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Eurovision Long Player – Dervish (Ireland 2007)

More Eurovision music on the Trinity Mirror’s Boom Bang a Blog as I continuing to look at the discography and music of Eurovision entrants before and after they’ve appeared on the world’s biggest television show. This week it’s the turn of Dervish…

Every Eurovision entry stands on the shoulders of giants, the artists and myths that have built up over time. Portugal’s inability to get any higher than sixth place, the almost pathological gallic need to sing in French, the ability to avoid doing a Jemini…

But representing Ireland comes with enough baggage to fill Terminal 5 at Heathrow. This is the most successful country in the contest; the western country that people can vote for without having any political qualms; this is the country that managed to contribute to the greatest Father Ted episode of all time.

Dervish

Even now, listening to “They Can’t Stop The Spring” you’d think it would do well at Eurovision. A great song, wonderful composition, powerful lyrics, a showcase of all the best of Irish music. Why were we not back in Dublin for 2008?

The full article can be read on is on Boom Bang a Blog; Travelling Show, by Dervish, is published by Whirling Discs and is available from Amazon.

November 17, 2009; Eurovision, Links to my Articles;

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