Your Country Needs You! says the BBC
January 3, 2009 by Mike
Power to the people as search for a Eurovision star begins
We may have had some dismal performances in the last few years - but the Eurovision Song Contest still has a special place in the hearts of many, and the process to choose the UK representative for the 2009 contest in Moscow begins in earnest this weekend.
In a format which has already been tried in places like Ireland and Spain, but has never been done over here, this year the call has been “your country needs you!” as people from all over the UK were invited to send in audition videos of themselves in a bid for European glory.
Six acts have been chosen from the flood of hopefuls who sent entries to the BBC in the autumn, and over the next few weeks, they will be slowly whittled down in an X-Factor style public vote until the winner is crowned on January 31. The process begins this Saturday on BBC One, as Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Graham Norton introduce the lucky hopefuls. They will also try and discover where exactly the UK has been going wrong recently. Can our fortunes be turned around?
Apparently Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has already promised Lord Andrew he will cast his vote for the UK - now it just remains to see who he will be voting for on May 16 in Moscow.
“Your Country Needs You” is on BBC One at 7.10pm on Saturday, January 3, and don’t forget you can keep up to date with developments here at The Daily Dust!
The BBC Eurovision website is here.
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The only thing I am unhappy about the Eurovision Song Contest is that the use of English, in the Eurovision Song Contest increases year by year.
As a native English speaker I think this is unfair!
It’s certainly time to break the habit of “language imperialism”, in the Eurovision Song Contest, and use a song, sung in Esperanto instead!
This is a serious suggestion, as you can see from the Esperanto music which is already available at http://www.vinilkosmo.com/?prs=listen or at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
There’s even cheesy Esperanto music available! See http://www.ipernity.com/home/76977
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