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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 23:37 
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I liked Iceland, Sweden and of course.. the UK.

I'm going to start recording my Eurovision song tomorrow. I've decided I want to enter next year. It can't be that hard to get in, can it?


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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MaliA wrote:
We need a BeeX Eurovision party.

May be difficult to get the cottage at this time of year now that it's a wedding venue.


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 Post subject: Eurovision Song Contest
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
MaliA wrote:
We need a BeeX Eurovision party.

May be difficult to get the cottage at this time of year now that it's a wedding venue.

we thought about having one round our house and inviting everyone but events conspired against us. Maybe next year.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Yay Sweden!


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Do all the nations in the contest have open phone votes like we do? (Though it seems ours isn't entirely public -- there's 5 judges or something?). It just seems like the Balkans is one massive circlejerk where everyone 12 points each other.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
MaliA wrote:
We need a BeeX Eurovision party.

May be difficult to get the cottage at this time of year now that it's a wedding venue.


MrsA sends her apologies but will not be able to make it to BeeX cottage III.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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What? That's the only reason we invite you!

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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I'm sensing a trap. It'll be all "hey, you're MaliA and cool, can I have your autograph?" and then I'll write my name and then I'm married.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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1st Semi Final is about to start on BBC 3

Morte's prediction regarding the UK Entry on Saturday...bottom half, crap weak assed nonsense and a complete waste of Tyler's voice.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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I'm not watching any of the semi finals this year and I've avoided hearing our entry. I'm going in cold on Saturday and I'll be tweeting about it I'm sure.

Watching the semi finals ruined it for me last year.


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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According to Top Of The Pops 1978, this is our surefire winner entry this year:



(starts 1:30)

Still, Black Lace next year. They'll surely win.

[edit: see if you can spot a future Eurovision winner in that line-up]


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 20:09 
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I'm not watching any of the semi finals this year and I've avoided hearing our entry. I'm going in cold on Saturday and I'll be tweeting about it I'm sure.


Me too. One night per year is enough, and part of the fun is being surprised by each act.


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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I agree. Though I will watch the semi finals after the final.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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I agree

No semi finals for me. But then no final either this year, as i'm off for a swanky posho dinner on saturday night :D
I might record it.


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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the tension yesterday, when we were the last to get in, finally after 9 years of barren eurovisions...

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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the tension yesterday, when we were the last to get in, finally after 9 years of barren eurovisions...

You don't really care though, do you? Not really?


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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The Dutch song was one of the best last night...most of the others that got through to the finals were a pretty bland bunch.

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@davpaz, not really really.. i was chatting along on the phone with some female and gay friends discussing the outfits:) via whatsapp..

But it did get a bit frustrating, seeing year after year of chanceless dutch nonsense, from false singing indians to girls who where lost on bare feet.. so this is an improvement..

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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@davpaz, not really really.. i was chatting along on the phone with some female and gay friends discussing the outfits:) via whatsapp..

But it did get a bit frustrating, seeing year after year of chanceless dutch nonsense, from false singing indians to girls who where lost on bare feet.. so this is an improvement..


Well, to be fair, i really liked the dutch indian girl. I'm sure many other people/men liked too.


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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It happens every year that some of the singers get caught out by the fact that they can't hear themselves, and then it sounds like they can't sing. This year it happened to the poor Spanish girl. :(

Here's hoping the Danish girl fares better ...

They really should start training for this the moment they know they'll be on Eurovision.


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Armenia's song composed by Tony Iommi? :blown:


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Good luck, Throughsilver!

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Finland or Romania for me...


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Romanian Campire was awesome too.

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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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The real winner was the Swedish lady in the giant martini glass full of milk.

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The real winner was the Swedish lady in the giant martini glass full of milk.

Om nom nom


They would have won with that song, definitely.


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
PostPosted: Sat May 18, 2013 23:41 
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Regular viewers will know that every year since about 1992 I have suggested that Right Said Fred do the contest, It makes sense as they can write a catchy tune with european appeal (they sell lots of records over there) + have great stage presence and huge experience in live performance.

Had a tweet from them this evening saying they had indeed been asked in the past but didn't do it because of the voting.

It's a rum deal when even a band with appeal all over Europe feel they would get a hammering doing it just for their nationality. Go on Youtube and there is recent footage of them performing all over Europe to packed venues and they are still knocking out the catchy tunes.


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Sums it up yet again.



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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Well deserved. Denmark song was lovely, as was the girl.

And respect for the Romanian falsetto vampire. :metul:


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What's it like to be in Eurovision, looking like you are going to to win it and then it being snatched from you at the last second? Scott Fitzgerald knows:



If you are wondering why Brucie is in the audience, his daughter wrote the song. This song in fact. And it was that well known Swiss singer Celine Dione who snatched it at the last possible moment.



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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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Had a tweet from [right said fred] this evening saying they had indeed been asked in the past but didn't do it because of the voting.


I saw that and thought "Wow, the Internet is fabulous". I once had a tweet from MC Ren from NWA, dontchaknow. Made my week.


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Why don't we do Eurovision's got Talent or XFactor-Eurovision to pick who to send? It'd be better than Scooch and Humperdink. The Swedish have been doing it since the 60s (Melodifestivalen) and it picked ABBA, so it can't be too-shit of an idea.

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Why don't we do Eurovision's got Talent or XFactor-Eurovision to pick who to send? It'd be better than Scooch and Humperdink. The Swedish have been doing it since the 60s (Melodifestivalen) and it picked ABBA, so it can't be too-shit of an idea.


And it's actually a big deal there and they actually have proper artists taking part!


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Why don't we do Eurovision's got Talent or XFactor-Eurovision to pick who to send? It'd be better than Scooch and Humperdink. The Swedish have been doing it since the 60s (Melodifestivalen) and it picked ABBA, so it can't be too-shit of an idea.


We used to do it. Didn't work as the British public are generally shit at picking such things. X-Factor is only successful because it is so heavily engineered and controlled that the public are brainwashed into voting for who Cowell wants. Speaking of which:



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chinnyhill10 wrote:
Had a tweet from [right said fred] this evening saying they had indeed been asked in the past but didn't do it because of the voting.


I saw that and thought "Wow, the Internet is fabulous". I once had a tweet from MC Ren from NWA, dontchaknow. Made my week.


On another Eurovision note, this lady also started following me last night.

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Who of course performed this in 1982:



2.07 It's Paul Calf!


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Pod wrote:
Why don't we do Eurovision's got Talent or XFactor-Eurovision to pick who to send? It'd be better than Scooch and Humperdink. The Swedish have been doing it since the 60s (Melodifestivalen) and it picked ABBA, so it can't be too-shit of an idea.

We used to do that, and picked scooch. So stopped doing it.


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If Scotland goes independent, they probably won't give us any points either.


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If Scotland goes independent, they probably won't give us any points either.


Gets abit complicated if Scotland goes independent. The broadcaster needs to be a member of the EBU and pay a hefty entry fee. Then if you are unlucky enough to win you get lumbered with the costs of hosting it.

I believe the SNP suggested that STV push for entry and they ran a mile!


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 Post subject: Re: Eurovision Song Contest
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My girlfriend had a go at me last night for daring to point out the obvious that most of the voting is tactical between neighbouring blocs of nations. She told me that's because countries that are geographically close and/or have the same or similar languages also have close cultural tastes, so they are only voting for what they actually like, and besides, Britain is collectively paranoid about non-English speaking countries and would automatically concoct a mad conspiracy theory.

I remain unconvinced.


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The UK used to win a lot when the rule was that a country had to sing in it's own language. Since that got changed and most of the songs because English, we won a lot less.

I, unsurprisingly, loved the Cascade song for Germany.

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The UK used to win a lot when the rule was that a country had to sing in it's own language. Since that got changed and most of the songs because English, we won a lot less.


The sing in your own language rule existed between 1966 and 1972 and again from 1978 to 1998. While all but one of the UK's wins is outside this period (1976) I don't think it has a lot to do with it. You might as well level this accusation at Ireland. All you have to do is construct a "winner" like this Norwegian entry from 1985:



And bloc voting has been a long proven statistical thing. There was a statistician on the BBC news the other day who had worked it all out.


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Why don't we do Eurovision's got Talent or XFactor-Eurovision to pick who to send? It'd be better than Scooch and Humperdink. The Swedish have been doing it since the 60s (Melodifestivalen) and it picked ABBA, so it can't be too-shit of an idea.


We used to do it. Didn't work as the British public are generally shit at picking such things.

Except for "Love Shine A Light", I guess.

[edit] And didn't "Better the Devil You Know" come third, or something?
[editedit] Second!
[editeditedit] "One Step Out of Time" was second, too! Sam Janus, er, wasn't.

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