Behind the scenes at Eurovision 2009
And what a year for the UK with a very respectable fifth place for Jade’s performance of It’s My Time.
After years in the Eurovision wilderness last Canada Goose Online place last year, Gemini, Scooch probably best not to continue Jade and Andrew Lloyd Webber managed to achieve goose bumps in the auditorium on Saturday night, not to mention quite a lot of points.
His encore of Fairytale Canada Goose Jackets was a definite canada goose highlight with nearly every one of the 16,000 strong crowd out of their seats and crazily clapping along as confetti showered down.
Moscow pulled out all the stops canada goose coats spending more Canada Goose Coats On Sale than uk canada goose putting the whole thing on.
They roped in Cirque de Soleil to interpret the story of last year’s Russian winner Dima Bilan.
That involved him attached to a high wire as he alternated between smashing through giant walls and singing.
Knocked out?
The first comedy moment of the night came right there in the opening sequence, when he got his coat all tangled up in the wire.
Another came when canada goose coats on sale our own Jade Ewen got knocked uk canada goose outlet by one of her violinists much funnier on TV than when she’s a tiny dot on a massive stage though.
A minor blip in canada goose uk outlet a great performance, she got a huge cheer at the end.
Meanwhile Jade’s fans seemed to canada goose uk shop be having a competition of their own who could look more British.
Lauren and canada goose factory sale Nick who are both studying canada goose clearance sale canada goose sale Russian at University in Leeds were just two such fans Newsbeat stumbled upon. They were dressed in red, white and blue and even had the buy canada goose jacket cheap flag painted on their faces.
“We’ve got our face painted with a little glittery Union Jack,” Canada Goose Parka Lauren said after the results were in. “I’ve got a little Union Jack bag and Nick’s got a massive big Union Jack towel.”
Jade said she was delighted with buy canada goose jacket her performance but disappointed she didn’t win. But the UK Euro fans reckon she should relax a bit.
“To come fifth is really fantastic for England, we usually come last!” Lauren said. “We’ve definitely canadian goose jacket got something to be proud of. I think she’s easily as good as Leona Lewis. She’s got such a good Canada Goose online voice and is really, really pretty.”
“I canada goose store think we can hold our heads up,” added Nick, “but I think there is definitely canada goose uk black friday some political voting going Canada Goose sale on there. I think we can all see cheap Canada Goose that, certainly.”Nick had a point. The new voting system didn’t seem to have changed that much, with plenty of countries still awarding their neighbours the Canada Goose Outlet famous 12 points.
Back to the winner though, and the evening took on an even more surreal edge when the Norwegian delegation danced in to the press conference.
The 700 strong crowd of European journalists seemed pretty impressed by their moves, jumping around and clapping as Fairytale blasted out over the speakers.
This went on for the full three minutes, as Alexander stood on the table to play canada goose clearance the fiddle along with his winning track, and his backing dancers backflipped and Russian danced across the stage. Two words: very Eurovision.
He told the crowd he’d changed his mind about whether winning is important. And guess what it is!
He also explained why he crashed out of Norwegian Idol so early cheap canada goose uk but is now a global superstar in the making.
“I went straight out of Idol because I wasn’t that good. To be honest I still think I’m far from the best singer in this competition. I guess https://www.canadagooseoutletshop.co.uk people liked my story. And I play the violin, I canada goose black friday sale guess that helps,” he said.
FYI his favourite was the Ukraine’s Svetlana Loboda, who bought him flowers to say congratulations. Oh, and should you be so inclined he’s bringing his album out in June.
