Apart from resting my head (after a rather long session which seemed to go into extra-time and penalties) I spent most of this afternoon listening to all the songs (could I take any more pain?). I take it all back. I thought the majority of songs were pretty good - must be the best year yet. Makes it less of an annual popularity contest.
My fave was the Maltese Michelle McManus, I thought the joint Greek/Irish entry (with the Riverdance) sounded like ours (with a similar 'ethnic' influence in the chorus). Other than that I thought Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus and Atomic Kitten (Israel) were all not bad. As usual the French entry was an absolute crocque of merde and the less said about the Ukrainian revolutionary rap the better.
I still think Javine's song was good and at least deserved a top 10 place. But the big boys of Europe won't ever win the hearts of the block-voting Balkans and Baltics. And it's never the same without the Oirish.
When the Irish votes came in I half expected it to go, "Frank in Donegal, well he liked Cyprus so they got his vote..."
