So it was yet another Eurovision Song Contest failure for us Brits last night. We came in nineteenth position – out of the twenty-six finalists. I voted (in my mind only as I’m not prepared to waste my money on it) for Greece because of their high kicking dancing fiasco and also because the Greeks need a morale booster with all that economic mess they’re in. Now don’t go saying I shouldn’t have voted for the best song because no one does that in the Eurovision song contest anymore so I am justifying my actions for no other reason than blatant favouritism towards men in silly costumes. Also, I voted for Greece because the telephone operator kept rejecting my requests to vote for the Swedish meatballs.
So costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier, tedious voting procedures from exhibitionist TV presenters, Greek dancing, Swedish meatballs, a woman wearing a funeral wreath riding an imaginary bike, cheesy small talk and strained smiling akin to having a poker up the backside and Graham Norton giving a running commentary.
And GB got more points than France and Germany.
Actually, I call that a successful night’s entertainment. Roll on next year!
Here’s Denmark and the winning entry Only Teardrops by Emmelie De Forest.
