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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 14, 2022 21:44:44 GMT
Saw a bit of it & was surprised to see Australia competing, reminded me of the Auf W Pet episode where Oz notes that Israel are in the Eurovision Song Contest despite not being in Europe.
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Post by Three Litre on May 14, 2022 22:10:47 GMT
We are currently winning!
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Post by Three Litre on May 14, 2022 23:03:12 GMT
We came second.
Would have won if it wasn’t for Putin.
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Post by Del Boy on May 15, 2022 19:59:47 GMT
Saw a bit of it & was surprised to see Australia competing, reminded me of the Auf W Pet episode where Oz notes that Israel are in the Eurovision Song Contest despite not being in Europe. I think this is because it's popular in Australia and they were invited as part of a 50th anniversary or something. They were invited to stay on afterwards as it was so well received.
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Post by Batgirl on Jun 19, 2022 12:42:11 GMT
Saw a bit of it & was surprised to see Australia competing, reminded me of the Auf W Pet episode where Oz notes that Israel are in the Eurovision Song Contest despite not being in Europe. I think this is because it's popular in Australia and they were invited as part of a 50th anniversary or something. They were invited to stay on afterwards as it was so well received. Yes Del Boy you are correct. There is a big following for Eurovision each year in Australia. We were invited to send a singer as a guest performer during the interval in 2014 and we made such a big fuss about being involved and one of our tv channels SBS has sent local hosts every year to interview and telecast the contest live that I guess the Eurovision 'machine' figured why not involve a country that is that crazy for it so the initial invite to join the following year continues to be extended.
I know interest was waning from many countries so that probably helped them ignore our geographical location. To us the wackiness, over the top costumes, and the political siding of votes between countries was something new and eye opening. People have parties over that weekend and embrace the colour and weird songs. We came second in 2016 but if we won Australia would not host the event but would have to find a co-host for the contest within Europe.
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Post by Cartman on May 14, 2023 8:51:45 GMT
Last week this was all over the North West news every night, because it was in Liverpool, and after all this hype, where did the UK finish? Second bottom! Not that I watched it, it was on the news. Why do we persist with this rubbish?
Sweden won, which means they host it next year, which will be the 50th anniversary of Abba winning it. Hell of a coincidence.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 14, 2023 9:59:19 GMT
When did Eurovision become a thing?
Seems like it's a national / international event now with people holding parties etc
Always a joke in our younger days...
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Post by Cartman on May 14, 2023 11:37:00 GMT
Makes me think of the end bit of Phoenix Nights where they're auditioning rubbish acts and Potter shouts "next" to get rid of one
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Post by Nightfly on May 14, 2023 18:23:31 GMT
I caught it half way through. Visually it looked great and wasn't too bad if you muted the sound. The tribute to the music of Liverpool was a bit of a joke. It took me a couple of minutes to realise the guy with the dreary voice was singing Imagine. The comments about Sonia when they wheeled her out along the lines of, Wow, she hasn't changed a bit, has she? was a little cringeworthy. The Isreali lass did a dodgy cover of the Dead or Alive hit, but it was infinitely better than her winning entry of 2018 when she rapped and made dog barking noises. Maybe I'm just getting too old....
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