tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post8647074917889876699..comments2024-03-29T07:48:22.768+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: You have never been to my show, you haven't seen before how looks the trumpetJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-75262639263110829772012-05-28T09:58:18.136+01:002012-05-28T09:58:18.136+01:00I thought in fairness that the UK's song deser...I thought in fairness that the UK's song deserved a better position than it got, but choosing a 76 year old singer, who was popular in the 1960s and before most of the watchers were born, was probably not the best idea they have had... although admittedly, when you get back to the drawing board for the 793rd time, you must needs be clutching at straws.<br /><br />Of course, had they managed to persuade One Direction to appear for the UK, I suspect that they would have won, regardless of the fact that people do appear to vote against the UK on the basis that they hate IT, rather than the song of the artiste.<br /><br />I hope that someone somewhere is preparing the ground for a future Scottish entry, because I'm sure BBC Scotland won't be. <br /><br />I suspect that pretty much regardless of what we put up, we would win, for the same reason that pretty much whatever London puts up, loses. But I'd suggest Mànran, singing partly in Gaelic and partly in English.<br /><br />Their "Latha Math" (which got to No 6 in the Scottish chart in January 2011, and the completely knock-out "Oran na Cloich", which I featured on Munguin's Republic, and which tells the story of the Stone of Destiny, show what kind of work the do. Winners without a doubt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-66387779304260555312012-05-28T06:34:01.414+01:002012-05-28T06:34:01.414+01:00James, thanks for the reply but I was setting you ...James, thanks for the reply but I was setting you up for a joke!<br /><br />You should have said, "changed his name? and I would have said Yes he was Englebert Humphyerdrink, when I new him.<br /><br />Old joke, sorry.<br /><br /><br />Carry on!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-8173525301279442322012-05-28T00:22:30.233+01:002012-05-28T00:22:30.233+01:00Yes, he always comes across as a decent bloke in h...Yes, he always comes across as a decent bloke in his interviews.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-52169996940262812082012-05-27T20:29:03.533+01:002012-05-27T20:29:03.533+01:00I can't fault Englebert's performance in p...I can't fault Englebert's performance in public, but he was singing a romantic ballad which is an intimate genre; one to one.<br /><br />So seeing the great big bloody stage and the dancers prancing about kind of destroyed that intimacy.<br /><br />Englebert is a really nice guy and I used to go drinking with him, before he changed his name.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-54123485110447236382012-05-27T20:26:41.335+01:002012-05-27T20:26:41.335+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com