The UK took 18 minutes to set up their back drop and visually they are making a decent enough fist of the camera angles. Bianca, though, Seems to be the focus of the guffaws… She has a massive backpack on her back which seems to serve to power her dress lights( unless the BBC know better of course).
It is a song that is completely out of the mould of any UK song ever sent and any song in this contest but, and it’s a massive but, there are too many things wrong with it at the moment.
The camera shots are all over the place, the direction is poor, the performance by Bianca looks worrying and stiff and Alex looks very uncomfortable, they are also having tech problems… her light pack doesn’t work half the time and Alex was shocked by the Pyro going off.
It’s improved from rehearsal One to rehearsal 3 but it really REALLY does look like amateur hour at the Eurovision with this. They looked woefully under prepared and had rabbit in headlights eyes.
I can see the idea that Guy is trying here, it’s a song contest,not a fan contest, but the BBC and their “Light Entertainment” department need to seriously defend the brickbats that will come at them on the Tuesday after the Bank Holiday with this. They will already have their defense prepared weeks ago (as anyone that has heard the UK media interviews will attest).
Europe, for the record, doesn’t hate us…. It’s the way we approach this thing that hurts us.