I think the Will Ferrell film recognised that and did a good job of laughing with, rather than at, Eurovision.

Having been in Liverpool this week, I have to say that the whole event has been utter crazy joy. The city centre yesterday afternoon was huge fun and the show itself was brilliantly delivered (even if lots of the songs were less than memorable). Everybody has done a great job of remembering the horrible reasons it…

Mel’s butter churning routine was of course a tribute to Poland’s 2014 entry.

Not the same song.

This could do for country music what his Galway Girl did for Irish folk music. Be afraid.

The DVD has an alternative ending where the body swap actually happens, I think.

It might be lacking in the eeriness that defines much of their work, but In Between Days deserves to be much higher, if not top of this list.

Me too. It also starred Lucy Boynton who was in ITV’s adaptation of the Ipcress File last year, which was also great.

If I weren’t so darned British, I might suggest the big difference is that the contestants are Americans.

Properly melted cheese was the one thing that kept me going back to Wimpy (which had been the dominant burger restaurant in the UK before McD’s landed).

This is a great BBC documentary with Annie Clarke, John Lydon, Tori Amos, Elton John and many more gushing about her.

It was!

I was lucky enough to get a ticket for her run of concerts in 2014. For the “Ninth Wave” section (side 2 of the Hounds of Love album) “reality” was shown on screen, while she acted/sang the hallucination parts on stage. On screen they showed this, which is Kate, singing in a film studio water tank. You can hear the…

Which must have cost him a fortune seeing as that song was used in a major TV ad campaign in the UK for Marks & Spencer food. Amusingly M&S have decided that the perfect tune for flogging their summer clothing range this year is “Enola Gay”.

He was in a BBC Agatha Christie adaptation recently and I was wondering why he was suddenly jacked.  I should have known the answer was “Because Marvel”.

They’ve done well to hold on to their “big” status for so long after not being English champions since 1961. In the 80s and early 90s, the Big 5 were considered to be Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United, Arsenal and Spurs. Everton have historically been much more successful than Spurs, but haven’t been able to keep…

It would be ironic in the extreme if a relegated Everton get penalised for Financial Fair Play, and Manchester City get to keep their Premier League titles.

I liked the Steve Walsh quote about Leicester’s midfield being “Danny Drinkwater in the middle and Ngolo Kante either side.”.

Annoying as he is, that was great. And for me and a lot of my friends and family, very emotional as we grew up in the same part of South Liverpool as Macca. And if you ever visit Liverpool, that pub, the Philharmonic Dining Rooms, is well worth a visit. Classic horseshoe bar, side rooms called the Brahms and Liszt…

The first time I saw his show, I assumed it was a scripted parody.  It took me a while to be convinced that it was a real talk show.