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The access inside ‘The Bubble’ at the Eurovision Song Contest is a rare beast in media-land. How much responsibility comes with that?
Letters From Stockholm: Dear Fans…
Grab a bottle of your favourite tipple and pour yourself a large glass of it. You will thank us for it. Jon Jacob needs to have a quiet word in your ear about something in today’s episode of ‘Letters From Stockholm’.
And once that’s over, Ellie Chalkley has written a counterpoint on the power and emotion of fans at the Song Contest.
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I’m really enjoying your series of articles, Jon – I suspect that lots of Eurovision fanatics and Press do view a lot of other fans with the attitude of “What’s your opinion worth, you’ve only been x times, you’ve never been in the Press Centre”…
That’s the reason I started writing my own blog – my views are then ‘in print’ and it’s more difficult to ignore! You’ve also highlighted what tends to happen to those who like to review entries – you start getting cynical and you start to pick out the negatives, rather than the positives. I am trying to avoid this but I am having to review my articles more now before hitting publish to tone down some of the comments that jumped out of my head initially.
As for the UK entries, I always take the view (like Portsmouth FC, my football team) that no matter what standard they are that year, no matter how well they perform, they are MY TEAM and I will support them every year. I may not feel they will do that well but that is another matter. I voted for Joe & Jake in the NF and I like this entry – they are great guys, who are really enjoying themselves and being in Stockholm for the UK.
I am purely hoping for a decent result, a LHS finish, top ten at best – I was stung by the overall ‘we might win this year’ with Molly and I have never been so gutted on the Sunday morning afterwards.
Looking forward to more interesting snippets…
This was a BRILLIANT listen Jon I love your passion and damm right-I have been to two -95 &98 -and would LOVE to go to more -you use the word privilege-and I think some people forget that – and it winds me up they go on in a really negative whining approach- and Martin -bravo -same here -it’s my team -lets do this… Let’s really do this.
I guess at times you were searching for your words Jon -but I don’t think it was a rant -it was measured and evidenced throughout-and loved the inclusion of “no dream impossible” -lets believe….