Eurovision 2024

[lambrini]

No Australia.
Quite right, get out

+1

[JimmyDee]

I paid slightly more attention this year than I normally do, but that's not saying much. Had the telly on mute a lot of the time and glanced up occasionally.
My impressions:
1) I've said this before; it's not so much a song-contest now as a competition between set-designers, costume designers and choreographers. Hardly anyone just stands there and sings, like they did in the olden days.
2) A lot of the singers seem to have very thin quavery voices, including our chap.
3) All the warnings about flashing images ... why not just tell the lighting-people to stop doing it?
4) We get it, Rylan, you're gay. What do you want, a gold medal?

[Carlos J]

I paid slightly more attention this year than I normally do, but that's not saying much. Had the telly on mute a lot of the time and glanced up occasionally.
My impressions:
1) I've said this before; it's not so much a song-contest now as a competition between set-designers, costume designers and choreographers. Hardly anyone just stands there and sings, like they did in the olden days.
2) A lot of the singers seem to have very thin quavery voices, including our chap.
3) All the warnings about flashing images ... why not just tell the lighting-people to stop doing it?
4) We get it, Rylan, you're gay. What do you want, a gold medal?

However good 1 is, if there is a 2, it'll never win. See Mae Muller last year for one whose vocals were awful, and rightly got dumped second to last. Olly Alexander's vocals ain't great, expect a right hand side finish.

[Carlos J]

The second semi-final is tonight at 8pm:

1 Malta
2 Albania 
3 Greece
4 Switzerland
5 Czechia
6 Austria
7 Denmark
8 Armenia
9 Latvia
10 San Marino
11 Georgia
12 Belgium
13 Estonia
14 Israel
15 Norway
16 Netherlands

Top 10 go through. France, Spain and Italy are also performing and the UK can't vote in this semi.

[Shedboy]

I take it we're not taking part in #boycottEurovision.

Seemingly Israel's entry was booed during and after their dress rehearsal for tonight's show. Cries of Free Palestine! abounded, apparently.
Let's see what happens tonight.

[Carlos J]

I take it we're not taking part in #boycottEurovision.

Seemingly Israel's entry was booed during and after their dress rehearsal for tonight's show. Cries of Free Palestine! abounded, apparently.
Let's see what happens tonight.

Well I'm not. It's easy to do at the dress rehearsal and tonight as 14th out of 16. But you often get twats who want to make it about themselves and ruin it for others.

[Shedboy]

Don't mind Rylan, but Scott Mills gets on my nerves for some reason.

[Carlos J]

Don't mind Rylan, but Scott Mills gets on my nerves for some reason.

Agree. Rylan is tolerable at ESC.

[Carlos J]

Posted this before but it's great, Saga Norén, Länskrim, Malmö:

[Shedboy]

Here...we...goooooooooooo

[Carlos J]

Another decent outfit.

[Shedboy]

Maltese J-Lo

[Zambo]

Always rated Clark as a good TV presenter.

[Shedboy]

Not a bad effort, imho. 7/10

[Carlos J]

Kind of generic. Ok but did nowt for me. Malta 6.5/10.