EUROMOMENTS

Readers, what I have just seen and heard may take some getting over. Sit down, move all sharp objects and hot drinks out of harm's way, and click below: Cinema Bizarre are one of the 5 acts competing for the German ticket to Belgrade in May. And it's quite good. I'm stunned. It sounds contemporary, all those wee boys have nice costumes and make-up (plus one of them looks like Michelle Williams off of Dawson's Creek. Amazing.), and most importantly it's all really Euro-friendly. Lots of tATu-esque stuff going on, particularly in the chorus, which should certainly appeal to the Russian/Belarus vote. Of course, anything could happen on German national final night - February 6th - but I'm impressed by this offering. It's worth checking out their Japanese-style website here . Juicy. In other German news, the highly successful girl band No Angels are also going for the Euro ticket in Hamburg. It could be Monrose (a.k.a caterwauling disaster) mark II, but even I ha

Drivers are warned to take caution as Albanian and Norwegian artistes stand firmly in the middle of the road for yet another Eurovision season It seems like just yesterday when I shared the same smoke-machine-infused air as Cypriot songstress Evridiki and hailed her as the Euromoments tip for semifinal success in Helsinki. Yes, Euro2007 brought pain (I'll spare you the account of my hours of anguish over my last-minute decision not to attend my own Eurovision Final Party in a Marija costume - oh, the bitter tears I shed...) and mortification ( "Sprang!" , sunflower, medieval costume). But there was also plenty in which to delight - Sopho Khalvashi's performances for Georgia still bring a tear to my eye and I will never (ever) get over how Portugal managed to turn a turd sandwich (why let a great analogy go just because it's getting old?) into a turd sandwich without the turd. Anyway, in the words of Marion Fossett, here we are together again after all this time. A