Best wishes Ma’am!
God save the Queen. Happy 80th.
Long may you reign.
Eamonn Butler has written a nice piece on Her Majesty.
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...The band set to represent the country at Eurovision, Lordi, are a scary metal band with scary masks wielding scary chainsaws, and their track, ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’ is considered to be a fairly radical departure from usual Euro-fare. Lordi were selected to represent Finland via a TV vote, and garnered a fairly conclusive 42% of the vote, so the band are clearly popular with at least some of their fellow countrymen.
The reaction to their success has been strong however, with people expressing their fears on internet message boards that the group’s performance will damage Finland’s reputation abroad, whilst some Finns have gone as far as to ask their president to intervene. Inevitable rumours that Lordi are goat killing devil worshippers have been fuelled by the fact that the band have refused to do any TV interviews and refuse to take off their scary masks, or reveal their real names, although possibly somewhat refuted by the fact that one of their hit songs is called ‘The Devil Is A Loser’.
Father Mitro Repo, a Helsinki clergyman says the band’s use of the name ‘Lordi’, which means ‘the lord’, is sacrilege. “I think it’s a stupid joke of Finland,” he says “Lord have mercy on us Finnish people now.”
Let’s see they are winding up fundies and Eur0bollocksvision purists; which can never seen to be bad. Now we heavy rockers have more reasons to make sure we all watch Eurovision this year. Found via the invaluable CMU.
Funny stuff…
A new twist on the Dave the Cameleon advert. This is pretty damn funny as well.
Comments are off for this postThe Final Countdown
we’re leaving together
but still it’s farewell
and maybe we’ll come back
to earth, who can tell
You might recall a rather cheesy 80s hit, The Final Countdown, by the Swedish band Europe. Or you might not. Either way, this is the worst version of it you will ever hear, performed by some godawful band at a country fair or something. At least the audience seems to be digging it.
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