Me several months ago be like “Well I suppose Eurovision will be
interesting..” Me earlier this week; “Pleeese let me win those Final tickets”
(spoiler- I didn’t win them!). That’s what happens when something like
Eurovision pitches up virtually on your doorstep. Yesterday afternoon I popped
into the city centre for no other reason than to soak up the atmosphere and it
struck me that it would be great if life was like this all the time. I don’t
mean a perpetual song contest (that would be too much!), rather the bonhomie, fun
and pure joy that has exuded from this whole thing. Then you wake up the next
day and realise the only reason it was held here was because of something
terrible going on in Ukraine who should have been staging it and of course
there is no separating those things. I really hope one day soon a city in Ukraine
gets to experience what Liverpool has this week and when it happens it helps
heal things a bit.
