Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Just like that, the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 inches ever closer. Switzerland confirm the format and the dates for their National Final (February 1st 2014, Kreuzlingen), and I grab the usual hotel through Booking.com and get the flights lined up. (…and if this had said ‘Football club gets draw announced for European game, I’ve bought tickets’, it would be socially acceptable).
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), the Finnish National Final to select their song for the Eurovision Song Contest will be held at Espoo’s Barona-Areena on Saturday 9th February. Nice to see the city isn’t going downmarket after a rather torrid twelve months.
I’m still at a loss to explain away the final decision on Your Country Needs You, the United Kingdom’s national final to decide the act we shall be sending to Moscow and the Eurovision Song Contest in May. The public vote places two contestants in “The Danger Zone” (with not a shot of Kenny Loggins in site – have we finally found someone too cheesy for Eurovision in the Log-meister?), and Andrew Lloyd Webber decides which one to take through to next week, and which one to send away with just their BFH. Damian and Charlotte were up this week.
My thoughts on the second episode of the BBC’s series of National Finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, Your Country Needs You. This will be the first show where we really see the contestants – after last week’s almost documentary like view of the initial auditions and selections, tonight we’ll be seeing them all sing love. For one act, the end of tonight will see them going home with BFH – their Bus Fare Home. 1950: And there we go. The BBC tend not to release full votes, but they’ll now know how close the voting is between all six
Right, I’m not sure how I feel on this one… this one being Graham Norton confirmed as the new commentator for the BBC’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, replacing Terry Wogan. This isn’t the first time the commentator has changed – before Wogan the mighty Dave Lee Travis was the voice from the contest to the people of the UK – but after 35 years in the seat, Wogan was regarded as the man, much as Murray Walker was for Formula 1 coverage in the UK. And like Walker, perhaps people were a bit more forgiving of Wogan in
