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Originally Posted by Takk

I don't see why. Nicky LOVES sport. The olympics is hardly a royal event or anything.

BUT TEH QUEENZ R THER!!!!!

I'm personally not arsed about them doing it. I'm not sure I'd get anything out of one of my favourite bands playing a rushed A Design for Life in a boring sports event, and I'm quite sure they wouldn't really get anything out of it either (commercially or otherwise). The whole anti-royalist angle for it is a bit over the top but eh, whatevz.

P.S. how is TIMTTMY supposed to be a commercially-angled album again? Its lead single was hardly your typical radio rock anthem, its proposed original lead single was a spacey ballad kind of thing, half the album is spent depressed in extended soundscapes and moody subtlety, etc. Not saying it's some sort of weird anti-commercial experimental bizarre thing but a few select moments aside it's hardly an album of radio highlights.