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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2008 10:06:53 GMT
The music event of the year is upon us once again. The UK's entry this year isn't too spectacular so I thought I'd delve into the archives of Britain's entries in the ESC.
We won it in 1981 with Bucks Fizz and bit of skirt removing but how did we try and top it the following year? Simple. We get a TISWAS presenter to show us her knickers!
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Post by The Doctor on May 24, 2008 13:14:08 GMT
I am looking forward to the tat explosion! I am also shaking my head in disbelief that Dustin the Turkey did not make it to the final!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 24, 2008 22:26:31 GMT
Best night of tv in aaages.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 25, 2008 0:16:59 GMT
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 25, 2008 6:47:02 GMT
There's nothing I have less desire to watch than the Eurovision Song Contest. I stumbled onto it by accident after watching HIGNFY and Law & Order, and heard Terry Wogan predicting every vote with unerring accuracy based on what neighbours each country had. Still, at least I didn't have to hear any of the songs. It's embarrassing to think that these signals are being transmitted into space and may one day be picked up by extraterrestrials... and it rather spoils any hopes Europe might have had of portraying an image of a more mature, dignified and tasteful elder sibling to the brash young USA.  The nations that gave the world Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, Homer, Dante, Milton, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bach and Mozart, now join forces to bring the world... this. Come on... Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on May 25, 2008 10:23:17 GMT
And that is why I love it.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on May 25, 2008 10:52:31 GMT
Perhaps the UK should stop putting money into the Eurovision Song Contest and Europe altogether for that matter..  ===KEN |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 25, 2008 12:55:38 GMT
Hmmm, as 90% of our environmental protection legislation comes from Europe, I'd say no.
A) It would be bad for environmental protection, and B) I'd be out of a job.
On the other hand, if it meant the end of Eurovision, the environment and my job may be a price worth paying...
But Ralph likes it, so I'll stop picking on it. It only comes once a year, after all.
Martin
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2008 18:19:29 GMT
I actually tipped Latvia to win the contest but they spent the entire night languishing in the middle of the scoreboard. Finland and Iceland I thought also had good songs but they also failed to score highly. I was unsurprised though to discover that United Kingdom finished joint last (with Poland and Germany). The Spanish entry was by far the worst one of the night but that scored a lot more points than what I gave it credit for.
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Post by legios on May 25, 2008 18:50:11 GMT
I actually tipped Latvia to win the contest but they spent the entire night languishing in the middle of the scoreboard. Finland and Iceland I thought also had good songs but they also failed to score highly. The quality of the song has nothing to do with it whatsoever. After all, it isn't as if Eurovision is in any sense a music contest or anything. Considering that it was started with the avowed aim of promoting closer friendship and unity between the members of the European Broadcasting Union, the music isn't much more than window-dressing. It is sort f "Jeux san Frontiers" with songs I guess Which is why I was amused to read this morning that Terry Wogan might not commentate in future years because he felt the voting had "become political". How surprising, that nations might vote on a political basis in an instrument intended for a political goal. (Also, one would take it that Mr Wogan hasn't been paying attention for he last fifteen to twenty years of the contest.....) Karl |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2008 12:59:18 GMT
When the contest first started there was none of this political voting - that came in during the eighties and early nineties and has increased tenfold in the past few years alone. When Wogan said that the contest has become too political of recent I think he actually means that he has got bored of correctly predicting who will be given twelve points by such-and-such country. With Serbia and Montenegro splitting and before that Yugoslavia also seperating into different entries there is even more political voting now than what there used to be.
As for you saying that the quality of the song has got nothing to do with it I think it has. Lordi won it two years ago with a stage persona that shocked almost everybody and a song that people thought would never see the light of day on such a contest.
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Post by Stomski on May 30, 2008 15:10:41 GMT
Quattro El Robocop!!
Also - Ukraine was my vote to win and they came 2nd. I just didn't think the ice skater would pull it off for Russia.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2008 18:35:13 GMT
The Spanish entry was just plain weird. I think they deliberately made a bad song because they knew they would get through to the finals anyway due to them being one of the four nations that bankroll the contest. There was a story in the papers recently that said that the contest might get naother shake up for next year where the four paying nations (UK, France, Germany and Spain) will have to qualify or something like that. If that happens the UK can wave goodbye to ever appearing on a Saturday night again.
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Post by Shockprowl on May 31, 2008 23:44:48 GMT
2 things that Eurovission would be the same without- Terry Wogan, and the UK entry comming last (no one likes us, do they?).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 19:15:53 GMT
The UK have never recovered from their debacle that is known as Jemini a few years ago and they seem to struggle to get any higher than the middle of the second half of the score table these days. Anyway, I seem to find myself routing for other countries to NOT give any points to the UK these days.
Now for some nonsense courtesy of Sweden's 1984 winner.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2008 11:03:19 GMT
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Post by Nigel on Dec 5, 2008 9:28:52 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7766310.stmAfter his criticisms of bloc voting earlier this year, Terry Wogan has confirmed he will no longer be presenting Eurovision. It won't be worth watching without him.  Graham Norton might be okay, but he's no Sir Terry.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 5, 2008 9:31:34 GMT
Oh for fucks sake no! Graham Norton is fucking awful.
I weep for Eurovision commentary. Do they not understand, we needed Al Murray's Pub Landlord to take over from Terry.
Andy
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Post by Hero on Dec 5, 2008 10:26:23 GMT
Al Murray FTW. Eurovision needs the guv.
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Post by grahamthomson on Dec 5, 2008 10:39:51 GMT
I think either Jack Dee or Frankie Boyle should commentate on Eurovision.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 5, 2008 10:46:30 GMT
They too would be welcome, why do the BBC insist on ramming Graham Norton down our throats. He's not funny in the slightest - he is smarmy and irritating.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2008 11:00:52 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Well I have watched my last Eurovision. Can#t stand Graham Norton.  -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 5, 2008 11:41:16 GMT
I think we will have to supply our own commentary for Eurovision.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2008 12:02:05 GMT
Or find a streaming transmission online from another EU country.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 5, 2008 12:10:48 GMT
And supply our own commentary in a Wogan stylee.
Andy
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2008 20:24:44 GMT
Graham Norton is f*cking terrible. He'll turn the BBC phonelines into a complaints hotline within a day. I have never seen a single programme he has appeared in where he has not used homosexual-type gags and double-entredes to make people laugh.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2008 16:09:00 GMT
He does everything Frankie Howard already did, but without being funny!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 21, 2009 10:31:40 GMT
This year's UK entry is playing on the radio. Deathly dull, fucking generic talent show bland lifeless shit that wouldn't spark life in a deaf pig lost beyond the borders of Bolivia that quietly believes it is Superman and smashes communism after 8pm every night but without breaking cutlery or annoying small birds in trees just passing the time by making scarves out of twigs.
Completely pisses the point of Eurovision by a country mile. Ugh.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2009 20:15:33 GMT
I'll still watch this years Eurovision Song Contest but I won't be enjoying Graham Norton's commentary or the UK entry if what Ralph says about it is true.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2009 18:13:46 GMT
Last nights Eurovision Song Contest surprised me. Graham Norton behaved himself and appears to be a natural successor to Terry Wogan while the UK entry did a lot better than what I thought it would.
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