{"id":496,"date":"2010-05-23T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/?p=496"},"modified":"2010-05-23T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:49:43","slug":"oh-my-gosh-its-josh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2010\/05\/23\/oh-my-gosh-its-josh\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh my gosh &#8211; it&#8217;s Josh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How remarkable that as Karen and I arrived at the Telanor arena yesterday for the first time, Josh Dubovie \u2013 the UK\u2019s entrant for ESC210 \u2013 was rehearsing the Pete Waterman penned <em>That Sounds Good To Me<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are many people who think that the song doesn\u2019t actually sound good at all.\u00a0 But to be fair the track has been radically re-worked since the BBC\u2019s selection programme <em>Your Country Needs You <\/em>aired a couple of months ago.\u00a0\u00a0You will get used to my quite dodgy camera skills over the week, but here is what the stage looks like \u2013 with Josh working on what isn\u2019t quite a fully polished performance just yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/jshreh34web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497  aligncenter\" title=\"jshreh34web\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/jshreh34web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/jshreh34web.jpg 336w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/jshreh34web-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-499\" title=\"joshrehweb\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehweb.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehweb-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehwebweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-500\" title=\"joshrehwebweb\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehwebweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehwebweb.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshrehwebweb-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here\u2019s Josh doing his thang on Saturday afternoon\u2026<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/utdxPDrlkc0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/utdxPDrlkc0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>After the rehearsal I went to the first UK press conference, and Josh seems like a likeable and genuine guy. Pete Waterman and Graham Norton will be attending the press conference on Friday, so more on that later in the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshpc1web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-498\" title=\"joshpc1web\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshpc1web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshpc1web.jpg 336w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/joshpc1web-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josh made a point of saying that when he performs in the final on Saturday 29 May it will be the most important three minutes of his life.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope that&#8217;s it&#8217;s not time wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How remarkable that as Karen and I arrived at the Telanor arena yesterday for the first time, Josh Dubovie \u2013 the UK\u2019s entrant for ESC210 \u2013 was rehearsing the Pete Waterman penned That Sounds Good To Me.\u00a0 There are many people who think that the song doesn\u2019t actually sound good at all.\u00a0 But to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oh my gosh - it&#039;s Josh! 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