Eurovision

 

Not the junior contest or the dance contest but the Daddy - the Eurovision Song Contest!

This upcoming one is to be somewhere in Austria.

On Saturday the 10th May in Copenhagen, we saw a great contest with  Conchita Wurst triumphing with her song, "Rise Like a Phoenix".

Here is my take on the contest as it unfolded on Saturday 10th May.

The show started with a parade of the contestants. This might have been useful to the people in the concert hall who, no doubt, paid a great deal of money to be there but as far as the TV spectacle goes I'm not sure it helped. It is probably difficult to keep the TV audience amused for three hours or so. It might have been better to get right to the songs.

The three hosts this year were fine, pity the UK TV host thought it fun to talk over them, even if they were speaking in English.

The songs were preceded by the contestant making a flag of their country from some odd materials before appearing on stage to sing/perform their song.

From the off the songs this year were really good, I think from the whole final there were only a couple of poor songs. On first listen that is. Maybe on hearing them a few times they will grow.

The crowd seemed to enjoy them all, even with the simmering politics of Russia vs Ukraine, homophobes vs the rest, etc..

My three favourites as of the week before had been whittled down to two, Israel not getting through their semi-final.

The voting went well with douze points being spread around several countries early on. My second favourite, Spain, started to fall by the wayside.

Politics raised its head with the crowd booing when  Russia received maximum points.

It developed into a two horse race between Austria and the Netherlands.

I would have been happy if my favourite lost out to the Dutch entry but Conchita Wurst, representing Austria and singing Rise like a Phoenix, took honours.

Already countries are signing up for next year although as of now it hasn't been confirmed exactly where it will be held. The chatterers are saying either Salzburg or Vienna.

Here's hoping we will be successful in obtaining tickets for a week in May 2015 to see is next year's contest can live up to this one. It was brilliant!

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