Eurovision....

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Anyone else looking forward to watching an evening of absolute dross, comedy presenting, political voting and Wogan commentaries?

If you haven't seen the UK entry then here we are....

Daz Sampson...
 
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Brian Kennedy is singing a song he wrote himself after what appeared to be a bit of a fiddle. It's quite pleasant and he is an excellent performer, but I doubt that matters too much anymore.
 
Leaving aside the fact that the music is all toss, the voting is all political anyway.

It`s about time the BBC just shitcanned it`s coverage.
 
Ok it's tosh, but great tosh. Bosnia is the value bet. The song is a bit weird, but the sort of catchy dross that could win. Remember how the balkan states votes tend to vote for each other. Greece is veryaverage so makes value for Bos and Romania.

You may jest but this is a chance to make easy money.
 
Ah yes... Civil war has definately given the Balkans the edge of late. I seem to think the break up of the Soviet Union ensured that the Baltic States had a purple patch in the 90's too, especially as they were able to rope in a few Scandanavians to supplement their cartel.

Not sure why Western European countries enter?, especially as we have to pay more for the television rights, and effectively bankroll the whole charade. Italy have at least had the good sense to take the high moral ground and pull out I believe? I would put them up as the craddle of the renaissance, and thus the moral guardians of high culture etc Then again, I've seen Italian television and think I'd be struggling to defend that line. I'm predicting a win for a catchy tune, sung by a half naked girlie, with a few male dancers, from a country ending in the letters IA.

What I've never understood about the politics of the vote though, is why all these sworn enemies and seriously uncomfortable neighbours with such a litinany of not just historical, but recent enmity, actually vote for each other? I mean that's at least one thing you can say about us and the French? at least we bring a refreshing honesty to the proceedings, totally unable as we are to suspend a mutual loathing for just a couple of hours every year in the name of light entertainment, and the entente cordiale :teeth:
 
Well I love it - I watch purely for the "oh my god what have they got on" ness of it, and Tery Wogan gets funnier and funnier every year....


oh - and I actually like our entry this year too :D
 
My friend and I are having a Eurovision party tomorrow evening in celebration of the show. Yeah we have no life :blink:

I have it down to two now:

* Sweden - Carola (Invincible - sung in Swedish)
* Romania - Mihai Traistariu (Tornero - a mix of Romanian and English)

My outsider, and its quite a roughie too, Albania. I like this guy a lot, he adds a new perspective to the show. However when it comes to voting, and the way its traditionally favoured by region, I don't know how he is going to fare. Maybe they will pick up the votes from Greece, Cyrpus, Malta, Armenia, and the Yugoslavian countries.

That is why I favoured Romanian and Sweden. One can easily predict that Sweden will grab majority of the votes from Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany and some of the Baltic countries. Whereas Romania has got the Eastern European block of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Russia, Moldova, Russia and the Baltic countries.
Also Romania did well last year, and after Sistem/Luminita Anghel's "Let Me Try" which was my fave, I didn't think it could be bettered, but Mihai definitely has done that for me.

I also think the other three to fill in the top five positions will be be between Spain, Ireland and Malta. Spain has the Andalusion theme happening again and I like their piece, Brian Kennedy is just a brilliant performer and how can we forget "You Raise Me Up", and Malta has Fabrizio whom did well the last time he performed.

The worst song I have heard is definitely the Polish one. Others that seemed to have hit the wrong direction in 2006 are Moldova (they were brilliant in 2005 on debut), Turkey (I feel for Sertab Erener, she put Turkey on the map to be drowned by Guersen last year and now the trash they have representing them in 2006), Ukraine (have also gone totally backwards since Ruslana).

Here's to hoping. And also here's to the fantastic commentary that the English dude provides, which is half the reason to watching this show.
 
Originally posted by Grand Armee@May 18 2006, 12:12 PM
And also here's to the fantastic commentary that the English dude provides, which is half the reason to watching this show.
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How come the Aussies get an "english dude" and we have to put up with a guffawing irishman?
 
Originally posted by Irish Stamp@May 18 2006, 09:06 AM
Oops I meant Finland's entry
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Death Metal :confused:
 
Always worth a watch. The Latvian entry sounds most interesting, basically opens with a series of "Doop, deep, doop, da da's", and doesnt really pick up much after that. The vote the British public gave for Daz Sampson really sums up the correct attitude we've taken to the competition, poor old Daz thinks his songs good, when its quite woeful.
 
Yeah I was stunned he was part of that, they've thrown out some pretty good tracks. However, anyone who thinks Teenage Life is a good song is clearly deranged.
 
Originally posted by jairducochetfan@May 18 2006, 01:39 PM
Always worth a watch. The Latvian entry sounds most interesting, basically opens with a series of "Doop, deep, doop, da da's", and doesnt really pick up much after that. The vote the British public gave for Daz Sampson really sums up the correct attitude we've taken to the competition, poor old Daz thinks his songs good, when its quite woeful.
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I think we'll do well this year, tune is quite catchy if nowt else.
 
Sorry it's wofeful. And with most of europe still hating us, it will get very few marks. Watch for Romania or Boz.
 
Well, after watching every single song in the heats last night, I now consider myself to be the Greatest Living Authority on wimins knickers. Dreadful stuff altogether. I actually had a bet on Brian Kennedy qualifying. I appreciate he may not appeal to the agegroup who would be most likely to actually vote on this crap but given that it was the only decent, honest song amongst them I was surprised he was odds against to get through. I lost some of it back laying the guys who look like 1960's Star Trek extras at 1/3. How could anyone be inspired to lift up a phone and vote for that shite.

From the heats, I thought the most likely winner was the Russian song which, while it does nothing for me, obviously has some merit and the guy singing it will appeal to all the little girls with their mobiles on the ready. As an alternative I would go for the "Vote for the winners of the Eurovision" (can't remember the country) which is entertainingly God awful and quite catchy, with decent performers.
 
Finland's was exquisite, when the BBC presenter gave them sparklers afterwards :lol:

I was a big fan of Lithuania...

"We are the winners..............of Eurovision"
 
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