{"id":2581,"date":"2009-11-20T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/the-watchers-guide-to-junior-eurovision-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:36:49","slug":"the-watchers-guide-to-junior-eurovision-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/the-watchers-guide-to-junior-eurovision-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watchers Guide to Junior Eurovision 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t noticed, this week has (partly) been building up to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (the rest of the time I\u2019ve been building a pocket supercomputer the size of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0006490344?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=allnewewansmu-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0006490344\">Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=allnewewansmu-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0006490344\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> \u2026 honestly). A quick recap on the week\u2019s articles\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/its-eurovision-week-in-a-junior-sort-of-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Junior Eurovision<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/so-whats-different-in-junior-eurovision-or-why-nobody-ever-scores-nul-points\/\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s different about Junior Eurovision<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/download-your-junior-eurovision-scorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to watch Junior Eurovision this weekend no matter where you are in the world<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/download-your-junior-eurovision-scorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download your JESC Scorecard<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow of course is the competition, and I\u2019ll have one more article \u2013 a quick guide to all the songs \u2013 tomorrow. But for now, what do I think are going to be the highlights of the two and a quarter hour long show?<\/p>\n<h2>The Little Prince from Russia<\/h2>\n<p>After an opening song that could easily represent Sweden in the full contest, it\u2019s time to get the full power of Junior Eurovision with twelve year old Ekaterina Ryabova and a little game of hide and seek.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:0f87afdf-c397-4182-a079-925e83b66a7f\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: block; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; width: 425px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VjlwgA6kH5c&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<h2>Roy Castle Lives!<\/h2>\n<p>Honestly this song could sit at the bottom of the scoring table all night, or be a real Record Breaker (\u2026sorry). It\u2019s a definite Jazz hands number and if he was American a guest spot on Glee would be beckoning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:cb37e2ac-01cb-4623-9c1d-2a2ffdd0ce4b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: block; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; width: 425px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3EMJcbf1ofk&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<h2>The Yodelling Belgian<\/h2>\n<p>This song will delight the UK audience watching on the live stream because it\u2019s the perfect Eurovision song\u2026 if it was 1975. How this is going to work over Europe will be interesting \u2013 can we live with a yodelling chorus and a singer who can switch form that to regular swinging at the drop of a hat?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:6fa277aa-b0d0-459b-bdf2-7af369714c66\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: block; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; width: 425px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/su7Jg-e9r-4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<h2>Ani Lorak in the middle<\/h2>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Shady Lady, who came second in the regular Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 is the Interval act. Riverdance this isn\u2019t and I suspect the show will be toned down just a little bit for the audience, but expect fireworks and high energy no matter what.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:229745a2-9206-4bd7-b394-27ed426a3fd6\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: block; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; width: 425px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P8FbpoSLk2E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<h2>The Scoring and Green Room<\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s be honest here, it\u2019s unlikely there\u2019s going to be any hidden emotion on the faces of the children as the votes come in. With the green room actually a seated section on the stage, there\u2019s every opportunity to capture the highs and lows as \u201c\u2019ello Kiev, here are the votes of the Belgian jury\u2026\u201d rings out through the auditorium. Every country gets twelve points just for qualifying so there\u2019s no nul points, but someone\u2019s got to come last\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image84.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Green Room\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"303\" alt=\"Green Room\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#160;<em>Junior Eurovison starts at 1915 UK time (2015 CET) this Saturday. You can watch the international live stream for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junioreurovision.tv\">www.junioreurovision.tv<\/a> , and I\u2019ll be providing a Twitter commentary via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ewan\" target=\"_blank\">@ewan<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t noticed, this week has (partly) been building up to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (the rest of the time I\u2019ve been building a pocket supercomputer the size of Jonathan Livingston Seagull \u2026 honestly). A quick recap on the week\u2019s articles\u2026 Introduction to Junior Eurovision. What\u2019s different about Junior Eurovision? How to watch Junior Eurovision this weekend no matter where you are in the world. Download your JESC Scorecard. Tomorrow of course is the competition, and I\u2019ll have one more article \u2013 a quick guide to all the songs \u2013 tomorrow. But for now, what do I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[392],"tags":[287,1001,1475,280],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurovision-multimedia","tag-eurovision","tag-highlights","tag-junior-eurovision","tag-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-FD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}