Last night Natalie and I hosted a modest Eurovision Song Contest party.
Natalie had never seen the event before, while I have watched a few of the contests in recent years.
Amongst our five guests, a couple had seen it and we had a Eurovision expert in our midst.
After watching two hours of performers strutting their often questionable talent on stage it was our chance to vote. And vote I did, as did a few of our guests. But sadly my favourite, a troupe from Bosnia-Herzegovina doing their best to revive the style and substance of Abba, did not get up.
Instead, the winner was a lass from Greece of questionable merit. Sure, she could hold a tune, you just couldn't tell what key it was in!
But it was all fun. We joked and cheered our way through an hour and a quarter of vote counting and during the performances discussed the varied styles of the outfits (who knew the Norwegians could combine 70s glam rock with 80s and 90s styles!).
But now Eurovision is over for another year and our hopes are that the popularity of drums seen in this year's event wont be repeated next year.
Will I be buying the official double CD album? Ummm, no.
Eurovision Official site
1 comment:
I watched about ten of fifteen minutes of the first performances and then about the same of the second, but I didn't see the Greek performance. I thought that there were a couple of interesting notes hit by the ones that I did see, and was really stunned that they were so popular! What the heck is wrong with Europe that they need people that can't keep a tune? :) Bad luck about your voting. Better luck next year, maybe? :)
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