The Latvian pirates were our major reason for getting up early this morning for a 9:30 start, and I’m not sure that they were quite worth the effort. I have taken note of the Hacksaw point of order from yesterday, and I therefore respect the possibility that they actually can carry a tune in a bucket. The weakness of the vocals, the campness of the staging, and the slightly too silliness of the whole package might not matter come Thursday Week 2. In theory.
Croatia’s a revelation. There’s more to it than we’ve seen in the past. It has everything you could wish for, including a musical instrument made almost entirely of alcohol and 75 Cent doing some 1930s-style mix-mastering in the last three seconds. Get on it each way at any odds you can find, because this is going places. Eurovisionia might very well be staying in the region!
Bulgaria have just done their first run through. It’s a fairly straightforward 90s rave anthem with corresponding strobe lighting which will certainly be bad news for the photosensitive. I know this is an issue that affects at least one of our regular readers, and I have to question why they do that in a TV show. You go to an illegal rave, you know what you’re getting, so I’m told. You stick BBC THREE on on a Thursday night and you might not. You don’t win this contest by making your viewers ill…
Ooh, I’ve just found the phone number of my apartment contact! It was tucked inside my official programme while I was looking to find out what Joanna Dragneva’s name is. She’s… resplendent. That’s the word I’m looking for. Resplendent. In a caring and respectful way. I’m liking the package, in general. I should add that they have vocoders. Like the KMG’s did. And big numbers on the background. Like Anonymous did. Nothing like learning from the best, is it?