Baku: to the future...

This weekend sees an annual cultural event: the Eurovision Song Contest.
It is being held in Baku: the capital of Azerbaijan

Richard Allaway and I saw this poster in the back streets of Geneva a couple of weeks ago while heading for some fondue... The main image shows the famous 'flame towers'. There's some great architecture in the city, although there are some people who are concerned about certain issues regarding democracy in the country.



Here's the running order - looks like we kick things off !

  1. UNITED KINGDOM
  2. HUNGARY
  3. ALBANIA
  4. LITHUANIA
  5. BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA
  6. RUSSIA
  7. ICELAND
  8. CYPRUS
  9. FRANCE
  10. ITALY
  11. ESTONIA
  12. NORWAY
  13. AZERBAIJAN
  14. ROMANIA
  15. DENMARK
  16. GREECE
  17. SWEDEN
  18. TURKEY
  19. SPAIN
  20. GERMANY
  21. MALTA
  22. FYR MACEDONIA
  23. IRELAND
  24. SERBIA
  25. UKRAINE
  26. MOLDOVA
Perhaps time to dust off and update Tony Cassidy's classic Eurovision resources...

Here's the HUMP in action....


 or perhaps you prefer someone older...

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