Even by the fabulous, outrageous, unapologetically over-the-top standards of the Eurovision Song Contest, Trollfest’s January 15 performance at the Melodi Grand Prix, Norway’s televised pre-selection tournament to select the nation’s entry for the annual festival of song, was A Moment.
Introduced by Rammstein-style jets of flames, on a stage decorated with inflatable palm trees, a squad of burly musicians sporting pink flamingo costumes pranced around in circles to parping folk-metal as their frontman encouraged the audience to get their “freak on” on the “dancing floor” and “dance like there’s no tomorrow”. Fuck knows what the live audience at the H3 Arena in Fornebu made of this endearingly ludicrous spectacle, but when footage of the performance was posted online, The Internet was charmed and captivated: “Why on earth wouldn’t you pick this one?”reads the first comment underneath the clip. “It has everything you can ever ask for from a Eurovision hit.”
Sadly, for our plucky, feathered heroes, it was not to be: voted through to the competition’s Last Chance Gold Duel eliminator - don’tfor a place in the national final, at which the good people of Norway duly elected Subwoolfer - two men in black suits sporting yellow wolf head masks singing - as their Eurovision 2022 ambassadors. What a time to be alive.
