Eurovision is one of those things that tends to get a lot of stick, but listen, right, have a bevvie, get your mates round, and it's boss.
It's easy to make it a fun and a cheap night, or a half decent pre-drinks:
- Buy cheap drinks
- Get the LADs round
- All throw a quid into a pot and say who you reckon will win, whoever picks the correct country wins the money
- Drink every time there's a production fuck up
- Drink every time someone is seen wearing a truly ridiculous outfit
- Drink every time there's a wind machine used
- Down your drink when there's a sexually charged performance
- When fireworks go off do a shot
- Drink every time Graham Norton makes a backhanded comment about someone
- Down your drink if someone falls over
You get the picture, make your own rules. Failing that, though, may as well go out.
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The competition is home to some rather eccentric characters who pretty much use statements to stand out and get noticed. And fair play, it's a tough gig, Eurovision. Do what you can.
Italy's Francesco Gabbani certainly did, as he performed with an ape. Why? No fucking clue, mate, just because he can.
Credit: YouTube/Eurovision Song Contest
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It's obviously not a real one, but apparently just the choreographer Filippo Ranaldi wearing a costume. A fitting tribute to Harambe, really.
Unless you speak Italian or can be arsed Google Translating all of the lyrics, it seems as if there's absolutely no context whatsoever.
However, during the song Gabbani mocks Westerners who believe they can take Eastern cultures and 'Westernise' them, and references man's evolution from apes.
This is literally the only way to link the two things, but apparently it was enough for the fake primate to be a fixture in the video, and the national semi-final and final Eurovision performances.
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Why should you be arsed, you ask? Ah, well, if you're going to whack some money down on tonight's performers, Gabbani and his ape mate are worth a punt. They're currently one of the favourites and backed 5/4 by bookies. Tasty.
Other than that, I don't know much more about Eurovision. So, as a tenuous link, here's 1974's winners ABBA's 'Voulez-Vous', a fucking tune.
Whatever you choose to do tonight, enjoy it.
It kicked off on BBC One tonight at eight bells, so get on it quickly before it ends. There will be at least one absolutely banger that you'll be singing for the next week.
Featured Image Credit: Eurovision Song Contest/Rai 1Topics: Eurovision