Three great play-by-play posts covering last night’s Eurosong contest: Nosemonkey, Douglas Muir of Fistfull of Euros and BBC’s Fiona Pryor. This sums it all up very well, even though thy don’t agree on all acounts. But the main thing is that the fun was there, the organization was great according to a couple of journalists I talked to that have been covering the event from half a dozen countries so far.
The winner, Dima had a lousy song according to me, but the bloc voting thing once again turned up… In that regard, there’s the old post that nobody from the west read, and the new illustrated diagram for those that don’t want to read.
And one more photo of the greek contestant just for the sake of it.
Next year it’ll be the cold Moscow instead of the warm Athens… but you voted fot it!
Update: just got some info that not everything went all that well for the Polish and UK delegations who got beat up, probably by the clerofascist organization Obraz, who are famous for that kind of behaviour from before.
Still, after all that anti-gay sentiment coming from the biggest Serbian state-funded tabliod in the last couple of days it’s a surprise there were no more incidents. Speaking of homophobia, we’ll just have to wait and see how things are going to develop in Moscow…
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I responded to this “Kelly” person on the Eurovision blog.
http://www.eurovision.tv/profile/limbic/post/1719
I was so irritated by her hatchet job, I even registered on that Eurovision site. O how I love Belgrade!
Yes, it does seem like she wrote that last post under the impression of what happened to her friends. Her previous posts are all positive towards Belgrade and Serbia…
About the whole thing, like Owen said – I guess than when Terry Wogan says it was Ok, than it must be ok.
Jeez, Johnatan, I just read your post – don’t you think you were a bit too hard on the girl?
Jonathan, I don’t think you were too hard on her. A couple of bad experiences should not reflect on the entire country. I was in Greece when I was 15, and I got ripped off by a cab driver, who charged me $100 for a 5 minute ride. He started yelling in Greek, and given my age and being alone in a foreign country, I was afraid and just wanted to get out, not knowing what may happen otherwise. But I will not charge the entire country by this. I know Belgrade, and I know it is a very friendly town.