Have a listen http://www.myspace.com/teapacks.

Teapacks, a punkísh Israeli band, stutter and squeak: “I don’t want to die; I want to see the flowers bloom; Don’t want to go kapoot-kaboom, and I don’t want to cry; I wanna have a lot of fun, just sitting in the sun; But nevertheless — he’s gonna PUSH THE BUTTON.”

Who is he?

Well clearly, the Eurovisionaries, think he is the President of Iran. After all ‘he’ is wildly rumoured to be using civil nuclear technology as a mask for developing nuclear weapons, he is even developing nuclear fuel production technology like that of a number of other countries which could be used to make nuclear weapons material. And, from an Israeli perspective, he’s none to keen on Israel and is a founder member of the ‘holocaust didn’t happen flat earth society’.

But, wait.

How many people could actually “Push the button”? At the latest count, it is nine: George Bush (US), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Tony Blair (UK), Dominique de Villepin (France), Hu Jintao (China), Manmohan Singh (India), Pervez Musharraf (Pakisatan), Ehud Olmert (Isreal), Kim Jong-il (North Korea). No Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran) on the “Who could push the button list”!

I was looking to see if I could find out how many people actually watch the show on TV, but you can only spend so much time checking “Eurovision audience numbers”, and for sure it is going to be a depressingly large number of people. I think it’s a good idea that they think about the issues raised by Teapacks.

I did find one interesting fact though: the original theme song for the programme is called Te deum. No, really. But, surely a mis-spelling. Tedium. http://www.esctoday.com/

Oh well its only rock on roll! The only button that I'll be pushing on Eurovison night is the TV off button (not that nasty climate killing standby button, but the definitive no power consumption off switch, on the wall). Ban the bomb -- ban the button -- not the song!