Eurovision - the Qualifying Round!
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curiouswombatYay! BBC3 showed the qualifying round for Eurovision! We love Eurovision!
Do you want to know what S2C and I thought of all the 28 competitors in this round?
For those of you who don't want to know it is under the cut -
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Bulgaria – wonderful stuff , driving percussion, wonderful voice - stunning.
Israel – really funny guys singing about not wanting to die when someone pushes the button.
Cyprus – loud lady singing in French.
Belarus – plastic looking guy – bit George Hamilton – singing an emotional ballad – some say he looks like Dead Di.
Iceland middle-aged hairy rocker singing rock ballad.
Georgia – Sounded a bit Kate Bush or Bjork – very good.
Montenegro – average rockish song noteworthy for being sung by a elf-hobbit cross.
Switzerland – rather boring song about vampires being alive. Obviously think that ‘costumes get points’ – but the costumes are very ordinary compared with Lordi.
Moldova – ethnic rock – girl in rather interesting outfit….I think it stayed in place by being stitched there with her pubic hair.
Netherlands – lady with a big voice, singing a rather trad ‘Eurovision’ song – but still better than the British one by a long way.
Albania – heavy going ballad by a guy looking a bit like Ricky Gervais and some woman wearing gold chains and a lot of froth, attached to a corset.
Denmark – Dana international rides again.
Croatia – Chris Rea B side – very lined and lived in guy (apparently he is the oldest competitior) with yet another girl (or possibly another transvestite) in chain mail.
Poland – Aqua copies, 10 years or so too late with less talent.
Serbia – another emo/rock ballad, but the girl had quite a voice – sounded a bit like Europe might have with a female singer.
Czechs – Bill Bailey does Metallica – or Rammstein Lite! Animal from the Muppetts played drums.
Portugal – 1980s Spanish holiday resort music. And outfits.
FYROM – another forgettable emo ballad sung by a girl standing in a high wind wearing something like a jewelled version of my old gym kit….
Norway – Gerri Halliwell look alike dressed as a dryad with a dead animal attached to her bum. Europop – dire, I fear.
Malta - Imelda Marcos in a yellow kimono type thing – singing about vertigo – It would make me feel ill too.
Andorra: McFly play New Found Glory. Not a bad effort, considering that the band must contain every male member of the Andorran population between 15 and 19.
Hungary: annoying woman singing a tedious soulful blues number as if in pain.
Estonia – catwoman in a wind tunnel screeching out a totally forgettable rock number about the rain as if someone has just stood on her paw. Or maybe just a normal cat reaction to rain….
Belgium: news that Disco is dead has not yet reached Belgium.
Slovenia: One of Shakespeare’s Sister looking like a Wicked Witch in a Prom dress topped with a black leather corset, with light bulbs set into the palms of her hands, warbling an operatic rendition of a diabolically dire Eurotune.
Turkey: the waiter from a greasy kebab restaurant does karaoke in front of scantily-clad harem girls wearing gold breasplates (who look as if they come from Essex) For some unknown reason he sang the last verse waving a pair of knickers above his head.
Austria: man in chain-mail and a guitarist in a space-suit, with backing dancers dressed as red budgies – some of them with sequin covered codpieces. The song was vaguely rock, but definitely forgettable.
Latvia: an interminable procession of men in top hats, resembling a crowd of extras from 'Gangs of New York', bludgeoning a ballad into submission by sheer volume and weight of numbers.
As you can see - we were not terribly impressed with some of them!
Do you want to know what S2C and I thought of all the 28 competitors in this round?
For those of you who don't want to know it is under the cut -
.
Bulgaria – wonderful stuff , driving percussion, wonderful voice - stunning.
Israel – really funny guys singing about not wanting to die when someone pushes the button.
Cyprus – loud lady singing in French.
Belarus – plastic looking guy – bit George Hamilton – singing an emotional ballad – some say he looks like Dead Di.
Iceland middle-aged hairy rocker singing rock ballad.
Georgia – Sounded a bit Kate Bush or Bjork – very good.
Montenegro – average rockish song noteworthy for being sung by a elf-hobbit cross.
Switzerland – rather boring song about vampires being alive. Obviously think that ‘costumes get points’ – but the costumes are very ordinary compared with Lordi.
Moldova – ethnic rock – girl in rather interesting outfit….I think it stayed in place by being stitched there with her pubic hair.
Netherlands – lady with a big voice, singing a rather trad ‘Eurovision’ song – but still better than the British one by a long way.
Albania – heavy going ballad by a guy looking a bit like Ricky Gervais and some woman wearing gold chains and a lot of froth, attached to a corset.
Denmark – Dana international rides again.
Croatia – Chris Rea B side – very lined and lived in guy (apparently he is the oldest competitior) with yet another girl (or possibly another transvestite) in chain mail.
Poland – Aqua copies, 10 years or so too late with less talent.
Serbia – another emo/rock ballad, but the girl had quite a voice – sounded a bit like Europe might have with a female singer.
Czechs – Bill Bailey does Metallica – or Rammstein Lite! Animal from the Muppetts played drums.
Portugal – 1980s Spanish holiday resort music. And outfits.
FYROM – another forgettable emo ballad sung by a girl standing in a high wind wearing something like a jewelled version of my old gym kit….
Norway – Gerri Halliwell look alike dressed as a dryad with a dead animal attached to her bum. Europop – dire, I fear.
Malta - Imelda Marcos in a yellow kimono type thing – singing about vertigo – It would make me feel ill too.
Andorra: McFly play New Found Glory. Not a bad effort, considering that the band must contain every male member of the Andorran population between 15 and 19.
Hungary: annoying woman singing a tedious soulful blues number as if in pain.
Estonia – catwoman in a wind tunnel screeching out a totally forgettable rock number about the rain as if someone has just stood on her paw. Or maybe just a normal cat reaction to rain….
Belgium: news that Disco is dead has not yet reached Belgium.
Slovenia: One of Shakespeare’s Sister looking like a Wicked Witch in a Prom dress topped with a black leather corset, with light bulbs set into the palms of her hands, warbling an operatic rendition of a diabolically dire Eurotune.
Turkey: the waiter from a greasy kebab restaurant does karaoke in front of scantily-clad harem girls wearing gold breasplates (who look as if they come from Essex) For some unknown reason he sang the last verse waving a pair of knickers above his head.
Austria: man in chain-mail and a guitarist in a space-suit, with backing dancers dressed as red budgies – some of them with sequin covered codpieces. The song was vaguely rock, but definitely forgettable.
Latvia: an interminable procession of men in top hats, resembling a crowd of extras from 'Gangs of New York', bludgeoning a ballad into submission by sheer volume and weight of numbers.
As you can see - we were not terribly impressed with some of them!
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Date: 10/05/2007 10:38 pm (UTC)There is that...but I wouldn't want anyone in Europe actually thinking I might like Scutch, or Crotch or whatever they're called....Maybe I could be Andorran...
You can hear both Bulgaria and Georgia here - http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6584853.stm?dynamic_vote=ON
or you could before the programme - noticing bit about dynamic vote in the address.
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Date: 10/05/2007 10:43 pm (UTC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/eurovision/2007/contestants/
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Date: 10/05/2007 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/05/2007 07:10 am (UTC)