Tag: Eurovision
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Pride Mashups: Aurora vs MIKA & Lizzo vs Patrick Cowley & Sylvester
As it’s Pride month (well in the States/the Stonewall anniversary, our Pride is the start of July in London, Brighton is in August.) So here’s two new mashups/ First is a mashup and video of not one but TWO queer artists, MIKA and Aurora. Aurora’s song ‘Cure for Me’ is about conversion therapy, so it’s…
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Daði Freyr Love
The song that was robbed during Eurovision not by voting but by this virus, Think About Things by Daði Freyr is one of my songs of the year. Funky, funny, and personal – it’s about his child – and such a good video. But not a fluke, even in isolation Daði & Gagnamagnið – the…
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Cue the piper! Play you bastard!
As we start another Commonwealth Games, here’s the producer Stewart Morris trying to wrestle the opening ceremony of the last Scottish games, the disastrous 1986 Games in Edinburgh onto the telly…very funny. (sort of via Soundhog who posted the Eurovision one, funny also)
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Conchita Wurst
Vaguely aware there is this Europevision or Yurovision thing or whatever it’s called tonight…I avoided going out on the gay scene tonight because of it’s grindingly depressing omnipresence (actually I don’t need an excuse to avoid the gay scene, the scene itself is a good enough reason, but Eurovision gives it an extra Brucie Bonus).…
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Ásgeir Trausti
Support acts are always kind of weird – too close to the main act then they’re boring, too different and the audience isn’t in to it. I was pleasantly surprised by Ásgeir Trausti supporting John Grant at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire – starts out the usual singer-songwriter fare, but then goes more 808-State-meets-post-dubstep, a sort…
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Accordions, kilts and moustaches
Via a friend posting a Terry Vision video (oh how I love him – even if I don’t actually ever watch the Eurovision Song Contest) I saw the Greek entry* by Koza Mostra & ???????? ????????? called Alcohol Is Free. Moustaches, beards, accordions, kilts and gypsy punk…what’s not to like? Having checked out a fairly…