Ahh, did I just hear someone giggle?
And I was just about to give up on you.
Now, come closer please. There you go.
And a little bit more. Not that close, please, you might scare me away.
Ok, well now, let me say first of all, that I hope that everyone is enjoying the show.
At the end of the show, I will pass my hat around, so you can drop by a bar tip.
Thx, Madam AL for pointing out that the band is known as “Tipp-Ex” in Israel.
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The Israeli entry as well at the last years’ winning song “Hard rock hallelujah” from Ice-cool Finland and many other contributions of the past are in the true spirit of Eurovision, a contest that is taken deeply seriously in and around Europe. So far from being a camp joke, it has its special and very own touching charm. It has never been over commercialised; sponsorship does exist, but it is discreet. All the major record companies are ignoring this highlight of heart-moistening popular music which is organised by a federation of highly- professional national TV companies instead. The financial success of the winning song is thus guaranteed.
The contest remains refreshingly good-natured for some gloriously European reason with super-soulful music that is tugging at the strings of everyone’s heart, though the point counting system is of mind-breaking complexity.
For the first entry: “Israel ten points, Israel dix points.” That is reassuring, it also honours the attempt for some genius rock action and perhaps, giving almost all points to Israel is for appeasement reasons.