Sunday, May 13, 2007

Ireland and UK in Eurovision

In coming last Ireland did really badly on Saturday's Eurovision. I thought the standard was quite high this year from nearly all countries.

In recent years we seem to forget again and again that Eurovision is now big visual , big impact entertainment. It must have instant appeal for public voters all around Europe. It needs major professionalism put into the song, presentation and promotion. It's not near enough just to have a reasonable song. Both UK and Ireland and now increasingly insular remote places to the expanding Europe and it is no coincidence that we both made good company for each other at the end of the voting table. We need much more wow factor and imagination to get even noticed.

Anyway. It's just a bit of fun. Nobody died as they say! Well done Serbia.

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