Eurovision - Your country needs you...
Eurovision - Your country needs you...
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thatone1967

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4,227 posts

214 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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What an absolute abortion of a programme...

just about to turn it off...Graham Norton has forgotten his lines, the microphones appear to be not working correctly... and the 1st 2 acts cannot sing....

Edited by thatone1967 on Friday 12th March 20:48

FourWheelDrift

91,831 posts

307 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Plus it's song contest not a beauty contest. The song is already chosen (written by Pete Waterman) and they are just finding someone to sing it. Still there's no doubt a phone in vote so they can make money out of it.

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

232 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Best thing about it is the dancers and Jade's arse smile

anonymous-user

77 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Voting for Josh, he has been at a few local events my radio station has supported. Seen him live and he is good.

captainzep

13,306 posts

215 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Is...


Is Graham Norton... sporting leather lapels?


Wipe clean I suppose.


bonsai

2,015 posts

203 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Well I can say, without knowing anything about the other countries acts, that we have no hope of winning.

anonymous-user

77 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Josh can deliver a good performance, however it will come down to whether the song is catchy enough, which I am not sure it is.

H18 ENF

700 posts

192 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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I caught the last 2 (accidentally you understand) and my god they are awful.

I reckon I could sound better than them if I was drowning!

Still more diabolical output from the BBC. Who do they make television for at the moment??

Ace-T

8,271 posts

278 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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We accidentally caught the last bit of this (I stopped my Eurovision habit when Sir Tel went grumpy). Judas' reaction was, I felt, singularly appropriate, "What an absolute turd of a song."

I wholeheartedly agree. If we get more than a couple of points I will be genuinely surprised.

Trace smile

ewenm

28,506 posts

268 months

Friday 12th March 2010
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Can't we just abstain from Eurovision?

captainzep

13,306 posts

215 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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ewenm said:
Can't we just abstain from Eurovision?
On the evidence of the few minutes I saw, I'd say we were 'actively' abstaining.

Jasandjules

71,961 posts

252 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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Either the acoustics were off in the studio or none of them could particularly sing.

Finbarr saunders

206 posts

195 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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Jasandjules said:
Either the acoustics were off in the studio or none of them could particularly sing.
Don't blame the acoustics, they were all ste. I think we'll be lucky to get any points at all if that's the best they can do. Then again, I don't give a st.biggrin

FourWheelDrift

91,831 posts

307 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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I think the point though is not to win, it costs too much to host it.

Remember when Ireland entered Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal McGuire with My Lovely Horse, to make sure they didn't win it again.














What do you mean "that wasn't real"......?

anonymous-user

77 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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Josh was pretty good, however his style seems to be more the swing/Michael Buble type stuff. Not really my cup of tea TBH, but he is more suited to those style of songs.

He did well, the others were very bad, (I'm not being biased in anyway here), giving them all Stock Aitken and Waterman songs to start with was probably not a good idea. The track written for them is, IMHO not catchy or distinctive enough, especially when played back to back with last year's winner.
Last year we did quite well, a big ballad always goes down well, and with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren writing the music & lyrics respectively you couldn't really go wrong.
I hope our entry does well, however the song isn't really up to last years standard. As for affording to run it, don't forget that the UK, France German and Spain usually bankroll a large chunk of it anyway. Being part of the big four (which also includes Italy who no longer enter), we gain automatic immunity from being chucked out of the Contest before the finals, because we are the four biggest contributors tot he EBU.

deevlash

10,442 posts

260 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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we always seem to do some kind of earnest heart felt serious pop song. God knows why,the songs that actually win it are cheesy cheery oompah type stuff with performers who either wear ridiculous costumes or chicks who wear nothing at all. Or its won by a dude who had his cock cut off.

anonymous-user

77 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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This is the eurovision remember wink


deevlash

10,442 posts

260 months

Saturday 13th March 2010
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Nolar dog for eurovision 2011. You heard it here first.

honest_delboy

1,670 posts

223 months

Sunday 14th March 2010
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I'm still singing the winning song from last year!

"years ago, when i was younger, i met a girl i kinda liked.." etc etc

  • gets coat*

cazzer

8,883 posts

271 months

Sunday 14th March 2010
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For me it peaked here.....2005....