Eurovision Song Contest

It was the Eurovision Song Contest today (after semifinals on Tuesday and Thursday) and to the great surprise of the entire nation, the UK managed to score some points and even did quite well for itself. No great shock that Ukraine won, but they had a good number and I think it would have been a contender even under normal circumstances.

For amusement (and possibly my later playback), here are some of my favourites:

Portugal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtbD47u6yI - my personal favourite, quiet and moody
Poland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRVDZ6446eM - somewhere between a spiritual and someone being hunted down by rusalkas or zombies
Lithuania - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uEWHrr6fM - neat, jazzy, sparkly
Serbia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtQj1MfNYA - very weird, somewhere between a paean to washing hands and a dark ritual to bring the Apocalypse, catchy
Norway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCU2rQyDeY - another weird one, involving feeding bananas to wolves, also catchy
Ukraine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1fl60ypdLs - the winner, and understandably so
UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0hqX_92zI - we came second, and I think we might actually have deserved it.