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Librarina; ITrix.
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Don't feed the carp!
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More like 5 seconds but they certainly played through the scenario a little bit.
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Nanight. x
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Right, that's enough nonsense. It's bedtime.
Wonderful... just wonderful.
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Glorious. Well I think that's ended this year's National Final run in style. Very much a Lib Dem GAIN. The other acts have taken to the stage behind the winners (apart, as far as I can see, from the popular vote winners - they've presumably been sent off on a mission with Space-Commander Travis).
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The Green Room cameras carefully dancing around this detail.
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Hah. 12pts from the televote went to the gothic, but they didn't get anything from the juries. So coming up through the middle are the blandly chirpy lads of Song 7. Another occassion where the checks and balances have failed us.
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Of course, the top three of the jury vote have not fared so well here.
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They're doing it as 12-10-8 points, with 10 acts, so we'll not know which two came "bottom" with the televote till the end.
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Song 4 [vampire and contempowaft] is bottom after the jury vote, just behind the gothic gang. But now, of course, it's time for the chaos votes.
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Madeira have caused another change of leader. Now it's song 12 with her fado-infused number.
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The Algarve has shoved song 2 into the top spot [scrolls some more] - ah, the hedgehog [nothing like a hedgehog - ed]. Ok.
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The current leader is song 9 which [scrolls up to look at notes I made hours ago] was so good I barely noticed it.
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Scores are being returned by region, using the song number for efficiency.
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Let the voting begin.
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(alas the wheeled-in telly was just for the quiz thing)
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And here is the performance in question, fwiw: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNb...
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((Huca, it was Huca))
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(Not sure who was chanelling Celine thereafter)
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Maria João and João Borsch helming that one. It was good.
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Now a genuinely fun cover of last year's winner.
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This whole strand, incidentally, is acompanied by art that mimics the packaging of recording media from the 1980s. It's a gorgeous use of the tramline space and pads out the 4:3 clips in style.
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Time for another Gramofone vid from the archive, which, let's be clear, is a brilliant idea and the BBC should embrace it immediately. Throw a classic TOTP performance between every programme. Genius. This one is a spot of shoegazing from Sétima Legião.
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Some sort of daft quiz and then a trailer break. Let me take this moment to remind you all that the second best version of Treasure Hunt was the Portuguese version of Treasure Hunt. Which had clearly seen the UK version and thought "yes, let's do this but make Wincey madder!" #aside
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They've (literally) wheeled in the telly to reconfigure the studio for the voting phase. And this is why I watch.
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Another interval act. This one in Hopkirk (deceased) if Hopkirk had deceased without his trousers.
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(yeah yeah, it's probably a Portuguese Guitar, innit)
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Here's an interval act with some rock mandolin action.
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The acts are getting merry in the Green Room and singing Bem Bom. Best song of the night, of course.
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Yes, the showreel for San Marino shows up Portugal. Sounds like they had a proper contest there. But now RTP have a clip of new wavers "UHF" which makes everything better.
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Yes, that met the brief...
Scanning the timeline on the San Marino final and they're clearly having the most fun. Which shouldn't really come as a surprise. Not that I'm here for fun. This is a serious business.
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Better watch the San Marino prepared piano entrant as a palette cleanser.
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Hnn.
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And that's the lot. The full dozen. Now let's see what the Swedes have voted for...
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Song 12 and finally something fado-adjacent. Kind of wins by default really. This sort of stuff would've been the only interesting thing in a 1990s contest. Of course, this isn't the 1990s, but Portugal are acting like it is, so...
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Song 11 with Midge Ure moustache and long nails, doing a zero-g poledance but again failing to bring a song. There's an urgent rhythm but that's not really sufficient. How the guy can sing bolted to a girder like that I don't know.
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Song 10 and we're back in the room with some more temple-bothering ritual goddess fun. This one has two backing dancers in horned bonnets waving their cloaks like wings and enveloping the singer who's just back from her gapyear tour of the East. Would do well in a fringe field in Glastonbury.
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Song 9 didn't really caputure my attention with his heartfelt powerballad.
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Song 8 has got little horns and enjoyed Käärijä the other year. This one's chanty with some angular synth moments. If Turkey were still in they might be doing this sort of thing, but they're not. It's a nice idea this one but I'm not sure it really gets going.
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Song 7 is a bunch of chirpy lads and guess what? They're playing another dirge. Oh, but now it's kicked in to a slightly sunnier bit of beat. Which is better. Even has a little guitar solo. Still quite sad though.
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Song 6 is a piano ballad and goddamn it Portugal, have a little fun while you still can, for goodness sake. This is a dirge. It has some good moments but it harks back to the dark times.
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Song 5 and her two dancers, like three muses. There's a conspicuous trumpet. Yeah, it's more jazz. Slick. Very slick.