This year, if you didn't know that Oslo was hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, you have either wiped Alexander Ryback's win from memory or are stuck in some 80's-90's time warp where either the Irish win, or the UK come second.
Which tenuous link brings us to the events of yesterday. NRK, the Norwegian TV company, have decided that this year it should all be about the fans "sharing the moment"..........and hence they will be filming the postcards in various countries with groups of mad screaming fans jumping up and down.
This is all very well until you realise that when you come to do the UK one in the open air in April the possibility of it pissing rain, no-body showing up and those that do show being soooo reserved that it could all turn into a bit of a damp squib!!!!
HOWEVER, this is not what happened. Various e mails went out courtesy of Auntie BBC, some frantic phone calls were made, lunchtimes were rescheduled and viola on a Wednesday afternoon in central London, in glorious weather in the shadow of the London Eye this is what appeared...........
Yes it looks kinda scary.........all these quaint looking people with Union Jacks, short hair cuts and in the middle of a UK General Election, but rest assured this was not some kind of rally for one of the more extreme right wing UK political parties.........no it was something far far worse. It was the various people who turned up for the filming of the UK postcard for this year's ESC.
So what happened. Well it was all fairly tame and well behaved. The noisy ones twirled around in flags and asked where they picked up their Oscars, the quiet ones hid at the back and giggled every time Thomas the cute NRK camera man said "ACTION", the naughty ones (don't know who we could mean here) slouched against the wall and smoked ciggies, and all the while the man from Auntie BBC fussed round making sure everybody's UK flag was the right way up.........
Apparently there have been letters written to the BBC about upside down flags before.......OH DEAR:)))))
We don't really want to say too much about the filming.....why spoil the surprise of who you might spot on the postcard in May.....suffice to say that there were 2 different shots, with 3-4 takes on each one, the usual British reserved attitude was much in evidence, and at one point we all had to move so that the sun was directly in our eyes:)))
And I'll leave you with a few pictures of the day.....there will be more on the BBC website but as this is our personal blog we get to choose who is on here.......
The Norwegian cameraman, Thomas, had run into a few problems with the volcanic ash cloud this week. He can be seen here in the bottom right hand corner, in the blue top. He had just arrived, having run all the way from Prague in his slippers:))
Daniel looking way too cool for school as ever:))
It's the UK. It's and ESC event......hence men in skirts ALWAYS turn up:)))
And finally we heard a rumour that the new version of "that sounds good to me" on this radio station.....today....but sorry we don't know the time:((((
http://sverigesradio.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=live&
Failing that you can watch Josh on the following youtube clip.......enjoy!!!!
oh and don't forget to check back over the next few days for the Mike and Daniel review of the year.......only 3 weeks before we leave for Oslo now.......yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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