You've got to love the way a universe of Eurovision fan sites manage to keep on ploughing out news despite the fact that the Eurovision season doesn't even last the best part of five months. I do wonder if I'd be the obsessive that I am if it wasn't for the truly extraordinary amount of information served up by these sites. But there's one blog/news page that I've come to love, especially in recent months.
ESC Kaz is for me the most accurate Eurovision news site (or at least, it has been for the last two or so years) and one of the few that I'd trust with my life... well not my life; my endless Eurovision MP3s maybe. I'm sure you all know of it. It's the home of OGAE Rest of the World and the writers (or is it just writer?) seem to have a surprisingly massive multitude of contacts in the Eurovision world, often getting official words from actual broadcasters. They take Eurovision very seriously and certainly succeed in getting the job done. Just a shame there's no RSS feed. And just how do they make any money from it?!
Of course ESC Kaz is only one of many websites desperate to give you tidbits of information. But there's probably only two others that I religiously use.
ESC Today is always a pleasure to visit because it feels like you're on an actual news website which makes you feel like your obsession is something really important to the world! Then you realise it's not. It's an accurate site, they never jump the gun, but recently it's felt like they're losing out a little to ESC Kaz. They can sometimes be a bit few and far between with their updates.
And then of course there's the legendary Oikotimes: the shitrag of ESC. This site has a place in my heart solely for the fact that it is pure tabloid. Rumours are constantly reported as hard news. Anyone else remember a few months back when they "exclusively" told of how Luxumbourg would definitely be returning in 2010 and this would definitely definitely be happening? Bless their hearts. Another classic moment I remember was last year when they said that 28 countries may be present at the next Junior Eurovision Song Contest because the Dutch Wikipedia said so. Even by Oiko standards, this was a step too far and it was removed a few hours later. I also love the way the majority of staff at Oikotimes are unashamedly Greek. They do love their Greek NF rumours and they always pick out even the slighest indication that FYR Macedonia might be presented as just "Macedonia" and immediately express their disgust. Oh what a website! But just what is an "Oiko"?
Eurovision for me definately would not be the same without these websites: the second-by-second updates from rehearsals at the arena, the wild gossip of NF participants, the obituaries for former ESC contestants... actually come to think of it, obituaries for Eurovision are very rare. Perhaps if you compete, you end up living forever! Except for Toše, of course, oh poor Toše.
Good night Europe!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment