Lonely-heart Maltese techie vs Bonnie Tyler for Eurovision crown A hopelessly sweet song about a ruthlessly organised techie who gets the girl will fight with the ballad from rock vixen Bonnie Tyler and 24 other acts to lift the Eurovision Song Contest crown Saturday night. Gianluca Bezzina will represent not just his home land of Malta but carry the misty eyed wishes of girl-shy geeks …
If we just ignore the block-voting for a moment... for years the UK treated Eurovision as amateur night, while some other countries took it really quite seriously and entered some of their top acts. The key to KATW's win was that whilst they may have been largely forgotten here (with the exception of *that* song continuing to pop up everywhere from national TV adverts to amateur panto) they continued to do quite nicely over there in Forrinland and were still headlining quite big festivals through the nineties. So they were already known and liked by the target.
Tyler has a similar pedigree, with hit singles as recently as 2004 (sez Wikipedia).
FWIW I have fondled the actual 1997 Eurovision trophy. It is the ugliest piece of glasswork you have ever seen, but it does come in a very nice wooden box.
"for years the UK treated Eurovision as amateur night".
I agree, but we're still not taking it seriously. Replacing amateurs with pensioners is not going to win us anything.
Other countries that don't care (e.g. France, Spain, Germany, Ireland) frequently come up with something quirky or fun or outrageous.
Our entries are merely boring.
"It's 16 years since Britain's last Eurovision win with Katrina and the Waves in 1997 and 16 years before that that Cheryl Baker and Jay Ashton opened El Tell's eyes by having their skirts whipped off on stage at The Hague. Statistically speaking, this should be our year."
There's a possibility that the U.K. may win this year or next -- though if they are the usual shite then it may take a bit longer.
I think you meant to say "Among those battling to get nil points are ..."".
There aren't many countries left in Europe that can afford to host that particular financial albatross. I keep waiting for Ireland to submit "My Lovely Horse". Last year they got pretty close.
Do people still do the Eurovision Song Contest thing? Why? Even in my day it was simply a way to get an otherwise established act to sing the worst song ever recorded in <insert language>, then line 'em up so we could all have a good laugh.
Power to all my friends, to the music that never ends! (No matter how much you beg).
If they were going to get an 'old timer' proper singer to represent us, they should have picked this lot.
http://www.blacksabbath.com/
That would have been a Eurovision show worth watching.
We should go back to taking the piss next year by having Mr Blobby represent us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h37KQu64RY4
In Eurovision terms that'd be a sure fire winner
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