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Enjoyed the Italian entry, was struggling to think who it reminded me of but Royal Blood is it, thanks nuke! Maybe with a bit of RATM, killing in the name
Also as a complete tangent but is welshfarmer91 affiliated with welshfarmer?
Ours was a mediocre song, sung badly, with dull staging. Plus everyone hates us. Nailed on for nul.
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Also as a complete tangent but is welshfarmer91 affiliated with welshfarmer?
No idea. Unless it is my brother sat next to me watching this 😉
Whoever wrote the UK entry song must be gutted at the moment ... LOL!
Ours was a mediocre song, sung badly, with dull staging. Plus everyone hates us. Nailed on for nul.
Totally agree. The song is bad enough but they hate UK more. LOL!
Nul point is actually good. Should keep this record as long as possible.
Well the stand out moment for me has to be the Icelandic jury point giver asking for ja ja ding dong. I was crying with laughter.
No idea. Unless it is my brother sat next to me watching this 😉
Great 👍, Eurovision and an answer to one the big questions of our time all in one night!
Was it me or were the levels terrible for certain acts? Thinking James Newman and then the Italians in the final?
I’ll take the fact that the entire show was narrated in English as a win. That will have annoyed the 5h!t out of the French and their dirge didn’t win. Germany resisted the urge to have a marching tune. The UK entry was awful as usual. Italian tune was by far the best of an average bunch. The Netherlands did a good job of hosting a difficult event. Normal Service is resumed.
Wtf was the UK dude wearing?
He won't feel the benefit...
He looked like a welder or a meat packer or suttin' 😂
Enjoyed the Italian entry, was struggling to think who it reminded me of
They need to write a thank you note to Arctic Monkeys as well.
I don't care I've just won a tidy sum betting on UK getting no points 😜😁
I certainly wouldn't have risked it on my own song 🤣
Loving the Matrix the musical Ukraine entry, proper catchy
I think 0 points to the UK is a superb outcome. Just in case there was any doubt that the rest of Europe absolutely detest us
Finland had my vote
As I saw on Twitter, Amanda Holden saying phrases in two languages and then saying she didn't know which was which might be exactly the problem
You can cite politics as the reason for the UK not getting any points, but some of that has to be down to it simply being appallingly bad too.
In contrast to the Italian song who put some effort in, we had a chubby welder singing an achingly mediocre karaoke style bland tune with not a lot else to detract from the blandness.
Not surprising really.
Always seems odd that the UK has produced some of the most innovative and creative and popular music worldwide, ever, but then when it comes to Eurovision, we can only manage tripe. 🤔
Wow - German entry was hateful. And still beat us!
I can't believe Portugal's entry of pissed karaoke pub singer did better than the UK.
I don’t care I’ve just won a tidy sum betting on UK getting no points
What odds did you get on nil points? I got 2/1 on us finishing last and I’m kicking myself for not putting more on it as it was basically free money.
It was like a few seasons ago when every time United played I’d put money on Fellaini to get booked, then just sat back and waited for it to pay out 😂
Always seems odd that the UK has produced some of the most innovative and creative and popular music worldwide, ever, but then when it comes to Eurovision, we can only manage tripe. 🤔
It’s Eurovision. It’s all tripe. We’re simply fulfilling the brief.
You could get a seriously credible UK artist (not that one would touch it with a barge pole) and they could record a masterpiece and they’d still finish last with nil points
The Big 5 are the 5 countries that pay the most (and basically bankroll) the ESC. 3 of them finished in the bottom 3. Cripes.
The reason why the other songs do so well is that they are genuine stars in their own country. I can’t remember much of the info but the Iceland offering, they have multiple millions of online followers.
We need to put in some genuinely popular (before they even think of entering) UK artist, not someone developed just to enter for one year.
But those countries take Eurovision seriously. Listen to Graham Norton's commentary (and Terry Wigan’s before). We regard it (quite rightly) as a joke and laugh at it sneeringly. Hence only sending karaoke/pub singer acts to ‘compete’
We can take this mocking position as a country because only the US exports more music than us. The market for UK music acts is worth billions. Our cultural influence musically is huge
How much music from Moldova do you reckon is being sold around the globe?
Everyone grew tired of us s****ing from the sidelines and taking the piss quite some time ago. Hence nil points
It would’ve helped if [i]anyone[/i] involved in the UK entry had actually watched the show in the last 20 years. Ours was the least “Eurovision” by a long, long way. Utter mediocre pap. Either be really, really good, or be Germany 🤣
Our entry was an award winning song writer! Well... co-wrote a song for Rudimental that won best tune at 2014 Brits.
It deserved the Nil Points. An utterly dull unmemorable song, Performed poorly too, and staged in the worst way that EV has to offer. How did two MASSIVE trumpets connect with the song apart from trumpets being played in the tune?
The UK produces some of the best music in the world and there is genuine talent at our disposal. We need to get away from the deep set idea that this is the gimmicky point and grimmace fest of years ago.
Others countries take it seriously, and it's a great platform for showcasing musical brilliance. We need to get away from putting up bland 'safe' pop songs, it doesn't work.
lets face it in the current climate "making your mind up" or "Puppet on a string" etc would have got nul points
Others countries take it seriously, and it’s a great platform for showcasing musical brilliance.
Showcasing musical brilliance? Behave. It's third rate karaoke, at best. Do you think that anyone will remember the act that won this year by the time next years comes around? Of course not!
Do you think that they're going to go on to a glittering career selling multi-platinum albums? Don't be daft. They'll be back miming to PA's in gay bars in Helsinki.
I'd much rather we carried on sneeringly taking the piss and laughing along with Graeme Norton at all the sub-X-Factor bilge it churns out every year. And if they carry on giving us nil points then I'll carry on betting on it, though I'll be putting bigger bets on next time around
We need to put in some genuinely popular (before they even think of entering) UK artist, not someone developed just to enter for one year.
Definitely no, nil point or not.
Those famous UK artists are already rich so No need to involve them. The opportunity should be given to other freshers who needs a platform to start their singing career or song writing career etc. I would give it to all the amateurs to let them gain the big stage experience etc.
If other EU countries want to send their famous singers etc so be it.
We need to put in some genuinely popular (before they even think of entering) UK artist,
I seem to remember many years ago we used to do that and got accused by other countries of having an unfair advantage as none of them had internationally known acts they could put forward. I'd rather we just took a punt on something outlandish but memorable rather than the blandness we seem to go for now - treat it as the bit of fun that it is and forget about the score.
Showcasing musical brilliance? Behave. It’s third rate karaoke, at best. Do you think that anyone will remember the act that won this year by the time next years comes around? Of course not!
Do you think that they’re going to go on to a glittering career selling multi-platinum albums? Don’t be daft. They’ll be back miming to PA’s in gay bars in Helsinki.
I’d much rather we carried on sneeringly taking the piss and laughing along with Graeme Norton at all the sub-X-Factor bilge it churns out every year. And if they carry on giving us nil points then I’ll carry on betting on it, though I’ll be putting bigger bets on next time around
Sums it up nicely to me.
Stone Dead Last and we deserved it.
Amanda Holden's "don't know what I just said" comment after a half arsed attempt at mumbling through something "foreign" further reinforced why we are not liked as a nation.
Thought the winner was deserved. Quite liked Iceland, Finland and the guys in the yellow suits too.
and the guys in the yellow suits too.
Described magnificently by Graham Norton as 'the blokes from IT dressed as Steps'
I was expecting Amanda Holden TO... START... SPEAKING... LOUDER...AND... SLOWER... FOR... THE... BENEFIT... OF... THE... FORNIRS
rock 'n' roll
Amanda Holden’s “don’t know what I just said” comment after a half arsed attempt at mumbling through something “foreign” further reinforced why we are not liked as a nation.
That made me quite angry, and reinforces why I don't like us as a nation.
Re that photo
"....lines are closed"
Phnar phnar etc
Did noone else see the Norway entry and instantly think of Ali G doing "I believe I can fly"? I was p....in
S****. Lots of parody songs get a bit to close to the truth sometimes
And rock and roll indeed :). They looked a little wasted for the reprise
Graham Norton as ‘the blokes from IT dressed as Steps’
My favourite was 'Not so much Destiny's Child, as Destiny's Inappropriate Aunties'.
Do you think that anyone will remember the act that won this year by the time next years comes around? Of course not!
They've been knocking about a few years as it goes.
The Italian chap is claiming to was broken glass rather than coke.
Snorting broken glass is pretty Rock n Roll.
Bill Bailey/Tim Minchin combo FTW.
Well, maybe top half for a change.
Why do we send serious acts?
Is it not time to treat the competition and 'expert' votes with the contempt that it deserves?
I would be all in favour of us totally taking the piss in the future years. 1 string banjo's, no music just a bloke speaking, someone who genuinely cannot sing at all.
In fact we should reach out to everyone who featured in the early stage auditions for Xfactor and send them year after year.
Yep, deffinitely need to start taking the piss now. I love eurovision, just because it's rediculous, but we need to stop trying to win the bloody thing and just have a laugh.
Thats not the british way though is it. We feel the need to try and prove we're better than them for some reason...
We're not trying to win it, though. We round up a ragtag crew of b-listers (no-one except the desperate really wants to do it because it's not a 'serious' competition), offer up some dirge or comedy song, play it a couple of times on radio 2, then send them off to get obliterated. The opposition are well-known in their own countries, and often beyond, their songs are hyped online and played regularly on radio/tv across the voting countries in the months leading up to the competition.
Creating the buzz around an act or a song is the key, we haven't engaged with that process at all, even domestically. It's obvious that's what we need to do, but we can't be arsed, just send a bloke wearing a binbag standing in front of a black background who can't even hit the low notes in a song he wrote himself.
If we can't be bothered, we should stop part-paying for the thing, then at least our act would be put out of its misery in the semis.
I would be all in favour of us totally taking the piss in the future years. 1 string banjo’s, no music just a bloke speaking, someone who genuinely cannot sing at all.
we'd lose our big 5 status and have to do the semi-finals and then have the ignominy nul points in the qualis.
We feel the need to try and prove we’re better than them for some reason…
This isn't what we're doing though, is it. Or if it is, the people who are making the decisions are utterly inept.
I'm a big Eurovision fan, I think it's a good night of fun telly, with the occasional half-decent pop song in there.
Song-wise, our entry this year wasn't actually that bad, it was a decent dance-pop record, but it was performed by someone with a poor voice and very little stage presence; there is definitely an X-factor in these things, and he didn't have it. A better performer with much livelier staging could have got a lot more out of it, and done much better.
However, kudos for the magnanimity with which he reacted to the outcome. Fair play fella.