Clearly. Just listen to this: A stonking tune. Quite the best that the Eurovision has probably ever seen.
No. No. No. Eurovision is still great entertainment, but no one has to watch it. God knows there are enough channels these days, or the whole of YouTube.
I know but they are: a) Eurovision obsessed b) Pay into some Euro television fund thing and are members of that thing. Hence they get the Eurovision. Fair play.
"Armenia should have won"? When I saw this I assumed you were referring to the events of April 1915, which the Armenians lost. Armenian Genocide - Wikipedia
That was over 100 years ago now, Pete. I'm rather more concerned with up-to-date-ish things. We never seem to hear the end of that Armenian genocide.
Yes but oddly the present-day Turkish government strenuously objects if anybody refers to the Armenian genocide as a genocide. They appear to regard it as an up-to-date thing still worth arguing about - and denying.
We went to the Interceltique festival in Normandy last year. All things as you can imagine Celtic from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France, hosted by Australia! It's mad topsy turvy world we live in!
I think their denials are so strident that that is how I first heard about it. Now, if they'd kept schtum...
My sister linked me to it on t'interweb. There are some other great youtube vids of them online. Have you come across Songhoy Blues, a similar (sort of) vibe to Altai Band but with an African origin.
