Ooh now, that was a pleasant surprise. Estonia is looking half decent. Now, I’ve not been an awful fan of this ‘un up till now. Gerli Padar has ditched the more hard-faced rock chick look for a softer feel. Hair over the face, simple black outfit with three simple dancers in white.
She’s also giving it a smudge of the Strictly Come Dancing choreography – but not too much. Put all this to a delicate gold background and you’ve got really quite a nice effort.
No winner, but not the Gracia I was expecting.
Now for Georgia – and thank crivvens she’s ditched the prolapsing maggot outfit. Simple dance steps with a bunch of geezers in black who appear to be wearing laser tag targets, she’s got the voice and the personality to do some serious business with this one. It’s a tad more Nox than Ruslana, but there’s not many countries left who can win it first pop – and is that too much of a Visionary Dream?
(Heck, Radio 2 link there!)