It’s tomorrow… / C’est demain…

It’s that time again! Tomorrow morning sees the proper start of the UK’s 2003 Eurovision build-up. The first four songs of our eight contenders are revealed on BBC Radio 2 on Monday morning, building up to the televote on Friday, when eight become four, going forward for the TV show in March.

We know the eight song titles and the writers, but the BBC website hasn’t revealed the artists yet. So we don’t know whether the rumoured appearance of The Cheeky Girls is true or not. All may become clear from 08:00 tomorrow, when the eight songs are available to listen to in full on the BBC website. None of the usual suspects are there in the list of writers, the most (only?) familiar name being Simon May, who wrote the EastEnders theme (and subsequent hit for Anita Dobson), plus Nick Berry’s #1, ‘Every Loser Wins’.

However, we do know from some of the artists’ own websites, the odd local press article and postings to the Yahoo! Eurovision list about three of the acts.

‘Do Anything For Your Love’ is sung by Fenix, an English/Scottish female duo.
‘Cry Baby’ is by Tricity; another duo. The song is apparently “up-tempo with a 21st century groove”, written by a professor at LIPA (AKA Paul McCartney’s ‘Fame’ School.)

Most worrying of all so far is this lot. Lord save us from a group who seem to think they are Charlie’s Angels. Their website screams ‘tacky’, and I don’t care if ‘First Night’ is the best song in the world; I don’t want us to be represented by pop’s equivalent of the Daily Star. Call me a snob…

If you hover over ‘Please Enter’, you will see the girls are ‘Britains sic Harmony & Rythm sic Sensation’. Three mistakes in one sentence: not bad going girls. Leaving aside the missing apostrophe and the spelling of ‘rhythm’, they don’t seem to realise they’re hoping to represent the UK, not just Britain. People of Northern Ireland, exact your revenge for being ignored! Don’t vote for them!

My challenge is: will we be able to keep Radio 2 on at work before someone turns it over, and without me appearing to be TOO interested when they play the songs?

Chig’s own Eurovision season kicks off this afternoon, when I’ll be round at B&K’s, watching the video of last night’s Polish final. Such dedication. Poland isn’t the first country to choose its song though – that honour went to Israel last week. Their song apparently sounds like something from the 60s, and not in a good way.

Only 113 days until Chig flies to Riga. 120 days until Eurovision itself.
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