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
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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.