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Review 1 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

Fun at the O2

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 13 Mar 2010 @

Favourite moment: Dancing. @

Posted 14/03/2010

by SwinginLittleGuitarMan

Lots of fun. Interactives really great. Gibson studio was good, though some of the drums were not working. Great dancing - very funny. Great finale.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 13 Mar 2010 @

Favourite moment: Dancing. @

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Review 2 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

Fab and groovy

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 6 Mar 2010 @

Posted 07/03/2010

by TessieB

I wasnt sure what to expect but actually had agreat time...the shame was that there were a lot of very young children there who were monopolising things that moved..us.just becasue they moved.....not becasue they had any idea about what they were seeing or doing...they were toys to them which took away from the experience of many of the adults. Also the areas which were interactive were also monopolised in the same way. That aside it was fascinating! It would be good if there was somewhere to get a drink and then go back to the experience. Not sure really what the point of the smart tickets were....didnt really get much out of it as there wasnt really enough explanation. Fantastic use made of a small space

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

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- Sat 6 Mar 2010 @

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Review 3 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

SuperTed material! ;)

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Fri 5 Mar 2010 @

Posted 06/03/2010

by MrFlannery

Nice to get an insight in to the work of some of the top producers in the game.
Friendly atmosphere. Well worth the money and the trip!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

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- Fri 5 Mar 2010 @

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Review 4 for British Music Experience

5 / 5

british music experience

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Wed 3 Mar 2010 @

Favourite moment: videoing myself line dancing @

Posted 06/03/2010

by babsal

Location: yarm ,teesside

My husband and I had a fun filled couple of hours,listening to all the music and using the interactive displays .We also enjoyed seeing the original costumes that were worn by the artists

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Wed 3 Mar 2010 @

Favourite moment: videoing myself line dancing @

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Review 5 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

oasis

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 27 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: old televisions @

Posted 02/03/2010

by DjDave

Location: torino

oasis and the 90's Indie area, the old televions area, the brett anderson Jacket and the simulation of a live concert

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 27 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: old televisions @

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Review 6 for British Music Experience

5 / 5

British Music Experience

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Thu 18 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Seeing handwritten lyrics to classic songs eg White Room (me) and Gibson room (kids) @

Posted 21/02/2010

by JBTD

Location: South Coast

A fabulous interactive exhibition which held our interest for nearly 4 hours! Great memorabilia and interactive heaven for the kids. We were blown away by Brian May's hand made guitar and the Gibson room. Would recommend it to anyone interested in music. Probably not great for very tiny people, but for my 13 and 10 guitar-mad-year- olds and me it was money brilliantly spent.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Thu 18 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Seeing handwritten lyrics to classic songs eg White Room (me) and Gibson room (kids) @

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Review 7 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

BME Great family day out

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Fri 19 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Kids on the dance stage @

Posted 21/02/2010

by spabela

Location: Essex

Well they said allow a couple of hours. Four hours later we left...

It was a great day out, enough history and information to keep us happy, but loads to interest the kids, interactive exhibits and of course the dancing and studio sessions, which are great to watch a home on your own PC.

The displays are vibrant enough to interest everyone (kids aged 7 & 10), but have enough information to satisfy a more detailed curiosity. the rooms could have done with a few more sets of headphones so that we could all have listened to the information at the same time, and already the swipe pads were broken in some areas meaning we couldn't book mark the information we would have liked.

Despite all that the day was never dull, and we enjoyed all the areas on offer. The kids really enjoyed their drumming tuition, which is also available to liste to online at home, although the wait for that was a little long.

the O2 is great anyway, so we had a nice coffee beforehand and a meal afterwards all in the comfort of Entertainment Avenue.

i also felt that the 1945 - 1962 area was far too brief, and far too much time was given over to the Beatles - and yes I do realise how influential they were to British Music!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Fri 19 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Kids on the dance stage @

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Review 8 for British Music Experience

3 / 5

Smaller than expected

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Wed 17 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Seeing Ian Anderson's original lyrics, guitar & flute from Locomotive Breath @

Posted 18/02/2010

by mivens

Location: Swindon

Spent a couple of hours in total. The whole exhibition is rather smaller than my impression from the website & ticket price.
Some observations...
Each age group will have their own period of music history that's of most interest & may give little or no attention to the others so this will reduce the overall time spent at the event.
The hands-on activies are a great idea & we (took my 2 sons) spent most time there. Some problems however - headphones missing , drum triggers not working & guitars with electrical faults.
Suggestions: Separate eqipment for those visitors who want to use their smart tickets & follow the program from those (like small children) who just want to have fun. Need to find a way to make sure guitars are in tune for each player wanting to learn & record their session - a lot of 'messing with the knobs' was going on & some may have been put off by this. One of my sons is a drummer & he's left-handed - no kit setup for lefties so he couldn't play.
The session recorded using smart tickets was available online the same night & sound was very good (mix between drums & backing track just right).
I'm pleased we went, but it was a long way for a relatively small event. Perhaps my expectations were too high.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Wed 17 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Seeing Ian Anderson's original lyrics, guitar & flute from Locomotive Breath @

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Review 9 for British Music Experience

2 / 5

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Tue 16 Feb 2010 @

Posted 17/02/2010

by Anonymous

Location: Lincolnshire

Thought it was expensive for what was there.
Disappointed at how small it was!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Tue 16 Feb 2010 @

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Review 10 for British Music Experience

2 / 5

High Tech, Low Content

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sun 14 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Leaving to go and eat and then enjoy the real thing, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. @

Posted 16/02/2010

by Tankertonian

Location: Whitstable, Kent, UK

I was very disappointed after all the hype. I found the very low level lighting uncomfortable and some of the high tech gadgets employed in obtaining information unreliable and frustrating. I suspect 20-something geeks may find it all fascinating but frankly I suspected it may be a clever cover to disguise the fact that the content of the exhibition was pretty poor.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sun 14 Feb 2010 @

Favourite moment: Leaving to go and eat and then enjoy the real thing, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. @

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Review 11 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

BME

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sun 7 Feb 2010 @

Posted 11/02/2010

by Puttmans

Really good summary of the music scene in Britain (and exports/imports etc) from the war to current date. Took my son (13) who thoroughly enjoyed it, maybe opened up some different avenues of music to him.

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- Sun 7 Feb 2010 @

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Review 12 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

British music experience

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 30 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: Watching them play the guitars and the youngest on Rockband @

Posted 01/02/2010

by ddhouse

Location: Kent

Any age who enjoy music would enjoy this great value day out. I have 2 boys 11 and 15 and they really enjoyed playing the drums guitars singing in the sound booth, dad enjoyed it aswell and being abale to record it for later. The dance floor wasn`t open unitl we was ready to leave and there was a few waiting so we didn`t get to do that. The download ticket is really good although the area we wanted wasn`t downloading at all. (Sex pistols, and all that) Overall a good time easy to park, places to eat and happy smiles.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 30 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: Watching them play the guitars and the youngest on Rockband @

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Review 13 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 30 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: Dancing to Madness! @

Posted 01/02/2010

by Anonymous

Location: London

It was a bit confusing at first and we weren't sure where to start or how to go about exploring the whole thing, but after a few minutes orientation we had a fab time. The interactive bits were great fun and dancing to Madness just hilarious, especially watching the video. My musical geek other half could have spent all day reading and listening to all the facts and will probably go back again.
Well worth it but spend the whole day there if you can!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 30 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: Dancing to Madness! @

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Review 14 for British Music Experience

5 / 5

British Music Experience...well worth it!!!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sun 24 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: Rocking along to ACDC, Black Sabbath et all, cranking the volume up to '11' and mini heading banging with my Dad. Priceless!!! @

Posted 25/01/2010

by Hibster

Location: Dans le sud d'Angleterre

What an experience...arrived at the O2 (1st time) which was impressive and then spent the next couple of hours going through the decades of popular music and iconic musicians, using a number of different interactive displays with headphones to listen to voice overs for a huge array of music memorabilia.
The best bit was following a brief lesson to learn to play three cords on the electric guitar, before playing along to a Magic Numbers song...top marks, even if I did play the completely wrong cords and more than likely ruined a great song from a great band...rock on!!! And I get to download this embarrassment as part of this experience...youTube here I come!!!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sun 24 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: Rocking along to ACDC, Black Sabbath et all, cranking the volume up to '11' and mini heading banging with my Dad. Priceless!!! @

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Review 15 for British Music Experience

2 / 5

Could be better....

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 9 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: the dancing lessons! @

Posted 10/01/2010

by tooscared2Bateacher

It was expecting great things form the BME. An innovative Smart Ticket that lets you take items away with you and look at them on your PC at a later date? Marvellous! All the innovative technology is only amazing if it works! We were there for 3 hours and in this time, the Smart Ticket only worked for about 15 mins. It was much smaller than I expected and it's size meant there was only snippets of information or memorabilia. Also - no opportunity to play any instruments - I think they'd shut the door to that bit...British music should be widely celebrated and an exhibition like this is important - just make sure that it's working properly before you go!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Sat 9 Jan 2010 @

Favourite moment: the dancing lessons! @

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Review 16 for British Music Experience

5 / 5

Brilliant. Recommended

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Mon 28 Dec 2009 @

Posted 02/01/2010

by asdsadsd

I thought it was great fun. We were in there for 4 odd hours and we still didn't get round all of it. We ran out of time in the end. Plenty to do!

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Mon 28 Dec 2009 @

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Review 17 for British Music Experience

3 / 5

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The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Wed 30 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: Dance studio where this old lady could DISCO! and boy was I good! @

Posted 01/01/2010

by Englishlee

Location: North London

Fun, but a little disappointing as so many of the exhibits were not working. There are no signs telling you not to use your camera. We used ours once and immediately got chewed out royally by a very young assistant. He didn't believe me when I told him that we had not been told not to use it. Don't take a camera! The dance video is fun but if you have on dark clothes, the only thing seen is your head. In the vocal studio, the song is sung to you in your headphones, but when you play it back, you hear both yourself and the original music. That makes the whole singing experience redundant. Also, each item is saved only once, so if you do it more than once, it isn't saved. The final event as you are leaving was to us a royal waste of time. I guess I am too old to enjoy the loud noise (hardly music!) and flashing lights. And the acts featured were only on for a couple of seconds each. The whole experience can be done in about three hours unless you spend a LOT of time on each exhibit that is working. Having said all that, it was an entertaining way to spend a cold dreary day in London.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Wed 30 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: Dance studio where this old lady could DISCO! and boy was I good! @

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Review 18 for British Music Experience

5 / 5

gibson guitars were great

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Mon 28 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: playing the guitars in the Gibson interactive @

Posted 29/12/2009

by mustag

Location: colchester

it was a great day out, tried everything.
definatley have to go

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Mon 28 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: playing the guitars in the Gibson interactive @

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Review 19 for British Music Experience

4 / 5

B.M.E was superb.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Tue 22 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: watching my daughters face as me and my wife RAVE DANCED IN THE POD. priceless. @

Posted 27/12/2009

by brightonboy11

Location: brighton

well for as start was a little bit unsure what to expect, but after 5 hours with 2 adults and 2 very demanding 12year old girls, i can only say what a great time we had, 5 hrs flew by, and the interactive ticket was great, weve already downloaded it at home. no one waited for more than a few minutes, most things you went straigt on.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Tue 22 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: watching my daughters face as me and my wife RAVE DANCED IN THE POD. priceless. @

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Review 20 for British Music Experience

2 / 5

Has the potential to be very good but .....

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Tue 22 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: Getting a coffee in a warm Starbucks afterwards! @

Posted 27/12/2009

by usejean

Location: West Midlands

..... we had Smart Tickets and it was not obvious where and how these could be used, instructions were vague, confusing etc. Many of the interactive activities were either difficult to use or not working. Many famous names in British Music were not included eg, Elton John, Alison Moyet or at least if they were they weren't easy to find. The shop was freezing cold and expensive do didn't spend much time or any money in there. Wouldn't go again and wouldn't recommend to anyone else.

The bubble Exhibition space at The O2 @

- London @

- Tue 22 Dec 2009 @

Favourite moment: Getting a coffee in a warm Starbucks afterwards! @

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