Liverpool Calling
As you may (or may not) know, Boom Bang a Blog HQ is not that far from Liverpool. The city is aquiver with anticipation today as it gears up to host the MTV European Music Awards at its spanking new ECHO Arena with stars like Beyonce, Bono, and perhaps even Val Doonican, turning up to be seen on the red carpet.
Only ticket holders are allowed near the venue itself (we don't have one), but it would be super fun to go along and boo this year's winner, Dima Bilan (named as Best Russian Act) for inflicting almost the dullest Eurovision victory-scooping song in history on we poor viewers as he strutted in to the ceremony.
Dima, along with Blighty's Leona Lewis, is in the running for the best European Act, but there is another Eurovision connection in the five-strong shortlist.
Israel's Shiri Maimon is also a contender for this most heavyweight of gongs. A lady with a crystal-cut voice, she brought her homeland its best result in years in Kyiv three years ago (she finished fourth) with this:
Should our Leona be quaking in her stilettos?
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Jamie McLoughlin - The news editor of Southport Visiter reveals all about his musical hobby that more people should admit to having.
As tedious as Dima Bilan’s winning song was, on the boredom scale it falls short of two of the worst winners of Eurovision - unsurprisingly both from Ireland. First, the terminally dismal ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids’ from the ghastly McGettigan & Harrington in 1994. Never was a song more inaptly titled. It moved at the pace of a funeral hearse with flat tyres and really redefined the word ‘dull’. Managing to equal this horror has been difficult but Eimear Quinn’s winner, the hideous abomination that was ‘The Voice’ in 1996, rose to the challenge. A song so lifeless it deserved to be reviewed in the obituary column. It was so sanctimonious, self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you wanted to slap it. These are the songs that really deserve a good booing.