On the funding issue, who are 'we'? Which UK entity ponies up the readies to eurovision? Presumably BBC contributes a chunk as UK's host broadcaster? After them who? In the face of such odds I can't see the upside to continued participation. Newman hardly needs the money or exposure when his songwriting is currently proving to be so lucrative. His vocals weren't brilliant and his performance/persona seemed pretty slapdash. His song and its arrangement made a decent slice of disposable pop but that showing was never going to make it onto the top half of the scoreboard. His vocals at least held together for 3 minutes unlike the French woman who went from Piaf wannabe to caterwauling atonal harpy by the final chorus. A performance failure lost on seemingly all of the voters. In a field with so many blatantly derivative pieces (Beyoncé for one must be due a ton of royalties), execrable pap like the Lithuania and Germany entries and niche/eccentric oddities (Iceland wtf?) for UK to register no point from anybody is bizarre, nay suspicious. The 'professional jury' votes were quite out of step with some of the popular voting: e.g. Switzerland, Bulgaria and Malta. When territories with so many expats and UK diaspora (Malta, Cyprus, Spain) register no votes for the UK entry I smell a rat. A really big, fetid, maggoty rat. Britain's popularity took a critical blow with Tony B Liar dragging us into USA's illegal "wars" in the Gulf, but there's some very effing short memories, especially in the Balkans, where UK forces played major roles in stopping some heinous sectarian slaughter and criminality, then helping those oppressed communities rebuild something like normal life. The UK's supposed televote result stank to high heaven as well, that wasn't even ironic. And what exactly is Amanda Holden on, is it legal? The popularity of hard rock/heavy metal across Europe, even uninspired/derivative efforts like these Italian and Finnish pieces, shouldn't be ignored. Sadly with UK's position within eurovision so seriously undermined, even an all out metal attack from stellar performers like Black Spiders, Wayward Sons or Massive Wagons, I fear would founder on whatever it is that the crooks at eurovision believe we are to be punished for.
I'd forgotten about this - this genuinely has to be our worst ever entry.
Jemini - Cry Baby
Can't defend the song itself, it wasn't very special but Jemini's performance was sabotaged that night with clumsy chicanery on their on-stage monitoring - in laymen's terms the playback for them to sing to was all over the place on stage - quite quite differently to how it had been set up in the rehearsals. Chris and Gemma deserve plaudits for carrying on with the performance when they could, and probably should, have called a halt for the monitoring to be fixed.
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Which UK entity ponies up the readies to eurovision?
Presumably BBC contributes a chunk as UK's host broadcaster? After them who?
In the face of such odds I can't see the upside to continued participation.
Newman hardly needs the money or exposure when his songwriting is currently proving to be so lucrative.
His vocals weren't brilliant and his performance/persona seemed pretty slapdash. His song and its arrangement made a decent slice of disposable pop but that showing was never going to make it onto the top half of the scoreboard. His vocals at least held together for 3 minutes unlike the French woman who went from Piaf wannabe to caterwauling atonal harpy by the final chorus. A performance failure lost on seemingly all of the voters.
In a field with so many blatantly derivative pieces (Beyoncé for one must be due a ton of royalties), execrable pap like the Lithuania and Germany entries and niche/eccentric oddities (Iceland wtf?) for UK to register no point from anybody is bizarre, nay suspicious.
The 'professional jury' votes were quite out of step with some of the popular voting: e.g. Switzerland, Bulgaria and Malta.
When territories with so many expats and UK diaspora (Malta, Cyprus, Spain) register no votes for the UK entry I smell a rat. A really big, fetid, maggoty rat.
Britain's popularity took a critical blow with Tony B Liar dragging us into USA's illegal "wars" in the Gulf, but there's some very effing short memories, especially in the Balkans, where UK forces played major roles in stopping some heinous sectarian slaughter and criminality, then helping those oppressed communities rebuild something like normal life.
The UK's supposed televote result stank to high heaven as well, that wasn't even ironic. And what exactly is Amanda Holden on, is it legal?
The popularity of hard rock/heavy metal across Europe, even uninspired/derivative efforts like these Italian and Finnish pieces, shouldn't be ignored.
Sadly with UK's position within eurovision so seriously undermined, even an all out metal attack from stellar performers like Black Spiders, Wayward Sons or Massive Wagons, I fear would founder on whatever it is that the crooks at eurovision believe we are to be punished for.
Can't defend the song itself, it wasn't very special but Jemini's performance was sabotaged that night with clumsy chicanery on their on-stage monitoring - in laymen's terms the playback for them to sing to was all over the place on stage - quite quite differently to how it had been set up in the rehearsals. Chris and Gemma deserve plaudits for carrying on with the performance when they could, and probably should, have called a halt for the monitoring to be fixed.