Bore-o-vision song contest 2008
Spangly sequinned drag queens, folklore tedium, Spanish ‘ChikiChiki’ and a crooning Irish muppet. During the 53rd Eurovision song contest from 20 to 24 May in Belgrade, Europe’s music types once more let their speciality potpourri of mediocrity loose. Is someone actually taking this seriously?
Top five Eurovision hits
Since its first broadcast on 24 May 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest has seen hundreds of songs battle it out for the titles of the worst, the funniest and above all the best
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Eurovision song contest: chamber of horrors
Dear readers – it’s not easy, but I have to tell you the truth. You surf cafebabel.com, amazed by the variety of themes the online magazine covers and the quality of the analyses it publishes. You’ve no idea of the unhuman conditions which are imposed on its journalists! Recently the editorial team asked me to write an article about the participants of the 2008 Eurovision song contest. Great! So enthusiatic .... I am such a poor baboon
Ourvision song contest in Helsinki – northern talent nodes
Modest budgets, amateur singers, no dance troupes: the song contest is open to people living in Finland with non-Finnish origins
