Lordy!

Well, if you do have to be stuck in on a Saturday night, and you are sober, the best you can hope for is some quality television. Thankfully, Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest certainly provided a good few hours of mirth and merriment. And this was mainly down to the Finnish winners, Lordi, with their winning track: "Hard Rock Hallelujah".

Looking like a cross between Gwar and Land of the Dead, these mad Fins were a breath of fresh air to the campest competition in Europe and thankfully, apart from the tactical voting of the former Soviet Union countries, Europe got the joke. It was a "Twelve points for Finland" frenzy. They just had to win it though, with quality lyrics like "It’s the Arockalypse" and "On the day of Rockoning It’s who dares, wins" how could they fail?? Now hopefully they'll do the decent thing that all good Eurovision winners should do and disappear from whence they came, but for Saturday night they were truly rock gods!

Altogether now:
"All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of false
As the moon is rising
Give us the sign
Now let us rise up in awe

Rock ’n roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock ’n roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
In God’s creation supernatural high"