Hit of the Day – Shiru

Why we love, love, love Shiru

• It’s not shown in the above clip but the postcard preceding their performance showed the Israelis getting pissed on a train and pretending to look sad and poignant at The Queenstown Experience in Cobh. Fabulous.
• 0:16 – The girls have raided the seventies for dresses! Bless! We’re loving the ruffled sleeves girls! It must have been all the rage in Tel Aviv! Or as Terry Wogan famously commented on the night “Shiru, dressed like refugees from a Christmas cake.”
• 00:20 – Ultra smooth Israeli strutting into shot from the boys! Gotta love timeless Israeli choreography. We’ll have to do a special feature on how this move has been used by Israeli performers at Eurovision since biblical times right up to the present day!
• They really do look like they’ve been dressed by the wardrobe people who do Lord Weber’s BBC reality musical theatre shows! Bonus points for the AIDS ribbons of course; ahead of their time here!
• 00:40 – What a chorus! Shiru, shiru strut-stut-strut!
• 00:53 – WOW! Love, love, love the turn to camera! And they reference “Yamaha”, the maker of their grand piano! Smooth product placement guys.
• 1:00 – OMG, it’s Morag from Home and Away! I never knew she was Israeli! Looks like she’s lost the use of her legs though; not that it stops her playing her Yamaha grnd piano like a woman possessed!
• Oh these guys are great singers but it is a pity that singing in Hebrew sounds a smoker of twenty Major clearing their throat!
• 1:34 – It’s Morag again! We love her, her purple blouse and her lace frock!
• 1:48  – Sing a song, sing, till you can no more. OMG, they are singing in English! But what about the free langugae rule? Oh it’s Israel I suppose they have a habit of making their own rules. The RTE Concert Orchestra looks utterly bored in the background so theyy’re obviously not shocked by it.
• 2:08 – Ethnic middle eastern drumming! Fab! And more strutting!
• 2:14 – OMG who the hell is she? Random bird in a white dress appears stage left? Where the hell did she come from and who is she? Why are she and Morag seperate from the rest of the group?Has their been a huge bust up in rehearsals?
• 2:26 – Shiru, shiru strut from right to left! What a chorus line, what a dance move
• 2:40 – OMG ! KEY CHANGE LANGUAGE CHANGE, AND MORAG WALKS! She slots into that tightly choreographed group like a profesionnal porn star! They’re something of the Von Trapps about Morag and her insanely happy younger friends
• From here on it’s an orgasmic, strutting, cresecnedo of a finale; even the girl in white gets to sneak centre stage right at the end… let the world know… sing a song!

Now, you might find this hard to believe but with 3 points from Portugal and 1 from France, Shiru finished second from bottom with 4 points. Unbelievable! It did however encourage me to dedicate my life to singing, strutting and offering much needed Styling Och Consulting to people who look like refugees from a Christmas cake!