Eurovision – the result

It was a very exciting contest. The songs were generally better than usual, the lack of silly performers a refreshing change, a majority of female performers, I think, with deep cut cleavage being the order of the day. I missed the lack of enormous video screen at the back – it has been responsible for many great shows.

Congratulations to Israel for winning. On the night, she really gave it all.

We voted for Lithuania, which was a rather quiet and rather sad little song.

And the voting, which is the best part of the show, gets shortened every year, but even so the show ran nearly four hours. Perhaps they could remove the interval acts? And since it’s presented in English, why do we need a UK commentator talking in English over people explaining things perfectly clearly anyway. And he was talking over the songs!

As you may have seen, the much hyped UK entry did not do well. We were third from bottom. Had we been made to compete in a semi-final, we may not even have got through to the final.

During the song, some man ran onto the stage, grabbed the microphone and shouted a message. You have to wonder what the security people were doing. The singer, SuRie, was given another microphone and finished the song, and was offered an opportunity to sing it again, but declined. I don’t know why. It wasn’t a bad song, and she sang it OK. Another exposur does help people get used to the song, and she may have done better than she actually did. Perhaps she declined because she already knew it was a lost cause.

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