as 'coming soon' on website.

Suffragettes

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Grey bibs with SUF. 50 of them. Led by:

Others in the track parade

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Windrush / Nostalgia Steel Band / Carnival / Jarrow March / Pearly Kings and Queens / Chelsea Pensioners / Sergeant Peppers / newspaper boys / Grimethorpe Colliery Band etc.  ???colour bibs with NEW for the Newspaper boys, ??? colour bibs with HIS for others.

  • Eliot, Henry[141] Sergeant Pepper Beatle
  • Hryciw, Matt[142] Jarrow marcher
  • Poulter, Kevin[143] Sergeant Pepper Beatles: John Lennon
  • Rostant, André[144] Steel band player with the Windrush
  • Watt, Chris[123] Sergeant Pepper Beatles: John Lennon (one of the nine John Lennons).
  • (surname not given), Peter[145] Porter in the Windrush section

Creative team and technical crew

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  • Danny Boyle Gave no interviews after the ceremony; apart from a talk at Liverpool Hope University that he and Frank Cottrell Boyce gave on 10 October (uploaded on to YouTube in early March 2013),[146] the first anyone heard his thoughts about it were when the BBC DVDs with his and Frank Cottrell Boyce's commentary track came out on 29 October 2012.[147] Then more radio silence (he was working on post-production on Trance) until his interview on Front Row (BBC Radio 4) with Mark Lawson on 10 December 2012.[148] First major print interviews were in the Daily Mail on 3 March 2013[149] and The Guardian on 9 March 2013,[150] both because of promotional duties for Trance. Also gave an interview to London schoolkids, uploaded on BBC website on 11 March 2013.[151]
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce[152][153] Video interview (Olympics from 11:20); collaborative effort: "I am the writer on the Olympic opening ceremony, I wasn't the writer of the Olympic opening ceremony."[154] 10 October 2012 talk by FCB and Danny Boyle at Liverpool Hope University.[146]

Choreography

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  • Toby Sedgwick Interview before the ceremony, so not too many details:[155] Brief interview after.[19]
  • Steve Boyd Head of Mass Movement Choreography[156] Website has videos of rehearsals etc

Mass Leaders

  • Nathan Wright
  • Nikki Woollaston female stage manager giving main IEM (in ear monitor) instructions to the WMW, as heard on the click track.[156][91]
  • Rocky Smith
  • Gina Martinez
  • Soha Frem
  • Bryn Walters

Mass Coordinators

  • Ben Clare
  • Laura Gill
  • Vickie Igbokwe
  • Jeanefer Jean-Charles
  • Tash Khamjani
  • Katie Pearson
  • Barbarana Pons
  • Wendy Steatham

Mass Assistants

  • Edwina Allen
  • Taylor Anthony
  • Polly Bennett
  • Rachelle Conroy
  • Mez Howard
  • Sean Mulligan
  • Brenda Newhouse
  • Darragh O’Leary
  • Joseph Pitcher
  • Richard Pitt
  • Simone Sault
  • Carla Trim-Vamben
  • Claira Vaughan
  • Jayde Westaby

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