Entertainment For Lively Minds
Bucharest calling!
Had an hour to kill last night before the programme last night on BBC2 reconstructing the face, life and times of a syphilitic, teenage prostitute in Victorian London (good value for licencepayers money) so I flicked over to BBC3 to watch the second semi-final of Eurovision.
Amidst the dross, much of which will have been eliminated in advance of Saturdays final, was this, the Romanian entry. It's got everything - a catchy tune, a spark between the artistes (one of whom is a Dave Gahan lookylikey and the other a catwoman copyist - I'll leave you to decide which is which) plus pyrotechnics. OK, it sounds a bit like Keane with the pianos but it's got a top C as well...
Why can't we come up with something this damned entertaining.
Will anyone else be watching on Saturday....having started listening to a lot of Balkan brass over the last few months I'll be glued, but Romania will get my vote.
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No way is anyone other than Germany winning tomorrow night
It's the only one that on first listen actually sounds like a genuine hit record to these ears, but I've been wrong before...
The chorus of the Romanian song is great, but they seem to have lost the rest of the song en route to the leather outfitters.
Strangely I'm finding myself really looking forward to the contest tomorrow, there really is nothing else like it...
Last night, Sweden failed to qualify for Saturday's final
The Swedes take these things very seriously. The whole country is in a state of shock. It's a national disaster comparable to Gustavus Adolphus perishing at the Battle of Lützen in 1632. Probably.
If you cannot wait
May I head you over to my Alternative Eurovision playlist.
Updated since last year, featuring the alternative Irish entry I Believe I Can Fly by The Bachelors and the alternative German entry Eine Kliene Trinkmusik by Hayseed Dixie.
http://open.spotify.com/user/scenehitter/playlist/3Ru60IuoToO9lIdWvI3izG
Sad to see several countries cannot afford to take part this year, too afraid to enter in case they win and have to bankrupt their TV stations by staging the competition next year. No fears for Greece as they made a profit through sponsorship when they last staged Eurovision in 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10172319.stm
Surely
it's all bollocks isn't it?
That's the whole point
and don't call me Shirley.