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The Olsen Brothers cast their Wings over Eurovision with a great covers album.

Yes there’s a key change, yes they cover Abba, but there’s a lot to commend The Olsen Brother’s tribute to some of the great songs of Eurovision. There was something cuddly and ‘traditional’ to The Olsen Brothers, and that’s true now in the album, released during the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark and then across Europe in the weeks after. It takes a bundle of memorable Eurovision songs (not always the winners) and mashes them up to such a degree that there’s more of The Olsen Brothers in these songs than the original artists. Which is what you need

The Next Web meets Eurovision

Many years ago, Terry Wogan was forced to make the only official apology he ever made for a Eurovision commentary line. 2001, in Denmark, he referred to the hosts as “Dr Death and the Tooth Fairy.” Fair play to him though, it was the most accurate observation he had made in years. And when I saw the pictures from this morning’s sessions at The Next Web’s Amsterdam conference, with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Hermione Way on stage, I thought I recognised that look. So did Jon Jacobs on Twitter. That’s when it hit me. I’m away to lie down