Eurovision’s Global Dominion:
Awesomely Bad, or a Sign of the Arockalypse?
On May 18, 2006, the stage at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece lit up in a shock of blue, red, and green flashing lights to reveal a gathering of five instrument-clad...creatures. A keyboard-banging man-monster wore a deflated astronaut’s suit and enough black and white face makeup to put Gene Simmons to shame. A bald guitarist’s dog collar made him seem the victim of a recent and violent decapitation. A singer teetered on platform boots that brought him several feet
