Swiss Shambles!

The Schlagerboys tuned into the Swiss national final on Saturday. The entries this year were all a bit serious and dull, including far too many who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs. It was all a bit odd how the acts were only allowed to sing two minutes of their entry, while three random Swiss blokes, who clearly wouldn't know much about fun even if it came and slapped them in the face with a wet haddock, rambled on for ages between songs. Although keeping the songs down to two minutes was perhaps a blessing in disguise for some of the entries, especially the one that won.

There were a few highlights of the evening though...

 - Dame Lys Assia performing "C'était Ma Vie", to the cheers and a standing ovation from the assembled gayers in the audience.Lys has apparently takne the hump after coming 8th and demanded an apology from the judges for slagging her off.

 - Our favourite song was the cheesy bloke with a violin doing the only vaguely schlager song of the night. This would have been fab in Baku and will no doubt go down a storm in Eurodiscos for years to come. AND it had the first key-change of the 2012 National Final season (there may have been one earlier but the songs were too dull to notice.)

 - the videos of the presenter wandering round a barren building site in Baku, allegedly where the venue for Eurovision 2012 is being built, and asking if he could lend a hand to some bemused builders. He even offered to move a couple of concrete blocks around. We're not quite sure how serious this was ment to bebut it doesn't bode well for anyone going to Baku next May that the arena hasn't even been built yet.