It's song contest time and unlike marmite, we actually love it and hate it at the same time. We love getting a glimpse of our partners in Europe and their concept of what a popular song actually is. In some cases there are countries ha I have scored of my list of " would like to visit" based solely on their choice of song alone. Big clue, if it looks like it would be popular in CCCP in 1960 don't apply for the travel visa.
We hate the voting, realising that yet again our song does not have the zest of Lulu, Petula Clarke, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Bucks Fizz or Katrina and the Waves. (Katrina, isn't she American....) Then again Celine Dion the Canadian Chanteuse did sing for Switzerland....
Terry Wogan would go apoplectic at the voting when the Balkan or Scandy-wedgie countries would give Douze points for eachother. It definitely wasn't like that in any of the major conflicts in Europe over the last thousand years. Most of them have been sending tanks and soldiers over the border to try to reclaim territory but as soon as it's Eurovision they forget all that and send them Douze points instead.
Mind you, does anyone want to win Eurovision? Ireland certainly don't the fact that they won it and then retained it 30 odd years ago nearly bankrupted em.....maybe that's why they sent Jedward for two consecutive years....they didn't need a bigger Euro bailout. Assume that this year Greece will be trying to avoid victory.
Go Bonnie!
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