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We watched the Eurovision semi-finals last night as is our usual practice. PaddyO’Connell who commentates – and skates up to and often over the line whilst doing so – is a delight. He gave forth last night with much whimsy on the between song segments that the host country produces showing everything that is great and good about their homeland – sometimes not gaining quite the effect they’d hoped.

Anyhow, after sitting through a mind-numbing marathon of 28 songs we selected the ones we liked best and hoped they would make it through to the final proper on Saturday night. Some – we thought – were absolute no brainers to go through, like the highly favoured Denmark.

We liked:

1. Belarus – “Work Your Magic”. (Watch this video on YouTube as it won’t embed here) Gravy tan boy Koldun (who could be Paris Hilton’s younger sister in drag) does Bondesque number with a slick dance routine. Pour your magic potion all over me, eh? Naughty.

2. Cyprus – “Comme Ci, Comme ça”. Manic stary-eyed singer Evridiki belts out a good poppy number which ticks the classic ‘nonsence lyrics’ Eurovision box.

3. Georgia – “Visionary Dream”. Sopho sings what M thought was the best song (which could be listened to outside Eurovision) of the night. Nice dress too.

4. Switzerland – “Vampires are alive”. Oh dear Switzerland, you have DJ Bobo and a group of dancing goth wannabes. Everyone knows vampires look like Stuart Townsend, wear much more eyeliner and definitely don’t jig. Null points.

5. Netherlands – “On Top Of The World”. Edsilia Rombley can sing and then some! Imagine Shirley Bassy and Heather Small combined. Really nice Eurosong.

6. Denmark – “Drama Queen” by DK. Wow, Everything down pat from the Eurovision playbook. Feathers, glittery headdresses, a six-foot drag queen and a high-energy camp number. What more can Eurovision ask for?

7. Andorra – “Let’s save the world” by Salvem el món. A fake Blink 182 with extra fake. Oh you want to feed them up you do the little schoolboys.

9. Belgium – “Love Power” by Krazy Mess Groovers. This is Belgium!? Wow, he was like a poppy Indian Mika with short bell-bottoms, rah!

So the voting. Oh my bloody god. How did they get it so wrong? From our fine list above only Belarus and Georgia went through. At the end of the programme the audience were were audibly booing and the pundits were all scratching their heads. How did the favourites Denmark not get through? Or cute Andorra and highly liked Belgium? The lead singer from ‘Scooch‘ was there and said either it was good news for the UK as all the favourites from the semis did not get through or that the European public hated ‘traditional’ camp poppy Eurovision songs this year and they were in trouble. Paddy was a bit sharp and said it all “looked at a bit Eastern.” Naught Paddy. I guess we shall see on Saturday what the public wants. Ones to watch I think are Belarus and Greece. Personally I’m miffed by Latvia (BONAPARTI.LV “Questa Notte”) getting through singing in Italian. Il Divo Geriatrico.

I’m supporting Sweden with their jolly effort “The Worrying Kind” by The Ark. The lead singer thinks he is Marc Boland’s little brother who happens to look like Mark Gatiss in a wig. Nice.

Obviously this number, “Trafalgar” by Neil Hannon would win if he’d entered. We heart you, Neil.

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