Eurovision 2015

Austria winners last year, 0 points this year.

(23-05-2015 23:40 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  How strange that the 3 largest contributors to the EU are in the bottom 4. Maybe the UK, France and Germany should get together and tell the rest of them to fuck right off.

Or maybe we should submit some decent music worth voting for

(23-05-2015 23:58 )mikedafc Wrote:  Austria winners last year, 0 points this year.

I know, this years entries was one of my favourites

Russia had the best song, shame politics always gets involved though.
Sweden was mostly about the presentation.

I thought the top three - Sweden, Russia and Italy were all decent songs so any of them would have at least deserved the win. Congratulations to Sweden - they're closing in on Ireland's record of 7 wins, I believe this is Sweden's 6th?

It was nice to see several countries perhaps break ranks a little more tonight, ie not bow to politics quite as much. Russia were bypassed by several of their usual voting countries, even the Scandinavian countries didn't all vote for Sweden for once.

I think the Aussie's inclusion stirred things up a lot more. As an experiment from their point of view it worked with them scoring very well - "good evening Europe and good morning Australia" - never thought we'd hear those words in Eurovision - another first for this crazy, sometimes frustrating but always hugely entertaining competition.

(23-05-2015 23:45 )snookered147 Wrote:  Those three countries also do not have to go through the semi final and automatically get entered into the final every year .
I think Spain are another one.
Bound to cause some resentment that .

It didn't seem to be a problem for Italy, who get automatic qualification for the final and finished 3rd this year, and were also runners up in 2011. Although Germany didn't do well this year, they were the winners in 2010.
Qualifying for the final automatically didn't do Australia any harm either, as they finished 5th I think it was this year, despite not being European either.

I always look at this way Eurovision is the pennence we have to do to get the World Cup coverage for the next 2 world cups as the EBU have the european rights from fifa to them

How this politically motivated shallow shite gets such coverage is beyond me. Got to feel sorry for all the struggling real musicians out there.

Well the UK managed to get 5 points.
The only saving grace was that they beat Germany and France

I believe that being fasted tracked to the finals works against us winning.
And I'd rather not being in the finals if we are going to enter this dross.

Maybe we should pass the show over to Simon Cowell to produce on ITV

(24-05-2015 08:11 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Well the UK managed to get 5 points.
The only saving grace was that they beat Germany and France

I believe that being fasted tracked to the finals works against us winning.
And I'd rather not being in the finals if we are going to enter this dross.

Maybe we should pass the show over to Simon Cowell to produce on ITV

We only get fast tracked for the event cos we put a shit load of Cash into the EBU so we pay for it they are not daft

Doesnt matter if we created a super group of the Stones, Mcartney and remaining members of the who or get Pink Floyd to reunite we will never win again

to be honest its because the industry does not need Eurovision so they treat it with distain