In preparation for the main singing event the entries have been whittled down by two semi finals. The first semi final saw that Jedward got through to the final as well as the Russian grannies.

On Thursday night another ten countries qualified:

But what acts performed at the second semi finals that unfortunately will never be seen again.

Georgia

Anri Jokhadze and his sexy backing dancers didn’t manage to get through to the final with the song ‘I’m a Joker’. In the video the women kept writing on goldfish bowls, only for them to get smashed later on probably because Jokhadze is a joker.

The Netherlands

Joan, with her song ‘You and Me’, also failed which was quite sad because Joan had a nice mixture of good song while she was dressed up in a Native American headdress. Clearly too normal for Eurovision.

Belarus

Litesound looked a bit like the Belarus version of ’90s boyband A1, I mean Litesound even had curtain haircuts.

Slovenia

Slovenia’s entry for the Eurovision possible didn’t get past the semi-finals because Eva Boto had a funny hat. I mean Royal Wedding funny hat standards.

So the second semi final was not as funny as the first, but hopefully on Saturday we shall have a mostly European smorgasbord of weird performances and costumes. If you want to watch the semi-finals beforehand then semi-final one and two are both up on BBC iPlayer.