Originally Posted By u k fan Yeah, I've got a couple of friends who consider themselves big musos, but if I tell them I'm watching Eurovision I get one of "those" looks!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert So tomorrow is the second semi-finale. Are you going to watch it again? I'm going to see Star Trek, so I can't watch it.
Originally Posted By mawnck +1 to post 60. I don't deny the cheese factor. Heck, I saw Belarus sail through just like everyone else did. But there's so much more to it than that. I was able to watch some of the BBC broadcast today. They hired Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters to replace Sara Cox. HUMONGOUS improvement. She's American, a fan, and actually sounds like she's enjoying being there. Makes me wonder if BBC America has gotten interested.
Originally Posted By u k fan Yeah, I agree that Ana Matronic is an improvement over Sara Cox. Her enthusiasm for the event really shows through and she treats it with much less irony!!!
Originally Posted By mawnck Things you would never see at the Grammys, Vol 637: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJBlEzgjESU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...lEzgjESU</a>#!
Originally Posted By mawnck 30 minutes to showtime. <a href="http://eurovision.tv" target="_blank">http://eurovision.tv</a>
Originally Posted By u k fan Well the first 3 of this semi have nothing to worry about on Saturday!!!
Originally Posted By mawnck Here comes Finland! Turkey cancelled their broadcast of this semi at the last minute because of this act.
Originally Posted By u k fan Cool! A proper lesbian kiss on Eurovision. Didn't they cut away from t.a.T.u when they did that?!!!
Originally Posted By mawnck I **LOVE** Bulgaria's song. I hope it qualifies. I'd be voting like crazy for it if I could.
Originally Posted By mawnck Actually Malta-Bulgaria-Iceland is kind of my triple play for this semi. I like Finland and Hungary too.
Originally Posted By u k fan Iceland have stolen part of their chorus from We Are One from Lion King 2!!!
Originally Posted By u k fan The Iraeli entry seems to be wearing a pair of those Marx Bros. glasses with the false nose!!!
Originally Posted By mawnck Can't believe Georgia got through after that off-key squawking. (I much prefer Bulgaria's on-key squawking, but honestly I didn't think quite good enough to qualify today.) And Cesar from Romania is in! Leemac must be howling.
Originally Posted By mawnck The Spectator piles on. <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8910331/my-vision-for-eurovision/" target="_blank">http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea...ovision/</a> >>Rather than defend the BBC, Mr Bishop confirmed our suspicions. The corporation is useless at entertainment, he said, and no longer has anyone in its hierarchy who understands it. This is a self-reinforcing problem, warned Mr Stockselius, because the BBC decides how Eurovision is presented in Britain. If it sends dreadful acts to compete, and then holds the entire contest up to ridicule, then our successful singers will not be seen dead on a Eurovision stage. Katrina [of Katrina and the Waves, the last UK entry to win] wanted to know the name of whoever chooses the BBC’s Eurovision entries, ‘so we can slap him’.<<
