Eurovision 2007
 

Anybody watching?

Just the last few minutes, the finals are on Saturday.

After seeing who made the finals, they should rename it: East Eurovision

There will never be another band like Lordi. Eurovision will never be the same. 8-X

'COURSE I'll be watching. You just gotta love the British entry Scooch, shows how seriosuly we take this estemed music competition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/eurovision/2007/

The French song went over the top as well... L'amour à la française by the Fatals Picards.
http://www.fatalspicards.com/videos.php

I absolutely love the Eurovision Song Contests (and I’m straight!). I love the fact that some countries take it terribly seriously and others (mainly us) just take the piss.

I was particularly taken with the year that when they were doing the voting all the other countries presented their votes in front of a monument or palace or castle – and we presented ours from Old Compton St.

I also like the fact that most countries just vote for the countries they get on with best.

It’s going to be hard to top Lordi though.

The UK entry is irritatingly catchy - rather like chickenpox. Would you like to fly Scooch airlines... ;)

UK entry is dreadful, but is sure to win. We will have a new PM soon and all the countries will surely want to impress and have close co-operation with the new guy.

What better way than to vote for the UK...lol

Last time the UK won was when TB became PM if I remember rightly.
This had nothing at all to do with the song..lol

:-)


Muck

I watch is sometimes for Terry Wogan's comments.

Are we the only country taking part that takes the mickey out of it all? Surely not ALL the others can take it seriously....can they?

Here in Switzerland, we're in mourning today. DJ Bob's vampires are no longer alive. Killed by lack of votes. And we had such high hopes, even though DJ Bobo cannot hit a single note when he sings.

Switzerland is in shock. I'm watching DJ Bobo explaining why he didn't make the finals. Seems it's a bit of an Eastern Europe conspiracy.

Not important enough for a political issue, but we are still licking our wounds.

15 minutes to go....

Love your take on it Mucky!

Grease is the Word has my immediate attention, but later I shall be channel hopping later with renewed eurovision-interest to see if your theory proves correct... though I hear that Scooch don't have the best draw, following straight after the Ukranian Trannies (the bookies favourites?).

(Bucks Fizz were the best, though Jonny Logan was better looking...)

Did anyone see the Father Ted episode when he and Dougal were chosen to sing a dreadful tune at a Song Contest because they were so bad they just couldn't win, and Ireland just didn't want to have to host another Song Contest? Hilarious!

The Dutch also are claining an Eastern bloc conspiaracy. There is a campaigne here to not take part again until they throw out all these eastern upstarts, or split the contest it two. Sad.....so very sad.
And no this year even Terry Wogan won't get me watching it. Now I'm going to watch Later.. which I recorded last night.

Ukraine's answer to the Pillsbury boy is on: The dancing aluminum transman.

And I thought the U.S. cornered the market on horrible music. This junk makes Rap sound like Beethoven.

julia_t,

Just for you, the "obligatory video" for Father Ted's Eurovision entry;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8linZ...ed&search=

Jim

Pending the real results, the deliberations of the K domicile jury have determined:
1. Ukraine
2. Latvia
3. Serbia & UK (tied)
5. Hungary & Russia (tied)

Alas I forgot !!
France will win, they have a new Political leader chappie !!

UK Will come second though.

How can that guy get away with the lyric " would you like something to suck on sir" OMG What is this cr@p coming to.

Muck

I like almost the same songs as K family :) But I put first Bulgary and instead of Ukraine , I like Moldova :)

Looks like its back to the drawing board....lol

;-)

Muck

I reckon Serbia will be bankrupt when they have to host this next year lololol

:-)

Muck

At least Serbia has demonstrated talent.

Talent?? Not much evidence of that tonight.
Least of all in my guestimates !!

I really thought Serbia would be last it was dreadful..lol

I guess the cultural divide is as great as ever.

Muck

Schuler..didn't we have this conversation last year too ?..lol

Muck

Yup. Not too many people here on the board know what we are talking about.

I'm not so sure we have a clue either ..lol

M

Well, Ireland certainly deserved to come in last.

Serbia won. A rather pudgy 24 year old with short black hair and dressed in a black suit and wearing....drum roll please: white sneakers!

Maybe she's a tourist.

See you next year at the same time, same place and same website.

Guet Nacht!

This song is even more dreadful than the first time I heard it.

Well Schuler, Lagos and everyone see you next year for another gripping instalment of Eastern Europevision..lol

Muck

It's over..., why should Germany, France, Spain and the UK broadcasters still pay all the money for this nonsense next year. But now I know why Yugoslavia split up :-) :-)

Can someone explain to me how the point system works, because I never seem to remember to "tune" into it until the end when each country is giving each other points.

DJ Bobo was the Swiss entry? Oh no! We first caught DJ Bobo on Austrian TV six years.
The Tilke household split its votes between Latvia and Germany. With an Armenian sister-in-law, we felt pressure to vote for Armenia, but those corny large hearts in the set just put us off.
Ireland was dreadful, the song was boring and the singer was out of tune.
Helsinki looked quite attractive and the stage setting was superb.
Was it just us or did Wogan seem off his game? He seemed a lot less sharp than in previous years...did someone tell him to tone it down? Too bad.

No need to watch - you know (without even looking) the British entry's ALWAYS gonna be two tuneless camp guys and two tuneless chavvy girls doing a cheesy dance routine...

Royaume-Uni - Nil points!

I know this isn't a place for profundities. But I couldn't decide which was the more astonishing revelation:

- every single one of those songs had emerged from a selection process. People in Britain and Ireland had written - and got through a first round with - around a dozen songs that were WORSE than those two.

- countries kept on voting for other countries the posh media tell you they loathe. Armenia gave Turkey tons of votes. Bosnia voted for Serbia. Some of the Balts voted for Russia. Is it just possible (as everyone with a posh English accent visiting Ireland has long suspected) that all this "deep hostility" we're always reading about is just superficial journalism?

Another interesting element is the large number of votes that Turkey always gets from all of the countries with a large Turkish community. Does this mean that the locals have learned to appreciate the Turks, or does it mean that Turkish immigrants have nothing better to do than vote for Eurovision songs?

Watched it with friends last night. We gave our "nul points" to Serbia, thought they were utterly dire! Ireland came a close second-last. (the girl looked petrified and sang out of tune the whole way through the song!) We liked France best, mainly for the crazy man in the pink suit with the cat round his neck. Lowest points were awarded by us to countries that took it seriously (mostly the power ballads like Serbia's entry). High points to camp outfits, cheesy dance routines and singalong choruses.
Anyway we got it all wrong :(

Things I have learned from this year's Eurovision:

Never go to finland - it's desperately dull.

Ireland actually took the Father Ted option.

Serbian bints munt and munt hard

Russia's entry must have been chosen by kiddy fiddlers

we're never going to win again so either we carry on taking the piss (given that we have an assured place) or we get Pink Floyd to do it next year.

The 'spectacle' was really spoilt by the scoring process. I used to love the drawn out scoring from 1-12, even more than the show itself, it was far more entertaining.

Trouble is - now the predictability of the political voting is even easier to determine. With most of the countries coming from what used to be Russia or there abouts, it has now gone quite flat.

The problem with the UK entry (apart from being cr@p) was that I am not so sure that many of the Eastern European countries are quite ready for such camp bubblegum cr@p with a hint of gay thrown in for good measure.

But in saying that, what was that thing that won? a bloke or a woman??

Crikey better take some more pills this is making me obsessive..lol ;-)

Oh and another thing, can Serbia afford to host this next year? or will we be contributing more.

Whilst on the subject of paying for it, anyone know where the funding comes from? Is it the UK TV licence fee???


:-)

Muck