'Everybody likes Chumbawamba, but when it gets to the end of the Sevens and it gets dark my favourite musical moment has to be the operatic strains of Andrea Bocelli singing Con te Partiro. Yes, I know some people associate it with Will Ferrell in Step Brothers, but if you're Irish like me, it's a total disaster by then. It's hard not to feel really emotional and the fireworks are exploding all over the sky and you stand there in that really amazing spot in Hong Kong after the prize giving. The Sevens is like a rock festival with a bit of rugby thrown in, but when they play Bocelli after the final, you say to yourself, 'Hong Kong does these things so well, there's nowhere else I want to be right now'.'
Jamie McWilliam,
Head of Structured Liabilities,
Societe Generale.
'In the 20-odd Hong Kong Sevens I've been to, the musical highlight must be the birth of DJ Otzi's Hey Baby as a Sevens sound and it has to be credited to the South African and the Fijian supporters a few years back. The South Africans sitting in the east part of the north stand started belting out with bongos 'Hey ... heyya baby - oooh aaah'. It got louder and louder. So the Fiji crowd in the west part of the north stand started singing it back at them. Then all of a sudden, it was unbelievable, the entire east and west stands started singing it back and forth to each other. And at that moment you had to feel sorry for the 14 poor souls on the pitch who'd flown halfway around the world and were enjoying what was probably the highlight of their rugby careers. And here they are competing with 40,000 people by now are singing their hearts out: 'Ooh ahh, I wannna knnooowwwww, if you'll be my girl'.'
Marty Kaye,
CEO, Millennium Group