James Miller

 

Saturday, May 21, 2005

 

Eurovision Song Contest

I doubt no-one except me are watching this.

Basically, it’s a contest to find the best song of a certain type in Europe, in which all the countries in Eurovision enter a song. (Eurovision is a collective of all the European countries for broadcasting purposes. It also includes such as Israel, Turkey and Lebanon.)

Only one song of note ever won and that was Waterloo by Abba. It was the song that inflicted them on the world. (See Priscilla for what I mean!)

I don’t think anyone takes the contest seriously. The BBC employs an Irish commentator called Terry Wogan who just takes the piss out of it all!

But!

Last year Ukraine won and so this years contest is being held in Kiev. It seems that this may well be the biggest event that has ever happened there since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union and it’s doing everyone there a lot of good.

I’m a great believer in rewarding countries or helping them by giving them cultural and sporting events. Look at what the Olympics did for Barcelona. It was a derelict industrial city and now it’s brilliant! I hope the World Cup helps South Africa too.

So perhaps it isn’t such a bad and derided contest after all.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home