Eurovision LIverpool 2023

[Shedboy]

Sweden next year then, unless Putin invades and we get to host it again.

[Sadact7]

Nooooo, I can't stand You'll Never Walk Alone

Tell me they didn’t play that shite?

Fucking vermin forcing their maudlin shit down everyone’s throat as per.

[Shedboy]

Sorry, Sadact but they did. Used it as part of a tribute to Liverpool and its music.

[Shedboy]

Conspiracy theories already flooding t'internet, claiming Loreen only won so Sweden would hold the contest in the 50th anniversary of Abba winning it.
Just fuck off with the conspiracy shite.

[JudgeTedd]

Didn’t see any of the performances, just caught the scores as they came in.

We wuz robbed! (Probably)

I’ll remember this years event purely for the extraordinary nails on winners. They could do some serious damage.

[subsub]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... uk-ukraine

Even in this famously well-rehearsed and closely watched spectacle – where thousands of fans attended three full run-throughs before the live televised final – there were still moments of surprise.

The Princess of Wales appeared briefly in a pre-recorded clip playing piano to Stefania – a wartime anthem in Ukraine – by last year’s winners Kalush Orchestra.

Queen’s Roger Taylor joined last year’s UK entrant, Sam Ryder, on stage for a drum solo for Mountain, whose lyrics are partly inspired by the struggle of the Ukrainian people.

In the end it wasn’t a new song that brought Liverpool Arena to tears. It was a moving rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone, the 1945 show tune that has become a terrace anthem in one half of this city and felt like the perfect ode to Ukraine.

Sung by the Netherlands’ Duncan Laurence, an all-star choir of Eurovision past winners provided backing vocals to a sea of illuminated wristbands in the stadium and footage of Ukrainians singing along at the Golden Gate in Kyiv.

Even Graham Norton, the usually-waspish presenter who had swapped the commentary box for presenting duties, appeared overcome with emotion as he told the audience: “I have a tear in my silly old eye. You don’t see that every day.”

Ukraine had been aiming to become the first country since Ireland in 1994 to win the contest in two consecutive years but it wasn’t to be.

The electro duo Tvorchi, whose Eurovision rehearsals were interrupted by Russian shelling, finished in 6th place with Heart of Steel, their uptempo love letter to their nation, which brought one of the night’s biggest cheers from the 11,000-strong stadium crowd.

[JudgeTedd]

Evertonians must have the right hump tonight.

[subsub]

Evertonians must have the right hump tonight.

They've probably got slightly more pressing things on their mind at the moment

[Shedboy]

Carlos, thanks for joining us tonight. It probably took a hell of a lot out of you.
Rest up, then on with the rehabilitation. All the best, old chum; take care of yourself.

[Carlos J]

Funny Mae Muller second last to Germany.

[antdad]

Welcome back CJ, sorry Vespa the whole head banging techno mess is just far too camp for me.

I watched the intro for a couple of minutes, there should've been a warning saying the Eurovision effect may trigger epilepsy.

[lambrini]

Speaking of warnings, there should have been one pointing out that Finland's entry, the runner-up, was basically a Rammstein rip-off. The tune Cha Cha Cha is similar to Tattoo. He even has a Rammstein tattoo!

[Carlos J]

Carlos, thanks for joining us tonight. It probably took a hell of a lot out of you.
Rest up, then on with the rehabilitation. All the best, old chum; take care of yourself.

Aww thanks, Shedboy. If not there, then of course I'll be here.

Good fun as always. Sweden winning, UK flopping, nothing ever changes. Resting today then Back to Rehab. Too early for Stockholm next year?

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

They tried to make him go to rehab
He said nay, nay, nay

[Sid Pervcat]

Nooooo, I can't stand You'll Never Walk Alone

Tell me they didn’t play that shite?

Fucking vermin forcing their maudlin shit down everyone’s throat as per.