PS: Maybe they will dumb all the Amy Winehouse stuff in the same box they dump Big Brother. How nice all will be!!!!!!!

I do not know where else to write this but I really do not get the Amy Winehouse thing. The girl is absolute rubbish. There is nothing star quality about her.(actually there possibly could be). The C festival was dreadful. I think people have really just been kind rather than honest. God please give us some real talent. p

Its bizaar and thought provoking but i actuall found mysef listening to the radio ad really enjying it convincedthat it mustbe some cool new hip ocal radiostation only to discover its radio wiltshire. Now i know im old before my time.

I cannot think why we really want to be a part of this contest anymore.  It's not about the music anymore.  We should just pull out and perhaps it will just flop

My first comment seems to have disappeared from this although I did nothing to deserve this...

 

My point is this> install the old jurors in each country again to give their votes. As long as you permit that any street-urchin can press his one or two mobile phones when he is from Turkey, Ruassia or what have you, we will never get a decent result. With jurors no land can vote for its own entry but emigrants vote from wherever they live now via TED and we have a distorted picture. That is the problem. Its actually a show for adults, therefore only adults should be allowed to vote. But with the present TED voting anything is possible.

Just adding my voice to the chorus of disapproval of last night's fiasco.  Whether it's due to politics, misrepresentation or whatever, I think we all agree on one thing, we're all upset and angry aren't we?

 

Whether the UK's entry last night was good or not is a matter of opinion.  I rather liked the funny Finnish entry when a lot of people would hate it.  I have Sky and could read the subtitles and some of the translations into English were hilarious!  Personally, I thought Andy Abraham gave a fantastic performance last night and I loved the song, even my other half (NOT a Eurovision fan -watching it with me under duress!) liked it also and commented that it had a good chance of winning.  "Ha ha! Just you wait", I replied.

 

I am 40 now and have been watching the Eurovsion since I was a small child.  Like many others, I used to love the kookiness and madness of some of the acts and especially the scoring part of the show during a time when the UK was within a cat in hell's chance of coming even somewhere.  We even won a few times! 

 

Over the years Terry Wogan has absolutely made the show and I think many of us watch it mainly because of his witty commentary and basically taking the p*** out of the of the performers, the presenters, the show itself, everything (I loved the description "the Four brides of Frankenstein and a loony with a washing line" about the Bosnia entry!) but last night towards the end, he could barely disguise the sadness and disgust in his voice when he said that this was no longer a song contest, that Western European countries should rethink whether they want to be part of this any more and that even he and his producer have to decide if they want to do this again.

 

I completely agree with him but it would be so sad to see him go.

 

At the end of the day, it's us, the license payers of the UK who foot a great chunk of the bill for this, along with the other four countries who also pay great sums of money towards this, and what for?  To be humiliated in front of the rest of Europe like this.  Even if we had Madonna or Kylie representing us, we still wouldn't win.

 

The scoring system needs to be completely re-thought or the UK together with it's financial contributions should pull out altogether. 

Dismas.

 

No we cant cut all the anti immigration cr*p as you put it.  We've never had a choice as to whether we want them, and since they all vote for each other they are as bad as we are I guess... When, and only when the indigenous population of this country get a choice will this be resolved...until then it will rumble on.

We SHOULD have been given a choice, end of story.

 

Ray.

Love the blog, and I watch Euro vision last night, if the rules stay the same , UK will never get a chance of winning !

Well well, another euro song contest and another let down. Maybe next year all of Britain, Germany should make sure they are abroad so we can vote for our own country... let's all go abroad for the night. And maybe the relatives from foreign national should start voting for the country their people have chosen to live in.... and that way England, Germany, etc would have a chance of being back in the lead again.... and if all the other "split" countries, Russia, Yugoslavia keep their votes in the neighbourhood... why divide the country in the first place if they are all sooooo good. This is nothing to do with the singing anymore, politics’ even rules this little bit of fun, how many of us actually watch it because of the performances of the singers? Well Terry Wogan’s comments are better than the singing of most of them on stage.

of course UK are Unique in Europe, but why....maybe for Gold from South America, how do you think? Isn't fault of Eastern European black british can't get job. Talk to the British Gorvernement why thay white no black colour prefer. Talk to another british people...
And Eurovision isnt contest of musik from many years ago.

IF I CAN JUST SAY ...I REALLY LIKE ANDY , HE WAS WELL MINT ON THE EXFACTOR ...

THING IS NOW ,,,HES GONNA FALL INTO THE CATOGARY OF BEING CALLED A LOSER FOR THE EVENT OF EUROVISION

AND HES NO FAILURE....

HOPE HE CARRIES ON BEING ANDY .

I THINK THE EURO IS A WASTE OF TIME AND TALENT ANY HOW..

WE HAVE SO MUCH TALENT AS A BRITSH  COUNTRY ....WE DONT NEED TO BE ON THAT SHOW ......

 

 

Jeeze, can we cut all the ignorant anti-immigration cr*p, please? There's no need to be so sore towards them; they are willing to do the same job we're offered, but for cheaper...welcome to a free-market, mate! By the sounds of it, you're not socialisti-minded, so I doubt you have any real idea for an alternative economic structure, so may as well keep your mouths closed regarding anything political.

 

As for the competition, it was a sham. What was founded as a light-hearted way to help bring Europe together and share a joint identity, has descended into a insular "let's vote for our neighbours/people who happen to supply our oil/electricity" love-in. Obviously there's the eastern bloc all voting for eachother and their ex-soviety overlords...you'd think with the  damage Russia did to them, they'd be LESS inclined to vote for the, surely? Then there's the Scandanavians too. And the Anatolian states (though in fairness I thought ALL of them gave good performances).

 

Realistically, Turkey should have won with a very solid, proper song. France should have been top 5, as monsieur Tellier is a music legend over there. Think of him as France's equivalent of Peter Gabriel. Finland rode the wave Lordi created last time, so I'm surprised they didn't do better. Greece was the best of the top 3 by any stretch. Latvia should have come higher purely for novelty value, and Russia's song was really pretty awful. I think it was the skater (Michael Flatley, was it?) who clinched their vote from the non ex-soviet states.

 

Sir Terry is right, we should probably not bother again unless new rules are put in place. Or have it judged by music industry professionals. Or the head council of the EU...something more objective than the public.

it is a tad pathetic.....

i mean the song was terrible i know but at least he sung realllly well and he derserved more points

i think the UK and Germany should quit eurovision

or the other option is

next year make a girl group with attractive girls, make sure some of them are from easten europe.... get timbaland to produce it (since he produced russia's and greeces by the sound of it..) and make sure the song is about sex..... now if that dosnt come outside the bottom 10 we should defo quit

i must admit if we had michelle gayle we would have done a bit better.. about 19th/18th

im  not watchin eurovision any more if its gunna carry on as it is at the moment  and i agree with who ever said bring back the old rules!!!!!!!!

why do we bother entering we all know that its been fixed so we should just say no to it from now on and let them get on with it

hail the new dawn

 

like we didnt know that ;-)

yeh thoses eastern europeans like glasgow don't they?

what you got? poles or do you have those disgusting smelly flea bitten TB ridden romanians as well?

those filthy f'uckers should be sent back immediately.

its all a load of bollocks!!

Sauro... If that's the 'best' they can muster its small wonder that they have no money.

 

Ray.

Sauro, sorry to say, but i disagree with you. Uk's entry WAS NOT  that bad to be last. Do you seriously believe that for example Germany was better than UK??? I don't think so, I also don't think that any famous singer should enter, as this use to be about new talents and it should be like that, otherwise, why not sending in Robbie Williams or Girls Aloud (that should accomodate the IQ level of the Eurovision).

I can not believe how low Eurovision has become! RUSSIA??!?? That floor mopping-white-cloth-icantsing-dumbnuts! So angry and so upsetting! I am 37 and have been watching this since i was a kid. They should bring back old rules, sing in their own languages with meaningfull songs written by new talents. I am german and i can not believe that germany wud enter a non-talented group called no angels!!! Lord! I think a certain dresscode would be nice too, after all this is about singing and not about showing T*** & A*** and dancing like a stripper! Ukraine!?! Yes she was hot but hello "Shady Lady"?!? Does this mean Ukraine's IQ level is below 0?!? They seriously need to change the voting system and I think BBC should not broadcast next year! UK didn't deserve to be last there were many many idiots who belonged down there. If these eastern europ's dislike UK soooo much WHAT THE HELL Y'ALL WANT HERE???? This isnt about sining at all anymore it s all politics NOW! Completly! Really really sad. Oh and Aserbejan, phh totally joke screaming scary performance! I wont bother watching next year!