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10.4.02

Back to last night’s programme, and Marie Myriam appeared and sang her 1977 winner, while VT of her ESC performance was shown on the screens behind her, just to make us realise how much older she looks now. I’d like to see her and Marianne Faithfull together – they’d make an interesting pair of sisters. More chatting with her, and finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for – it’s time for Sandrine to sing ‘Il Faut Du Temps’ at long last. How will she cope singing live to an audience in a TV studio? What will the three-minute version of the song be like? Oh, the suspense! Sadly, I am unable to answer either question. She looked nervous anyway, but she was miming! And it was the four-minute version. Damn.
The final surprise, as the song was ending, was the arrival of a tribe of children who carried on singing the song and made Sandrine go all gooey. Were they her own children? The local gamins from her tower block, or some stage school proteges? We may never know.
Finally, just a couple of gripes from me:
Can someone please tell France3 that ‘Angleterre’ has never had an entry in Eurovision? That’s what it said on their captions whenever they showed a Royaume Uni act. You’d think they would know by now…
And on a technical note, can someone also tell them about the invention of clip-on microphones? Every single person interviewed in the studio had a huge, hand-held mic, so you could hear all the heavy breathing and clunking noises. Why?

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