NOW HERE'S A BIT OF GOOD NEWS


Fop was literally delighted to learn, from the determinedly-written-in-ESL Eurovision information website Esctoday, that the Irish are taking drastic measures to avert another Eurovision disaster in 2005. More specifically:
* guitar-strumming male snooze-merchants who've written their own song (or had someone from Westlife write an even worse one) are OUT; and
* An "emphasis on acts that have spectacle and choreography" is IN. THANK GOODNESS.

Fop suggests Ireland give some consideration to the following example of Eurovision "World's best practice":




Hurrah!

Seriously, let's hope this represents the end of the most upsetting recent trend of sending "proper" musicians with instruments to Eurovision. Quite the wrong idea.