I’m off to the opening of this tonight (I think that’s what it is? (The Big Welcome’ or something), was £2 a ticket, but you have to have a Merseyside address.
Can’t say I’m overly excited, but I guess it should be fun. Night without kids at the very least.
I'm regretting not snagging some tickets. Stockholm 2024 it is.
I'm not sure I can be bothered with my usual autistic run through of the acts but it's the weakest year in quite a while. Sweden should win, potentially by a landslide. The only thing that might throw a spanner in the works is them drawing first half in the running order.
I've listened to every song way too many times already and it's always nice to hear people's first impressions of the contenders. Feel free to chip in if you don't mind spoilers; 1, 2, 3, 4
Is it true they don't serve alcohol at it?
What are the chances we (Finland) win this? Is Loreen sure to win it, or is there any value betting for Käärijä?
I think your odds are quite short. It's going to be a huge crowd favourite and stands a good chance of winning the televote, though it looks like it'll be a fairly televote heavy set of finalists so I'm not sure it'll be a massive score. The main problem is I can't see much for juries to get excited about. Bit of a gimmicky song/stage, nothing special vocally. Sweden could very well beat them by 150-200 points with the jury, so you'd then be looking at Sweden around 10th with the public for a Finland win, which I find highly improbable.Originally Posted by Pen
Your best chance is drawing second half in the running order and Sweden drawing first. I think you'll (wrongly) go favs in the betting if that happens.
Thanks for that. Will leave the betting alone unless there's something properly lol worthy in the final.
Nope, you could buy fruit cider, normal cider, pints of lager or oddly, 6 packs of Estella.
It was pretty good. I marked out pretty hard for Atomic Kitten
They must have changed it then, I remember Barry Glendenning telling a tale of how he was sent to report on it years ago and they closed the bars when the show started, a tortute session for an old soak like him.
Sweden appear to have entered a sexy predator, whilst the children of whoever was SixPenceNonetheRicher appear to have turned up for Azerbaijan.
Loreen
Hopefully she’s still as banging as she was 10 years ago or whatever it was. The song was nearly as good as her. EUPHORIAAAAAAA
Is this actually worth watching tonight?
I see Ireland didn't make it through, which is a shame but their own fault for not picking John Lydon.
I don't think I've heard our last 4 or 5 songs but have they ever got out of a semi? Should just send that turkey puppet every year.
Wild Youth to me didn't seem particularly wild or particularly young, but don't Ireland deliberately send shite ever since getting into a ruinous spiral of winning and hosting many times during the 90s?
Eurovision is always worth watching. I'm not even sure what criteria you'd want it to meet to be worthwhile. Surely not song quality?
Presumably the UK winning?
So maybe not by that measure. Song's not dreadful though, although not 'European' [ie wank] enough really.
It will be interesting to see if the banter is less terrible when it is conducted mainly in native tongue, probably not is my guess.
As long as we stop sending moon-toothed twats like Sam Ryder I'm happy.
A shit song but I kind of liked it weirdly.
The "Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe" bit hit hard.
The concept behind the song is good but it's come way too early tonight.
Hasn't been a great start thus far.
None of the songs have really grabbed me.
At least Blanka is a looker.
Edit: Serbia was fucking weird.
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Are Frankie Goes to Hollywood to cool for this or can we expect some sort of grande finale? Seems a good fit. Watching on delay so may have to catch up through the shit.
Easily the best song so far.
Hands down the worst Eurovision in living memory.
Why is Sweden such a strong favourite? Dreadful.
I'm a twit
Poland for me so far, Clive.
It's miles better than anything else we've had so far.
Although I was expecting more tbh.
Thought she was singing Euphoria for a second then.
She’s pissing it
It's a slow builder but the hype will mostly be because of the staging and she's already relatively big.
Another stinker here.
Liked the Italy one, but there's no way we're getting anywhere near the golden standard of 2017 overall here
Fair enough. It was the first one I saw, just switched it on.
Estonia was good.
I'm a twit
Now we're talking.
Business has picked up.
He looks like MC Grindah.
I'm a twit
Well Finland just turned up.
This is quality. Human centipede of dancers and everything.
Even though I've got money on Sweden to win, I'm on the Finland train now.
What in the human centipede was that
End the show.
This is 14. How many are there?
I'm a twit
26
The whole thing doesn't end until around midnight.
Finland was great but the judges won't rate it and Ukraine will rob too many public votes.
Wait a minute...
Finland song is ecstacy and heroin rolled into one. But I guess that's what Eurovision voters typically go for.
Portugal song sounds like the tune you usually hear being played by the mafia before they're about to murder someone.
If Australia were to win, do they get to host the next year?
Edit: just googled, no, they nominate a co-host.
Australia shouldn't be in it so they can fuck off.
They're not currently signed up for 2024 so who knows.
Olly Murs has just turned up. With Boy George influences.
I like this Belgium one, it's completely ripped off about 6 different songs I can't place.
Okay, now this Belgium shit is proper Eurovision.
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