Comments | vaurien: Thank you to Belgium for restoring my sanity

vaurien

Thank you to Belgium for restoring my sanity

May 27, 2008 10:33

Had a dreadful rehearsal on Sunday. Arrived home in a foul mood. tattercoats was wonderfully supportive and sent me off to work in the evening with a nice stash of yummy things for dinner to cheer me up ( Read more... )

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otherdeb May 27 2008, 09:51:31 UTC

It won't play the link for me because I'm not in the UK.

Any clue where I can get a copy (or would you be willing to email me one)?

Thanks!

kitespirit May 27 2008, 10:22:10 UTC

Try this URL: http://www.eurovision.tv/

And btw I think the participant from UK wasn't THAT bad - much better than in the last years - and not that bad as the German girl-group was (actually I really like the No Angels, but this was the weakest song and they did the worst job ever! They sang totally off-key!).
My favorite was the turkish group I think... I also liked Serbia and Israel...

otherdeb May 28 2008, 00:58:39 UTC

Thanks -- it was a very perky and cheerful song.

highstone May 27 2008, 09:57:27 UTC

Thanks for pointing this out - since I couldn't make it up to Jess's Eurovisual party, I neglected the European vision altogether...
Reckon I just might seek out any CDs they might have made.

vaurien May 27 2008, 11:18:59 UTC

Their CDs are going like hot cakes. I hope I've successfully bought Troubamour on-line. The samples on their site made us go "oooohhh" like anything. I think some repressings will come through before long. And there's more to come later this year it appears.

bardling May 27 2008, 11:45:42 UTC

I'll have a look sometime later.

kathy_songbird May 27 2008, 11:31:47 UTC

Oh wow! I love it!!!! Must go see their web site BUT NOT BUY anything as budget very stretched at present.

Thanks very much for pointing this lovely group/song out!!

demoneyes May 27 2008, 19:58:30 UTC

I think the ones I enjoyed most were Finland and Latvia - Latvia with their incredibly camp but rather catchy Pirate song and Finland with their heavy rock Viking warrior/sheep-worriers.

Truly a magic Eurovision moment - grizzled macho Viking rockers, singing and pumping out loud music, as the subtitles proclaimed "Where all the men ride forth ... There the sheep cannot graze". Marvellous.

Songwise, I think Serbia may well have had the best song in the finals, but who's interested in that sort of thing? Not the voters, alas.

demoneyes May 27 2008, 20:28:50 UTC

Latvia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLe2Ae3K0hk

Finland (with English subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X5kEFkaw8I

aunty_marion May 27 2008, 20:30:34 UTC

It does rather grow on one, doesn't it? I'm almost tempted to spend €1.29 on downloading it!