Duo find plenty to cry about

Liverpudlian duo Jemini are coming to terms with being the first UK act to score "nil points" in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Chris Crosbey, 21, and Gemma Abbey, 20, notched up the UK's worst performance in the competition with their song, Cry Baby.

It was penned by Martin Isherwood, who is head of music at Sir Paul McCartney's "fame school", the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

He started in the music industry as a self-taught guitarist before studying for nine years to gain a masters degree in composition.

Citing the Netherlands' 1975 winner Ding Dinge Dong as his favourite Eurovision song, he told the BBC's Eurovision webpage that he wrote Cry Baby on the train to Liverpool.

Sir Paul sent a message to the band before last night's show: "Best of luck, we'll all be rooting for you and listening to Terry Wogan commenting on you.

"Go Martin, go Jemini and Cry Baby."

Chris and Gemma had described Cry Baby as a "very Eurovision, poppy song".

Saturday's disappointment was a long way from the optimism they showed when they beat off competition from seven other regional finalists in the Song For Europe live television poll in March which attracted the votes of more than 100,000 viewers.

Gemma said at the time: "We wanted this so badly, we're over the moon.

"We definitely stand a chance in Eurovision - the song's brilliant."

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