TQR 14,387 Posted May 14, 2022 Anyone else believe what the fuck they’re seeing right now? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted May 14, 2022 9 minutes ago, TQR said: Anyone else believe what the fuck they’re seeing right now? NO!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted May 14, 2022 29 minutes ago, TQR said: Anyone else believe what the fuck they’re seeing right now? Yet another reason to say FUCK PUTIN!!! War in Ukraine aside, we've won that. Sam Ryder, take a bow! Proof if we put the effort in, we can still do it. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,101 Posted May 14, 2022 Obvious winner. Will be interesting where they'll host it next year. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,387 Posted May 14, 2022 Sam Ryder is an absolute legend, an incredible representative for this country. We won the jury vote, WON it. Of course, many people predicted a Ukraine win, and understandably so. But I thought their song was pretty decent. And, as has been said, if we put the effort in, we CAN get results. The UK, the social pariahs we are, have gone from literal zero to hero. Second is an amazing result. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted May 14, 2022 16 minutes ago, TQR said: Sam Ryder is an absolute legend, an incredible representative for this country. We won the jury vote, WON it. Of course, many people predicted a Ukraine win, and understandably so. But I thought their song was pretty decent. And, as has been said, if we put the effort in, we CAN get results. The UK, the social pariahs we are, have gone from literal zero to hero. Second is an amazing result. 5th in the public vote too. Out of 25 countries. Ahead of Sweden! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,137 Posted May 15, 2022 We all know why Spain got so many votes, and it had nothing to do with music. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,578 Posted May 15, 2022 All is normal with Germany though as they got 0 points from the Jury. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted May 15, 2022 My take on all this bollocks is if Ukraine got it on a sympathy vote what does it say about us? Thank's Boris, we must be the next sad country in line. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,573 Posted May 15, 2022 Clearly France's attempts to summon a demon did not work and it did seem a bit rude of Mika to undermine all the contestants by being better than them during the performance whilst everyone was voting. I liked Armeia, Holland & Greece Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted May 15, 2022 Knowing his fondness for dressing up on the matters of the day, anyone else think Boris will take PMQs this week holding a huge flute and sporting a pink hat? Awesome night, it will take me all Sunday to dry out from all the Glenlivet I've consumed. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,046 Posted May 15, 2022 You should be happy to be 2nd, we’re 24th out of 25 in France 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,101 Posted May 15, 2022 16 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said: You should be happy to be 2nd, we’re 24th out of 25 in France I was more surprised at France giving the UK 12 points. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth in Asia 1,086 Posted May 15, 2022 This is what you get if you mix together Babylon Zoo, Oasis style orchestration and the guitar riff from I Love Rock n Roll, along with a bit of Sam Smith style vocals, Elton John-style inverted chords and Beatles IV-IVm-I chord progressions... Great song from Sam Ryder! I have had it on loop the whole day. People say the reason top british artists didn't enter in the past was because they lose the revenues\copyright from the song, which are retained by Eurovision as a condition of entry. So perhaps this is the way around it, make it like a pastiche of a lot of other songs and styles and you don't need to worry about lawsuits since you have already given away the revenues to Eurovision. Then use the success to open up other doors in the business. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted May 15, 2022 I love it how Finland always seem like they just want to rock Hopefully their army is more up to date with things. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted May 15, 2022 9 hours ago, Paul Bearer said: I was more surprised at France giving the UK 12 points. Worth pointing out that was from the jury of supposed musical experts. The French public gave us 2 points. Only Czech Republic (2), Armenia (1), Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia (all 0) gave us less from the public vote. The former Yugoslavia not all that keen. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted May 16, 2022 I see Robert Cogoi who represented Belgium at the 1964 Contest finishing tenth equal with Pres De Ma Riviere has died aged 82: https://www-telesambre-be.translate.goog/deces-de-robert-cogoi-retour-sur-sa-carriere?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Unfortunately the 1964 contest is known for little remaining of tape of the event, so here's the man himself elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJF62xBu-PM 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted August 4, 2022 Margot Eskens, mentioned in the DACH thread, representing Germany in 1966 with Die Zeiger Der Uhr, reportedly dead aged 82: https://eurovoix.com/2022/08/04/germany-eurovision-1966-margot-eskens-died/ DDP pick @gcreptile I think for Book? 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted August 4, 2022 22 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Margot Eskens, mentioned in the DACH thread, representing Germany in 1966 with Die Zeiger Der Uhr, reportedly dead aged 82: https://eurovoix.com/2022/08/04/germany-eurovision-1966-margot-eskens-died/ DDP pick @gcreptile I think for Book? Yes, she is on my theme team but I doubt that she will get a qo, like always. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted August 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Book said: Yes, she is on my theme team but I doubt that she will get a qo, like always. Might be a push certainly, but what a career! No chance she has a tenuous link with The Beatles? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted August 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Might be a push certainly, but what a career! No chance she has a tenuous link with The Beatles? Ooooh, I think their careers are worlds apart... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted August 7, 2022 On 21/07/2021 at 10:51, arghton said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt-Eric_Holmquist Curt-Eric Holmquist dead at 73 from leukemia, conductor of the 1984 winning entry Diggi-loo Diggi-ley. Composer Torgny Söderberg (b. 1944) and the singers, the three Herrey brothers are still alive. He är död, say the Swedish sites. You don't really want a link in Swedish, do you? Good, I thought not. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Father Brown 209 Posted August 8, 2022 I know she has her own thread, but I want to share Olivia Newton-John’s entry from 1974, died today. 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted August 9, 2022 Samantha Womack reveals breast cancer diagnosis: https://www.itv.com/news/2022-08-09/samantha-womack-reveals-own-breast-diagnoses-in-olivia-newton-john-tribute 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted August 10, 2022 3 hours ago, Grimgrass said: Vesa-Matti Loiri dead at 77: https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000008995585.html Had been diagnosed with two terminal cancers in January. Wondered where I'd heard of Vesa-Matti Loiri before. Finished in last place in the 1980 Eurovision with Huilumies: 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
