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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 11/05/2007 : 22:46:41
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So, Are we all ready for three and a half hours of tedium?..
Its The Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow night!....
Bet you CANNOT wait!.. 
Is anyone having a Euro-Party?..No, I'm not either..
You can find the song tipped to win here;and surprise, surprise it aint ours!!
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVHDMDAu0A
God help us all!
Carole xx
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9066 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 22:55:29
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The UK's song's rubbish, heard it on the radio this morning.
Can't remember what it went like but I remember wanting to throw something at the radio and telling it to shut the hell up! 
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13245 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 23:02:46
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So haven't you SEEN it, Sara?
You do not know what you are missing...
Its Camp, Its Kitch, Its Cr*p...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDLZLsQA4lQ
Whats the betting everyone will be waving Union Jacks?
Embarassing, or what?
Cxx
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9066 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 23:09:41
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That's horrible!
Sara x |
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Lynn
Wishing And Hoping
225 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 20:22:26
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The Irish song is on at the moment...music nice, singing bl**dy awful! Une point from moi. Wish I had somewhere to go to escape lol. Who wants to come up the pub with me?
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead,
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
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Mark
Sweet Inspiration
United Kingdom
2701 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 21:08:10
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It would be to unbearable to sit through the whole programme, the best Eurovision songs were from the late 60's to the mid 70's......remember Abba?!!
As soon as I saw 'Scooch', I thought "hello, Steps mark 2"!
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Brian
Something Special
United Kingdom
1873 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 22:00:02
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I've just forced myself to sit through it all !
It really was unbelievable. If this is the best songwriters can do they should give up.
Apart from the UK entry which must be the worst we've ever put forward, 19 others could fill the same category.
For me there were just 4 songs that had at least a bit of merit...these were :
GERMAN ENTRY - a big band number WITH a tune
SWEDISH ENTRY - rock 'n' roll like Mud and Showaddywaddy used to do in '74. It did however have a melody.
LITHUANIAN ENTRY - nice ballad, extremely well sung, again with a tune.
HUNGARIAN ENTRY - this was the MAJOR suprise for me, as it was a BLUES number, sung by a woman who seemed to know what blues was.
I hope it wins!...of course it won't.
I WON'T MENTION THE UKRAINE ENTRY
Brian. |
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13245 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 22:09:15
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Only watched it intermittently..
The Greek one was pretty bouncy!
Ours was completely dreadful....
In fact,it was BAD enough to Win!!...
Carole xx |
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9066 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 23:14:29
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The UK and Ireland came last! Ha Ha
Sara x |
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Brian
Something Special
United Kingdom
1873 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 23:20:06
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Ok....we have the result.
'Ugly Betty' from Serbia won. Perhaps SOMEONE will know where Serbia IS now
Actually it was a good performance of a pretty awful song, but the woman looked like K D Lang's wardrobe girl.
We (UK) CAME SECOND BOTTOM - only rescued by Ireland (who came bottom) giving us 7 points, and Malta who gave us 12 points because they couldn't spell Macedonia, Lithuania & Bosniahertzawhatsit
That's it for another year - 24 'acts' destined for oblivion.
Congratulations
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Edited by - Brian on 13/05/2007 22:26:05 |
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9066 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 23:24:40
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Where's Serbia?
Sara x |
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9066 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2007 : 23:33:06
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Nevermind, I found it It's right near Bulgaria and Romania.
Sara x |
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13245 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 00:23:20
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I think I'd rather we come LAST than Second to LAST!...
Carole xx
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EarthboundGypsy
Wishing And Hoping
Australia
182 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 03:41:44
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I've only seen the semi-final so far, (as i'm in Australia) but I found out about Serbia's win on wikipedia, and came on here to clarify :). I was really shocked/suprised that Serbia won! I saw it as a forgettable kd.lang attempt type song. I wasn't surprised that Poland didn't make it into the grand final. We were dreadful!.
The songs I DID like were:
Push the Button - teapacks (Israel). Who doesn't like a political statement? :)
Love Power - The KMG's (Belgium). I love a get down and boogie type song.
Comme Ci, Comme Ca - Evridiki (Cyprus)
Visionary Dream - Sopho Khalvasi (Georgia). For their first entry I thought it was fabulous.
I am yet to see the Grandfinal, so it would be interesting to see what the Big 4 have on offer ;)
*Amy*
"Gimme a vhiskey" - Greta Garbo.
Basically I'm a drag queen myself -
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13245 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 09:49:42
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I can't HELP but wonder how BAD The Irish Entry was...
It must be a far cry from Johnny Logan and Dana...
Carole R xx |
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treking
Wasn't Born To Follow
United Kingdom
5586 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 10:36:50
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It really was pretty awful. At least the bits I watched were--I kept channel flicking!
The voting is just so funny as you can say who's going to get the votes in the eastern block before they even announce them!!
Trek
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Pablito
Wishing And Hoping
Ireland
465 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 12:14:46
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I watched some of this. It was the campest thing I've seen on television..EVER!!
I was with some friends watching it and there was general disgruntle-ment (to put it politely), that the UK gave no points to Ireland. The Northern Ireland peace-process may be in trouble already
For sheer campness and entertainment I thought the Ukraine should have won - all the songs were rubbish. They need to bring back a real orchestra if they want to rescue the show from becoming an absolute farce PLUS a ban on voting for your neighbour.
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13245 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 17:38:14
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Originally posted by Pablito
I watched some of this. It was the campest thing I've seen on television..EVER!!
I was with some friends watching it and there was general disgruntle-ment (to put it politely), that the UK gave no points to Ireland. The Northern Ireland peace-process may be in trouble already
For sheer campness and entertainment I thought the Ukraine should have won - all the songs were rubbish. They need to bring back a real orchestra if they want to rescue the show from becoming an absolute farce PLUS a ban on voting for your neighbour.
Paul
Who did we vote for Paul?
I believe our 'song' got7 votes from Ireland and The 'top banana' 12 votes from Malta....
Aint our Country popular?....
...and by the way who were those two EXTRA girls on stage with Skootch last night?..
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13245 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 17:47:28
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Have you ever wondered how our song, no matter how ridiculous OR dire it is, always gets into the Grand Final?
You haven't?...Well I have!..
The answer to this riddle was in our newspaper the other day.
It seems that because the BBC promotes The Eurovision and has the rights etc.. that our song will always be in the Grand Final, shown on TV...
Isn't that whats known as a 'Fiddle?'...
Carole R xx
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9066 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 22:17:31
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Pretty much!
I think the UK gave 12 points to Turkey
I missed all the songs (damn!) cos I was at work but caught the last bit of the voting. The whole voting thing's changed since I last saw it!
Sara x |
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treking
Wasn't Born To Follow
United Kingdom
5586 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2007 : 22:55:10
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I think its changed in that the first few votes are put in without the announcer going through them, cause so many countries take part now --they would be doing it til after midnight!
I think its a case of may the worst song win these days not the best!
Oh and the most outrageous costume must come into the equation
Trek
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