You coulda turned around and hit me and I wouldn't've cared. Ahh Eurovision shines like the light at the end of a particularly dark and twisted tunnel. Anyone who drinks and will be watching Eurovision should probably go to: http://www.cowgate.demon.co.uk/mit/drinking/eurovision.html POP Fact: this year's UK entry is written by Paul Varney of late-eighties Bros-imitators Yell! (only hit a cover of 'Instant Replay'). I'm afraid I cannot substantiate rumours about him being any relation to Reg Varney or that I am the only person on the list who knows what I'm talking about. Jake, Ailsa & Mark have been going on about bagpipes BUT without mentioning Big Country, who spent their entire career making guitars sound like bagpipes. Sometimes I feel that I should have spent my youth listening to The Pastels and Felt and The Smiths and Sarah things or even Augusto Pablo, rather than Bruno Brookes and Simon Bates. I *do* know a lot about music, but only top twenty stuff, with a side line in nineties alt-pop and I'm sure I must be missing out on loads of ace stuff, even though I can usually work out the 'mystery year' on Simon Mayo within two records. Then I think, shouldn't I be using my (steadily depleting) brain cells for something more important than the words to all the Number Ones for the last twenty years (and all the words to all the songs played at indie discos for the last ten years), and learn something important like brain surgery or quantum physics or how to change the wheel on a car. But then, I always do well in pub quizzes, so it's not a complete waste (sigh). Apols, happy mail next time Further Apols for large amount of Anglo-centric/Euro-centric references xoxo CarsmileSteve NB: Subject refers to the UK's 1982 entry (ie the year after we won with Bucks Fizz) 'One Step Further' by Bardot.

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