This Is This

The best Eurovision song ever was Soldiers of Love, the Belgian entry from 1987. During the chorus, which went “soldiers of love… soldiers of love“, two guys in combat fatigues raised their guitars above their heads and then lowered them to thrust them downwards in stabbing bayonet movements while dollybirds danced around them in dramatic self-abandon.

It came eleventh, in front of a disappointed home crowd, beaten (of course) by Ireland’s Hold Me Now in first, just ahead of runner-up Germany’s Lass die Sonne in Dein Herz (trans: “I left my child in your rental car”).

I inject this levity to ease into the startling and embarrassing revelation that Boathouse Row was entered to be a contender for this year’s competition. It’s a long story, but I heard it on the grapevine (little songwriter’s joke there - ha ha!) that Malta was looking for a tune, so I sent it in.

They rejected it.

So when you hear the Maltese entry, spare a thought that someone could have been up there singing a bittersweet nostalgic song about me moving home instead of the The Maltese Falco or The Bozo From Gozo singing Bong Banga Bong Bingo or whatever it is they chose instead.

Moi: nul points.

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