Eurovision 2015

[vonuber]

I remember those Polish milk maids. Oh my.

[drivin_me_nuts]

I can't wait. It's so overblown crap, it's great. Please England null points. God forbid we ever think of taking this seriously.

[bexVN]

kowalski655 said:

IIRC its a one off as Eurovision is so big down under.
Not sure what would happen if they win though

They did explain this on BBC the other day but for the life of me I can't remember what they sai...I think another country would host it for them.

ETA
From the Independent:

"If Australia win then SBS – the public broadcaster which is an Associate Member of the EBU – will jointly host the Contest in a European country with another EBU Member," said the EBU's Dave Goodman. "And they would get the chance to defend their title too."

Edited by bexVN on Saturday 23 May 00:18

Edited by bexVN on Saturday 23 May 00:19

[anonymous-user]

SPR2 said:

I quite like Estonia too.

I thought it had hints of Ville Valo/Natalia Avalon's cover of "Summer Wine" particularly with the backing track guitar sounds.

Seems like others have thought this as well.

[IanMorewood]

Watched the semi-finals and have to say the Russians are IMO clear winners.

[drivin_me_nuts]

IanMorewood said:

Watched the semi-finals and have to say the Russians are IMO clear winners.

You reckon... or will the politics of annoyed eastern block voters stick a hammer and sickle up at 'em.

[anonymous-user]

drivin_me_nuts said:

You reckon... or will the politics of annoyed eastern block voters stick a hammer and sickle up at 'em.

Will be interesting to see, in theory the ideal song with the prettiest singer, but will anti Russian sentiment lose it votes?

Also I wonder how big the gay vote will be for Australia's entry.

The thing with Eurovision now is that you rarely get a badly performed or far out act on there now.
They are very much generic pop/rock/ballad radio friendly fares, with none of the obscure far Eastern European folk groups or singers that you used to get.

A lot of these songs you could drop into a Magic FM, Heart FM, Radio 2 playlist, and you would not know they were a Eurovision act.

It tends to be our ones that are usually the worst. This years is no exception

[Ace-T]

anonymous said:

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It is a shame that there is no Ireland entry in the final; because after today's vote in Ireland, winning it would be a great way to celebrate.

[anonymous-user]

Well, the OH is off working tonight, so I might resurrect my old tradition of getting trashed whilst laughing my arse off at EV

[poing]

Symbolica said:

Well, the OH is off working tonight, so I might resurrect my old tradition of getting trashed whilst laughing my arse off at EV

Holy crap, well reminded. I haven't started drinking yet!

Can't watch EV sober, I've already arranged for someone else to drive tomorrow so I have some catching up to do.

Did we all have a drinking game for EV last year or was that just me?

[0a]

Okay so who's going to win this year?

[Laurel Green]

I'm getting all excited!

[PoleDriver]

Just checking the F5 button works OK!

[poing]

0a said:

Okay so who's going to win this year?

I'm going for Australia, only because then they have to host a lot of people from Europe next year

[anonymous-user]

I don't think Australia would host it if they won, I think there is an agreement that it would be held or partly held in another country closer to home.

[SGirl]

0a said:

Okay so who's going to win this year?

Sweden. But I'm a bit biased, I've liked Måns Zelmerlöw's music since he released his first album a few years ago.

[anonymous-user]

What's our song like?

[anonymous-user]

Symbolica said:

What's our song like?

Not good.

Swing, type of thing. A bit like Doop gone horribly wrong!

[0a]

I'm pleased to see this hasn't been placed in the 'music' section!

[Laurel Green]

Here we go.