Good news for parody hard rock lovers, and people who put money on Finland :-) :-) :-), everywhere.
Seems to be a reasonable result, championed here in London by XFM and Lauren Laverne all week. Watching last night with the subtitles on, one of the lyrics, "Now choose to join us or go straight to Hell", rather intrigued Mrs RP, who thought that "Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell" would have been better in the context.
The final result was:
1 Finland 292 2 Russia 248 3 Bosnia-Herzegovina 229 4 Romania 172 5 Sweden 170 6 Lithuania 162 7 Ukraine 145 8 Armenia 129 9 Greece 128 10 Ireland 93 11 Turkey 91 12 FYR Macedonia 56 12 Croatia 56 14 Norway 36 15 Germany 36 16 Latvia 30 17 Switzerland 30 18 Denmark 30 19 United Kingdom 25 20 Moldova 22 21 Spain 18 22 France 5 23 Israel 4 24 Malta 1
A fitting finish for Daz Sampson, who I have actually SEEN SINGING LIVE ONCE, although the list didn't appear on my world-famous and un-updated list of gigs; he was singing at the half-time interval between Southend and Yeovil just before the end of the 2004-05 League Two season. Yeovil won the game were promoted; Southend scraped through in the playoffs. Although they did much better this year, perhaps due to the lack of Daz at half time.
The Lithuanian entry was class though. You had to see it to believe it.
And I am sure this is definitely Graham from Pop Will Eat Itself.
