Eurovision 2023 - Liverpool

[Epona]

I can't wait to see some of these acts that were automatically qualified through to the final doing their full performance in the final - Spain looked and sounded both modern and traditionally Spanish which is very Eurovision

 

[Voley]

Didn't see the previous nights but shaping up well so far. I liked the Belgian big hat disco house bloke, the batshit one about being possessed by Edgar Allen Poe and the mad Australians.

We gamble on it. Loser pays for the takeaway. I screwed up last year by putting everything on that Wolf Banana song.

 

[WouldBe]

They should have given him time to get changed after his boy scout meeting

EDIT: Oh snap, glad it wasn't just me thinking that!

Apparently he's 16 and will be revising for his GCSEs (?) on the flight home.

 

[WouldBe]

For the effort they've put into the semis interval shows, I can't wait to see what they've got for Saturday.

Morris dancers.

 

[Orang Utan]

I see in mmm on Twitter that Hannah Waddingham is presenting it this year and everyone is losing their shit cos she’s so sassy and charming. I look forward it even more

 

[PR1Berske]

Bent as a 3 Pound Note so it does mean something to me culturally; but boycotting totally as its turned into a PsyOp for NATO/EU in the proxy war that is horrifically tearing Ukraine apart.

Tinfoil hat nonsense.

 

[Isambard]

Tinfoil hat nonsense.

Any argument rather than personal slurs?

 

[PR1Berske]

In case you missed it, nice dig at Spotify for their $0.003 per stream rate from Teya and Salena

Zero dot zero zero three
Give me two years and your dinner will be free
Gas station champagne is on me

It's a great way to send a serious message through a novelty staging

 

[PR1Berske]

Any argument rather than personal slurs?

Nope

 

[PR1Berske]

Running order for tomorrow

 

[ouirdeaux]

I've just realised that I am old.

I cannot relate to any outfit.
The songs are all shite.
I am not liking it at all...

Too much screaming

I must have been old all my life.

 

[Petcha]

Apparently New Zealand might be in next year's one. I mean they're seriously stretching the 'Euro' bit of the brand there. Australia being in it was crazy enough.

 

[Aladdin]

Apparently New Zealand might be in next year's one. I mean they're seriously stretching the 'Euro' bit of the brand there. Australia being in it was crazy enough.

How did Australia and Israel get in?

 

[PR1Berske]

How did Australia and Israel get in?

Israel are members of the European Broadcasting Union.

Australia were invited for the anniversary a few years ago and given a 5-year contract.

 

[Petcha]

Tbf, the NZ campaign video is quite good

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I can't wait to see some of these acts that were automatically qualified through to the final doing their full performance in the final - Spain looked and sounded both modern and traditionally Spanish which is very Eurovision

What is "very Eurovision" though? I'm old enough to have started watching Eurovision when most acts were still trying to sound and look like ABBA, which is my benchmark for "very Eurovision".

 

[Oriole]

I just had an advert to vote for Unicorn. I already didn't think much of the entry, but now I feel vindicated in my dislike it.

I haven't listened to any of the songs for the acts who get to skip the semis yet to keep some surprise element for Saturday in case.

 

[Aladdin]

Israel are members of the European Broadcasting Union.

Australia were invited for the anniversary a few years ago and given a 5-year contract.

Wonder why Israel is a membee of the European Broadcasting Union.

Anyhoo..

The Australians were good last night.


Maybe they should turn it into a World contest altogether....take us through the month of May telly wise..

 

[PR1Berske]

Wonder why Israel is a membee of the European Broadcasting Union.

Anyhoo..

The Australians were good last night.


Maybe they should turn it into a World contest altogether....take us through the month of May telly wise..

In 1980 Israel couldn't take part because the date was a religious holiday. Morocco took part, not entirely coincidentally, and finished second-to-last.

 

[WouldBe]

Wonder why Israel is a membee of the European Broadcasting Union.

Any country that can receive TV from the ebu can enter Eurovision which is why a lot of ex USSR states can enter.

Australia definitely wouldn't be able to receive TV from the ebu.

 

[Oriole]

Degrees of separation random facts. The French entry is "Evidemment", there was an 80's hit called "Evidemment" sang by France Gall who won the Eurovision song contest in 1965 (with a Serge Gainsbourg song called poupée de cire, poupée de son).

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I have a Eurovision party every year. It has got bigger and bigger to such an extent that this year I will have in excess of 20 people inside my living room, doing score sheets, doing stupid drinking games and partaking in a "winner takes it" all raffle (you put a quid in, and if your country wins you win the jackpot).

I also ask everyone to do a pot luck for the table so we don't get smashed.

It is CHEESE and whine after all.


Anyway. I've got ONE thing to say about Eurovision this year... And that is...


JANN woz ROBBED.


Jann is a Polish artist who won the majority of the popular vote in Poland by a fucking huge margin. , and the state broadcaster and their jury basically vetoed it and put in useless Blanca instead because Jann didn't fit their political agenda.


Fuck you TVP. His song was MILES better than any of the competition.


Jann would have won it for Polska, and Blanca will fuck it up more or less, but mainly more.

(it's a massive scandal here in Poland)

Great tune, sadly won't be showing. Remember it when you hear "Solo" tomorrow.

 

[Epona]

I have a Eurovision party every year. It has got bigger and bigger to such an extent that this year I will have in excess of 20 people inside my living room, doing score sheets, doing stupid drinking games and partaking in a "winner takes it" all raffle (you put a quid in, and if your country wins you win the jackpot).

I also ask everyone to do a pot luck for the table so we don't get smashed.

It is CHEESE and whine after all.


Anyway. I've got ONE thing to say about Eurovision this year... And that is...


JANN woz ROBBED.


Jann is a Polish artist who won the majority of the popular vote in Poland by a fucking huge margin. , and the state broadcaster and their jury basically vetoed it and put in useless Blanca instead because Jann didn't fit their political agenda.


Fuck you TVP. His song was MILES better than any of the competition.


Jann would have won it for Polska, and Blanca will fuck it up more or less, but mainly more.

(it's a massive scandal here in Poland)

Great tune, sadly won't be showing. Remember it when you hear "Solo" tomorrow.

The writhing round in all that mess reminded me very much of whichever production it is of Kafka's Metamorphosis that they show here on Sky Arts from time to time

Loved the song (although now have an urge to wash my hands cos of the mess!)

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

The writhing round in all that mess reminded me very much of whichever production it is of Kafka's Metamorphosis that they show here on Sky Arts from time to time

Loved the song (although now have an urge to wash my hands cos of the mess!)

I would have loved to see the live version of it. Less pyrotechnics, more mud-slide.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Bent as a 3 Pound Note

Decimalised nonsense.

 

[PR1Berske]

Running order for tonight.

1. AUT Wet Leg satirise the music industry by channelling Daphne and Celeste
2. POR Cabaret of the damned
3. SUI An anti-war anthem performed by a twink with perhaps, given events in Ukraine, the clumsiest lyrics of the night ("I don't want to play with real blood")
4. POL A song so generic it's ineligible for copyright
5. SRB Brian Molko wants you to know he FUCKING LOVES playing Final Fantasy XVII
6. FRA Où est la discothèque? Je suis la discothèque!
7. CYP Having failed with Ed Sheeran, I assume the Marvin Gaye estate will now be reading up on Cypriot copyright legislation.
8. ESP Three minutes of traditional flamenco, which is certainly brave in a competition which doesn't take too well to examples of actual culture. This will divide the crowd
9. SWE Like taking two tabs of decent acid and then just walking around the makeup counter at Boots
10. ALB Genuinely six members of the same family having vocal warm-ups about divorce.
11. ITA A very polite, very well performed, rather anonymous ballad. It's a lot of emotion for "safe"
12. EST A very polite, very well performed, rather anonymous ballad.....with a self-playing piano gimmick. Don't focus on how she pronounces "bridges" or you'll still be waking up in a cold sweat on Wednesday.
13. FIN Andrew W/K-Pop
14. CZE Sisterhood of the Travelling Ponytails
15. AUS Hair -metal never dies .
16. BEL The 90s house music revival hits Eurovision.... and it's GAAAAYYYYY.
17. ARM Contemporary sounding mindfulness course set to music. Genuinely decent, rather buried in the running order.
18. MDA Preston's very own Mobius Loop as remixed by 1992.
19. UKR The Lighthouse Family as reimagined by a basement fetish club.
20. NOR That weird TikTok craze for sea shanties as reimagined by the West End musical "Six"
21 GER Industrial metal never dies
22. LTU A rather pedestrian attempt to remake something from "The Greatest Showman"
23. ISR High-camp girl power anthem (75%), gymnastic dance routine (25%)
24 SVN Ladies and gentlemen...... Two Door Cinema Club!
25 CRO Anti-war anthem performed by a theatrical punk outfit, dressed as cartoon pastiches of dictators, like Monty Python at a Stop the War concert. The very essence of Eurovision
26. UKD Dua Lipa ambition, Ellie Goulding execution.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Running order for tonight.

1. AUT Wet Leg satirise the music industry by channelling Daphne and Celeste
2. POR Cabaret of the damned
3. SUI An anti-war anthem performed by a twink with perhaps, given events in Ukraine, the clumsiest lyrics of the night ("I don't want to play with real blood")
4. POL A song so generic it's ineligible for copyright
5. SRB Brian Molko wants you to know he FUCKING LOVES playing Final Fantasy XVII
6. FRA Où est la discothèque? Je suis la discothèque!
7. CYP Having failed with Ed Sheeran, I assume the Marvin Gaye estate will now be reading up on Cypriot copyright legislation.
8. ESP Three minutes of traditional flamenco, which is certainly brave in a competition which doesn't take too well to examples of actual culture. This will divide the crowd
9. SWE Like taking two tabs of decent acid and then just walking around the makeup counter at Boots
10. ALB Genuinely six members of the same family having vocal warm-ups about divorce.
11. ITA A very polite, very well performed, rather anonymous ballad. It's a lot of emotion for "safe"
12. EST A very polite, very well performed, rather anonymous ballad.....with a self-playing piano gimmick. Don't focus on how she pronounces "bridges" or you'll still be waking up in a cold sweat on Wednesday.
13. FIN Andrew W/K-Pop
14. CZE Sisterhood of the Travelling Ponytails
15. AUS Hair -metal never dies .
16. BEL The 90s house music revival hits Eurovision.... and it's GAAAAYYYYY.
17. ARM Contemporary sounding mindfulness course set to music. Genuinely decent, rather buried in the running order.
18. MDA Preston's very own Mobius Loop as remixed by 1992.
19. UKR The Lighthouse Family as reimagined by a basement fetish club.
20. NOR That weird TikTok craze for sea shanties as reimagined by the West End musical "Six"
21 GER Industrial metal never dies
22. LTU A rather pedestrian attempt to remake something from "The Greatest Showman"
23. ISR High-camp girl power anthem (75%), gymnastic dance routine (25%)
24 SVN Ladies and gentlemen...... Two Door Cinema Club!
25 CRO Anti-war anthem performed by a theatrical punk outfit, dressed as cartoon pastiches of dictators, like Monty Python at a Stop the War concert. The very essence of Eurovision
26. UKD Dua Lipa ambition, Ellie Goulding execution.

I can't wait!!

 

[Numbers]

Same here.

We have this weird tradition of having a Rustlers burger on the night. It's the only 1 time a year we do.

Eurovisiondecision.

 

[hash tag]

After huge amounts of stress and doubt etc. Using tickets in my name, mrs tag and friend are safely in the arena. Huge atmosphere in and out of arena, lots of weird merch on sale....on with the show.....I can breathe again. Phew.

 

[Saffy]

I'm hurriedly gathering snacks!
One hour to go!