Eurovison 2012 - Englebert

[dubai_phil]

Lol

 

OK so these next 3 weeks we've gone gig nuts. Guetta this week, then Duran Duran Snow Patrol etc.

 

Tucked in amongst them all we noticed a gig in a local 1500 seat theatre next week - Englebert in Concert.

 

Thought wow, is he really still going? (Also thought Promoter must be mad going up against all those other acts)

 

Anyway - open up the DT today to see you lot finally lost your marbles

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/9116370/Eurovision-surprise-Engelbert-Humperdinck-is-UK-entry.html

 

Englebert is your Eurovision Entry

 

Well, at least some of the judges might be old enough to have heard of him

 

Go Humpy!

 

Thoughts?

[trousers]

Bring back Wogan and the p1ss take will be complete!

 

Loved Eurovision back in the day (before block voting became too overt)

[bpsaint]

How much of our licence few gets wasted on this farce, any idea? We should pull out seeing as we're never going to win the thing for political reasons and spend it on better programming.

[Micky]

Ridiculous "compitition" that.has absolutely nothing to do with decent music. Total farce around.

 

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[trousers]

It's the farcical nature of the competition that makes it excellent entertainment value.

[Colinjb]

It's the farcical nature of the competition that makes it excellent entertainment value.

 

Absolutely. Just because the rest of europe takes it far too seriously it doesn't mean we have to! They really must do something about Graham Norton though, a poor man's Terry Wogan at best. I will always remember a moment from a prior competition:

 

Terribly mistranslated lyric: "I will crawl up to you by surprise, and make love to you through the night"

 

Wogan: "Now, correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't that technically rape?"

[trousers]

"Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals,"

 

"Every year I expect it to be less foolish and every year it is more so," - on the Finnish rock band Lordi winning the contest in 2006.

 

"They are serving alcohol on the side as well, so everyone is well fuelled. I, of course, am remaining true to the promise I made to my mother all those years ago..."

 

"and you may find that she bears a remarkable facial resemblance to Toyah Wilcox and can't tell stork from butter"

 

"thats a good one, maybe we should try it on the last night of the proms - the old parrot on the pianists shoulder trick"

 

"haha! the lunatic fringe still lives in Ireland" (after awarding 10 points to Belgium)

 

"I think the UK is suffering from what I like to call post Iraq backlash"

 

"If you like cleavage you'll will be rewarded for the next few minutes"

Edited 5 March, 2012 by trousers

[Lighthouse]

I watch Eurovision if only for the wall to wall hot Eastern European women. The best being Ani Lorak a few years ago. A sort of Ukrainian Cheryl Cole.

 

 

Musically however it's the equivalent of the Paralympics. I'm not the slightest bit interested in the UK entry it will be sh*t, embarassing and nobody will vote for it.