celebrate the wonder of Eurovision 2007

True winners, in my eyes, for the following reasons:

Fuchsia Jean-Paul Gaultier outfits
Madness stylin’ ska dancing
Wee animal (possibly a cat?) attached to the freaky bald man’s shoulder, because, well, why not?

And they also kept us company down at the bottom of the results table :)

If we split the UK into its constituent countries we could all agree to vote for each other. That’s an extra 36 points, and maybe we should declare Yorkshire and Cornwall separate countries for the purposes of Eurovision (another 24 points).

^{Hmmm still not enough to get to the Serbian total though}

Headapollo and I went over to Lucyann’s Eurovision party and had a cheesy old time of it with her, her brother, and a few other choice guests. She’d made scorecards and everything with the three most important criteria – music, costumes, and comic value – and fully excelled herself in the buffet department, with snacks representing many nations, some of which are making up my lunch tomorrow. The show was just as utterly cringeworthy as I suspected it would be, but that’s as it should be – Eurovision is made to be poo.

I found it really hard to cheer Scooch on with their piss-poor Euro-by-numbers innuendo-fest, and I wasn’t surprised they scored so low. I wanted Sweden to win, because of the full-on Bolan glam, and the Brian Molkoesque singer, but they scored pretty low too. I’ll be honest, all the songs blur into one a little bit once you’ve had enough wine, but I really didn’t think that the Serbian entry should have won – talk about bland blend. The political voting was, I’m sure, fascinating as ever but as I said… drink had been taken. But hooray! I had a splendid time, but I have to say that I derived far more comic value from the losers who didn’t make it through the semi final. Roll on next year when I shall pay full attention to both!

...to resurrect this goal for the Eurovision Dance Contest in the Autumn though.

eastern europe would get their eurovision act together and stop with all the ” I only vote for neighbour conutries, no matter what” voting. And start also giving some votes to obviously deseving artists, such as, (randomly chosen example) flag-flying.brits.
Still, it was a fun show! Ukraina was brilliant. I can`t get over how bad those bakckground singers from Serbia was (their acting I mean, the singing was probably fine), but otherwise I`m sure it was a dersevring song, it was about peace and all, and they were handing out little hearts in the greenroom.

I was also fascinated with the information about the guy from Belarus. The part about his mother actually wanting a girl I mean, and the girl was supposed to look like lady diana. So when she got a boy she was disappointed at first, but then she realized she had a son who looked like Lady Di, and she was all happy again. I considered voting for him just for that. ;) I didn`t though.

is a complete hero, of course, but he doesn’t understand the “tactical voting” one little bit. estonia giving russia 12 points as a “peace offering”? come on tel, it’s just the ethnic russians ringing in (about one quarter of the population), exactly the same ones who were so up in arms about the statue last week.

if i were when i am svante stockselius i will ban countries with lyrics such as “bad ass spinning”, in fact i will ban them for 10 years. that will have done with russia for a while.

and does anybody really think that germany, the netherlands, and austria enjoyed the lovey-dovey lots-of-candy-for-you crap from turkey? i think not.

clearly, we must either go back to qualified juries (heheh) or introduce my multimillion euro voting system that prevents people currently living outside their country from voting for that country.

having said that, i was glad to see the worried prison wardens win. they were also popsie’s favourite, though he did his best to watch as little as possible.

to close with terry’s quote of the night (as ireland gave the UK their first 7 points, thus shunting themselves to the very bottom of the board): “they’re after sticking their finger in their own eye!”

Hard decision. I think it`s between the UK (they should get votes for the dancing alone), Germany (although they sent someone in a white suit, Zanna, didn`t you explain this to them??), France (lots of points for pink suits and running madly around holding on to a fake mink or whatever that was) and ofcourse; Ukraine. Hmmm.

thanks to the ever-faithful BBCRadio 2, I can join in!! hooray!!!

_{quick, must practice the dance!}

The dogs have been walked, the fishpudding is served, beer and crisps are on the table, all is ready for the glorious madness of Eurovision. Woho!
Now who should I vote for….
Ukraine is a favorite, obviously. And who can resist a song with lyrics like ba-da-ba, Dyty free madam, yeah, yeah,yeah? Duty free, brilliant dancing and excellent lyrics, what`s not to like?

Serbia (what a voice!)
Germany (warm and swinging, clearly not ESC material, but definitely to my taste)
Hungary (yes, I’m a succer for good singing)
Latvia (hmmm, must say I don’t have any excuses for this one, except that I have a soft spot for men in tophats singing harmonies in Italian)
and of course Ukraine (I want those shoes!).

My guesses for winner are Greece, Bulgaria and Belarus. Hmm. And maybe Latvia (they got me didn’t they).