[LMBTO] Me & Kasia Moś at The London Eurovision Party Press Event...

Now before I go any further, I have to highlight my one annoyance about the whole day at The London Eurovision Party .  No, absolutely nothing to do with the lady above, it was to do with my mobile phone!  The really nice picture that I thought I had of her and me did not come out, so that was yet another schoolboy error on my part.  I have used one from party.pl to make up for it, as it shows how relaxed she was being interviewed.  As for my interview, I could not have asked for a better person to end with in London - a very eloquent and passionate lady...


Greig from DWB Music helped again in securing this interview, although I had to wait until after her soundcheck, much in the same way as I had to with Jana.  Her delegation representative was true to his word before she left for that - as soon as he saw me later, he got my attention and we went outside again for a nice relaxing chat.  It was getting noisy down in the Square itself though - I assume that the alcohol had been flowing amongst the crowd in the bright sunshine and yes, that was a chainsaw being operated:

It was obvious that Kasia has strongly held passions - having her brother with her in Kyiv was obviously very important to her, as was her love of animals, to the extent that she was prepared to do a photo spread in the Polish version of Playboy magazine.  As far as her comments about animal rights were concerned and how "Flashlight" was about that and not really about forbidden love between two people, as I thought it was, they were a major insight into how this lady ticked.  If I had another opportunity to chat with Kasia, it would be about her work with animal charities and against animal cruelty - an aspect of life and politics that I haven't heard often, if at all, at Eurovision.  As she said, some people might think that Eurovision isn't the place to raise such issues but I hope that she has the opportunity to raise her views as much as possible in Kyiv - maybe she has a more receptive audience here in the UK than possibly in other parts of Europe but as she herself said:


I think that I got a lot of information from her that I hadn't heard before from other interviews and she actually made me relax when I was chatting to her!  Yet another charming artist to talk to and I was delighted with this sign off from the press event.  And I WAS being sincere when I said that I would be sad if she didn't make the Final...


Once I had finished chatting with Kasia, my press day was done!  Four hours gone, six interviews completed and I was delighted with all of them - so much so that I didn't feel the need to edit any of them.  From my first chat with Chris West to my last with Kasia, I had been really enjoying my time as part of the Eurovision press pack and I felt very comfortable doing so.  I even surprised myself when I coped with interviewing Chris about his book with absolutely no notes or questions to help me!  As for the five others, the old adage of "Preparation, Preparation, Preparation"seemed to hold me in good stead throughout my chats.  I can definitely improve (cutting some words I repeat often would be a start) but after Eurobash 2016, Eesti Laul and The London Eurovision Party, the press bug has totally got me!

That was where my press lanyard came off - I became a Eurovision fan yet again.  What happened next, at 5pm on Sunday 2nd April?