Sunday, May 22, 2005
Douze points for...... Greece!!
Yes, it's that time of year again - Eurovision! And how bizarre to miss out on Terry's commentary. We saw the last few songs and then stayed up for the voting - rather tedious as we'd not realised that so many countries were now voting - I presume about half having had their songs knocked out in the semi-finals (thank god for small mercies - otherwise Eurovision might have to extend to a whole week!!!). At one point we started making our own Terry commentary up, trying to work out what he'd think about the bizarre Norwegian entry (French commentators made some remarks about the lead singer being a Freddy Mercury look-a-like, but there were hints of Alice Cooper there too!), or the two boys from Norway (I think) singing a lovely ballad and then abandoning their guitars half way through! In actual fact, I think the French commentators had been taking a few lessons from Terry, as their sense of humour and general view of the contest was much the same as ours, and comments over political voting were fairly sarcastic. Or perhaps the fact that the French song got about as many votes as the British entry meant that our "entente cordiale" extends to a healthy cinicism towards what many countries bizarrly see as a fantastic insititution!!
Oh well, Congratulations to Greece on an admirably traditional eurovision winning entry, and whoever wrote Cheryl Baker's script, please fire him before next year's competition!!
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Yes, it's that time of year again - Eurovision! And how bizarre to miss out on Terry's commentary. We saw the last few songs and then stayed up for the voting - rather tedious as we'd not realised that so many countries were now voting - I presume about half having had their songs knocked out in the semi-finals (thank god for small mercies - otherwise Eurovision might have to extend to a whole week!!!). At one point we started making our own Terry commentary up, trying to work out what he'd think about the bizarre Norwegian entry (French commentators made some remarks about the lead singer being a Freddy Mercury look-a-like, but there were hints of Alice Cooper there too!), or the two boys from Norway (I think) singing a lovely ballad and then abandoning their guitars half way through! In actual fact, I think the French commentators had been taking a few lessons from Terry, as their sense of humour and general view of the contest was much the same as ours, and comments over political voting were fairly sarcastic. Or perhaps the fact that the French song got about as many votes as the British entry meant that our "entente cordiale" extends to a healthy cinicism towards what many countries bizarrly see as a fantastic insititution!!
Oh well, Congratulations to Greece on an admirably traditional eurovision winning entry, and whoever wrote Cheryl Baker's script, please fire him before next year's competition!!
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