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A former member
BO
I thought that the stage and the lighting were impressive this year. The use of that video backdrop that allowed light to shine through it was very impressive.
The only thing that I could fault was the light coloured floor, causing the stedi-cam guys to be easily seen on wide stage shots.
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6586/stcam01pw0.jpg
The only thing that I could fault was the light coloured floor, causing the stedi-cam guys to be easily seen on wide stage shots.
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6586/stcam01pw0.jpg
CY
Tactical voting goes so far, we just haven't had a good UK entry for years and when we do it's let down on the night by a poor live performance.
I thought Emma with Give A Little Love Back To The World was a dead cert to win a few years back, but it came around 15th I think.
You just don't know what people will like anymore. Who would have thought Hard Rock Hallelujah would have been a winning song last year?
I thought Emma with Give A Little Love Back To The World was a dead cert to win a few years back, but it came around 15th I think.
You just don't know what people will like anymore. Who would have thought Hard Rock Hallelujah would have been a winning song last year?
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A former member
isn;t last years winner a western country?
I dare say there still a chance the west can win!
I dare say there still a chance the west can win!
PT
Me probably a few pages back.
deejay posted:
I heard someone describe Ukraine's contestant as a love child of Su Pollard and Elton John...
Me probably a few pages back.
SE
I wouldn't say Finland is in eastern Europe, It's in Scandinvaia/Northern Europe, enen though they don't have a Indo-European Language like the other Scandivaian countries do.
London UK posted:
Serbia > Finland > Greece > Ukraine > Turkey > etc.
There all in eastern Europe since the UK in 1998
There all in eastern Europe since the UK in 1998
I wouldn't say Finland is in eastern Europe, It's in Scandinvaia/Northern Europe, enen though they don't have a Indo-European Language like the other Scandivaian countries do.
AF
It's time to dump "Making Your Mind Up" IMO.
What needs to happen is for the BBC to ressurect Fame Academy, with the song-writing emphasis etc., but with the winner going on to represent UK at Eurovision.
I think it could be a huge success - Spain's Pop Idol programme, "Operacion Trunifico", did this in 2002.
What needs to happen is for the BBC to ressurect Fame Academy, with the song-writing emphasis etc., but with the winner going on to represent UK at Eurovision.
I think it could be a huge success - Spain's Pop Idol programme, "Operacion Trunifico", did this in 2002.
TG
Or, perhaps, Sweden's Melodifestivalen? I just wonder, seeing as so many thousands of people applied for under a thousand tickets Making Your Mind Up tickets this year, whether the BBC might be able to fill a couple of decent sized venues. Then we'd have more songs to choose from, more than just a single hour a year to choose one, *and* the Beeb could even get a big, Saturday night live entertainment series (potential hit) - string it out a few weeks, like SVT do - hell, it's big there, why NOT over here? Sure, it'd cost the BBC more, but sell tickets to it, make some back? MF-style might just do something...
Asa posted:
Mike Read's X-Factor style idea for next year is possibly a good idea to get a decent song (although we obviously haven't found what define's a 'decent' Eurovision song for a while)
Or, perhaps, Sweden's Melodifestivalen? I just wonder, seeing as so many thousands of people applied for under a thousand tickets Making Your Mind Up tickets this year, whether the BBC might be able to fill a couple of decent sized venues. Then we'd have more songs to choose from, more than just a single hour a year to choose one, *and* the Beeb could even get a big, Saturday night live entertainment series (potential hit) - string it out a few weeks, like SVT do - hell, it's big there, why NOT over here? Sure, it'd cost the BBC more, but sell tickets to it, make some back? MF-style might just do something...
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I'm sure this has already been thought of but I take it it's not possible to find out a small nation's Eurovision number and do an international call to vote for the UK entry? Or something involving a Skype-type facility? If you can't beat them...cheat
You don't think that's what the Serb Mafi... er, people did?
I personally think it's time the UK/France/Germany/Spain pulled out for a year ... might make those Russkis realise that we're the ones paying for the programme and perhaps persuade them to show us a little more respect
A former member
Asa posted:
I'm sure this has already been thought of but I take it it's not possible to find out a small nation's Eurovision number and do an international call to vote for the UK entry? Or something involving a Skype-type facility? If you can't beat them...cheat
You don't think that's what the Serb Mafi... er, people did?
I personally think it's time the UK/France/Germany/Spain pulled out for a year ... might make those Russkis realise that we're the ones paying for the programme and perhaps persuade them to show us a little more respect
RM
Timmy Mallet as Sir Tel remarked
deejay posted:
I heard someone describe Ukraine's contestant as a love child of Su Pollard and Elton John...
Timmy Mallet as Sir Tel remarked