Anyone else watch the Eurovision Song Contest? A frightening experience. Notable for the UK entry's achievement in scoring zero points, first time they've achieved that.

Big hooha in the media here (in a small way) about how all those nasty foreigners phoning in their votes gave it the thumbs down as a protest against Iraq. I'd say zero was a very fair score. But then it would have been a very fair score for almost all the entries.

However there was one pretty good one, from Belgium, and it came in a very close second - and here is a link to it. The lyrics are in a made up language, on some kind of principle. complete with bagpipes and a generally folky approach by the group assembled for the purpose, Urban Trad.

If you hunt around you can find all the other songs too, but I wouldn't bother. But it is a shame this kind of event can't actually be made up of good songs and good performances, in whatever style. That certainly ain't true as it is.

But that Belgian entry is worth listening to, I think, and it was encouraging that all over Europe there were a lot of people who voted for it in preferance to the rest of the crap.