Anybody going to watch the Eurovision Song Contest?

[cisamcgu]

Norway without a doubt !

Seems I was wrong, but I think they got the most votes from people rather than the judges - I still loved it anyway

 

[Cathryn]

Seems I was wrong, but I think they got the most votes from people rather than the judges - I still loved it anyway

Me too. I haven't stopped singing it since. Best song of the night.

 

[Cathryn]

One final thing and then I'll shut up...I made it onto TV, supporting France (bien sur!). I'm at 3.17 on the link below, top right-hand corner, singing my little heart out!

https://eurovision.tv/video/la-zarr...zJONxecRrAkkeCNAc4UM_sJm4BuziBj_Kk2dATz0BQiQE

 

[wiggydiggy]

I've not watched it yet but I'll have the radio show on catch up when working tomorrow, also I did realise Sonia performed as well - awesome!

 

[BrumJim]

Apparently some were rather shocked at the leggy lady doing some 'churning' on the Polish entry
No suggestions from you @Drago or you @Fnaar

View: https://youtu.be/ieZsB9Zko6w

Reference to the Polish entry in 2014.

 

[T4tomo]

They made it look easy! So slick! Slide something off, slide something on! Boom!! The thing that took the longest was the platform for the midtime show that descended from the roof, that took a while to assemble but they genuinely looked so organised and smooth.

apparently whereas back in the day they'd mark all the positops of kit etc with tape, for Ev the stage is "smart" so at set change time the new relevant positions of stuff just light up so the stage hands can line it all up, then changes again for the next one etc. all set changes acheieved in under 1 minute. pretty impressive.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Beautiful.

 

[ricknmorty28]

I usually watch this but this year i did not, I saw that they had a little concert on in liverpool which I wish I had got tickets for

 

[T4tomo]

Seems I was wrong, but I think they got the most votes from people rather than the judges - I still loved it anyway

lost track of which country, but Finland got the biggest share of the public votes by some distance, although not as many as Ukraine got in 2022

 

[icowden]

apparently whereas back in the day they'd mark all the positops of kit etc with tape, for Ev the stage is "smart" so at set change time the new relevant positions of stuff just light up so the stage hands can line it all up, then changes again for the next one etc. all set changes acheieved in under 1 minute. pretty impressive.

Yep. It's like the lighting. Back in the day you'd have fixed lights with set colours, so you had to have hundreds of different lights and build up lighting scenes that you could turn on. These days the lights can rotate, spine and change colour, so you set it all up on computer instead.

 

[BrumJim]

Beautiful.

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Erm, unless there has been some major tectonic plate shifts and fundamental changes to how governments run:
1) We are still in Europe
2) Eurovision has stuff all to do with the EU
3) A song contest has stuff all to do with economic and social cooperation.

Second-rate culture wars / click bait. Go hide up your own backside, Tim.

 

[matticus]

I can't believe that Sweden gets so many votes.

The latest conspiracy theory; this was fixed, as next year will be
50 years since Abba won in 1974 with Waterloo,

 

[Chromatic]

The latest conspiracy theory; this was fixed, as next year will be
50 years since Abba won in 1974 with Waterloo,

"Say it ain't so, Eurovision."

 

[Chromatic]

The latest conspiracy theory; this was fixed, as next year will be
50 years since Abba won in 1974 with Waterloo,

Probably the most plausible explanation for its win.

 

[cougie uk]

Probably the most plausible explanation for its win.

I wasn't it's biggest fan but woke up singing it today. It's got a good hook.