Nil points anyone? Another poor song from the Uk. Is it time to get Simon Cowell involved in our song and artist selection?

We never got much of a look in before Brexit, we certainly aren't going to now.

karatekid wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 12:03 am

Nil points anyone? Another poor song from the Uk. Is it time to get Simon Cowell involved in our song and artist selection?

I think it’s a belting song

Like stepping back into the 70s.

Got to be a Malts or Cyprus win for me

karatekid wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 12:03 am

Nil points anyone? Another poor song from the Uk. Is it time to get Simon Cowell involved in our song and artist selection?

you could bring Michael Jackson back from the dead, have him represent the UK, sing the best song ever written and the UK would still get **** all.

Eurovision is the biggest heap of turd broadcast on TV

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 7:01 am

you could bring Michael Jackson back from the dead, have him represent the UK, sing the best song ever written and the UK would still get **** all.

Eurovision is the biggest heap of turd broadcast on TV

I’m amazed it still gets the billing that it does on prime time television. It’s an awful programme to watch, littered with some truly terrible, cringe inducing music, lyrics, contestants and presenters.

I've always thought of Eurovision as 'It's a knockout' with music. A bit of fun, cringeworthy moments aplenty and lots of silly costumes but apparently there are people who take it seriously.

Our singer this year is from Settle - pretty local
I used to work with his granny - I feel old - I am old!

From Settle, maybe a Claret.

In the 60s when this music farce started, England was the world leader in popular music and yet by a fanfare of broadcast media pressure, the nation was whipped up to a wannabe state of 'desperate to win' against the likes of Poland or whoever.

What the contest made quite clear is what a bunch of stiffs the rest of Europe was, culminating in the greatest moment of Irish history and the triumph of Dana and the tragedy that followed for the UK as a direct result of the idiot mojo it created.

England then surrendered its sense of humour to Vicky Leandros and the nation has never recovered.

Toss up between us and Israel who finishes bottom

We aren’t European. Let the rabble get on with it whilst we dominate the real music industry.

Right_winger wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:42 am

We aren’t European. Let the rabble get on with it whilst we dominate the real music industry.

When did we sail out of Europe

Cracks me up when people say ‘we aren’t in Europe anymore’

durhamclaret wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 8:37 am

From Settle, maybe a Claret.

His Brother John hasn't done too shabbily in the music scene either ... not my kind of music but hey ho...
https://youtu.be/CfihYWRWRTQ

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:49 am

When did we sail out of Europe

Cracks me up when people say ‘we aren’t in Europe anymore’

We are British. Not European. Never have been. We aren’t anything like them on the continent.

the bbc would do better filling a wheelbarrow with cash and then setting fire to it.

at least it would provide a few minutes of entertainment.

I've not been following this contest very closely, but I did notice Ireland failed to qualify again the other night, when did they get so bad at this gig, they used to dominate in the olden days.

You do get the odd decent tune emerging from all the dross, but this competition is well past it's sell by date now, and it's shows how farcical it's become when Australia were invited to enter, BTW they didn't qualify this time either, but how on earth can it claim to be a ESC when a country thousands of miles away can take part, that's like NZ playing in the European Championship ludicrous.

Yes the one interesting aspect will be how many if any points Israel obtain given the recent events in the middle east.

Without doubt the funniest programme of the year - worth the licence fee on its own.

I enjoy it, the commentary is usually funny as they’re just taking the **** all the way through

Right_winger wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 12:12 pm

We are British. Not European. Never have been. We aren’t anything like them on the continent.

Ok, we are both then

I would much rather watch the Eurovision than the qualifying stages of the Champions League....

Haven't watched it since Wogan left.

Live from Worthy Farm (Glastonbury) is on at the same time and looks like it's gonna be special. I know what we'll be watching. Might not be too late to get free 'tickets' for anyone that's got O2 priority too.

Surprise, surprise the UK is propping up the table again with nil points, why do we even bother competing in this farce anymore?.

France in the lead for anyone interested.

And no before you ask I haven't been watching it just checking the updates on the beeb now and again.

It’s absolute dross but in an entertaining way and further proof that the rest of Europe hates us.

**** ‘em.

Switzerland 267.... UK f**k all

Zero, Nowt, Not a sausage, Bugger all

#brexitvision

To be honest they are all crap.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 11:20 pm

Surprise, surprise the UK is propping up the table again with nil points, why do we even bother competing in this farce anymore?.

France in the lead for anyone interested.

And no before you ask I haven't been watching it just checking the updates on the beeb now and again.

honestly, been saying for years we should send some old guy on a bontempi keyboard and have him play one note on a keyboard for 5 minutes and just shout one word, we should be completely taking the **** back

CaptJohn wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 1:06 pm

Haven't watched it since Wogan left.

Wogan was hilarious and I don't think I've watched many since he left.

Just refuse to enter in future. Job done.

DCWat wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 7:42 am

I’m amazed it still gets the billing that it does on prime time television. It’s an awful programme to watch, littered with some truly terrible, cringe inducing music, lyrics, contestants and presenters.

It is only the BBC that entertains it though don’t forget. Tells you a lot

Italy wins it.

‘Rock and roll never dies!’ he screams while skriking his eyes out.

Not very rock and roll.

ElectroClaret wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 11:49 pm

Italy wins it.

A portent to the Euro's maybe.

I'm pleased a heavy metal act won... but I am biased!

Less points than Israel.... wow. Not very keen on us are they?

Oh dear how sad never mind. (Said in the dulcet tones of the great Windsor Davies)

The Germans beat us and that wasn’t even a song!

We should just bin it off...

fidelcastro wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 11:56 pm

I'm pleased a heavy metal act won... but I am biased!

You should take over from Graham Norton.... far more sarcastic than he could ever be...

A lot of people taking a bit of fun far too seriously. Still, if we’re going to withdraw from competitions we haven’t won for an age then we can forget the World Cup and the Euros.

martin_p wrote: ↑

Sun May 23, 2021 12:08 am

A lot of people taking a bit of fun far too seriously. Still, if we’re going to withdraw from competitions we haven’t won for an age then we can forget the World Cup and the Euros.

The UK put a lot of money into this “competition” for relatively little gain. It’s a poor bit of TV to be honest.

I've just listened to the song, and I think its score of NIL was nothing to do with the supposed dislike of the UK. That song earned NIL on merit. It's not easy to judge the tune because the singer (on the official video) wasn't technically good enough to perform it clearly, but the words are cliche after cliche that say nothing. (I'm pretty sure "nothing's gonna stop us now" has been used before. )

I don't know what his live performance was like, but it needed to be a lot better than his official video. But I bet it wasn't.

Nice video doing the rounds of the Italian singer evidently snorting a line of cocaine off his table.

DCWat wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 7:42 am

I’m amazed it still gets the billing that it does on prime time television. It’s an awful programme to watch, littered with some truly terrible, cringe inducing music, lyrics, contestants and presenters.

Which, of course, you would only know if you sat and watched it DCWat

Its that bad its good

Loved every minute of it. Great TV coverage and some great stage sets. The Italians really rocked and the German lead singer was a nutter among many. Would have been gutted if we picked up a point after going the whole programme with Nil point

The political voting drives me mad so I don't watch it. All the countries ending with an A seem to give high marks to each other. We weren't liked before Brexit, so no matter how good our song was, we would end up with nil points.

It used to get me how Ireland always gave us the same number of points every year, as if they were obliged to, no matter how good or bad our song was.

The UK's result history coincides quite well real world history.

I didn't agree with Graham Norton that it was a stronger slate of songs than usual. Maybe the songs that I had ranked in the middle were stronger than the usual middle-rankers, but I thought there were no stand out songs.
Ours did nothing. Us, Spain and Germany would not have got through the group stage if there was not a real madrid clause that gave us all a bye.
There were too many pale imitations of songs that had previously done well hoping to copy the success, but that tactic hasn't worked for a good few years. The Malta lot had clearly copied that "toy" song which was fairly awful but had a novel message. It won on the message first time out 2 or 3 years ago.
The winner, I thought was a less than average hm offering, yet still managed to get through as there wasn't a stand out song or two to harvest the votes.
Of course, it doesn't help us that brexit and covid has meant that we don't have so many ex-pats about. The votes being "political" is not the issue that people make out. There are a lot of Greeks in Cyprus and they get to vote there. There are a lot of Italians all over the place.
If you had all moved toIreland and voted, how many of you would have voted for the uk even though it was meh?

I had Belgium-Greece - Sweden-Switzerland as my 4 champions league spots but I find that I often like the Belgian entries.