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Rejecting it as contender for gap-filler on her Circle in the Sand LP, Belinda Carlisle actually inadvertedly titled this song, describing it as Excretera*.
Arf!
Also -pink spandex is risky even when sported by top drawer totty. On a daughter of Ming? ...it's a big, big no-no.
*I hereby claim authorship and copyright on all Excretera and Excreta related gags pertaining to this song and it's candidacy in Eurovision. Graham Norton won't be able to resist.
I watched it online for a bit of a snigger tonight and was stunned the find the first three were pretty good (I liked the Loganesque ballad best.) Not so stunned to find a refugee from the late 90s rock chick explosion who couldn't pronounce the name of her song won, given that the plain people of Ireland's voting habits.
Ming's daughter was hot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
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Originally Posted by Sheridan
She's an experienced performer, who unlike other songs on the night, put in a flawless performance.Quote:
Not so stunned to find a refugee from the late 90s rock chick explosion who couldn't pronounce the name of her song won.
She'll represent Clondalkin very well. :) A bit of promo and work on the visuals, and it'll be a decent shot at making the final.
Chiara from Malta will be the favourite, it's her third shot at it, having finished 2nd and 3rd before. The juries will love the ballads and that's all she sings.
If you're talking about Ornella Muti in the 1980 Flash Gordon movie ...absolutely. But I think we know that's neither the ming nor his daughter I'm on about... Mypost puts it in more, how shall I say, parliamentary language...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
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Originally Posted by mypost
for your delictation ... a daughter of Ming who can get away with Spandex.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
With 9 days to go, the first rehearsal is here
I enjoyed the interval show. Some of the songs were horrendous. I was surprised Andorra didn't qualify
Turkey and Bosnia were my favourites. I actually hope the Bosnian one wins the whole thing.
Andorra never qualify, although it was one of the better ones.
Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bulgaria all dumped out, which shows the change in the voting procedure.
Our lot are wearing pink and black tomorrow, blink and you'll miss it. We're second song up.
Were Ireland eliminated last night or are we actually on the semi-final tonight?
We're on tonight.
Saw the pink and black costume last night. If it sounds gaudy, it's because it is. How can an air hostess, (who is usually impeccably groomed), dress so poorly?
She's one of the few female singers in the contest to wear trousers. :rolleyes: This is Eurovision night, not a night down the pub.
are we any good? You fancy our chances mypost of getting through?
It's not our worst ever entry, but it's on too early to have a realistic chance of making it, imo. It's also in a semi final with a lot of very strong entries.
The Brits can't vote, so that's that safety valve gone.
What did ye think of it ? personally I think they performed it well, and the crowd seemed to really like it, but lets face it we need to hope for the best without UK not being allowed vote. Come to think of it, when we were last in the finals they didn't even vote for us even though we did for them :mad:. Just as i'm writing is anyone watching Serbia ? sweet jesus thats terrible, they won it 2 years ago now they are just humiliating themselves!.
First time I heard it and was only half listening but did the music to our song sound like something from Blondie or am I just imagining it.
...and we're out, no shock really.
song was a big pile of crap. Didnt help matters that we dont have a large diaspora in Europe outside of the UK. The Brits not been able to vote was akin to starting a match with 3 goals down.
Notice the way the votes went, to the East who played happy neighbour to each other. Its time to pull out of the cheese circus and enter the Sanremo Music Festival, a festival which actually is more at home with the original ideals of the ESC which has desceded into farce.
It probably is time to pull out now alright, for too many countries there's just no chance any more.
Mind you, we didn't help ourselves with the quality of song which was shash, belting performance notwithstanding.
The Cyprus one was one of the best songs I've ever heard in a Eurovision, and was several miles ahead of tonight's opposition, but that didn't make it either.
agree there Stan. Time to pull the plug. The Eurovision has long lost alot of its appeal (what little it had) and has been turned into a political contest by the Eastern European countries who vie for it and expend huge sums of money and effort on it in the process. Its long past its sell by date.
Many Western countries have lost interest in it and we certainly could spare the expense by pulling out of it. Even if we had a good song (havent since Rock & Roll kids) we still wouldnt make it through because of the voting system. The public vote should be abolished and replaced with a jury system which was alot fairer as public vote is open to political abuse and gamesmanship.
Thats said its time to go and ask the Italians if we can enter theres. :D
With 7 wins, it doesnt look like our record will be beaten for a while yet.
So it would have been fine if we'd got through with a bit of happy neighbours from UK, but if anyone else does it its terrible?Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
Portugal and Iceland got through, despite the voting problems. Even bleedin' Ronan Keating got through. :eek:
Cyprus out, Serbia out, Slovenia out, Poland out, Latvia out, all Eastern Europe. Obviously not many Poles around Europe watching.
The Brits can't vote in our semi-final anymore. Mypost voted for Albania, which went through. :)
Regarding our entry, nothing wrong with the performance, the early draw was an issue but the costume was as usual, rubbish. Why can't Irish girls cut it in the Eurovision fashion stakes? :rolleyes:
The Eurovision has always been a favours contest, what I find weird is that the the Swedes have given us far and away the most points, way more than they have given to their Scandanavian friends Denmark and Norway.
Also Ireland has given the UK far and away the most points, while in second place comes France which by coincidence also happen to be the two closest countries to us.
Look at the Netherlands, Israel constantly gives it high points because of its good treatment of Jews throughout the centuries.
Tonight, 4 Nordic countries(Estonia, Denmark, Norway, Lithuania) went through, does anyone accuse them of this voting, and if they do, they don't get angry about it.
Having said that it really should have gone through and the Eurovision is really stale now. Like looking back it looked rubbish but now it seems so pushed.
:eek: Take that back or step outside!Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
...it's like claiming that bloke who sang I'll Always Be Lonely sounds a bit like Metallica.
If you include Hungary and Slovakia as being in Eastern Europe (I wouldn't, but many would), 15 of the 19 semi finalists last night were from the Eastern/Balkan region. Of course a load of them were going to qualify. I thought we deserved to go through, but there you go. I also thought that most of the qualifiers were merited, other than Croatia, Lithuania, and Moldova.
Just one little unimportant observation follows:
Is it called Euro...Vision because, when it comes to appraisal of song, the use of the eyes is more important than the ears?
Or is that just coincident? Why not EuroAudio, for example?
I think it's a very important observation. The 'Song Contest' bit is still there but is smaller than 'Fianna Fail' on a 2009 election poster. I suppose the 'Vision' thing goes back to it's origins as an experiment in live pan-European broadcasting using little more than valves, microwaves and hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
...and besides the Audio aspect is uniformly unlistenable anyway. :)
Having just heard the Irish entry for the first time, all I can say is this: if that deserved to go through to the final, I'm very happy I didn't watch the rest of the contestents in the semi.
Surely Estonia and Lithuania are Baltic rather than Nordic countries.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishultra
Surely if people think the Eurovision is rubbish they shouldn't watch it. Of course it is rubbish:D
It's to do with its origins as a collaboration between the various national TV broadcasters around Europe I think, KH.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
I think the key thing was it was to be a single television event simultaneously broadcast, hence euroVISION.
In a sense the song contest aspect was secondary. Hearing some of the entries in the final this year that seems to still be the case. :D
Norway way out in front...hard to see anyone catching up, although not even half-way through yet so it's not impossible.
Thought the Iceland entry deserved to win, classy song.
With the juries back, the ballads were always going to score well, and shows why Iceland and the UK scored highly, and why Sakis of Greece, and Elena of Romania didn't. Nothing special about the Norway song for me, fairly drab.
About us, we finished in 11th place in the semi-final with 52 points, Denmark gave us the highest individual score with 10 points. As only the top 9 qualified, Serbia finished 10th, but the jury wildcard went to the 13th placed Croatians at the expense of their neighbours.
I enjoyed it I have to admit. I thought the standard of most of the songs wasn't bad (I know it's fashionable to say they're rubbish) and it certainly helps when you've heard them before (at the semi-final stage). The Norwegian song is very catchy and i went to bed with it in my head. The German entry was verging on pornography - I like the one with the whip :D My favourite was the Albanian entry. Not sure about the green man though. I also liked the Estonian (the girl with the fringe).
A good evening's entertainment. Highlight - when the woman giving the results of the Swedish jury sang a snippet of each of the songs Sweden was voting for. AMusing!
only listened to the last few songs on the radio - what i heard was dire stuff - the english one was so out of tune..........
or song was a joke too - at least dustin was a laugh
They announced the dates of next year's contest as well during the week, only to find that they clash with the CL Final on the Saturday night :rolleyes:, so they'll have to move it again.
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2010/0210/eurosong.html
Irish Eurosong entrants for 2010 announced. Seems like they're not playing it for laughs this year then! What happened to comedian Justin Lee Collins' supposed Irish entry then?
With the new date as the 29th May, rehearsals have begun. Ireland are 12th in the second semi-final 2 days before.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
That's the easy part. Getting there appears to be a bit more difficult:
http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/15708
What's she going ten days ahead of the gig for? Christ we didn't get that long to acclimatise in Orlando or Saipan.
Her song rehearsals are Wednesday and Friday/Saturday. Then nothing at all until the show dry-runs the following Wednesday.