Eurovision Night
Well, as intented me and my friend Basia spen the night in the G-A-Y in SOHO. Having arrived there at about 8PM after a very filling and spicy dinner at our favourite Korean place in Totenham Court Road, we had to queue to get to the 1st floor (that is the 2nd floor everywhere else but Britain) to see the show.
So, in the end I've missed the performance by Armenia which I liked and about 10 other countries.
After Russia staged a trio-performance including Olympic skating champion and a Hungarian violinist equipped with Stradivari the show seems to be turning into a power-struggle of celebrities as Germany had a very gay-looking singer supported by a famous burlesque performer and ex-wife of Marilyn Manson Dita Von Teese.
UK in its turn had no other but Andrew Lloyd Webber behind the piano playing away to the song he wrote purposefully for the contest.
Nonetheless, the show went great apart from at times disappearing presenter from Azerbaidjan. Basia joked that they might still be sufferring power cuts there. No offence to fellow Azerbaidjanis.
Thanks to the wide-appealing folk song from Norway, their good-looking singer with Slavic pedigree, the infamous "vote-for-your-neighbour" principle has somewhat subsided during this year's Eurovision. Although, we could still see former Yugoslavian republics upholding their sisterhood and Turkey getting quite good votes which I tend to attribute to the quite high number of Turkish immigrants in Europe.
On the SMS text scren in G-A-Y someone urged to vote for New Zealand to join Eurovision :)) I can't help imaginining what would happen if China joined Eurovision and the Chinese European communities would start voting :)
In terms of the actual show, the Ukraine seemed like a very well thought through piece of act. Though it wasn't exactly Eurovision format, I think even Madonna wouldn't refuse to take it on as part of one of her shows.
So, in the end I've missed the performance by Armenia which I liked and about 10 other countries.
After Russia staged a trio-performance including Olympic skating champion and a Hungarian violinist equipped with Stradivari the show seems to be turning into a power-struggle of celebrities as Germany had a very gay-looking singer supported by a famous burlesque performer and ex-wife of Marilyn Manson Dita Von Teese.
UK in its turn had no other but Andrew Lloyd Webber behind the piano playing away to the song he wrote purposefully for the contest.
Nonetheless, the show went great apart from at times disappearing presenter from Azerbaidjan. Basia joked that they might still be sufferring power cuts there. No offence to fellow Azerbaidjanis.
Thanks to the wide-appealing folk song from Norway, their good-looking singer with Slavic pedigree, the infamous "vote-for-your-neighbour" principle has somewhat subsided during this year's Eurovision. Although, we could still see former Yugoslavian republics upholding their sisterhood and Turkey getting quite good votes which I tend to attribute to the quite high number of Turkish immigrants in Europe.
On the SMS text scren in G-A-Y someone urged to vote for New Zealand to join Eurovision :)) I can't help imaginining what would happen if China joined Eurovision and the Chinese European communities would start voting :)
In terms of the actual show, the Ukraine seemed like a very well thought through piece of act. Though it wasn't exactly Eurovision format, I think even Madonna wouldn't refuse to take it on as part of one of her shows.
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