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I have a feeling this is going to be a long one, so I may break it up with random pictures of people with cake and explain what it’s all about later, depending on how it goes. We’ll see. Last night, though, was Eurovision, and it was one of the noisiest, campest and most eccentric contests for several years.
As tradition dictates, we all bundled around to Mark’s, bringing with us food to represent the country we’d been allocated. After two months of complaints about the Maltese entry I was perhaps justly been allocated Malta as my food country. Traditionally that means bringing Malteesers (chips for the UK, vegetarian bacon for Denmark, pizza for Lithuania, dips with 1000 island (”Ireland”) dressing for Ireland…) but bucking the trend I opted instead for Malt loaf, which gummed up everyone’s teeth within the first five minutes.
Anyhow, as the rest of the group slowly drifted in we watched the preview DVD of all the qualifying songs (including the distinctly stage-school-like Albanian entry which was clearly filmed in a church hall somewhere) and filled ourselves with sugary sickness.
Mark distributed the score sheets (above) and biros as the contest opened and we did our usual communal marking to decide who we’d be voting for at the end. On the whole we didn’t do that well. Although Mark and I liked Ukraine the best (and Mark won
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6 Responses to “Eurovision 2004”
After hearing that Ukraine had won and hearing the song for the first time (I liked it a lot) and seeing several pictures of various acts, I was looking forward to your write-up! 
I was amazed by how many countries that I would have considered “non-pop markets” did so well. I wonder why we don’t see more from them in the UK charts?
Looks like you had a lot of fun - Niall’s game sounds fab!
• Posted at 6:03 pm on May 16th, 2004 by Sean Corfield.I don’t actually know how Terry was. As usual, we turned on the TV for the pictures but turned down the sound, and switched to Radio 2, instead, where Ken Bruce does far better commentary. It also means you can listen to it louder, and in stereo, which Mark’s antique TV doesn’t do.
• Posted at 10:32 pm on May 16th, 2004 by Nik.Noooo, how can you diss Terry, the King of Eurovision. He was simply first class again.
• Posted at 10:14 am on May 17th, 2004 by kev.I am told he almost pissed himself when Iceland gave …Serbia, was it? 12 points, as we usually give the 12 points to Denmark - but then the Danish song was out, so what’s so funny? Apparently the Norwegian commentator was so pessimistic and boring and hating us Icelanders for not giving them any point, that my contact in Norway switched him off. Our commentator had his bright moments, despite being a staunch conservative…
• Posted at 11:23 am on May 17th, 2004 by Krist.H
• Posted at 5:59 pm on September 8th, 2004 by Suzette.
And how was uncle Wogan? Terrible? (excuse the pun)
• Posted at 3:20 pm on May 16th, 2004 by Krist.