The UK Hosted a Song Contest! (Reflections on the OGAE Song Contest 2019)
*SPOILER ALERT* Please do not read any further if you have not gone and watched this year's OGAE Song Contest or if you have any interest in the result. As this article will explore, a lot of work went into this contest by various OGAE UK members including myself and it would mean a lot for you to watch the finished product before reading about it which you can do so here. The story of the OGAE Song Contest 2019 began of course with the previous year's contest. I watched the results from the Australia-hosted contest from Clapham Junction station in the brisk November cold as I made my way back to Chichester from London. To my great surprise, Steps had defied the odds to win OGAE UK a song contest, the first in my time as an OGAE member! There was something incredibly surreal hearing the phrase "And our twelve points go to the United Kingdom" from nations across Europe, something that is indicative of my country's current form at the main contest. In the excit