Ian Jones

Sorry to hear your teeth fell out in the Arndale Centre

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

@davadski @SkillageSteve @tvcream I can't remember exactly, but I think it's from a royal occasion in the 1970s or 80s - a jubilee or a wedding - for which an amateur choir performed a song on the BBC that included this line.

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

@SkillageSteve @tvcream I have no memory of writing this, but I think it's mine. It reads fairly well for something that's from a *cough* generation ago.

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

@grahamkw What's that he's saying?

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

@grahamkw Didn't take long.

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

@adrianstirrup @merseytart My default reaction whenever I find myself queuing in a store cafe is to start thinking about side-winding thermal body-belts.

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh... #Eurovision

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

Expecting the interval act to be Russ Abbot doing Atmosphere. #Eurovision2023📷

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

I hope someone has checked that ceiling tile for asbestos. #Eurovision

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

If nothing else, Ireland have raised the bar for a lead singer doing so little lead singing. #Eurovision

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

Latvia get 100 bonus points for doing part of their song in 5/4 time (and doing it brilliantly). #Eurovision

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

Here comes the best song: Malta. #Eurovision

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh... #Eurovision

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

Why I've been looking at Eurovision audiences.

https://t.co/DJaEBEdia4

[Ian Jones @ian_a_jones]

I've spent the last few months listening to every one of the 1,373 songs to appear in the Eurovision Song Contest final from 1956 to 2022.

Here's what I discovered.

https://t.co/FXBOjbUGNk

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

A few of my favourite Eurovision audiences, collected over the past few months while listening to every single song in the contest's history for a story for work.

First, 1977. Everyone feels like they have a shady, possibly seedy, secret to tell.

[Ian Jones @metro_land]

1972. Glyndebourne coach party takes wrong turning.