Lithuania – He still has lovely hair

Jurij was all alone on stage and looked down the camera a lot. Phil, why are you telling us this? Because that was pretty much the whole performance in one sentence.

He did a bit of dancing round his handbag, but otherwise there was a distinct lack of visual effects, save for coloured lights.

The backing singers were off stage, and I don’t that this helped Jurij. They did a cracking job, and he sang lovely (as a teacher would say to their primary school choir), but it all felt flat and missing something. Lions, perhaps, or anything else in the background to break up the visual.

It came across as boring, and (just like here in the Press Centre) people will wander off and wait for Russia.

oooh, talking of which …